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 8 September
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 10 September / Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity
11am - BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Forgiveness and the Life of the Church’
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!
Church Lunch on Sunday 1 October: There will be an all church lunch hosted in Jesus College by the Greene family, following our 11am dedication & harvest service on Sunday 1 October. If you would like to contribute to, or assist with, the lunch please speak to Hosanna Greene and sign-up on the sheet by the West Door or online here.
Scriptorium: The Scriptorium at St Edward’s restarts on Tuesday 3 October. This is a structured prayer & study group for postgraduate students meeting on Tuesdays and Wednesdays weekly during University of Cambridge term-times. If you are interested in attending please contact the Church Administrator or visit our webpage for further details.
‘Wine, Soil and Salvation’: Join us on Friday 6 October at 7.30pm for an evening of wine tasting and learning about wine in the Bible. Our vicar-chaplain, Mark Scarlata, is finishing the final edits of a book on the topic and will take you through the world of wine and Scripture. From the cup of salvation to the cup of wrath, we’ll be tasting six different wines with a break for food in between. There are only 30 spots, so do sign-up (by emailing the church administrator) and especially bring a friend who might not come to church. Suggested donation for the evening is £10.
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 (Saturday 9 September):
Charles Lowder was born in 1820 and came under the influence of the Oxford Movement during his studies at Exeter College, Oxford, in the early 1840s. After ordination, he became increasingly drawn to a Tractarian and ritualist expression of the faith, especially after his move to London in 1851, despite the fierce opposition such Catholic spirituality faced within the Church. As a curate in Pimlico and Stepney, and then as the first vicar of St Peter’s, London Docks, Lowder came to epitomize the nineteenth-century Anglo-Catholic ‘slum priest’. Dedicated to the poor and destitute, he was tireless in his parish work. His health gave way and he died at the age of sixty on this day in 1880.
Almighty God, who called your Church to bear witness that you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself: help us to proclaim the good news of your love, that all who hear it may be drawn to you; through him who was lifted up on the cross, and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
