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. With the new church year beginning this Sunday, we enter the 500th anniversary proper of Robert Barnes’ 1525 Christmas Eve sermon and the fanning into flame of the Protestant Reformation in England – St Edward’s significant role in English church history is well summarised by our own Geoffrey Barnes in this short video clip for Unseen Cambridge.
Friday 28 November
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Sunday 30 November / First Sunday of Advent
11am - Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Beating Swords Into Ploughshares’
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 tonight (Wednesday 26 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:
StED Talk: Our next event in commemoration of Robert Barnes’ 1525 sermon 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. Please book your free tickets through Eventbrite here!
Trinity Hall Day Conference: Trinity Hall are hosting three acclaimed academics to speak to the theme of ‘Christianity and Social Change: 500 years of the Reformation in Britain’. The event will take place in Trinity Hall from 2pm on Saturday 6 December. Tickets can be booked via Eventbrite here.
‘Spark of the Reformation’ Lecture: St Edward’s Church and Trinity Hall are co-hosting Prof. Alec Ryrie (Durham University), who will speak about Robert Barnes’ 1525 sermon and its impact on the Reformation in England. This will take place in St Edward’s Church at 7.30pm on Saturday 6 December, followed by a mulled wine reception. Bookings can be made here.
Guest Preacher: Prof. Alec Ryrie will be joining us again as the guest preacher for our 11am Holy Communion service on Sunday 7 December.
Advent Carol Service: Our annual advent carol service will take place in the church at 4pm on Sunday 7 December and we warmly encourage you to invite friends and family to this festive occasion!
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 29 November):
Intercession and Thanksgiving for Missionary Work – In the first chapter of the gospel according to John, Andrew is listed as one of the disciples of John the Baptist. When Jesus walked by, Andrew followed him and then went and found his brother, Simon, saying, ‘We have found the Messiah!’ So Andrew is seen as the first missionary for Christ, and the vigil of his feast day is an appropriate time for intercession and thanksgiving for the missionary work of the Church. Today we give thanks for all those who have worked to bring the Good News to areas where it was previously unknown, in both historic and more recent times, and we respond in faith to God’s call to the Church in our own day to spread the gospel and proclaim his kingdom in the world.
Eternal Father, whose Son Jesus Christ ascended to the throne of heaven that he might rule over all things as Lord and King: keep the Church in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace, and bring the whole created order to worship at his feet; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
