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 15 March
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Jeremy Morris)
Sunday 17 March / Fifth Sunday of Lent
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Despair and the Light of Hope’
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. Many thanks!
Lenten Reading Groups: Reading groups are continuing throughout Lent and we 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 (Sunday 17 March):
St Patrick was born in Roman Britain around the year 390 and was captured by Irish raiders when he was sixteen years old and taken to Ireland as a slave. After six years, he escaped and seems to have gone to the Continent, where he was ordained into the priesthood. When he was in his early forties, he returned to Ireland and made his base at Armagh. He evangelised the people of the land by walking all over the island, gently bringing men and women to a knowledge of Christ. Although he faced fierce opposition and possible persecution, he continued his missionary journeys. His monastic foundations proved to be the infrastructure required to maintain the Christian faith after his death in c. 460.
Almighty God, who in your providence chose your servant Patrick to be the apostle of the Irish people: keep alive in us the fire of the faith he kindled and strengthen us in our pilgrimage towards the light 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.
