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 3 November
10.30am - BCP Morning Prayer
Sunday 5 November / All Saints’ Sunday
9am - BCP Holy Communion
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The Communion of Saints’
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 (Thursday 2 November), 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 (All Saints’ Day):
From its earliest days, the Church has recognized as its foundation stones those heroes of the faith whose lives have excited others to holiness and has assumed a communion between the Church on earth and the Church in heaven. Celebrating the feast of All Saints began in the fourth century. At first, it was observed on the Sunday after the feast of Pentecost; this was to link the disciples who received the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the foundation of the Church, with those who were martyrs, giving their lives as witnesses to the faith. In the eighth century, a pope dedicated a chapel to All Saints in St Peter’s at Rome on 1 November. Within a century, this day was observed in Britain and Ireland as All Saints’ Day.
Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: grant us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living that we may come to those inexpressible joys that you have prepared for those who truly love you; 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.
