Blog Posts

  • News update and today’s reflection Changes to Welsh Government pandemic rules, announced yesterday, will allow some places of worship to open for individual private prayer. The Church in Wales has also published detailed and helpful guidance about this. Now our Churchwardens, Vicar and Archdeacon are carrying out risk assessments to see what might be possible in Bro Celynnin.…

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  • Don’t give up! Thelma Gould Johnston brings us today’s reflection from her garden in Conwy. It is such a wise and timely encouragement for any of us who are struggling with the continued demands of social distancing or the other challenges and suffering of this time. Am hynny, nid ydym yn digalonni. Er ein bod…

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  • Spirit Level The Premier League returned last night, prompting David Parry to reflect on whether life is always fair… Dywedodd wrthyt, feidrolyn, beth sydd dda, a’r hyn a gais yr ARGLWYDD gennyt: dim ond gwneud beth sy’n iawn, caru teyrngarwch, ac ymostwng i rodio’n ostyngedig gyda’th Dduw. Micha 6:8 He has told you, O mortal,…

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  • Red Kite In 2006 a Red Kite was spotted flying over London, for the first time in 150 years. Once almost extinct in the UK, these magnificent birds of prey have been patiently reintroduced by conservationists. They are still quite a rare sight though – and one which inspired Vivien Wakely to write today’s reflection.…

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  • Re-ordering, restoring love We’re thankful to three contributors today! The first is an image sent in by Angela Rigby-Doble, which goes very well with David Jones’s reflection on self-control – itself responding to the series on the fruits of the Holy Spirit, in which Gwen Parry used the image of the horned melon for self-control:…

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  • Togetherness So we begin the 13th week of restricted living, and 74 daily reflections, 14 videos later we’re still going! It’s been great to be brought together on Zoom too, in groups and one-to-one conversations, phone calls, texts and letters. Our community seems stronger than ever, and we are so delighted to have welcomed readers…

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  • Bore da!  Good morning! Welcome to this morning’s service, brought to you by Reverends David and Eryl Parry, Stuart Melling and Jane Bowen. Our focus today is a beautiful passage from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans (5: 1-8), which should give us all hope as we enter yet another week of restricted living. After all,…

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  • Making a connection … One of the extraordinary ways that the Spirit has been at work through these pages over the last few months, is the way that people have made connections with one another, and with God. Today’s begins with Reverend Eryl Parry after receiving an e-mail below from Jane Williams …. ‘I was so…

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  • Personally speaking … Since Pentecost, these pages of daily reflections have been filled with images, prayers and thoughts of the Holy Spirit as their focus. We are so grateful to everyone who has contributed. As the series on the ‘fruits of the Spirit’ unfolded, we began to receive very personal stories of the Spirit at work…

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  • Fruits of the Spirit: self-control And so we arrive at the last in the list of the fruits of the Spirit! Today’s introduction to Gwen Parry’s reflection is not an image, but a favourite poem of Mavis Tunstall’s by Emily Dickinson, sent in response to how she sees the Holy Spirit. It provides the perfect…

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