Services This Week
Caravaggio. (1425–27). The Calling of St Matthew. [Oil on canvas]. San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
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 5 June
10.30pm — BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Sunday 7 June
11.00pm — Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Fear, Favour—and Faith’ (Right Revd Mark D. W. Edington)
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
Music Sunday: 14 June — Next week we will celebrate music Sunday; if you would like to request a favourite hymn to be added to the service, please let speak to Helen Starkswood.
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 and can be purchased online on Eventbrite. For any questions, please contact Otto Bam (otto@kirbylaingcentre.co.uk).
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.
‘As Kingfishers Catch Fire’ - Gerard Manley Hopkins
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.
I say móre: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
Almighty and everlasting God, you have given us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity and in the power of the divine majesty to worship the Unity: keep us steadfast in this faith, that we may evermore be defended from all adversities; 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.
