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 10 November
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Jeremy Morris)
Sunday 12 November / Remembrance Sunday
11am - BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The Kingdom of Heaven’
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.
StED Talk: The first StED Talk of term will be held on Wednesday 15 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 (Saturday 11 November):
Born in about the year 316 in Pannonia (in modern-day Hungary), Martin of Tours was a soldier in the Roman army and a Christian. He found the two rôles conflicted and, under the influence of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, he founded a monastery in Hilary’s diocese in the year 360, the first such foundation in Gaul. The religious house was a centre for missionary work in the local countryside, setting a new example where, previously, all Christian activity had been centred in cities and undertaken from the cathedral there. In 372, Martin was elected Bishop of Tours by popular acclaim and he continued his monastic lifestyle as a bishop, remaining in that ministry until his death on this day in the year 397.
God all powerful, who called Martin from the armies of this world to be a faithful soldier of Christ: give us grace to follow him in his love and compassion for the needy, and enable your Church to claim for all people their inheritance as children of God; 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.
