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 27 October
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Jeremy Morris)
Sunday 29 October / Last Sunday After Trinity
11am - Holy Communion
Service Sheet: Here
Other news:
Scriptorium: Meeting in St Edward’s church on Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9am-4:30pm weekly during University of Cambridge term-times, the Scriptorium is a structured prayer & study group for postgraduate students and researchers. If you are interested in attending please contact the Church Administrator or visit our webpage for further details.
Convivium: A midweek group meeting at St Edward’s on Thursday evenings at 6pm. This week, Convivum will meet at the front of St Edward’s at 6pm to attend the St John’s College Chapel All Soul’s service at 6:30pm. Those who are new to Cambridge or the St Edward’s church community are especially welcome! Please contact the Church Administrator for more details here.
StED Talk: The first StED Talk of term will be held on Wednesday 15th November at 5pm with Dr Cherrie Coghlan speaking on the title: '"Where There is Darkness...": Towards a Greater Understanding of Suicide.'
This talk will consist of reflections on the subject of suicide by Dr Coghlan, who is a retired consultant psychiatrist and member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Psychiatry and Spirituality Special Interest Group, for which she has written and spoken about this topic before. It will touch on personal and religious attitudes to suicide, research on the mental health benefits of spiritual engagement, and how the most recent research on the understanding of suicide overlaps creatively with spiritual/religious concerns. Please register for a free ticket on Eventbrite, here.
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!
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 (Thursday 26 October):
Born in the year 849, Alfred the Great was the king of the West Saxons who effectively brought to an end the constant threat of Danish dominion in the British Isles. He came to the throne at the age of twenty-two, and, after establishing peace, set about bringing stability to both Church and State. He gave half of his income to founding religious houses which themselves acted as Christian centres for education, care of the sick and poor and respite for travellers. He was a daily attender at mass and himself translated many works into the vernacular. He evolved a legal code based on common sense and Christian mercy. His whole life was marked by the compassion of Christ. He died on this day in the year 899.
God, our maker and redeemer, we pray you of your great mercy and by the power of your holy cross to guide us by your will and to shield us from our foes: that, after the example of your servant Alfred, we may inwardly love you above all things; 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.
