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 21 March
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Sunday 23 March / Third Sunday of Lent
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Everyone Who Thirsts’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
Lenten Catechesis Classes: These seminar-style classes, covering the basics of the Christian faith, will continue tonight (19 March) at 7.30pm in the church. Sessions will run for an hour and tea & coffee will be provided. The topics covered in the remaining sessions will be: (19 March) Eucharist & Scripture; (26 March) Church & Priesthood of All Believers; (2 April) Discipleship, Marriage, Singleness; and (9 April) Mission & Outreach.
Gardening Day: On Saturday 29 March, from 10am until 12noon, Hugh Wright will be coordinating a spring tidy-up of the churchyard and we would welcome as many volunteers as possible from the congregation to undertake this much needed work. Thank you!
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 19 March):
In the gospel of Matthew, St Joseph of Nazareth is depicted as a good man, a working carpenter, who trusted in God. He received God’s messenger who shared with him God’s will for him and for Mary, to whom he was engaged to be married. Luke’s gospel describes how Joseph took the new-born child as if he were his own. He was with Mary when, on the fortieth day after the birth, Jesus was presented in the Temple, ‘where every first-born male is designated as holy to the Lord’. The adoption of Jesus by Joseph also established Jesus in the descent of David, to accord with the prophecy that Israel’s deliverer would be of the House and lineage of David.
God our Father, who from the family of your servant David raised up Joseph the carpenter to be the guardian of your incarnate Son and husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary: give us grace to follow him in faithful obedience to your commands; 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.
