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

Francisco de Zurbarán. (1566). *Agnus Dei.* [Oil on canvas]. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

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 26 June
10.30pm — BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)

Sunday 28 June
11.00pm — Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Trusting in God’s Provision’ (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Service Sheet: Here

Other notices:

Church Cleaning: St Edwards will have a big church clean, led by Colina Greenway and Clare Storey on the morning on Saturday 4 July at 9am. Do come along if you are able to keep our church building nice and tidy.

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 - Birth of John the Baptist

The biblical story of John, the son of Elizabeth and Zechariah, begins even before his birth. His leaping in his mother’s womb is seen as a great alleluia in anticipation of the birth of his redeemer, and the good news of Jesus Christ is related in all four gospels as beginning with John as Christ’s forerunner. He seemed to have a predestined rôle akin to that of the Old Testament prophets, particularly in encouraging the people of God to live lives worthy of their calling and in imminent anticipation of the coming of the Anointed One. In the tradition of the early Fathers, John was seen as endowed with grace from before his birth, and consequently the Church has always kept the celebration of this day with greater solemnity than that of his death.

Almighty God, by whose providence your servant John the Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare the way of your Son our Saviour by the preaching of repentance: lead us to repent according to his preaching and, after his example, constantly to speak the truth, boldly to rebuke vice, and patiently to suffer for the truth’s sake; 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.