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 6 October
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Sunday 8 October / Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity
11am - BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The Value of Knowing Christ’
Service Sheet: Here
Other news:
Scriptorium has restarted for Michaelmas Term. The Scriptorium is a structured prayer & study group for postgraduate students meeting in St Edward’s church 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.
‘Suffering and the Problem of Evil’: This Friday 6 October at 4:30pm there will be a book launch in the Runcie Room, Cambridge Divinity Faculty of the T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil, co-edited by our associate vicar, Matthias Grebe. The event will feature a panel discussion with of the book’s contributors: Ankur Barua, Stephen Plant, Simeon Zahl (Cambridge), and Mehrunisha Suleman (Oxford). Following the structured session, there will be light refreshments in the foyer. The event is open invitation and free of charge, but please contact Matthias if you would like further details.
‘Wine, Soil and Salvation’: Also on Friday 6 October, but at 7.30pm, St Edward’s will host 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. Spots are limited to 30, 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.
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!
New Midweek Group: On Thursday 12 October a new midweek group will be starting at St Edward’s. ‘Convivium’ will meet weekly on Thursdays at 6pm in the church for a time of loosely-structured worship & prayer and a relaxed meal (this week pizza will be provided). Those who are new to Cambridge or the St Edward’s community are especially welcome! Please contact the Church Administrator for more details here.
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 8 October):
Born in Gloucestershire in about the year 1494, William Tyndale studied first at Magdalen Hall (now Hertford College), Oxford, and then at Cambridge. He became determined to translate the scriptures from the Greek directly into contemporary English but was thwarted in this by the Bishop of London. So William settled in Hamburg in 1524, and never returned to England. When the first copies of his translation arrived in England in 1526, it was bitterly attacked as subversive by the ecclesiastical authorities. He spent much of the rest of his life making revisions to his work, but also writing many theological works. His life’s work proved good enough to be the basic working text for those who, at the beginning of the following century, were to produce what became known as the Authorized Version of the Bible. He was eventually arrested in 1535 and imprisoned in Brussels on charges of heresy. He was strangled and then burnt at the stake on this day in 1536. His last words were, ‘Lord, open the King of England’s eyes’.
Lord, give to your people grace to hear and keep your word that, after the example of your servant William Tyndale, we may not only profess your gospel but also be ready to suffer and die for it, to the honour of your name; 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.
