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 17 November
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Sunday 19 November / Second Sunday Before Advent
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Investing in the Kingdom’
Service Sheet: Here
Other news:
StED Talk: The StED Talk due to be held today (15 November) at 5pm, has regrettably had to be postponed until a later date, which is still to be decided. Further details will be forthcoming in due course.
Stir-up Sunday: Next Sunday (26 November) will be ‘stir-up Sunday’, when the ingredients of Christmas pudding are traditionally prepared. Therefore, we are inviting congregants to bring some of the following ingredients (listed amounts are for 1 batch of dough – we estimate needing a total of 4 batches) and/or jam jars in which to take away and store the dough after it has been ‘stirred-up’.
Mincemeat Ingredients:
225g/8oz vegetarian suet
225g/8oz Bramley apples, peeled, cored and chopped
125g/4oz candied peel, chopped
225g/8oz sultanas
225g/8oz raisins
225g/8oz currants
175g/6oz demerara sugar
1 tsp mixed spice
1 orange, zest and juice
60ml/2fl oz brandy
The ‘stirring-up’ of the dough was intended as a metaphor for the ‘stirring-up’ of one’s heart to praise Christ the King, for welcoming the new liturgical year at advent, and in anticipation of celebrating Christ’s incarnation and birth at Christmas.
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: This Thursday (23 November) at 6pm the midweek group ‘Convivium’ will meet as usual in the bell tower for prayer & worship. Please contact the Church Administrator for more details.
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 16 November):
Born in the year 1046, Margaret of Scotland was the daughter of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England but educated in Hungary, where her family lived in exile during the reign of Danish kings in England. After the Norman invasion in 1066, when her royal person was still a threat to the new monarchy, she was welcomed in the royal court of Malcolm III of Scotland and soon afterwards married him in 1069. Theirs was a happy and fruitful union and Margaret proved to be both a civilizing and a holy presence. She instituted many church reforms and founded many monasteries, churches and pilgrim hostels. She was a woman of prayer as well as good works who seemed to influence for good all with whom she came into contact. She died on this day in the year 1093.
God, the ruler of all, who called your servant Margaret to an earthly throne and gave her zeal for your Church and love for your people that she might advance your heavenly kingdom: mercifully grant that we who commemorate her example may be fruitful in good works and attain to the glorious crown of your saints; 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.
