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 21 July
10.30am - BCP Morning Prayer
Sunday 23 July / Seventh Sunday After Trinity
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Jacob’s Dream’
Service Sheet: Here
Hymnsheet: 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. 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 (Thursday 20 July):
Margaret of Antioch, also called Marina, gave her life during the Diocletian persecutions at the beginning of the fourth century. Eastern Byzantine iconography tends to focus on her battle with a demon in her cell, depicting her swinging a copper hammer at its face. Her preaching before her death is said to have converted many to the Christian faith.
Bartolomé de las Casas was a sixteenth-century Dominican priest who became known as ‘the defender of the Indians’ in ‘the new world’ of America. Born in 1484 at Las Casas in Seville, Bartolomé arrived in Haiti in 1502 and underwent a conversion after witnessing the injustices inflicted on the native population. Proclaiming that Jesus Christ was being crucified in the poor, he went on to spend a lifetime challenging the Church and the Spanish Empire of his day. He was consecrated Bishop of Chiapa in Mexico in 1543 where he continued his prophetic role and emerges as a man of unquestioned courage and a theologian of remarkable depth, whose vision continues to set in relief the challenge of the gospel in a world of injustice. He died on 18 July 1566.
