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LETTER FROM THE RECTORY
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LLYTHYR O'R RHEITHORDY

July 2011


Rector of Llandudno
If you look at the calendar for this month you’ll see that July is going to be quite a busy month in the parish with lots of interesting events of various kinds. May I draw your attention to one of these in particular?

On Sunday July 17th we shall be having a Family Eucharist at Holy Trinity during which the Sunday School Prize Giving ceremony will take place. The service will be followed by a ‘bring and share’ picnic (hopefully outside in the grounds) to which everyone is invited.

I hope that most members of the congregation at Holy Trinity will make an effort to stay on for this event. It’s important that as a parish we mix socially from time to time as well as worship together; but it’s especially important that we take the opportunity to meet our Sunday School leaders and their children. The only contact most members of the congregation have with the Sunday School is to see them briefly when they come to the altar at Communion week by week, or when they take part in a family service. Here is an opportunity to meet them socially and perhaps find out more about what goes on in the Hall on a Sunday morning when the rest of us are in church.

The children of the church, and those who look after them, are very important. Our children are not to be seen as the church of the future (although we certainly hope that they will be!) but very much part of the church here and now. It is easy to shunt them off into their own little enclave and put them at the back of our minds. Of course they need to have their own activities and worship in the Hall so that they experience the Christian faith in ways appropriate to their age. But I do feel that we need to come together in worship as a parish family more often, so that we can be visibly one body in Christ.

We owe a great debt of gratitude to our Sunday School leaders and helpers, especially Julie, Sandy and Kristina. They are willing to give up their time week by week to care for our children and to nurture them in the name of Christ. They all have busy lives with many family and work commitments and yet manage to fit their Sunday School commitments into everything else that they have to do.

So do stay for the picnic on Sunday 17th and meet our Sunday School. Details of the arrangements for this event will appear in the bulletins in the weeks immediately before it.

I end my letter this month with an apology. During July events and commitments outside the parish will take up a great deal of my time. Among these are my annual Walsingham Pilgrimage, a Conference, the Bishop’s Visitation of the Cathedral and duties as a Diocesan Clergy selector. Normally ‘outside’ events like these are spaced out so that they do not interfere with parish life very much, but on this occasion everything seems to have come together. So I hope you will understand that for the next few weeks I will be unable to do more than what is essential in the parish. Thankfully August looks as if it will be very different!    


Fr. John


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