Services This Week
Dear All,
Please join us for services this week, which are taking place in person or via livestream through our YouTube Channel. You can find gathering times and service sheet links below.
Friday 13 February
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Canon Dr Jeremy Morris)
Sunday 15 February / Sunday next before Lent
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Transformed into Glory’
Service Sheet: Here
Wednesday 18 February / Ash Wednesday
12pm - Ash Wednesday Service
Other notices:
Giving: We are grateful for all of your gifts! Offerings may be made via BACS (Sort: 20-17-19 / Acc. No.: 30851477 / Acc. Name: St Edwards Church), for standing orders, or the SumUp machine on the table by the door, for contactless giving. There is also a wall-mounted deposit box by the door for cash and/or cheques.
Lent Groups: Our parish will be studying David Ford’s book, Meeting God in John: A Companion for Lent, Holy Week, Easter and Beyond for the season of Lent. Copies of the book are available for purchase. The men’s and ladies’ groups will both meet on Tuesday evenings at 7pm - men at St Edward’s, ladies in the home of Elizabeth Bam. Mark Scarlata and Matthias Grebe will lead the 7pm Wednesday evening group at St Edward’s, and an online group will be facilitated by Helen Starkswood.
Exciting Holiness (Tuesday 17 February):
Janani Luwum was born in 1922 at Acholi in Uganda. His childhood and youth were spent as a goatherd but he quickly showed an ability to learn and absorb knowledge when given the opportunity. Soon after he became a teacher, he was converted to Christianity and was eventually ordained in 1956, becoming Bishop of Northern Uganda in 1969 and Archbishop of Uganda in 1974. Idi Amin had come to power in Uganda in 1971 as the result of a military coup and his undemocratic and harsh rule was the subject of much criticism by the Church and others. After receiving a letter from the bishops protesting at the virtual institution of state murder, Janani and two of Amin’s own government ministers were stated as having been found dead following a car accident. It emerged quickly that they had in fact died on the implicit instructions of the president. Janani’s enthusiasm for the good news of Jesus, combined with his willingness to sacrifice even his own life for what he believed in, led him to his martyrdom on this day in 1977.
God of truth, whose servant Janani Luwum walked in the light, and in his death defied the powers of darkness: free us from fear of those who kill the body, that we too may walk as children of light, through him who overcame darkness by the power of the cross, 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.
