THE latest community news from Lampeter

Music Public Concert Series

KATHRYN Price (cello) and Charles Matthews (piano) perform at 7.30pm Saturday, 10 March, The Old Hall, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter Campus.

Music by Bach, Lutoslawski, Chopin and Rachmaninoff.

With strong local roots, and an international reputation: after her Wigmore Hall debut.

Noddfa

CYNHELIR oedfa arbennig yn Noddfa ar Sul y Mamau, sef 11 Mawrth, am 5.30yh. Estynnir croeso cynnes i bawb

Window Shopping

DESPITE the snow and bitterly cold weather Lampeter shops put on a delightful variety of window displays for the first St David’s Day window dressing competition organised by the town council.

Spring in bright yellow daffodils and vibrant green and white leaks, traditional costume, the Blodeuwedd myth of owl and flowers, Welsh words, Welsh cakes, and cawl.

It was a pleasure to crunch along the snowy pavements looking at all the different displays (above).

The St David’s Day parade on Friday, 2 March, was led by the mayor Hag Harris, and deputy mayor Ann Morgan, with singing led by the Cwmann Male Voice choir and followed by an impressive number of residents and children braving the freezing temperature.

University chaplain

A UNIVERSITY chaplain has been appointed to a new key post in the Church in Wales.

Rev Dr Ainsley Griffiths will be the church’s first director of faith, order and unity, responsible for developing all aspects of its work relating to doctrine and theological reflection, liturgy, and ecumenical and interfaith relations and advising the Bench of Bishops.

Dr Griffiths takes up the role having spent the past 13 years as chaplain of the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, and continuing ministerial development officer for the Diocese of St Davids.

A maths graduate and former maths teacher, Dr Griffiths trained for ministry at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, and was ordained at Bangor Cathedral in 1998. Before taking up the role of chaplain, he served as vicar of Pwllheli and Abererch on the Llyn Peninsula.

Dr Griffiths said: “Preparing to move into this new post fills me with hope and exhilaration.

“The key area of doctrine, liturgy and ecumenism covered within it are aspects of the church’s life for which I have a particular passion.

“Working together with colleagues in the Church in Wales and with partners in Wales and beyond, I hope to be able to contribute something significant in our shared task of expressing our faith in Christ, enhancing our life of worship and moving towards full communion.”

Bridge club

THIS week’s results are as follows: 1, Gwenda Davies and Gill Williams (18 total, 22 max, 36 per cent, 61.11 score); 2, Jim Simpson and Mary Savage (20, 21.00, 40, 52.50); 3, Andrew Phillips and John Evans (20, 19.00, 40, 47.50); 4, Keith Bellamy and Dai Hayes (20, 18.00, 40, 45.00); 5, George Kenchington and Nigel Symmons-Jones (18, 16.00, 36, 44.44).

The club meets every Tuesday at Hafan Deg retirement home at 7.40pm. Newcomers are always most welcome.

Bridge lessons are available with Keith Bellamy (01974 298811) or every Wednesday afternoon at the Feathers Hotel, Aberaeron, at 1pm.

Capel Brondeifi

DARLLEN Difyr Llanbed - Mae’r cyfnod diweddar wedi bod yn gyfle i arbrofi tipyn a thrio ambell fenter newydd.

Un enghraifft dda yw’r clwb darllen misol sydd wedi ei sefydlu dan fantell Brondeifi. Mae wedi bod yn llwyddiannus hefyd o ran denu aelodau o’r tu hwnt i’r capel i drin a thrafod llyfrau Cymraeg, a hynny mewn awyrgylch gartrefol. Cyfle arbennig i gymdeithasu, felly, ar brynhawn Mercher unwaith y mis.

Cynhaliwyd y cyfarfod diwethaf ar 14 Chwefror, gyda’r aelodau’n trafod Cysgod y Cryman.

Cafwyd cyfarfod hwyliog a llwyddiannus arall a chyfle i fwynhau cacen siocled arbennig a wnaed gan Eryl i ddathlu penblwydd cyn-brifathro Ysgol Uwchradd Llanbed, ac aelod hynaf Darllen Difyr Llanbed, sef Aneurin Jones, yn 90 oed.

Cynlluniau i’r ifanc - Mae Heini Thomas wedi cyfrannu’n helaeth at yr Ysgol Sul dros y blynyddoedd, ac yn ddiweddar mae wedi dewis rhoi’r gorau i wasanaethu fel athrawes oherwydd ei galwadau gwaith.

Diolch iddi am ei chyfraniad gwerthfawr ar hyd y blynyddoedd.

Mae dyfodol unrhyw gapel neu eglwys yn dibynnu i raddau helaeth iawn ar yr ieuenctid. Dyna pam mae Brondeifi wedi sefydlu cynllun newydd i geisio darparu ar gyfer pobl ifanc y capel.

Bellach, mae cyfle iddynt gwrdd ar ddydd Mercher wedi’r ysgol, gan gymdeithasu ac ymgymryd gyda gwahanol weithgareddau sy’n cael eu cynnal ar ffurf modiwlau.

Roedd y modiwl cyntaf yn cynnwys cyfle i ffurfio band newydd, gan berfformio yn Noson Bwyd Thai Brondeifi.

Buont hefyd yn gwneud ffilm fer ar ddathliadau penblwydd y Festri yn 21 oed, a chafwyd ymweliad llwyddiannus iawn â’r Llethr Sgïo yn Llangrannog. Digon o amrywiaeth, felly, i gynnal diddordeb ac ennyn brwdfrydedd i’r dyfodol.

Gwasanaethau - Cafwyd oedfa dda yng nghwmni aelodau Urdd y Benywod ar y 4 Chwefor. Yna, camodd Melda Grantham, ysgrifennydd yr enwad, i’r pulpud ar y Sul canlynol.

Ar 18 Chwefor, cafwyd gwasanaeth cofiadwy gan rai o aelodau’r capel sy’n dros 30 oed. Trefnwyd y gwasanaeth yn ddeheuig gan Meinir Evans, Wernllwyn, Stryd yr Orsaf a diolch iddi.

Y thema oedd Ysbrydoliaeth a chafwyd cyfraniadau graenus gan bob un o’r rhai a gymerodd ran.

Bydd oedfa arbennig gydag ieuenctid y capel yn cael ei chynnal ar 25 Mawrth gyda’r gweinidog yn eu cynorthwyo.

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