News St Padarn’s

THE Peter-tide Ordinations are taking place in St David’s Cathedral on Saturday, 25 June and Sunday, 26th June. Twelve people will be ordained Priest by Bishop Wyn at a special service on the Saturday and on the Sunday, and he will be ordaining a further twelve as Deacons. Both services are of great importance to the Grouped Parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, Elerch, Penrhyncoch and Capel Bangor as on the Saturday the Rev Lyn Dafis, a Curate in the Benefice will be ordained Priest and on the Sunday, Lynn Rees will be ordained as Deacon and will be a NSM Curate in the Benefice. On Sunday, 26 June, there will be no services in St Padarn’s as all the four parishes will be gathering together in Penrhyncoch at 6.30pm for a special service to celebrate with Lyn and Lynn their new ministries in the Benefice. All are most welcome to these services.

Services for Whitsunday and Trinity:Sunday, 15 May is Whitsunday - Pen-tecost - and services will be at 8.00am Holy Communion using the 1984 red book setting; 10.00am Cymun Bendigaid and 11.15am Choral Eucharist. Sunday, 22 May is Trinity Sunday, marking the half way point in the Christian Year, and services will be as for Whitsunday. However, Trinity Sunday is also the fourth Sunday of the month, and throughout the summer months on the fourth Sunday there will be a 3.00pm Evensong using the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Rev Andrew Loat in the May maga-zine writes about the service saying that Worship from the Book of Com-mon Prayer has a solemnity to it quite unlike modern liturgies; a sense of being unable to escape God’s holy gaze while also being given assurance of his forgiveness All are welcome to our services.