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Mae ein gwefan Gymraeg i’w gweld yma
HOLY WEEK
Holy Week this year occurs amidst the ongoing warfare and international tensions in so many parts of the world today. The traditional services and celebrations are being curtailed or cancelled in many places amidst safety and security concerns affecting Jews, Christians and Muslims alike and so this is reflected on the altar at St Melangell’s.
Here, the Light is encircled with a crown of thorns, as worn by Jesus at his crucifixion. That is entwined with bands of barbed wire, symbolic of the ongoing passions of our day in which so many are caught up.
At her installation on the feast of the Annunciation this week, the first female Archbishop of Canterbury said that, ”Like Mary, we are called to trust that nothing will be impossible with God, even when we see so much in the world that makes hope seem impossible.”
This Holy Week, please pray that hope will prevail, no matter how unlikely that may seem.
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