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 13 September
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 15 September / Sixteenth Sunday After Trinity
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Can A Grapevine Produce Figs?’’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
Harvest Donations: In the run-up to our harvest festival this year, on Sunday 6 October, we will be collecting for Jimmy’s Night Shelter in Cambridge. Jimmy’s provides emergency accommodation for those who have been made homeless, as well as supporting residents to transition into homes of their own. Last year, donations helped Jimmy’s provide 40,000 meals including breakfast, lunch and a well-balanced, nutritious evening meal, all of which is vital to helping its residents adopt a healthier lifestyle. A list of items Jimmy’s require can be found 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. 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 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 13 September):
John Chrysostom was born in Antioch in about 347. He was a brilliant preacher which earned him in the sixth century the surname ‘Chrysostom’, literally ‘golden-mouthed’. He is honoured as one of the four Greek Doctors of the Church. Against his wish he was made Patriarch of Constantinople in 398. He set about reforming the Church and exposing corruption amongst the clergy and in the Imperial administration. ‘Mules bear fortunes and Christ dies of hunger at your gate,’ he is alleged to have cried out. He fell foul of the Empress Eudoxia and, in spite of the support of Pope Innocent i of Rome, was sent into exile twice, finally dying of exhaustion and starvation in September 407, with the words ‘Glory be to God for everything’ on his lips.
God of truth and love, who gave to your servant John Chrysostom eloquence to declare your righteousness in the great congregation and courage to bear reproach for the honour of your name: mercifully grant to those who minister your word such excellence in preaching, that all people may share with them in the glory that shall be revealed; 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.
