PARISH OF CARDIFF; ST GERMAN WITH ST SAVIOUR

St Saviour’s Church
7 April 2019 - Lent V

“Neither do I condemn you” This week:

Today’s gospel contains a story of
forgiveness and redemption within a Sun 7 Lent V
context of political violence where a 9:30 Sung Mass (St S)
woman is hounded by a mob and no 11am Sung Mass (St G)
longer treated as a person. In many Mon 8:
ways it is a prelude to what will 6pm Mass (St G)
happen to Jesus during Holy Week. 6.45 Stations (St G)
There is an opportunity to enter Tues 9:
deep within this story and identify 10am Mass (St S)
with the woman, with her accusers 6.45 Stations (St S)
and also to commit ourselves again Wed 10:
to becoming ambassadors of Chris’s 10am Mass (St G)
mercy and forgiveness whenever
Thur 11:
possible.
Parish Notes: 5:45pm Mass (St S)
Fri 12:
Lenten Devotions - Stations of the cross on Tuesday at 6:45pm during Lent 6pm mass (St S)
Choir Practice - this Tuesday at 6pm to look at music for Holy Week and Sat 13:
beyond. All are welcome. 9:45am Mass (St S)
Sun 14: Palm
Vestry Meeting - Our AGM will be Tuesday 30 April at 7pm. Nomination
Sunday
forms for membership of the PCC are available as are electoral roll forms. St Saviour’s:
Cardiff Foodbank - Thanks everyone for their help. Please donate only the 9:30 Sung Mass
following: rice pudding, jam, custard, tinned tomatoes, sponge puddings. St German’s:
Spring Prize Draw - Sun 28 April after Mass. Tickets now available. If you’d 11am Sung Mass
like to donate a prize please see the poster in the foyer for the list.
Palm Sunday - is next week and traditionally begins with a reading of the Parish Priest:
Palm Gospel and a procession outside (weather permitting). Fr Phelim O’Hare,
Benediction and Evensong - Next Sunday at 7pm to begin our Holy Week 02922 411229,
phelimohare@gmail.com
evening reflections in both Churches in St German’s (See Holy Week Rota). (Day off - Friday)
Easter Flowers orders to Gwyneth by Palm Sunday (14 April) at the latest. Churchwardens:
Also, if anyone would like to donate flowers for our Altar of Repose on
Maundy Thursday that would help us greatly. Bill Eastwood
Holy Week Services - A list of the services for Holy Week is now available for 07800 946949
people to take home. The main change is that this year it is St Saviour’s turn David Gibbins
07813160825
to host the Good Friday Liturgy of the Passion.
Recently Departed: Michael O’Callaghan, James Bromham RIP 


READINGS THIS WEEK READINGS NEXT WEEK PSALM:

Isa 50:4-7
Isa 43:16-21 What marvels the Lord
Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20,
Ps 126:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5, 6
23-24 worked for us! Indeed
Phil 3:8-14
Phil 2:6-11 we were glad. (4vv)
John 8:1-11
Luke 22:14 – 23:56

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COLLECT OFFERTORY: See from His head,

Most merciful God, who by the And now, O Father, His hands, His feet,

death and resurrection of your mindful of the love Sorrow and love
that bought us, once for all, flow mingled down!

Son Jesus Christ delivered and
on Calvary's tree, Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,

saved the world: grant that by and having with us him Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
faith in him who suffered on the that pleads above,
cross we may triumph in the we here present,
power of his victory; through we here spread forth to thee His dying crimson like a robe
Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, that only offering perfect Spreads o’er his body on the tree
in thine eyes, Then am I dead to all the globe
who is alive and reigns with you,
the one true, pure, And all the globe is dead to me
in the unity of the Holy Spirit, immortal sacrifice.
one God, now and for ever.
Amen. Were the whole realm
Look, Father, look of nature mine,

on his anointed face, That were a present far too small;

and only look on us Love so amazing, so divine,

GATHERING: as found in him; Demands my soul, my life, my all.
look not on our misusings
To God be the glory, of thy grace,
great things He has done;
 our prayer so languid,
So loved He the world and our faith so dim:
that He gave us His Son,
 for lo, between our sins
FINAL HYMN:
Who yielded His life and their reward Jesus put this song into our hearts,
an atonement for sin,
 we set the passion Jesus put this song into our hearts,
And opened the life gate of thy Son our Lord. It's a song of joy
that all may go in.

no one can take away,
Jesus put this song into our hearts.

