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 9 May
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion Service (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Sunday 11 May / Fourth Sunday of Easter
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The Kindness of the Father’s Perfect Son’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
Nicaea Sermon Series: This Sunday we welcome Revd Dr Alex Irving as our guest preacher to begin a four-week sermon series examining the Nicene Creed in this 1700th anniversary year of the Council of Nicaea.
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 8 May):
On this day in the year 1373, when she was thirty years old and suffering from what was considered to be a terminal illness, a woman of Norwich, whose own name is unrecorded, experienced a series of sixteen visions, which revealed aspects of the love of God. Following her recovery, she spent the next twenty years of her life pondering their meaning and recorded her conclusions in what became the first book written by a woman in English, The Revelations of Divine Love. At an unknown point in her life, she became an anchoress attached to the Church of St Julian in Norwich, and it was by this name of Julian of Norwich that she came to be known to later generations. She died around the year 1417.
Most holy God, the ground of our beseeching, who through your servant Julian revealed the wonders of your love: grant that as we are created in your nature and restored by your grace, our wills may be so made one with yours that we may come to see you face to face and gaze on you for ever; 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.
