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

*Ascension with Christ giving the Keys to St Peter*, marble, by Donatello, 1428 – 30, Italy. Museum no. 7629-1861. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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 15 May
10.30pm — BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)

Sunday 10 May
11.00pm — Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Jesus Our High Priest’ (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Service Sheet: Here

Other notices:

Groups — Our Ladies of St Eds scripture study group will resume its bi-weekly meetings starting on Tuesday, 19 May at 7:00pm. The group will continue a study of the book of Exodus, using resources from Biola University and The Bible Project. Please contact Elizabeth Bam (elizabeth.bristol.18@gmail.com) for further information.

The men’s prayer & study group will meet next on Tuesday, 26 May at 7:00pm at St Edward’s and will meet bi-weekly. Please contact Peter Elliott or Sam Davidson for more information (stedschurchwarden@gmail.com)

Easter Term StED Talks — ‘Living in Community’
On Wednesday, 10 June at 5:00pm, The St Edward’s Institute for Christian Thought will host a panel discussion on forming intentional Christian communities. Our panel will feature Lakshmi Piette Walker, a former resident of the Lyn’s House community in Cambridge, who recently published a book entitled: Dwelling Places: The Practice and Witness of Intentional Christian Communities.

All Church Lunch: 7 June
Please join us for an all-church lunch after services on 7 June. This is an opportunity to celebrate God’s provision for our church community and to fellowship with one another.

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.

‘Ascension Day, 1964’ - W. H. Auden

From leaf to leaf in silence
The year’s new green
Is passed along northward:

A bit, though, behind schedule,
For the chestnut chandeliers
Are still dim.

But today’s atmosphere
Is encouraging,
And the orchard peoples,

Naïve in white
Or truculent in pink,
Aspect an indulgent blue.

Pleased with his one good remark,
A cuckoo repeats it;
Well-satisfied,

Some occasional heavy feeder
Obliges
With a florid song.

Lives content
with their ecological niche
And relevant objects,

Unable to tell
A hush before storms
From one after massacres,

As warriors, as lovers,
Without mixed feelings:
What is our feast to them?

This Thursday when we must
Go through the ritual
Formulæ of farewell,

The words, the looks,
The embraces, knowing
That this time they are final.

Will as we may to believe
That parting should be,
And that a promise

Of future joy can be kept,
Absence remains
The factual loss it is:

Here on out as permanent,
Obvious to all
As the presence in each

Of a glum Kundry,
Impelled to giggle
At any crucifixion.

O God the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: we beseech you, leave us not comfortless, but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us and exalt us to the place where our Saviour Christ is gone before, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.