St davids cathedral
St David's Cathedral is the mother church of the diocese of St Davids and an iconic reminder of the Christian heritage of the whole of the nation of Wales.
The cathedral aspires to be a centre of excellence, demonstrating the core values of the diocesan Venture in Mission.
The cathedral is home to a living community of faith that maintains daily worship, welcomes visitors and pilgrims, and offers a pastoral ministry of care, healing and re-creation.
The building, ancient in foundation but revised on many occasions through fifteen hundred years, bears witness to the presence of God in a changing world, and to the attempts of Christians in this place throughout history, to find ways of symbolising their experience of God in their own times.
It is the evangelistic aspiration of the cathedral to bear witness to the Gospel in our contemporary setting, and to this end it seeks to be a place of excellence, innovation and challenge in the areas of spiritual growth, evangelistic outreach and liturgical expression.
It is a place that celebrates human creativity, especially through the visual arts and music; and works towards human flourishing by encouraging a sense of vocation in all.
From early times the cathedral has been a focus for pilgrims who have recognised this place as, to use Philip Larkin's words, A Serious House on Serious Earth, or in TS Eliot's phrase, recognise it as a place where prayer has been valid.
Today, the cathedral is still first and foremost a house of prayer, a sacred space, and a place that encourages personal honesty and growth in a context where the presence of God has been experienced through centuries.
It is also a place of learning and teaching, both about the heritage of Christianity and its vital importance in today's society.
It offers space and tranquillity in which those whose discipleship is lived out in places of pressure, busy-ness and stress, can find a new perspective and commentary on their lives.