Services This Week
Pieter Bruegel the Elder. (1566). The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist. [Oil on wood]. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
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 19 June
10.30pm — BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Jeremy Morris)
Sunday 21 June
11.00pm — BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Baptised in Christ’ (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
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.
‘Praise in Summer’ - Richard Wilbur
Obscurely yet most surely called to praise,
As sometimes summer calls us all, I said
The hills are heavens full of branching ways
Where star-nosed moles fly overhead the dead;
I said the trees are mines in air, I said
See how the sparrow burrows in the sky!
And then I wondered why this mad instead
Perverts our praise to uncreation, why
Such savour's in this wrenching things awry.
Does sense so stale that it must needs derange
The world to know it? To a praiseful eye
Should it not be enough of fresh and strange
That trees grow green, and moles can course in clay,
And sparrows sweep the ceiling of our day?
Lord, you have taught us that all our doings without love are nothing worth: send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love, the true bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whoever lives is counted dead before you. Grant this for your only Son Jesus Christ’s sake, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
