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

Caravaggio, *Supper at Emmaus*, 1606, Milan

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 17 April
10.30pm — BCP Holy Communion

Sunday 19 April
11.00pm — Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Before the foundation of the world’ (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Service Sheet: Here

Other notices:

Scriptorium restarts with the beginning of Cambridge’s Easter Term on Tuesday 21 April 2026 and will meet Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9am-4:30pm weekly during term-time. For more information please email peter.elliott@trinityforumeurope.com

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 - 16 April 2026

Isabella Gilmore (born in 1842), the sister of William Morris, was a nurse at Guy’s Hospital in London and in 1886, was asked by Bishop Thorold of Rochester to pioneer deaconess work in his diocese. The bishop overcame Isabella’s initial reluctance and together they planned an Order of Deaconesses along the same lines as the ordained ministry. She was made a deaconess in 1887 and a training house developed on North Side, Clapham Common, later to be called Gilmore House in her memory. Isabella herself retired in 1906 and, during her nineteen years of service, she trained head deaconesses for at least seven other dioceses. At her memorial service, Dr Randall Davidson predicted that ‘Some day, those who know best will be able to trace much of the origin and root of the revival of the Deaconess Order to the life, work, example and words of Isabella Gilmore.’ She died on this day in 1923.

Lord of all life and power, who through the mighty resurrection of your Son overcame the old order of sin and death to make all things new in him: grant that we, being dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ, may reign with him in glory; to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be praise and honour, glory and might, now and in all eternity.