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 28 April
11am - BCP Holy Communion
(Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 30 April / Third Sunday After Easter
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The Shepherd-King’
Service Sheet: Here
Hymnsheet: Here
Other news:
Coronation Cake Request: For next Sunday (7 April) we would kindly ask those who are willing and able to bring some cakes to have with coffee after the 11am service, in celebration of the coronation. Thank you!
Coronation StED Talk: In advance of next week’s coronation of King Charles III, you might consider watching last term’s StED Talk by Revd Canon William Gulliford (St Mark’s, Regent’s Park), entitled ‘The Crown Uncovered’, here. William has been putting together a study guide to introduce the origins and significance of the Coronation. His talk explains something of the history of the rite, and draws on the scholarship of a range of experts – Biblical scholars, liturgists, and sociologists – to help all who will witness the first coronation for seventy years to enter into its mysteries, beauty, and significance from a Christian perspective.
Lyn’s House Residents Request: Lyn's House are seeking new residents for next academic year (2023-24). If you are a graduate student, recent graduate, or a young professional interested in living as part of a small, praying, ecumenical Christian community and sharing in a ministry of friendship centred on adults with intellectual disabilities here in Cambridge, Lyn's House is something you might wish to prayerfully consider. Places are available in a shared, 3-bedroom house with a communal lounge, a large orchard and gardens on Grange Road, a quiet street close to the city centre. Monthly rents are tbc for 2023-4 but will most likely range from £540 to £620. For more details visit‘Christian Flatshare’ or the Lyn's House website. For an informal conversation, email Carole Irwin from the Lyn’s House Steering Group at: irwin.carole@yahoo.co.uk.
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 or Will 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 (Saturday 29 April):
Catherine of Siena, Teacher of the Faith, 1380: Catherine Benincasa was born in 1347, the second youngest of twenty-five children. Pious from her earliest years, she overcame family opposition to her vocation and became a Dominican tertiary at the age of eighteen. Nourished by a life of contemplative prayer and mystical experience, she devoted herself to active care for the poor and sick. She became increasingly sought out as an adviser on political as well as religious matters and, in 1376, she journeyed to Avignon as an ambassador to the pope and influenced his decision to return to Rome. She wrote a Dialogue on the spiritual life as well as numerous letters of counsel and direction, which stressed her devotion to the Precious Blood of Jesus. She suffered a stroke on 21 April and died eight days later, on this day in the year 1380.