 And so we come:
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
 O draw us to thy feet,
Let the earth hear His voice!
 most patient Saviour, Jesus taught us how
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
 who canst love us still; to live in harmony,
Let the people rejoice!
 and by this food, Jesus taught us how
O come to the Father, so awful and so sweet, to live in harmony,
through Jesus the Son,
 deliver us from every touch of ill: Different faces, different races,
And give Him the glory, in thine own service He made us one,
great things He has done.
 make us glad and free, Jesus taught us how to live
and grant us never more in harmony.

 to part with thee.
O perfect redemption,
the purchase of blood,

Jesus taught us how to be a family,
To every believer
Jesus taught us how to be a family,
the promise of God;

Loving one another with the love
The vilest offender
that He gives,
who truly believes,

That moment from Jesus COMMUNION: Jesus taught us how to be a family.
a pardon receives.
 When I survey the wondrous cross

On which the Prince of glory died,
 Jesus turned our sorrow

 My richest gain I count but loss,
 into dancing,
Great things He has taught us, And pour contempt on all my pride. Jesus turned our sorrow
great things He has done,

into dancing,
And great our rejoicing
Changed our tears of sadness
through Jesus the Son;
 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
 into rivers of joy,
But purer, and higher, Save in the death of Christ my God!
 Jesus turned our sorrow
and greater will be
 All the vain things into a dance.
Our wonder, our transport, that charm me most,

when Jesus we see. I sacrifice them to His blood.

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FIRST READING
The First reading is from the prophet
Isaiah.
Thus says the Lord, who made a way
through the sea, a path in the great
waters; who put chariots and horse in
the field and a powerful army
which lay there never to rise again,
snuffed out, put out like a wick:
No need to recall the past, no need to
think about what was done before. See,
I am doing a new deed,
even now it comes to light; can you not
see it? Yes, I am making a road in the
wilderness, paths in the wilds.
The wild beasts will honour me, jackals
and ostriches, because I am putting
water in the wilderness
(rivers in the wild) to give my chosen
people drink. The people I have formed
for myself will sing my praises.
This is the word of the Lord.
Isaiah 43
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
What marvels the Lord worked for us!
Indeed we were glad.
When the Lord delivered Zion from
bondage,
it seemed like a dream.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter,
on our lips there were songs. R/
The heathens themselves said: ‘What
marvels
the Lord worked for them!’
What marvels the Lord worked for us!
Indeed we were glad. R/
Deliver us, O Lord, from our bondage
as streams in dry land.
Those who are sowing in tears
will sing when they reap. R/
They go out, they go out, full of tears,
carrying seed for the sowing:
they come back, they come back, full of
song,
carrying their sheaves. R/
Psalm 126
SECOND READING
A reading from St Paul’s letter to the
Philippians.
I believe nothing can happen that will
outweigh the supreme advantage of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For him I
have accepted the loss of everything,
and I look on everything as so much
rubbish if only I can have Christ and be
given a place in him. I am no longer
trying for perfection by my own efforts,
the perfection that comes from the Law,
but I want only the perfection that
comes through faith in Christ, and is
from God and based on faith. All I want
is to know Christ and the power of his
resurrection and to share his sufferings
by reproducing the pattern of his death.
That is the way I can hope to take my
place in the resurrection of the dead.
Not that I have become perfect yet: I
have not yet won, but I am still running,
trying to capture the prize for which
Christ Jesus captured me. I can assure
you my brothers, I am far from thinking
that I have already won. All I can say is
that I forget the past and I strain ahead
for what is still to come; I am racing for
the finish, for the prize to which God
calls us upwards to receive in Christ
Jesus.
This is the word of the Lord.
Phil 3
GOSPEL
A reading from the Holy Gospel
according to St John.
While Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
Early in the morning he came again to
the temple. All the people came to him
and he sat down and began to teach
them. The scribes and the Pharisees
brought a woman who had been caught
in adultery; and making her stand before
all of them, they said to him, ‘Teacher,
this woman was caught in the very act of
committing adultery. Now in the law
Moses commanded us to stone such
women. Now what do you say?’ They
said this to test him, so that they might
have some charge to bring against him.
Jesus bent down and wrote with his
finger on the ground. When they kept on
questioning him, he straightened up and
said to them, ‘Let anyone among you
who is without sin be the first to throw a
stone at her.’ And once again he bent
down and wrote on the ground. When
they heard it, they went away, one by
one, beginning with the elders; and
Jesus was left alone with the woman
standing before him. Jesus straightened
up and said to her, ‘Woman, where are
they? Has no one condemned you?’ She
said, ‘No one, sir.’ And Jesus said,
‘Neither do I condemn you. Go your way,
and from now on do not sin again.
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
John 8