Dear friends
Welcome to this week’s newsletter, a copy of which is attached along with an array of posters advertising the various events happening throughout Dyffryn Clwyd Mission Area.
Contemporary Worship and Praise at St Peter’s Ruthin
Join us for an exciting contemporary worship and praise service at St Peter’s Church, Ruthin on Sunday 26th March, at 6:30pm. Everyone is welcome so please do come along.
Passiontide explanation from Tad Huw Bryant
Please find attached a Word document from Tad Huw explaining our movement into Passiontide. Tad Huw is often asked why we cover all statues, crosses and crucifixes during this period, and hopes the attached explanation will provide you with some answers.
During Holy Week there are services every day throughout the Mission Area which help us to enter the story, but especially in the last three days (known as the Holy Triddum) or Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday, we seek to enter more fully the story of our salvation and experience anew the redemption won for us. We would like to encourage you to attend as many of these services as possible, but especially all three days of the Holy Triddum which hang together as one litrugy, one narrative spanning three days that encapsulate the entirety of our Faith and will enable us to enter into the Joy of Easter morning with far more meaning for ourselves and our communities.
Easter Flowers donations appeal – St Peter’s Ruthin
Donations are very welcome towards the cost of Easter flowers.
Congratulations to Efenechtyd Church
Well done on achieving the Bronze Eco Church award from A Rocha.
Also attached is a poster advertising Efenechtyd’s Easter Sunday morning service at 9am, to which you are all invited and very welcome.
Holy Week at Dyffryn Clwyd Mission Area
Holy Week 2nd to 9th April 2023: There is so much planned and not enough space to list it all here, so please see the attached posters for full details and also please refer to the separate emails which will be sent out over the next few weeks. However, in brief:
Palm Sunday 2nd April Procession 9.30am start from Llanfair, Llanbedr, Llanfwrog or Llanrhydd for short service and palms blessing. Procession to ‘The Square’ in town for 10.30am Liturgy of the Passion. 11am Holy Eucharist service in St Peter’s Church.
Palm Sunday Evensong 6pm at St Peter’s, Ruthin
Monday 3rd April: A family meal that tells the story of the Passover 6pm Llangynhafal Church
Tuesday 4th April:
10am Holy Eucharist St Peter’s Ruthin
6pm Stations of the Cross Llanbedr DC
Wednesday 5th April:
9.30am Holy Eucharist St Peter’s Ruthin
10am – Family Fun in Llanfair DC Church
Maundy Thursday 6th April: 6pm Llanynys, 6.30pm Clocaenog, 8pm Llanbedr DC, 8pm St Peter’s Ruthin, 9pm – 12pm At the Outdoor Altar in Llanbedr DC
Good Friday
9.30am Wild Church at Clocaenog
Liturgy Services at the foot of the cross
10am Llanychan
12pm Llangynhafal
2pm Llanbedr DC
2pm St Peter’s Ruthin
2pm Llanarmon (Family Good Friday Stories)
4pm Cyffylliog
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil – Saturday 8th April 2023 at 8pm
St Meugan’s Church, Llanrhydd
Easter Sunday Services
6am Llangynhafal dawn sunrise service
9am Llanarmon
9am Efenechtyd
9.30am Wild Eucharist Clocaenog
10.30am Llanbedr DC
10.30am St Peter’s, Ruthin
11am Llanfair
11am Cyffylliog
4pm Llanynys
6pm Llanychan
CREATE AND DONATE A FLORAL DISPLAY
Llanfair Flower Festival Saturday 27th to Monday 29th May
If you or your church would like to create and donate a flower arrangement, please contact Dian Moulsdale by email (nanadi47@gmail.com).
Regardless of whether you are a team of seasoned flower arranging pros, or you are a keen and budding floral enthusiast, we hope to fill the church with as many flower arrangements as possible and we need your help!
PARACHUTING TEDDIES AND SPRING FAYRE
Llanfair Saturday 20th May from 2pm
Please join us for our annual Parachuting Teddies and Spring Fayre event.
Lots of fun for all the family!
LLANARMON FLOWER FESTIVAL AND EXHIBITION
Sunday 9th July
Flower Festival including a Christening Gown Exhibition and Old Photos of Llanarmon yn Iâl. Refreshments provided. Please join us! And any flower arrangement donations from budding florists are very gratefully received. The more flowers, the merrier (and more colourful)!
Other events happening throughout the Mission Area:
Dementia Friendly Café Cof at Llangynhafal Church
Weekly from Monday 6th March 10.30am –12pm.
A big call out for volunteers! Anyone wishing to attend will receive a very warm welcome, and volunteers are always hugely appreciated so if you have a couple of hours to spare, please contact Mair Ansell on 01824 790 726 / mairansell@aol.com or Rev Natasha on email natashaquinn-thomas@churchinwales.org.uk.
Llanfair DC Parents & Toddler Group
Every Wednesday 10:15am – 11:30am at Llanfair DC Church.
Drop in Fridays at St Peter’s Ruthin
Pop in and see us between 9am and 1pm every Friday. Please see poster attached for details.
Ruthin Festival of Choirs, March 2023
It’s a musical March with four fantastic concerts planned! Please see poster attached for dates and details.
Mission Area Easter Vestry Meeting
An official notice will be published and distributed in due course. However, please note that the Mission Area Easter Vestry Meeting has been schedule for the 27th of April at 7pm in Llanfair Church.
Please don’t forget to get in touch with me soon to let me know what you are planning at your church over Easter. Special services, events, fundraising activities, or simply anything which others in the MA would like to attend (there’s lots, I’m sure!), then please let me know as I will gladly spread the word. My email is imogen@dyffrynclwyd.co.uk and new mobile number is 07543 504486.
And finally, please don’t forget that not everyone is contactable via email or has Internet access. We would all be ever so grateful if you could please share all the many events and activities with your churches through notices, noticeboards, or simply word of mouth. Thank you!
Kind regards
Imogen Dennis-Newton
Mission Area Administrator
Dyffryn Clwyd Mission Area
Email: imogen@dyffrynclwyd.co.uk
Mobile: 07543 504486
Website: https://www.dyffrynclwyd.co.uk;
Please note, my working hours are Monday to Friday 9am – 12pm. I work mainly from home, but will endeavour to be in the MA Office on either a Tuesday or Wednesday morning. If you would like to see me or you need to come to the office, please send me a message so that we can organise a convenient day and time to meet. Thank you.
Newsletter-26th-March-2023.pdf
Passiontide-explanation.docx
