Services This Week
Dear All,
Services this week are taking place in person or via livestream through our YouTube Channel. Please find gathering times and service sheet links below.
Friday 2 May
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion Service (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 4 May / Third Sunday of Easter
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Living Fully: From Blindness to Abundance’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
APCM: This Sunday (4 May 2025) our annual parochial church meeting will follow our 11am Holy Communion service that day. Lunch will be provided but if you can bring a drink/side/salad that would be much appreciated.
Scriptorium: Scriptorium has restarted in the church for Cambridge’s Easter Term. This is a structured time of prayer & study for graduate students and researchers meeting between 9am and 4.30pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays weekly during Cambridge University term time. Please see our website or contact the church administrator for further details.
Volunteer Rota: In addition to the sign-up sheet in church, we are making it easier to volunteer by attaching an online rota with the weekly email here. (N.B. There will be an initial delay before access is granted to the form, in order that only church members can see and edit it.) Please do consider if you are able to help out in any of the ways listed – we are particularly in need of regular volunteers to set-up tea and coffee and stay a little longer after each service to wash-up/leave away. Many thanks!
Giving: As always we are grateful for all of your gifts! Offerings may still be given during this time via a basket collection during live services, Standing Orders, or one time bank transfer, via BACS (Sort Code: 20-17-19 / Account Number: 30851477 / Account Name: St Edwards Church). There is now also a SumUp machine by the door of the church, for those of you who wish to give contactlessly: Simply power on, enter the amount you wish to give on the screen, and then tap your card.
Exciting Holiness (Thursday 1 May):
St Philip and St James appear in the list of the twelve apostles in the first three gospels but are frequently confused with other early saints who share their names. In John’s gospel, Philip has a more prominent rôle, being the third of the apostles to be called by Jesus and then himself bringing his friend Nathanael to the Lord. Philip is the spokesman for the other apostles who are questioning the capacity for feeding the five thousand and, at the Last Supper, enters into a dialogue with Jesus which leads to the Farewell Discourse of our Lord.
James is said to be the son of Alphæus and is often known as ‘James the Less’ to distinguish him. He may also be the ‘James the Younger’ whose mother, in Mark’s gospel, is a witness at the crucifixion.
They are celebrated on the same day because the church in Rome, where their relics were laid to rest, was dedicated on this day in the year 560.
Almighty Father, whom truly to know is eternal life: teach us to know your Son Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life; that we may follow the steps of your holy apostles Philip and James, and walk steadfastly in the way that leads to your glory; 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. Amen.
