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

Julian of Norwich, *Revelations of Divine Love* (Add MS 37790) f. 97r, British Library

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 8 May
10.30pm — BCP Holy Communion

Sunday 10 May
11.00pm —BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Made Alive in the Spirit’ (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Service Sheet: Here

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.

Easter Term StED Talks:

‘The Poor will always be with you?’ — On Wednesday 13 May at 6:00pm, The St Edward’s Institute for Christian Thought will host Rob Wickham, former bishop of Edmonton and current CEO of the Church Urban Fund. He trained at Ridley Hall and then served as rector of St John’s, Hackney, in east London. He has extensive experience in community building in urban settings.

‘Living in Community’ — The second StED talk during Easter term will take place on Wednesday 10 June at 5pm. Further details will follow.

Exciting Holiness - 8 May

St Julian of Norwich - On this day in the year 1373, when she was thirty years old and suffering from what was considered to be a terminal illness, a woman of Norwich, whose own name is unrecorded, experienced a series of sixteen visions, which revealed aspects of the love of God. Following her recovery, she spent the next twenty years of her life pondering their meaning and recorded her conclusions in what became the first book written by a woman in English, The Revelations of Divine Love. At an unknown point in her life, she became an anchoress attached to the Church of St Julian in Norwich, and it was by this name of Julian that she came to be known to later generations. She died around the year 1417.

Most holy God, the ground of our beseeching, who through your servant Julian revealed the wonders of your love: grant that as we are created in your nature and restored by your grace, our wills may be so made one with yours that we may come to see you face to face and gaze on you for ever; 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.