Palm Sunday 10th April
9.15am St Paul’s Abertysswg
9.30am St Dingat’s New Tredegar
10am St George’s Tredegar
10.30am St David’s Rhymney
11am St Sannan’s Bedwellty
A Reading For Psalm Sunday
John 12:13They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,“Hosanna!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the king of Israel!”
A prayer for Palm Sunday
Loving God, Give us joy in our hearts as we shout hosanna. welcoming Jesus our King with palms celebrating all that we hope for as the Easter story unfolds. Then, as the journey of Jesus turns towards Good Friday help us know that you are with us when celebration turns to sadness. Give us the faith we need to follow you on the way to the cross, which leads to life Amen
Maundy Thursday 14th April
10am St David’s Rhymney
5pm St Peter’s Aberbargoed
7pm St George’s Tredegar
A Reading For Maundy Thursday
John 13:34-35 I am giving you a new command. You must love each other, just as I have loved you. If you love each other, everyone will know that you are my disciples.
A prayer for Maundy Thursday
True and humble king, hailed by the crowd as Messiah: grant us the faith to know you and love you, that we may be found beside you on the way of the cross, which is the path of glory. Amen.
Good Friday 15th April
9.15am St Paul’s Abertysswg
2pm St George’s Tredegar
2pm St Dingat’s New Tredegar Then travelling to St Sannan’s Bedwellty for 3pm
5pm St David’s Rhymney
A Reading For Good Friday
John 3:16-17“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
A prayer for Good Friday
Almighty Father, look with mercy on this your family for which our Lord Jesus Christ was content to be betrayed and given up into the hands of sinners and to suffer death upon the cross; who is alive and glorified with you and the Holy Spirit, one God. now and forever. Amen.
Holy Saturday 16th April
Ministry area service in St George’s Tredegar at 8pm
Refreshments Afterwards
Please Bring A Noise Maker
A Reading For Holy Saturday
Romans 6:5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
A prayer for Holy Saturday
Grant, Lord, that we who are baptized into the death of your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ may continually put to death our evil desires and be buried with him; and that through the grave and gate of death we may pass to our joyful resurrection; through his merits, who died and was buried and rose again for us, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
Easter Sunday 17th April
9.15am St Paul’s Abertysswg
9.30am St Dingat’s New Tredegar
10am St George’s Tredegar
10.30am St David’s Rhymney
11am St Sannan’s Bedwellty
A Reading For Easter Sunday
Luke 24:1-12 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.
A prayer for Easter Sunday
Lord of all life and power, who through the mighty resurrection of your Son overcame the old order of sin and death to make all things new in him: grant that we, being dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ, may reign with him in glory; to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be praise and honour, glory and might, now and in all eternity. Amen