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 17 October
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Jeremy Morris)
Sunday 19 October / Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Praying for Justice’
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 (Thursday 16 October):
Born into a wealthy Northumbrian family in about the year 1500, Nicholas Ridley studied at Cambridge, the Sorbonne and in Louvain. He was chaplain to Thomas Cranmer and master of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge before being made Bishop of Rochester in 1547. He had been clearly drawing closer to the Reformers as early as 1535 and, at the accession of Edward VI, declared himself a Protestant. He assisted Cranmer in preparing the first Book of Common Prayer and was made Bishop of London in 1550. On the death of Edward, he supported the claims of Lady Jane Grey and was thus deprived of his See on the accession of Mary i. He was excommunicated and executed in 1555.
Hugh Latimer was a Leicestershire man, also educated at Cambridge, but fifteen years older than Nicholas Ridley. Hugh preached at St Edward’s Church, Cambridge and was articulate and yet homely in his style of preaching, which made him very popular in the university, and he received its commission to preach anywhere in England. He became a close adviser of Henry VIII after the latter’s rift with the papacy and was appointed Bishop of Worcester in 1535. He lost the king’s favour in 1540, over his refusal to sign Henry’s ‘Six Articles’, designed to prevent the spread of Reformation doctrines, and resigned his See. He returned to favour on the accession of Edward VI but was imprisoned in the Tower of London when Mary became queen in 1553. He refused to recant any of his avowedly reformist views and was burnt at the stake, together with Nicholas Ridley, on this day in 1555.
Almighty God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you: pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself, and so bring us at last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face; 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.
