Services This Week
Dear All,
Services this week are taking place in person or via livestream through our YouTube Channel. Please find gathering times and service sheet links below. Also, our quarterly newsletter can be found here.
Friday 25 October
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 27 October / The Last Sunday After Trinity
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘A Cry for Help’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
SEI Online Journal: The online journal of the St Edward’s Institute for Christian Thought has published a timely article by a member of the Scriptorium, George Palmer, addressing the issue of assisted suicide, which can be found here. Please feel free to share with anyone who might find it of benefit or interest.
Scriptorium has reconvened for Michaelmas Term 2024. This is a structured time of prayer, study, and fellowship for postgraduate students and researchers meeting 9am-4:30pm Tuesdays and Wednesdays weekly during Cambridge University term times. For more information, please contact the Scriptorium convenor via email here.
Volunteer Rota: In addition to the sign-up sheet in church, we are making it easier to volunteer by attaching an online rota with the weekly email here. (N.B. There will be an initial delay before access is granted to the form, in order that only church members can see and edit it.) Please do consider if you are able to help out in any of the ways listed – we are particularly in need of regular volunteers to set-up tea and coffee and stay a little longer after each service to wash-up/leave away. Many thanks!
Giving: As always we are grateful for all of your gifts! Offerings may still be given during this time via a basket collection during live services, Standing Orders, or one time bank transfer, via BACS (Sort Code: 20-17-19 / Account Number: 30851477 / Account Name: St Edwards Church). There is now also a SumUp machine by the door of the church, for those of you who wish to give contactlessly: Simply power on, enter the amount you wish to give on the screen, and then tap your card.
Exciting Holiness (Saturday 26 October):
Born in the year 849, Alfred was the king of the West Saxons who effectively brought to an end the constant threat of Danish dominion in the British Isles. He came to the throne at the age of twenty-two, and, after establishing peace, set about bringing stability to both Church and State. He gave half of his income to founding religious houses which themselves acted as Christian centres for education, care of the sick and poor and respite for travellers. He was a daily attender at mass and himself translated many works into the vernacular. He evolved a legal code based on common sense and Christian mercy. His whole life was marked by the compassion of Christ. He died on this day in the year 899.
God, our maker and redeemer, we pray you of your great mercy and by the power of your holy cross to guide us by your will and to shield us from our foes: that, after the example of your servant Alfred, we may inwardly love you above all things; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
