Parish Notes:

Patronal Festival - In normal times we would celebrate our patron saint with a meeting of the Friends of St German’s followed by a buffet meal. For obvious reasons we can't do that this year and so have postponed the AGM of the friends and will give thanks to God for St German and our foundation in the mass itself. Weekday Services - No weekday services until Tuesday 6 Oct due to clergy leave. Calendar - A calendar is being prepared as a fundraiser for charity and parish funds. Many thanks to Richard Davey and Ron Cox for providing the images and artwork. Diocesan Conference - Was held recently and focused on a reorganisation of every parish of the diocese into ministry areas on 1 January 2022. Current proposals are that St German’s and St Saviour’s will join the Cardiff South MA along with the Grangetown Churches and St Mary’s in Butetown. Parish officers will be meeting with Fr Phelim after mass in advance of a PCC to discuss how we might respond. Public Worship & COVID - Please attend carefully to the safety instructions, posters and guidance from stewards and parish officers during the services. Face coverings to be worn, no physical sign of peace and Holy Communion under one kind only. Please stay in your seats to receive Holy Communion. 50-50 Prize Draw - Will resume, with first draw on 5 October. Hilary Lovitt is collecting money from this weekend for those who want to join in. Gardening Club - meets this coming Saturday, 3 October, 11-1pm. All are welcome. Sight 2020 Direct - face masks. £4.50 each with all proceeds going to this charity. Year of Pilgrimage - Our Pilgrimage to Llantarnam and Margam was to be on 10 Oct however we now have to postpone this because of the second wave of Coronavirus. Faith Nurturing -Next meets on Wed 14 Oct at 7pm. ‘In Search of a Way’ by G. Hughes SJ. at 7pm via Zoom. Contact Fr Phelim for details. We’ll look at final part of the book. -Recently Departed - Edward Oliver Crompton, Raymond Morrish RIP

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St German’s Church 27 September 2020 - 16th after Trinity (Patronal Festival)

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Services This Week Sun 27 - 16th Sunday after Trinity (OT26) 09:30 Mass (St Saviour) 11.00 Mass (St German) Pray for: St Fagan’s & Michaelston-supe-Ely, Vicki Burrows (V), Province of Sudan. Mon 28: No Mass (St G) Tue 29: No Mass (St S) Wed 30: No Mass (St G) Thur 1: No Mass (St S) Friday 2: No Mass today Saturday 3: No Mass today Sun 4 - 17th Sunday after Trinity (OT27) 09:30 Mass (St Saviour) 11.00 Mass (St German) Parish Priest: Fr Phelim O’Hare, 02922 411229, phelimohare@gmail.com Churchwardens:

Peter Lovitt 02920 763754 Richard Hill 07519 352840

READINGS THIS WEEK Ezek 18:25-28 Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Phil 2:1-11 or 2:1-5 Matt 21:28-32

READINGS NEXT WEEK Isa 5:1-7 Ps 80:9+12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20 Phil 4:6-9 Matt 21:33-43

PSALM: Remember your

mercy Lord.

In Holy Week, Jesus’s fearless yet peaceable witness provokes an increasingly violent reaction from those whose “spiritual vacuity” he is unmasking. They are like the second son in the parable that he now tells, whose words are faithful but who does not follow through with action. In contrast, the “tax collectors and outcasts” who have never claimed an exalted spiritual status are the ones who (like the first son) exhibit a genuine change of heart and life in response to Jesus’s ministry. after all is said and done. God gathers us, sends us, nurtures us and asks us to do the same. (Angus Ritchie, Church Times)

Parable of the two sons

TODAY’S MUSIC • I bind unto myself today • Lord Jesus Christ • Dear Lord and Father • We plough the fields

COLLECT Lord of all creation, you give us the fruits of the earth in their season and crown the year with your goodness: help us so to receive your gifts with thankful hearts that we may use them to your glory, for the relief of those in want and to meet our daily needs; through Jesus Christ the Bread of life, who is alive and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

FIRST READING A reading from the prophet Ezekiel.

The word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows: ‘You object, “What the Lord does is unjust.” Listen, you House of Israel: is what I do unjust? Is it not what you do that is unjust? When the upright man renounces his integrity to commit sin and dies because of this, he dies because of the evil that he himself has committed. When the sinner renounces sin to become law-abiding and honest, he deserves to live. He has chosen to renounce all his previous sins; he shall certainly live; he shall not die.’ This is the Word of the Lord.  

Ezek 18

RESPONSORIAL PSALM ‘Remember your mercy Lord.’

Lord, make me know your ways. Lord, teach me your paths. Make walk in your truth, and teach me: for you are God my saviour. R/

Remember your mercy, Lord, and the love you have shown from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth. In your love remember me, because of your goodness, O Lord. R/

The Lord is good and upright. He shows the path to those who stray, he guides the humble in the right path; he teaches his way to the poor. R/

Psalm 25

SECOND READING A reading from Paul’s letter to the Philippians. If our life in Christ means anything to you, if love can persuade at all, or the Spirit that we have in common, or any tenderness and sympathy, then be united in your convictions and united in your love, with a common purpose and a common mind. That is the one thing which would make me completely happy. There must be no competition among you, no conceit; but everybody is to be self-effacing. Always consider the other person to be better than yourself, so that nobody thinks of his own interests first but everybody thinks of other people’s interests instead. In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus: His state was divine, yet he did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave, and became as men are; and being as all men are, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross. But God raised him high

and gave him the name which is above all other names so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus and that every tongue should acclaim Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father. This is the word of the Lord.

Phil 2

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Alleluia, alleluia! If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him. Alleluia

GOSPEL: A reading from the Gospel according to Matthew. ‘Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people, ‘What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He went and said to the first, “My boy, you go and work in the vineyard today.” He answered, “I will not go,” but afterwards thought better of it and went. The man then went and said the same thing to the second who answered, “Certainly, sir,” but did not go. Which of the two did the father’s will?’ ‘The first’ they said. Jesus said to them, ‘I tell you solemnly, tax collectors and prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you, a pattern of true righteousness, but you did not believe him, and yet the tax collectors and prostitutes did. Even after seeing that, you refused to think better of it and believe in him.’

This is the gospel of the Lord. Matthew 21

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