Services This Week
Andrei Rublev. (1425–27). Holy Trinity. [Tempera]. Old Katholikon of the Trinity Lavra, Sergiyev Posad
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 29 May
10.30pm — BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Jeremy Morris)
Sunday 31 May
11.00pm — Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The Great Commission’ (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
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.
StEd Talks:
‘Imaginative Encounters: Imagination, Presence & Place’ — On 18 June, The St Edward’s Institute for Christian Thought is partnering with the Kirby Laing Centre for a one-day conference on the theme of the imagination. Interspersed with music and prayers, we will explore the interaction between the visual and the textual through such themes as ‘sacramentality’, ‘contemplative vision’, and ‘the visible and the invisible in art and theology’. Speakers will include the Rev. Dr Craig Bartholomew, the Rev. Dr Mark Scarlata, Sara Osborne, Otto Bam, and Genevieve Wedgbury. Lunch will be provided and a wine reception will follow at the end of the day. Tickets are £10 for the day. Please contact Otto Bam (otto@kirbylaingcentre.co.uk) for more information.
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 - 28 May
Lanfranc was born in Pavia, Italy, around the year 1005. At the age of thirty-five, he became a monk of Le Bec, in Normandy, where he founded the school which rose rapidly to renown throughout Europe. In 1062 William of Normandy appointed him Abbot of Caen, then in 1070 Archbishop of Canterbury. Lanfranc was a great ecclesiastical statesman, overseeing administrative, judicial and ecclesial reforms with the same energy and rigour that the Conqueror displayed in his new kingdom. Lanfranc did not forget his monastic formation: he wrote Constitutions for Christchurch, Canterbury, based on the customs of Le Bec, and appointed many Norman abbots to implement his vision in the English abbeys. He died in 1089.
O Lord, from whom all good things come: grant to us your humble servants, that by your holy inspiration we may think those things that are good, and by your merciful guiding may perform the same; through our Lord Jesus Christ, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
