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 12 May
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion
(Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Sunday 14 May / Fifth Sunday After Easter
11am - BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The Unknown God’
Service Sheet: Here
Hymnsheet: Here
Other news:
Message from the Vicar-Chaplain: “I’m sorry that I forgot to give a notice about my being out of the parish this coming Sunday. I will be leading a group of ordinands from the college on an ecumenical pilgrimage to Rome. It’s always a very special trip and I would like to ask for your prayers whilst I’m there. Since we have been reading through John’s Gospel in the lectionary recently I have been reminded of Christ’s call to unity for the whole church. Please pray that in some way we might contribute to this whilst in Rome. I’ll look forward to being with you all the following week when I return.” – Revd Dr Mark Scarlata
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!
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.
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 (Friday 12 May):
Gregory Dix, Priest, Monk, Scholar: Born in 1901, George Dix was educated at Westminster School and Merton College, Oxford. After ordination to a Fellowship at Keble College, Oxford, he taught history before entering the novitiate of the Benedictine community at Pershore, taking the name Gregory. Shortly afterwards the community moved to Nashdom in Buckinghamshire, where Dix eventually made his life profession and was appointed Prior. Dix was one of the most influential figures of a generation of Anglo-Catholics who worked enthusiastically towards reunion with Rome. A gifted and popular preacher and spiritual director, Dix is best remembered as a liturgical scholar whose monumental work, The Shape of the Liturgy, has had an unparalleled influence over liturgical study and revision since it was first published in 1945. He died on this day in 1952.
