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 note that this Saturday (29 March), from 10am until 12noon, there will be a spring tidy-up of the churchyard and we would welcome as many volunteers as possible - thank you!
Friday 28 March
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Jeremy Morris)
Sunday 30 March / Mothering Sunday
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Mothering Sunday’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
Lenten Catechesis Classes: These seminar-style classes, covering the basics of the Christian faith, will continue tomorrow (26 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: (26 March) Church & Priesthood of All Believers; (2 April) Discipleship, Marriage, Singleness; and (9 April) Mission & Outreach.
Funeral Service: The funeral service for the late Liz Walker will be held in St Edward’s at 10.15am on Tuesday 1st April followed by the burial at 11.45am in the Barton Glebe Woodland Burial Ground. The reception will take place in King’s College, Cambridge, 11am-3pm. Please be remembering the Walker family in prayer at this time.
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 (Tuesday 25 March):
The story of the announcement of the coming of God made flesh in the person of his Son, Jesus the Christ, the Anointed One, is heard in today’s proclamation of the good news from the gospel of Luke. The Feast of the Annunciation marks the conception of Christ in the womb of Mary and has been celebrated in the Church since at least the late fourth century. The perfect humanity and the complete divinity of Jesus is affirmed, following the controversies around those orthodox assertions, which themselves led to the acknowledgement of Mary as Theotokos, God-bearer, which in the West became translated as Mother of God. The celebration thus took on strong associations with the person of Mary, and became known in England as Lady Day. In recent years, the Church has re-affirmed the day as a Feast of our Lord, on which his virgin-mother still has a unique place of honour.
We beseech you, O Lord, pour your grace into our hearts, that as we have known the incarnation of your Son Jesus Christ by the message of an angel, so by his cross and passion we may be brought to the glory of his resurrection; 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.
