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 12 September
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 14 September / Holy Cross Day
11am - BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Holy Cross Day’
Order of Service: Here
Other notices:
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!
Season of Creation: This is the period in the annual church calendar, from 1 September to 4 October, dedicated to God as Creator and Sustainer of all life. It is therefore a particularly appropriate time to give thanks for God’s gift of creation and renew our own commitment to caring for it and stewarding it well. Resources to help reflect further on this can be found here.
Music Recital Series: Tonight (Thursday 11) and tomorrow (Friday 12 September), at 7.30pm in St Edward’s church, Rachel Stroud and Andrew Arthur (Director of Music at Trinity Hall) will be performing the complete violin & obbligato harpsichord sonatas by J.S. Bach. Tickets are available to purchase online here and on the door from 7pm. All are welcome!
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 (Saturday 13 September):
St John Chrysostom was born in Antioch in about 347. He was a brilliant preacher which earned him in the sixth century the surname ‘Chrysostom’, literally ‘golden-mouthed’. He is honoured as one of the four Greek Doctors of the Church. Against his wish he was made Patriarch of Constantinople in 398. He set about reforming the Church and exposing corruption amongst the clergy and in the Imperial administration. ‘Mules bear fortunes and Christ dies of hunger at your gate,’ he is alleged to have cried out. He fell foul of the Empress Eudoxia and, in spite of the support of Pope Innocent i of Rome, was sent into exile twice, finally dying of exhaustion and starvation in September 407, with the words ‘Glory be to God for everything’ on his lips.
God of truth and love, who gave to your servant John Chrysostom eloquence to declare your righteousness in the great congregation and courage to bear reproach for the honour of your name: mercifully grant to those who minister your word such excellence in preaching, that all people may share with them in the glory that shall be revealed; 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.
