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

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. (1565). *The Harvesters*. [Oil on wood]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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 12 June
10.30pm — BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)

Sunday 14 June
11.00pm — BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘A Kingdom of Priests’ (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Service Sheet: Here

Other notices:

Church Gardening Day: Saturday 13 June — This Saturday, Hugh Wright will be leading a group to do some work on our beloved church garden for a few hours, to keep it fresh and flourishing. If you are able, please come along at 9am on Saturday morning to help. Contact Hugh Wright (7443 460571) for more details:.

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.

Exciting Holiness - Barnabas

Though not named among the twelve apostles or the evangelists, Barnabas emerges in the Acts of the Apostles as one of the most significant of their number. He sold his estate and gave the proceeds to the Church, since all things were to be held in common, and clearly became a leader. He is described as a Levite from Cyprus so, like his friend Paul, was from the Greek world rather than that of Palestine, and he introduced Paul to the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem. He was sent to Antioch apparently to guide the Christians there in their relations with non-Jewish converts, promoting the concept of all being one in Christ. He broke with Paul to go to Cyprus and tradition has it that he was martyred there in the year 61.

‘Love (II)’ - George Herbert

Immortal Heat, O let Thy greater flame
Attract the lesser to it; let those fires
Which shall consume the world first make it tame,
And kindle in our hearts such true desires.
As may consume our lusts, and make Thee way:
Then shall our hearts pant Thee, then shall our brain
All her invention on Thine altar lay,
And there in hymns send back Thy fire again.
Our eyes shall see Thee, which before saw dust,
Dust blown by wit, till that they both were blind:
Thou shalt recover all Thy goods in kind,
Who wert disseized by usurping lust:
All knees shall bow to Thee; all wits shall rise,
And praise Him Who did make and mend our eyes.

Bountiful God, giver of all gifts, who poured your Spirit upon your servant Barnabas and gave him grace to encourage others: help us, by his example, to be generous in our judgements and unselfish in our service; 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.