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 21 November
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 23 November / Christ the King Sunday
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Christ the King’
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 continue tomorrow (Wednesday 19 November) at 7.30pm with the topic of ‘Teach, Baptise, Nurture’. Tea/coffee will be provided and all are welcome! If you wish to join virtually, via Zoom, please find the link here.
‘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 a StED Talk dialogue between Revd Canon Dr Jeremy Morris and Prof. Richard Rex on the topic of the long aftermath of the English Reformation. This will be held in St Edward’s church at 4pm on Friday 5 December. A Q&A and wine reception will follow and all are welcome!
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 (Wednesday 19 November):
St Hilda was born in the year 614 of the royal house of Northumbria and was baptized in York at the age of twelve by Paulinus. Encouraged by Aidan of Lindisfarne, she became a Religious at the age of thirty-three. She established monasteries first at Hartlepool and two years later at Whitby. This house became a great centre of learning and was the meeting-place for the important Synod of Whitby in the year 664 at which it was decided to adopt the Alexandrian/Roman tradition regarding the date of Easter in preference to Celtic customs. Although herself a Celt in religious formation, Hilda played a crucial role in reconciling others of that tradition to the decision of the Synod. She is also remembered as a great educator, exemplified in her nurturing of Caedmon’s gift of vernacular song. She died on 17 November in the year 680.
Eternal God, who made the abbess Hilda to shine like a jewel in our land and through her holiness and leadership blessed your Church with new life and unity: help us, like her, to yearn for the gospel of Christ and to reconcile those who are divided; through him who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
