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.
Friday 22 November
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 24 November / Christ the King
11am - Holy Communion & Service of Confirmation (with +Graham Kings presiding)
Sermon: ‘Priscilla and the Holy Spirit’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
Assisted Dying Panel Discussion: This Friday at 5.30-7pm in Pembroke College Auditorium there will be a panel discussion on the question ‘Assisted Dying: Is It Ethical?’ (see poster here). Earlier this term the SEI Online Journal published an article addressing this difficult and pressing subject (see here) and we would encourage anyone wishing to think more deeply about it to attend on Friday evening. Tickets are free and can be booked here.
Advent Carol Service: At 4pm on Sunday 1 December we will be having our annual advent carol service, which will last an hour and be followed by mince pies and mulled wine. Please do invite friends and family to this joyful inauguration of the season of advent and the new liturgical year!
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 (Wednesday 20 November):
Born in about the year 840, Edmund was nominated as king while still a boy. He became king of Norfolk in 855 and of Suffolk the following year. As king, he won the hearts of his subjects by his care of the poor and his steady suppression of wrong-doing. When attacked by the Danes, he refused to give over his kingdom or to renounce his faith in Christ. He was tied to a tree, shot with arrows and finally beheaded on this day in the year 870. His shrine at the town which became known as Bury St Edmunds was an important centre of pilgrimage throughout the Middle Ages.
Eternal God, whose servant Edmund kept faith to the end, both with you and with his people, and glorified you by his death: grant us such steadfastness of faith that, with the noble army of martyrs, we may come to enjoy the fullness of the resurrection life; 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.
