LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL
EGLWYS GADEIRIOL LLANDAF

Queen’s Dragoon Guards Dedicate New Memorial

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On Monday 1st July, we were delighted to welcome 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards. The Cathedral is the spiritual home of the Welsh Regiment and the St David Chapel has long been the home of various memorials to the members of the regiment who died in war, including the remembrance books containing the names of the hundreds of soldiers who died in the two world wars of the 20th century.

 

The memorial stone dedicated during the service is placed at the entrance to the Welsh Regiment Chapel and commemorates the soldiers who died in war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The regiment and the cathedral were particularly pleased to welcome the Colonel-in-Chief, HRH The Prince of Wales, who lay a wreath at the new memorial.

The service was led by the Dean, with prayers offered by The Most Rev’d John Davies, Archbishop of Wales. The Dean received a new standard for safekeeping in the Cathedral in a ceremony symbolic of the close relationship between the Welsh Regiment and Llandaff Cathedral.

 

 

Cathedral Choir Concert

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The final concert in the Cathedral Summer Concert series takes place on Thursday 11 July and will mark the end of the academic year for the Cathedral Choir.

Thursday 11 July, 7.00pm
Llandaff Cathedral Choir in Concert

Music to be performed will include:

Wesley – Ascribe unto the Lord, Stanford – Ye choirs of new Jerusalem, Parsons – Ave Maria and movements from both the Vierne Messe Solennelle and Mozart Coronation Mass.

Tickets for this concert will be priced £12, £8 (concessions) and £5 for students and will be available on the door. The Cathedral Choir Association will serve refreshments at the close of the concert.

Director of Music, Stephen Moore, says “I am greatly looking forward to this year’s Cathedral Choir Concert which will be the last event of the academic year for the choir and also the prelude to our trip to sing at Canterbury Cathedral the following week. It has been another busy and successful year for the choir which has included a CD launch, live TV and Radio broadcasts and a swathe of new repertoire. The end of year concert allows us round off the year in style and to thank those who are leaving the choir as well as those who have supported us in the last twelve months.”

Further details may be found here https://www.facebook.com/events/2245050825542953/

All are assured of a warm welcome.

 

Coming Soon – My Pilgrim Journey

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My pilgrim journey is a children’s experiential visit to the Cathedral when they will learn about pilgrimage to a holy place, and will be encouraged to see their lives as a pilgrimage, a journey of faith.

On the visit children will wear a simple item of pilgrim clothing, collect stamps or stickers at each stopping point in the journey, and reflect on their own lives as a journey. The last section gives them an opportunity for creative artwork on this theme.

The visit takes 2 hours and works best with a maximum group size of 30 children. On request, a space for lunch before or after the visit can be provided.

For more information and booking, please contact the Cathedral Office on 02920 564554 or email office@llandaffcathedral.org.uk

RSCM Choral Festival

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On Saturday 15th June we’re delighted to host the RSCM Choral Festival for the South East Wales Area. We will be joined by Bishop June who will present awards to members, and the afternoon will conclude with Choral Evensong at 3.30pm, during which the choir will sing:

Responses   Smith
Stanford in C
Tallis   If ye love me
Balfour Gardiner   Evening Hymn (in Latin)

As we look forward to welcoming the Royal School of Church Music, more information about the event can be found here. 

Installation of Canon Chancellor

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Canon Jan takes the Oath of Canonical Obedience before the service.

On Sunday 5th May, during Choral Evensong, Bishop June installed the Reverend Canon Dr Jan van der Lely as the Cathedral’s new Canon Chancellor.

Canon Jan has joined us from the Diocese of Gloucester where she was Vicar of Thornbury and Oldbury with Shepperdine, and we were delighted to welcome many visitors who made the journey from Jan’s former parish to support her as we look forward to her ministry among us.

Jan has been ordained for 10 years and before that was a teacher of Religious Studies, Psychology and Sociology in Secondary Schools in Gloucester and Cheltenham, before becoming lay chaplain to Aiglon College, a British boarding school in Switzerland.

Aside from her work as a Parish Priest, Jan is a trustee of Modern Church, a charity founded in the late 19th century as a theological society aiming to support and develop open, non-dogmatic, thinking theology. The charity has supported developments in the church such as women’s ordination.

The Canon Chancellor writes:

Graham and I would like to thank everyone for a warm welcome to Llandaff where we feel well settled already! You may have heard Bishop June’s sermon at my installation including her description of the Canon Chancellor role, which will be published in the next issue of Majestas. It may sound as if ‘Chancellor’ is a legal or financial role – not me at all! – but thankfully instead it is pastoral and educational.

I look forward to getting to know you all and working with you as we pray together, step forward in our lives of faith and seek to know God and to follow Christ more closely day by day.

Canon Jan with the Archdeacon of Margam

 

Our Mission Statement

Llandaff Cathedral is a Christian gathering of the Church in Wales, which is a province of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is also the seat of the Bishop of Llandaff. The Cathedral is a focus of pilgrimage and spirituality in the Diocese of Llandaff and for the City of Cardiff. Our purpose is therefore to worship God and share the gospel of Jesus Christ. In so doing, we welcome all who come here, irrespective of gender, race, creed or sexuality, in order that we might share and pass on our rich Christian heritage and the joy of Christian faith.