Services This Week
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Resurrection of Lazarus
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 20 March
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 22 March / Fifth Sunday in Lent
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: Guest Preacher - Revd Dr Stephen Plant
Service Sheet: Here
Holy Week Services
Mon-Wed - BCP Holy Communion
Thursday 2 April - 5:00pm Maundy Thursday Service
Friday 3 April - 12pm-3pm Good Friday Service
5 April - 6:15am Sunrise Easter Service
11am Holy Communion
Other notices:
Holy Week Volunteers Needed: We are looking for singers for our Maundy Thursday service and musicians for the Good Friday services. If you are interested and available please speak to Helen Starkswood for more information.
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.
Exciting Holiness: 18 March
St Cyril - Born in about the year 315, probably in Caesarea, Cyril became Bishop of Jerusalem when he was about thirty-four years old. There he nurtured both the resident Christian population and the many pilgrims, following the end of the era of persecution, who were beginning to make their way from all over Christendom to the places associated with Christ. Cyril taught the faith in line with the orthodoxy of the Council of Nicæa and the credal statement that became associated with it. Though he found difficulty with the word in that creed which described Jesus as being ‘of one substance with the Father’, nevertheless he took the side of the Nicene Party against the Arians, who denied the divinity of Christ. His teaching through his Catechetical Lectures, intended for those preparing for baptism, show him to be a man profoundly orthodox and sound, and his liturgical innovations to celebrate the observance of Holy Week and Easter are the foundation of Christian practices to this day. He died in the year 386.
Merciful Lord, absolve your people from their offences, that through your bountiful goodness we may all be delivered from the chains of those sins which by our frailty we have committed; grant this, heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ’s sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
