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. Please also note that the Cambridge Half Marathon is taking place this Sunday, so do leave extra time to make it to the services on Sunday (for more information on road closures, etc., see here):
Friday 1 March
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 3 March / Third Sunday of Lent
9am - BCP Holy Communion
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘God’s Wisdom: The Grace of Poverty’
Service Sheet: Here
Other news:
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!
Lenten Reading Groups: We will be running reading groups in the church throughout Lent and warmly encourage you to join one. Currently we have one meeting on Sunday afternoon, one on Monday evening, and one (as part of Scriptorium) on Tuesday & Wednesday lunchtimes. We will be working through Rowan Williams’ new book Passions of the Soul, which can be purchased from here. Questions for guiding discussion on each of the book’s chapters can be viewed 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 Code: 20-17-19 / Account Number: 30851477 / Account Name: St Edwards Church). 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 1 March):
St David, or Dewi, was a monk and a bishop in the sixth century. He was reputed to be an exemplar of the ascetic, spiritual life but was also highly regarded for his kindness and compassion to others, particularly the poor and the sick. He is believed to have founded the monastery at Menevia, now St Davids, and also at least a dozen other monasteries. He is said to have based his Rule for his monasteries on that of the Egyptian desert monks, with a strong emphasis on hard work, abstinence from alcohol and refraining from unnecessary speech. He died in about the year 601 and has been regarded as the patron saint of Wales since at least the twelfth century.
Almighty God, who called your servant David to be a faithful and wise steward of your mysteries for the people of Wales: in your mercy, grant that, following his purity of life and zeal for the gospel of Christ, we may with him receive the crown of everlasting life; 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.
