Up at seven and off to St Fagan's in bright morning sunshine to celebrate the eight o'clock Eucharist for a dozen people. I had spend time yesterday preparing different sermons for here and St Timothy's as they use different lectionaries. For some reason that escapes me, I prepared a sermon around the wrong set of readings for St Tim's, and so had to ditch it and improvise around the given readings. I did so without going on for too long and was quite pleased with the outcome.
I then went and collected Owain and we drove to Newport together for a leisurely lunch with Martin and Chris and their family with four other invited guests. It was warm enough to sit outside around the pool after we'd eaten, and I fell asleep in the sun. In addition to Martin's 90 year old mother, plus Andrew and Robert, who live permanently with them, they are temporarily looking after another two teenage boys. It's quite a household, inspiring and amazing to see how Martin and Chris succeed in enabling young people with learning difficulties to develop confidence and social skills in a non-institutional setting. This week the two of them are going to London to dine at the house of Lords at the invitation of a good friend, Baroness Eluned Morgan, also co-incidentally they will get to hear her contribute to the debate on the gay marriage bill. Quite a sixtieth birthday treat for Martin.
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