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 24 October
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 26 October / Last Sunday after Trinity
11am - BCP Holy Communion & Service of Baptism
Sermon: ‘Baptism and Forgiverness’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
Garden Renovation: The first stage of the renovation has now taken place and the second stage will take place in mid-November. Due to ongoing anti-social behaviour in, and challenges to maintaining, the churchyard in its present form, these renovations have been agreed 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 continued patience with our clergy, Chapter, and the contractors over these next weeks as the work is completed. Thank you!
Pre-Advent Catechesis Classes: Over five consecutive Wednesday evenings, we will be running a discussion-based teaching series on the Church of England’s ‘Five Marks of Mission’. These hour-long ‘catechesis’ sessions will begin on Wednesday 5 November at 7.30pm with the topic of ‘Acts of Charity & Service’. All are welcome!
‘Barnes 500’ Events: Over the course of Michaelmas, the church and St Edward’s Institute for Christian Thought are running several events linked to commemorating, and critically reflecting on, the 500th anniversary of Robert Barnes’ 1525 Christmas Eve Midnight Mass sermon, which arguably sparked the English Reformation. A termcard listing these various events can be found on the table by the main west door of the church or here.
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 (Saturday 25 October):
St Crispin and St Crispinian were shoemakers and lived in the third century. They are reputed to have preached the Christian faith in Gaul whilst exercising their trade and so, like St Paul earning his living as a tent-maker, were no drain on the Christian community. They were put to death for their faith at the beginning of the persecutions of Diocletian and died in about the year 287 in Rome.
Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us your gift of faith that, forsaking what lies behind and reaching out to that which is before, we may run the way of your commandments and win the crown of everlasting joy; 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.
