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Baptism Preparation Course The next Baptism Preparation Course takes place at St. Teilo’s Hall on Monday, November 16th and completes on Monday, November 23rd at 7pm. Both sessions will last around an hour. All those who wish to have their child baptised need to attend the course before the Baptism. For further information and to book a place, please contact Cathy and Mel on catherinehopkins45@gmail.com

Walk and Talk The Walk and Talk group will meet at 2pm every Wednesday at the Scott Memorial Lighthouse Roath Park. If anybody would like to join the group, please contact Carole on 07747 562847.

The Parish Rosary Prayer Group meets on the last Thursday of each month at 2.00pm in Ty Mair, 19 Heol y Waun CF14 1LB at the junction of Heol Gabriel and College Road. The group members have intercessory prayer, read and discuss the following Sunday's Gospel, pray the Rosary, pray the 3 o'clock prayer and the Divine Mercy Chaplet, and have a cuppa! The next meeting takes place on Thursday, November 26th . This will be our last meeting of the year! All are welcome to attend. Prayer intentions always welcomed.

We will have coffee and tea in the St. Pope John Paul II Chapel at Our Lady of Lourdes after the Mass on Wednesday. If you are at Mass on that day, please stay behind and spend some time socialising and sharing with our fellow parishioners.

The WAF on Symposium on Fatima and First Saturday Devotions takes place on Saturday, November 21st at the Charterhouse, Belmont Abbey from 9am to 6pm. Attendance is free, Lunch is available for £10 and Lunch and Dinner for £20. The key speakers are St. Angela de Fatima Coleho, Vice postulator for the beatification and canonization of Sr. Lucia of Jesus, the third visionary and Fr. Lawrence Lew OP, Chaplain for Blackfriars Hall, Oxford and Global Promoter General for the Holy Rosary on behalf of the Dominican Order. Full details can be found here – https://www.worldfatima-englandwales.org.uk/waf-symposium-belmont-abbey

There are two events happening on Saturday, November 21st. You are welcome to attend one or both. • The first event is in the morning and takes place at St Joseph’s, New Zealand Road from 9am to 12pm with Holy Mass, Praise and Worship, Talks, followed by Adoration, teas and coffees. • The second event takes place in the afternoon at St Teilo’s Parish Hall, from 2pm to 4.30pm with Praise and Worship and Talks, then at 3pm Divine Mercy prayers and prayer ministry in the Divine Mercy.

The Parish indoor physical activity group takes place this Friday in the Hall at St. Teilo’s from 1.30am to 2.30pm.

Due to recent circumstances the planned Refreshments  and sale of Christmas items after Mass on Sunday morning will not now take place.

Rest in Peace Please pray for those who have died recently, especially Brian Bryant and Anne O’Brien both long standing and faithful members of the Parish. Brian’s Funeral Mass will be at St. Teilo’s on Thursday, November 19th at 10.30am. Anne’s funeral details will be announced once they are confirmed.  Please also pray for those whose anniversaries occur at this time: Archbishop John Aloysius Murphy, Canon Thomas Dunne, Fr. Ieuan Wyn Jones, Thomas K. Griffiths, William James Lane, Mary Teresa Tomas, Jeanne Macdonald, Audrey Higgins, Peter Donovan, Winifred Huntley, Anton Mikuz, John Azzorpardi, Kathleen A’Herne, Elizabeth Morgan, Edward Michael Carey, Minnie Elizabeth Ingram, Winifred Emily Reynolds, Frederick Duggan, Dennis Edward McCarthy, George Albert Brookes, Charles Peter Francis Williams, Valerie Margaret Evans, Lilian Doris Doherty, Ralph Herbert Whiddett, Patrick Anthony Forde, Rose Bridge, George Stevens, Pamela Wait, Nicolina Anita Elizabeth Anzani, John Madden, Maud Isabel Davies, Mary Agnes James, Cyril Kelly, Norman Spratt, Mary Dartnell, Bridget (Betty) Morgan, Jeremiah Mahoney, Harold William James, John Richard Patrick Grace, Herbert Davies, Adam Letman.