PARISH OF CARDIFF; ST GERMAN WITH ST SAVIOUR

St German’s Church
16 May 2021 - Easter VII

Today’s readings give two accounts of the

This week:
same event: Jesus ascending into heaven. Of
course, we celebrated this feast on Thursday Sun 16: Easter 7
past, yet we repeat the readings here on the 9:30 Sung Mass (St S)
7th Sunday of Easter because of their 11am Sung Mass (St G)
reminder to us of the promises of God through
Jesus: God descended to our very depths,
18:30 Benediction and
enduring the pains and lows of human Prayer for Christian
existence and shows solidarity with us. Unity (St G)
Likewise, we now have the capacity to ascend Mon 17:
all that holds us back as children of God, to
ascend with Jesus to the heights of heaven. 18:00 Mass (St G)
Yet, we need help, we need an advocate and 12:00 Funeral (St G)
so the stage is set for the Holy Spirit to come Tues 18:
and usher in the age of the Church.
Parish Notes: 10:00 Mass (St S)
Wed 19:
Covid Risks Update - Please continue to adhere to social distancing and so go 10:00 Mass (St G)
straight to their chair and at the end of the service leave orderly. Once outside in Thur 20:
the carpark, catch ups and some fellowship is possible. 17:45 Mass (St S)
Christian Aid - We normally have activities organised to promote the work of CA as Fri 21:
well as raise some funds for them. If you’d like to donate to Christian Aid please see No Mass (St S)
Sat 22:
Angela.
No Mass (St S)
Prayer for Christian Unity - This year we will pray for Christian Unity from
Sun 23: Pentecost
Ascension to Pentecost whilst combining this with our usual Thy Kingdom Come
St Saviour’s:
prayer focus. We will post daily prayers and reflections online for people to pray 9:30 Sung Mass;
each day as well as a service for Christian Unity in St German’s this evening at 18:30 18:30 Benediction and
and in St Saviour’s the following week at the same time. Our weekday masses will Prayer for Christian
also follow the themes of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. See our website for Unity
links to the daily reflections. St German’s:
AGM - Our AGM will be next Sunday 23 May in church after the 11am mass. Please 11:00 am Sung Mass
let us know in advance if you are planning on attending.
A Quiz Night Saturday 22 May at 18:30 in the hall. Again, booking is essential as Parish Priest:
maximum numbers will be 30. Booking via Angela, Richard Davey or Fr Phelim. Fr Phelim O’Hare,
Electoral Roll - We need to renew our Electoral Roll. This new electoral roll will 02922 411229,
eventually form part of the wider MA electoral roll. It is crucial this is updated this phelimohare@gmail.com
year as only those on the electoral roll will be able to vote for wardens etc at the (Day off - Friday)
first MA AGM in early 2022. Please see Angela for the electoral forms. Churchwardens:
Today’s Hymns: Hail the day, Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour, On eagles’
wings, Rejoice the Lord is King. Peter Lovitt
Recently Departed - Paul Warner 02920 763754
Richard Hill
07519 352840
READINGS THIS WEEK READINGS NEXT WEEK PSALM RESPONSE
Acts 2:1-11 www.saintgermanwith
Acts 1:1-11 God goes up with
Ps 104:1+24, 29-30, saintsaviour.org
Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 shouts of joy; the
31+34
Eph 4:1-13 Gal 5:16-25 Lord goes up with
Mark 16:15-20 John 15:26-27; 16:12-15 trumpet blast. (3vv)

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COLLECT RESPONSORIAL PSALM GOSPEL

