Further
developments in the Parish have included the provision of
children’s liturgy for the Saturday / Sunday Masses in Our
Lady & St. Illtyd and St. Cadoc. There are more inclusive
rotas for Eucharistic ministers, readers, and Offertory
processions, and twice yearly a Mass and tea for senior
parishioners organised by the S.V.P. and Ladies Guild. Work
has continued in improving the facilities of the Parish: the
Presbytery has been re-furbished, a p.a. system installed in
St. Cadoc’s, and the Ladies Guild organised and paid for the
restoration of the Grotto at Our Lady & St. Illtyd. In
addition the whole area at the back of the Church was
cleared and the fencing replaced. This has now been
replanted with shrubs sponsored by parishioners in memory of
loved one.
At St. Cadoc in 1999, a driver crashed his vehicle into the
wall below the lawn, which collapsed. This precipitated a
careful look at the safety of the lawn where the children
played after Mass, where there was now nothing to protect
them from falling onto the road. Eventually the whole area
was tied up, a new retaining wall was built, and Howell
Adams at Cross Farm designed and made the railings which are
now an attractive feature of the church grounds.
A new Italian made electronic Viscount Jubilate organ was
bought for St. Cadoc and put in place in April 2000, made
possible by a generous donation from the Ladies Guild, who
also donated a processional cross for St. Cadoc, Our Lady and
St. Illtyd having possessed one for many years.
To mark the
Millennium, after consultation with the parish, a sacristy
bell was installed in both churches, and new kneelers and
stools were made for the altar servers of both churches by a
parishioner, John f J & A Woodwork. The Bereavement
Group introduced a Memorial Book in each church and
anniversaries are now recorded weekly on the newsletter.
Road signs to the Catholic Church were erected in both
Llantwit Major and Cowbridge.
In 2002, an ecumenical, monthly Mothers’ Prayer Group was
begun at St. Cadoc, which has also become the meeting place
of Churches Together in Cowbridge. Our Lady and St. Illtyd
has the benefit of attendance of students studying at
Atlantic College, St. Donat’s and once a year they organise
the liturgy for an International Mass as well as
participating in the liturgy of Youth Sunday. |
