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 1 September
10.30am - BCP Morning Prayer
Sunday 3 September / Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity
9am - BCP Holy Communion
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The Great I AM’
Service Sheet: Here
Hymnsheet: Here
Other news:
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. If you have any queries please speak to Peter on Sunday. Many thanks!
Three-Part Series on the Book of Hebrews: At 5pm on three consecutive Wednesdays in September (13th, 20th, 27th), Judson Greene (PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Divinity) will be presenting three lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews at St Edward’s:
Wednesday 13 September @ 5pm – ‘The Book of the Better: Argument and Purpose in Hebrews’
Wednesday 20 September @ 5pm – ‘Jesus, Priest and Vicitm: Atonement in Hebrews’
Wednesday 27 September @ 5pm – ‘The Promised Land: Eschatological Earth in Hebrews’
All are welcome to attend!
Advance Notice of Church Lunch: Our service of dedication & harvest celebration will be held at 11am on Sunday 1 October this year followed by an all church lunch. If you would like to contribute to, or assist with, the lunch please speak to Hosanna Greene.
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: 20-17-19 / ACCT #: 30851477 – “St Edwards Church Vestry Fund”]. 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 (Friday 1 September):
Giles was a hermit who died in about the year 710. He founded a monastery at the place now called Saint-Gilles in Provence which became an important place on the pilgrimage routes both to Compostela and to the Holy Land. His care for the wounded and those crippled by disease resulted in his becoming the patron saint of such people, particularly of those with leprosy. Leprosy sufferers were not permitted to enter towns and cities and therefore often congregated on the outskirts, where churches built to meet their needs were regularly dedicated to St Giles.
Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray and to give more than either we desire or deserve: pour down upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask but through the merits and mediation of 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.