O God the King of glory, you God goes up with shouts of joy; the Lord A reading from the Holy Gospel
goes up with trumpet blast. according to St John.
have exalted your only Son
All peoples, clap your hands,
Jesus Christ with great cry to God with shouts of joy!
And he said to them, ‘Go into all the
triumph to your kingdom in world and proclaim the good news to
For the Lord, the Most High,
we must fear,
the whole creation. The one who
heaven: we beseech you, leave great king over all the earth. R/ believes and is baptized will be saved;
us not comfortless, but send but the one who does not believe will be
God goes up with shouts of joy; condemned. And these signs will
your Holy Spirit to strengthen the Lord goes up with trumpet blast. accompany those who believe: by using
us and exalt us to the place Sing praise for God, sing praise, my name they will cast out demons; they
sing praise to our king, sing praise. R/
where our Saviour Christ is will speak in new tongues; they will pick
up snakes in their hands, and if they
gone before, who is alive and God is king of all the earth, drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt
sing praise with all your skill.
reigns with you and the Holy God is king over the nations;
them; they will lay their hands on the
Spirit, one God, now and for God reigns on his holy throne. R/
sick, and they will recover.’
Psalm 47
ever. Amen. So then the Lord Jesus, after he had
spoken to them, was taken up into
heaven and sat down at the right hand
of God. And they went out and
SECOND READING proclaimed the good news everywhere,
while the Lord worked with them and
FIRST READING A Reading is from the first letter of John. confirmed the message by the signs that
A reading from the book of Acts. accompanied it.
I, the prisoner in the Lord, implore you to
lead a life worthy of your vocation. Bear with
In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with one another charitably, in complete This is the Gospel of the Lord.
everything Jesus had done and taught from selflessness, gentleness and patience. Do all Mark 16
the beginning until the day he gave his you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit by
instructions to the apostles he had chosen the peace that binds you together. There is
through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to one Body, one Spirit, just as you were all
heaven. He had shown himself alive to them called into one and the same hope when you
after his Passion by many demonstrations: for
forty days he had continued to appear to
were called. There is one Lord, one faith, one THE REGINA CAELI
baptism, and one God who is Father of all,
them and tell them about the kingdom of over all, through all and within all. Joy to thee, O Queen of Heaven, alleluia!
God. When he had been at table with them, Each one of us, however, has been given his He who thou wast meet to bear
he had told them not to leave Jerusalem, but own share of grace, given as Christ allotted it. alleluia!
to wait there for what the Father had It was said that he would: When he ascended As he promised, hath arisen,
promised. ‘It is’ he had said ‘what you have to the height, he captured prisoners, he gave alleluia!
heard me speak about: John baptised with gifts to men. Pour for us to him thy prayer,
water but you, not many days from now, will When it says, ‘he ascended’, what can it mean alleluia!
be baptised with the Holy Spirit.’ if not that he descended right down to the
Now having met together, they asked him, lower regions of the earth? The one who rose Rejoice and be glad,
‘Lord, has the time come? Are you going to higher than all the heavens to fill all things is O virgin Mary, alleluia!
restore the kingdom to Israel?’ He replied, ‘It none other than the one who descended. And
is not for you to know times or dates that the to some, his gift was that they should be R./ For the Lord has risen indeed, alleluia!
Father has decided by his own authority, but apostles; to some, prophets; to some,
you will receive power when the Holy Spirit evangelists; to some, pastors and teachers; so Let us pray,
comes on you, and then you will be my that the saints together make a unity in the O God, by the resurrection of your on, our
witnesses not only in Jerusalem but work of service, building up the body of Lord Jesus Christ, you have brought joy to the
throughout Judaea and Samaria, and indeed Christ. In this way we are all to come to unity whole world: Granth that, by the help of his
to the ends of the earth.’ in our faith and in our knowledge of the Son mother, the ivrigin Mary, we may obtain the
As he said this he was lifted up while they of God, until we become the perfect Man, joys of everlasting life; through Christ the
looked on, and a cloud took him from their fully mature with the fullness of Christ Lord. Amen.
sight. They were still staring into the sky himself.
when suddenly two men in white were
standing near them and they said, ‘Why are This is the word of the Lord.
you men from Galilee standing here looking Eph 4
into the sky? Jesus who has been taken up
from you into heaven, this same Jesus will
come back in the same way as you have seen
him go there.’
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION:
Alleluia, alleluia!
This is the word of the Lord. Go, make disciples of all the nations. I am
Acts 1 with you always; yes, to the end of time.
Alleluia!