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. Also, our quarterly newsletter can be found here.

Friday 18 October
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)

Sunday 20 October / Twenty-First Sunday After Trinity
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘A Great High Priest Who Suffers With Us’
Service Sheet: Here

Other notices:

SEI Online Journal: The online journal of the St Edward’s Institute for Christian Thought has published a timely article by a member of the Scriptorium, George Palmer, addressing the issue of assisted suicide, which can be found here. Please feel free to share with anyone who might find it of benefit or interest.

Scriptorium has reconvened for Michaelmas Term 2024. This is a structured time of prayer, study, and fellowship for postgraduate students and researchers meeting 9am-4:30pm Tuesdays and Wednesdays weekly during Cambridge University term times. For more information, please contact the Scriptorium convenor via email 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 (Wednesday 16 October):

Born into a wealthy Northumbrian family in about the year 1500, Nicholas Ridley studied at Cambridge, the Sorbonne, and in Louvain. He was chaplain to Thomas Cranmer and master of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge before being made Bishop of Rochester in 1547. He had been clearly drawing closer to the Reformers as early as 1535 and, at the accession of Edward VI, declared himself a Protestant. He assisted Cranmer in preparing the first Book of Common Prayer and was made Bishop of London in 1550. On the death of Edward, he supported the claims of Lady Jane Grey and was thus deprived of his See on the accession of Mary I. He was excommunicated and executed in 1555.

Hugh Latimer was a Leicestershire man, also educated at Cambridge, but fifteen years older than Nicholas Ridley. Hugh was articulate and yet homely in his style of preaching, which made him very popular in the university, and he received its commission to preach anywhere in England. He became a close adviser of Henry VIII after the latter’s rift with the papacy and was appointed Bishop of Worcester in 1535. He lost the king’s favour in 1540, over his refusal to sign Henry’s ‘Six Articles’, designed to prevent the spread of Reformation doctrines, and resigned his See. He returned to favour on the accession of Edward VI but was imprisoned in the Tower of London when Mary became queen in 1553. He refused to recant any of his avowedly reformist views and was burnt at the stake, together with Nicholas Ridley, on this day in 1555.

God, the giver of life, whose Holy Spirit wells up within your Church: by the Spirit’s gifts equip us to live the gospel of Christ and make us eager to do your will, that we may share with the whole creation the joys of eternal 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.