Tucker Memorial Lecture 13.02.2019

The Tucker Memorial Lecture 2019 will be held on Wednesday 13 February 2019 at 7.00 p.m. in the Tucker Lecture Theatre, Lampeter Campus. The guest lecturer is Dr Rhiannon Ifans who will speak on ‘Sant y Cariadon’ / The patron saint of lovers. The lecture will be delivered in Welsh, with simultaneous translation into English. The lecture is followed by the launch of Dr Ifans’ new volume Red Hearts and Roses? Welsh Valentine Songs and Poems. Refreshments are provided and all are welcome. Free entry. In association with the University of Wales Press.

05.12.18 The Mostyn Psalter-Hours

Kathleen Doyle, Lead Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, will discuss their recent acquisition of the Mostyn Psalter-Hours, a deluxe illuminated manuscript made in London in the last decades of the thirteenth century. The book is an outstanding example of English illumination of the highest quality, and may have been made for a bishop of London.

The Event will be held in English

Bydd Kathleen Doyle, Prif Guradur Llawysgrifau Goreuredig y Llyfrgell Brydeinig, yn trafod Llyfr Sallwyr ac Oriau Mostyn, a brynwyd ganddynt yn ddiweddar. Crëwyd y llawysgrif oreuredig hon yn Llundain yn ystod degawdau olaf y drydedd ganrif ar ddeg, ac mae’n enghraifft odidog o oreuro Seisnig o’r radd flaenaf, a hynny o bosibl ar gyfer esgob Llundain.

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth on Wednesday 5 December 2018
Doors Open at 12:30PM
Starts at 1:00PM
Ticket Price: £0.00
Box Office: (01970) 632 548

Russian Choir Concert in Lampeter 31.10.18

Date:                   31.10.18

Time:                  19.30hrs

Venue:                St Peter’s Anglican Church, Lampeter,

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Choir and conductor

The vocal ensemble Resurrection – Voskresenije in Russian – was founded by Jurij Maruk in 1993. It consists of seven to ten professional female and male vocalists. The repertoire of the ensemble includes Russian Sacred Music as well as folk music. Guest performances in Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Austria, the UK, France and Italy have met with great success, and the choir has recorded several CDs of their repertoire, which includes some specially composed arrangements of Burns songs by John McIntosh.

Their conductor, Jurij Maruk, was born in 1961 in Barnaul, West Siberia. In 1976 he began to study music and conducting at the local music facility in Barnaul. After finishing musical school he was admitted to the Novosibirsk State Conservatory (1980-1985) in Professor Boris Pevsner’s class. At this time he worked with the Chamber Choir (Novosibirsk) directed by Pervsner, who was working in close cooperation with the Wladimir Minin Choir in Moscow. Between 1987 and 1989, Jurij Maruk worked at the Mariinsky Theatre (opera and ballet) in St Petersburg as a choir singer. Here he had his initial experience as a conductor and artistic leader of the Mariinsky Theatre (sacred music). Between 1990 and 1992, Maruk worked as the choirmaster of the St Petersburg Radio and Television Choir.

Annual Pan-Orthodox Pilgrimage to the Shrine and Holy Well of St. Winifride

Saturday 6th October 2018

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The annual Pan-Orthodox Pilgrimage to the Shrine and Holy Well of St. Winifride is held on the first Saturday in October, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain.

The Shrine is well signposted from the A55 trunk road; and it is recommended that pilgrims use this road, leaving it by the A5026, which leads directly into the centre of Holywell. Then, pilgrims should follow the brown signs for the Shrine, which is situated on the B121.

The nearest Railway Station is Flint, from where there is a bus service onwards to Holywell.

Saint Winifride was a nun in the seventh century, famed for her sanctity of life. The Holy Well near which she lived has been a place of pilgrimage ever since and the scene of many miracles of healing. Holywell is also the only place of Pilgrimage in Britain where Christian pilgrimage has continued uninterrupted for nearly 1400 years.

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22.04.18 Feast of the Myrrh Bearing Women. Divine Liturgy 10.45hrs

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Troparia

When Thou, the Deathless Life, didst go down to death, then didst Thou slay hell by the lightning flash of Thy Divinity. And when Thou didst raise the dead from the lower world, all the Powers of Heaven cried aloud: Christ our God, Giver of Life, glory to Thee.

Noble Joseph took Thy immaculate Body down from the Tree, wrapped It in a clean shroud and spices, and having embalmed It laid It in a new sepulchre. But on the third day Thou didst rise, O Lord, granting to the world great mercy.

To the myrrbearing women at the sepulchre an Angel appeared and cried: Myrrh is fit for the dead, but Christ has shown Himself a Stranger to corruption. So cry: The Lord has risen, granting to the world great mercy.

Kontakion

Thou didst command the Myrrbearers to rejoice, O Christ our God, Thou didst dry the tears of our first mother Eve by Thy Resurrection, and Thou didst command the Apostles to preach: The Saviour has risen from the tomb.