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 26 September
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Jeremy Morris)
Sunday 28 September / Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The Rich Man and Lazarus’
Order of Service: Here
Weekly Insert: 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!
Scriptorium will restart in the church this Tuesday (30 September). This is a loosely structured time, bookended by prayer, of independent study for postgraduates, meeting Tuesdays and Wednesdays weekly during University term-time. For more information, see here.
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.
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 (Thursday 25 September):
Born in 1555 in Barking, Lancelot Andrewes studied at Merchant Taylors’ School and Pembroke Hall (now Pembroke College), Cambridge. After ordination, he held several posts before accepting appointment as bishop, first of Chichester, then of Ely and finally of Winchester in 1619. Andrewes was present at the Hampton Court Conference in 1604, which furthered the reform of the Church of England, and he was also a translator of much of the Old Testament of what is known as the ‘Authorized Version’ of the Bible. His preaching and his writings proved highly influential and his holiness of life and gentle nature endeared him to all who met him. He died on this day in the year 1626 and his remains lie in a church which was then in his diocese of Winchester but is now the cathedral for the diocese of Southwark.
Lord God, who gave to Lancelot Andrewes many gifts of your Holy Spirit, making him a man of prayer and a pastor of your people: perfect in us that which is lacking in your gifts, of faith, to increase it, of hope, to establish it, of love, to kindle it, that we may live in the light of your grace and 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.
