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The Parish Knit and Natter group will meet in St. Teilo’s Hall on Thursday 25th September at 10.30am. All are welcome to come along and join in the knitting or the nattering or both!

The next social event as part of this centenary year will be “A Pie, A Pint and A Song Night” on Friday, October 10th from 7.30pm to 10.30pm at Rhiwbina Recreation Club. Tickets, priced at £5.00 will be available after mass on September 21st and 28th and October 5th. Tickets will include a pie (steak, chicken & mushroom vegan and gluten-free options available). The event will comprise of 30 minute intervals of songs followed by 30 minutes of time to chat. While performers are live, we ask that those attending to respectfully listen or if appropriate to sing along. If anyone would like to sing a song or recite a poem and for enquiries regarding this event, please contact John Steele on 07491677528. Due to spaces available song/poem slots will be on a first come first served basis.

• Are you someone without a formal religion who wants to be baptised in the Catholic faith? • Are you a Christian from another faith tradition who would like to be received into the Catholic Church? • Are you an interested inquirer who wants to find out more about the Catholic Faith? • Are you an adult who has missed out on the Sacrament of Confirmation? If any of the above applies to you, you are most welcome to join the Parish Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) programme which will run in the Parish Hall at St. Teilo’s on Wednesday evenings at 6pm beginning on Wednesday, October 15th . Please come along and discover more – attendance does not commit you to completing the programme but is designed to allow you to reflect on God’s call for you. (The Parish Hall is accessed from the back of the Church building, between the Church and the Priest’s House.)

With Canon away, there will be no weekday Mass at St. Teilo’s and Our Lady of Lourdes. St. Teilo’s will be open each day for people to spend time in private prayer. Many thanks to the small group of volunteers who are facilitating the Church opening by agreeing to open and lock the Church each day.  Weekday Mass is available in our neighbouring churches: Nazareth House (access to the chapel is through the door on Colum Road, lift assisted access is via the convent entrance) – Mass is celebrated at 10am at Nazareth House on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. (No Mass on Tuesday) St. Joseph’s – Mass is celebrated at St. Joseph’s at 9.15am on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and at 7pm on Wednesday. The Three Churches – Mass is celebrated in the 3 churches as follows: Monday at 9.30am at St. Brigid’s, Tuesday at 9.30am at Christ the King, Wednesday at 9.30am at St. Paul’s, Thursday at 9.30am at Christ the King, Friday at 9.30am at St. Paul’s, Saturday at 9.30am at St. Brigid’s. St. Mary of the Angels and Holy Family –Mass is at 9.30am on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at St. Mary’s and at 9.30am on Thursday at Holy Family.

Today the Church celebrates Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) Sunday. This year, the Church has been celebrating a significant anniversary. It is 1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea. At Nicaea, the great gathering of Bishops from around the Church began the work to formulate the Creed we proclaim Sunday by Sunday. It is the content of this Creed that is our mission as faithful followers of Jesus, so that we may know and love God in this life, in order to be happy with Him forever in the next. The Creed begins with a profound proclamation, “I believe…” This is the theme for Evangelii Gaudium Sunday 2025. To help in its Great Commission to proclaim the Good News, the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has a mission team which is based at their secretariat in Eccleston Square in London. This office supports the bishops in their work to promote the proclamation of the Gospel across England and Wales. The Mission team does this in several diverse areas, but all of which help to serve the kingdom of God. There will be a retiring collection at the end of all Masses this weekend to support the Department of Evangelisation and Discipleship to allow the Church to continue to spread the Good News proclaimed in the Church each time we say the Nicaean Creed. You can also donate using a debit or credit card at the Electronic Donation Station at the back of St. Teilo’s or online at https://donate.mydona.com/st-teilo-our-lady-of-lourdes

St. Teilo’s Friends of Divine Mercy Prayer Group meets on Saturday, September 27th at 2.30pm in the Parish Hall. Everyone is welcome to come along to pray for the parish and the intentions of the parishioners.

The communities of St. Mary’s, Holy Family and St. Teilo’s are arranging a trip to the Christmas Market at Gloucester Quays on Saturday, November 15th . The bus will leave St. Teilo’s Church at 9.20am. The cost is £20 for adults and £15 for children under the age of 16. Departure from Gloucester will be at 4.30pm. A Sign-up sheet is at the back of the Church at St. Teilo’s, so please add your name if you would like to go along.

Canon returns from his break at the end of the week and on Friday will depart for Lourdes as the Chaplain to the Cardiff branch of the Handicapped Children’s Pilgrimage Trust.  If any parishioner would like to offer prayer intentions to be taken to the grotto of the apparition in Lourdes, please drop them through the presbytery letter box before the end of Thursday and Canon will carry them to Lourdes with him.

Next Sunday Fr. John Boles, Superior of the Columban Fathers in Britain, will celebrate all three weekend Masses and make an appeal on behalf of the Columban Missionaries. There will be a retiring collection for the Columban Missionaries at all Masses next weekend.  The Columban Missionaries were founded as the Irish (‘Maynooth’) Mission to China in 1918 and worked there until their expulsion in 1950, after which they went to serve in other countries in Asia and around the Pacific (such as the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Pakistan, Myanmar, Chile and Peru). Fr. Boles has spent over 40 years as a Missionary in Latin America, principally in Peru.