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 and note that the Cambridge Town & Gown Run is taking place on Sunday, so town will be busy and you may require more time to get to church.
Friday 10 October
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Sunday 12 October / Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
11am - BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Remember Jesus Christ’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
StED Talk: On Wednesday 22 October at 4.30pm the St Edward’s Institute for Christian Thought will host Archbishop Angaelos, the Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London, to give an overview of the Coptic Orthodox Church and speak on the Christian calling to be ambassadors of peace in the world. A Q&A and wine reception will follow the talk. Tickets are free and available via our Eventbrite page here.
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!
Garden Renovation: Due to ongoing anti-social behaviour in, and challenges to maintaining, the churchyard in its present form, plans have been agreed for the garden to undergo a professional clean-up and renovation in order to restore it to an attractive, God-honouring, safe, and tidy state for the congregation and public to enjoy. We would ask for your patience with our clergy, Chapter, and the contractors over the next few months as those plans are implemented. The first stage of the renovation will take place 21-23 October 2025. Thank you!
Scriptorium has restarted in the church for Michaelmas Term 2025. This is a loosely structured time, bookended by prayer, of independent study for postgraduates, meeting 9am-4.30pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays weekly during University term-time. For more information, see 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 (Friday 10 October):
Born in the latter part of the sixth century, probably in Italy, St Paulinus was among the second group of monks sent by Pope Gregory to England to assist Augustine in his work. He went with the party that accompanied Ethelburga to Northumbria, where she was to marry the king, Edwin, who subsequently took his wife’s Christian faith as his own. Paulinus built the first church in York in about the year 627 and was its first bishop. He travelled much north and south of the Humber, building churches and baptizing new Christians. He had to flee for his life, however, when Edwin was killed in battle by the pagan king, Penda of Mercia, and Paulinus became Bishop of Rochester. He died on this day in the year 644.
God our Saviour, who sent Paulinus to preach and to baptize, and so to build up your Church in this land: grant that, inspired by his example, we may tell all the world of your truth, that with him we may receive the reward you prepare for all your faithful servants; 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.
