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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29

  • The sun is out. Le soleil brille. #
  • So, I am preaching this Sunday, and the first Sunday of each month until the end of the year. It means I am also preaching next Sunday. #
  • Most of France is sunny. But we're not living in France are we? No, we are in Brittany… #
  • our street sounds like a building site today… Not a nice sound. #
  • This morning's program: plod through Psalm 1, and reading. #
  • You know you are living in a rural place when the local papers gives you the price of cows and pigs on the farmers' markets in the area. #
  • The weather is ideal for a studious morning. It is raining. No so good to cut the grass today though. #
  • Ther's been a change of plan and I am due to preach this coming Sunday, so I'll need to get going with my sermon this morning. #
  • Really enjoying to be able to spend some time reading. #
  • Just seen on http://www.xl6.com that a French Systematic Theology is coming out soon. Exciting, there aren't any until now. #

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Ministry

We are taking our time to settle down, and see how we will fit in, and to see how the Lord will uses our gifts here. Nevertheless, there is no time wasted, and there are already some opportunities to be useful. So, I will be preaching every first Sunday of the month as well as leading two services a month until the end of 2010. I will also be preaching and leading the service this coming Sunday (29/08) as my colleague Emmanuel is filling the pulpit for another church, in Lannion. That means I am preaching two Sundays in a row (29th and 5th September). There may be more opportunities arising soon, I’ll keep you posted.

Bro Gozh ma zadoù – Mae hen wlad fy nhadau- Land of my fathers (2)

Here are the words, first in Breton, then in Welsh. You can try to compare both, it is an interesting exercise.

Breton:

Ni, Breizhiz a galon, karomp hon gwir Vro !
Brudet eo an Arvor dre ar bed tro-do.
Dispont kreiz ar brezel, hon tadoù ken mat,
A skuilhas eviti o gwad.

Chorus

O Breizh ! ma Bro ! Me ‘gar ma Bro. (Oh Brittany, my country! I love my crountry.)
Tra ma vo ‘r mor ‘vel mur ‘n he zro. (As long as the sea will be a wall around her.)
Ra vezo digabestr ma Bro ! (Be free my country!)

Breizh, douar ar sent kozh, douar ar varzhed,
N’eus Bro all a garan kement ‘barzh ar bed.
Pep menez, pep traoñienn, d’am c’halon zo kaer,
Enno ‘kousk meur a Vreizhad taer !

Chorus

Ar Vretoned zo tud kalet ha kreñv;
N’eus pobl ken kalonek a-zindan an neñv,
Gwerz trist, son dudius a ziwan eno,
O ! pegen kaer ec’h out, ma Bro !

Chorus

Mar d’eo bet trec’het Breizh er brezelioù bras,
He Yezh a zo bepred ken beo ha bizkoazh.
He c’halon birvidik a lamm c’hoazh ‘n he c’hreiz,
Dihunet out bremañ, ma Breizh !

Welsh:

Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;
Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra mâd,
Dros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.

(Cytgan - Chorus)

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i’m gwlad.
Tra môr yn fur i’r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i’r hen iaith barhau.

(Ail Bennill – Second stanza)

Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd,
Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn, i’m golwg sydd hardd;
Trwy deimlad gwladgarol, mor swynol yw si
Ei nentydd, afonydd, i mi.

(Cytgan - Chorus)

(Trydydd Pennill – Third stanza)

Os treisiodd y gelyn fy ngwlad tan ei droed,
Mae hen iaith y Cymry mor fyw ag erioed,
Ni luddiwyd yr awen gan erchyll law brad,
Na thelyn berseiniol fy ngwlad.

(Cytgan - Chorus)

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22

  • Top 10 Facebook Fixes http://t.co/anvwsyj via @lifehacker #
  • @alandavey clever these Franch mosquitos. in reply to alandavey #
  • kids still in berd, the house is quiet, just need a cupa and it will be bliss. #
  • Reading. I hadn't had much opportunity to study over the last two years, so it is great. Enjoying it. #
  • Will be working in the new study this morning. #
  • More building work today: finish the IKEA wardrobe that was given to us. Then get a gaz cylinder. #
  • The problem when you move is that you seem to go back and forth to the shops rather too often and spend lots. New trip to Carrefour. #
  • We are back online. More news to come soon. #

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