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 7 November
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Jeremy Morris)
Sunday 9 November / Remembrance Sunday
11am - BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘How to Remember Well’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
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 tomorrow (Wednesday 5 November) at 7.30pm with the topic of ‘Acts of Charity & Service’. Tea/coffee will be provided and 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. Our next event will be an ecumenical evensong in partnership with Fisher House Catholic Chaplaincy held in St Edward’s church at 4pm on Sunday 16 November.
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 8 November):
Saints & Martyrs of England: The date when Christianity first came to the British Isles is not known, but there were British bishops at the Council of Arles in the year 314, indicating a Church with order and worship. Since those days, Christians from these lands have shared the message of the good news at home and around the world. As the worldwide fellowship of the Anglican Communion has developed, incorporating peoples of many nations and cultures, individual Christian men and women have shone as beacons, heroically bearing witness to their Lord, some through a simple life of holiness, others by giving their lives for the sake of Christ.
God, whom the glorious company of the redeemed adore, assembled from all times and places of your dominion: we praise you for the saints of our own land and for the many lamps their holiness has lit; and we pray that we also may be numbered at last with those who have done your will and declared your righteousness; 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.
