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 4 April
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 6 April / Fifth Sunday of Lent
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The Heavenly Call of God’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
Lenten Catechesis Classes: These seminar-style classes, covering the basics of the Christian faith, will continue this evening (2 April) 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: (2 April) Discipleship, Marriage, Singleness; and (9 April) Mission & Outreach.
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 1 April):
Born into a Unitarian family in 1805, Frederick Denison Maurice became an Anglican in his twenties and was then ordained. He was one of the founders of the Christian Socialist Movement, in which his particular concern was providing education for working men. As a theologian, Maurice’s ideas on Anglican comprehensiveness have remained influential. His best-remembered book, The Kingdom of Christ, demonstrated his philosophical approach to theology. His radicalism was revealed in his attack on traditional concepts of hell in Theological Essays, which cost him his Professorship at King’s College, London, in 1853. In 1866, however, he was given a Chair at Cambridge, which he held until his death on this day in 1872. During his time in Cambridge, Maurice also became Vicar-Chaplain of St Edward’s (1871-2) and a commemorative plaque to him can be seen on the south-west wall of the building by the font.
Merciful Lord, absolve your people from their offences, that through your bountiful goodness we may all be delivered from the chains of those sins which by our frailty we have committed; grant this, heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ’s sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
