Services This Week — St. Edward's Church, Cambridge

*Christ & the Samaritan Woman. Fresco. Catacomb of St. Callixtus, Rome.*

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 6 March
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)

Sunday 8 March / Third Sunday in Lent
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Waters that Leap’
Service Sheet: Here

Other notices:

8 March Road Closures: Please be advised, the Cambridge Half Marathon will be held on Sunday, 8 March from 9:00-12pm and the race course is likely to block your usual journey to St Edwards for the 11am Holy Communion service. Please note that access from King’s Parade and Benet Street will be blocked for most of the day. See the route map or traffic information for more details.

Lent Groups: Our parish is studying David Ford’s book, Meeting God in John for the season of Lent. The men’s and ladies’ groups both meet on Tuesday evenings at 7pm (men at St Edward’s, ladies in the home of Elizabeth Bam). Mark Scarlata and Matthias Grebe are leading a 7:30pm Wednesday evening group at St Edward’s, and Helen Starkswood is leading the the online group on Wednesday evening.

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.

‘Thirst’ by Mary Oliver

Another morning and I wake with thirst
for the goodness I do not have. I walk
out to the pond and all the way God has
given us such beautiful lessons. Oh Lord,
I was never a quick scholar but sulked
and hunched over my books past the hour
and the bell; grant me, in your mercy,
a little more time. Love for the earth
and love for you are having such a long
conversation in my heart. Who knows what
will finally happen or where I will be sent,
yet already I have given a great many things
away, expecting to be told to pack nothing,
except the prayers which, with this thirst,
I am slowly learning.

Exciting Holiness (2 March):

St Chad - Chad was born in Northumbria, the youngest of four sons, all of whom became both priests and monks. They entered the monastery on the isle of Lindisfarne and were taught by St Aidan. Chad’s brother Cedd had founded the abbey at Lastingham and, on his brother’s death, Chad was elected abbot. During the confusion in ecclesiastical discipline between the Celtic-oriented, Anglo-Saxon hierarchy and the pressure from Rome for conformity, Chad became Bishop of York for a time. He graciously stepped back with the arrival in Britain of Theodore, who doubted the validity of indigenous consecrations. This was eventually rectified and Chad became Bishop of Mercia, a huge diocese the centre of which he moved from Repton to Lichfield. Chad travelled extensively and became much loved for his wisdom and gentleness in otherwise difficult situations. The plague was prevalent at this time and Chad died on this day in the year 672.

Almighty God, from the first fruits of the English nation who turned to Christ, you called your servant Chad to be an evangelist and bishop of his own people: give us grace so to follow his peaceable nature, humble spirit and prayerful life, that we may truly commend to others the faith which we ourselves profess; 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.