Services This Week
Dear All,
Please join us for services this week, which are taking place in person or via livestream through our YouTube Channel. You can find gathering times and service sheet links below.
Friday 9 January
10.30am - BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 11 January / The Baptism of Christ
11am - BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The Beloved’
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
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 10 January):
William Laud was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by his friend and ecclesiastical ally, King Charles, in 1633. The aim of both Archbishop and Monarch was to counter the reforming Puritan movement, which emphasized personal and ecclesial austerity as a means of sustaining conversion. Laud was a High Churchman who felt that the majesty of God should be reflected in the liturgy of the church and rigorously set about ensuring that its ministers should practise what he preached. His relentless approach left no room for variance of practice – but neither did the Puritans – and the latter had the upper hand in Parliament and eventually impeached him in 1640 and imprisoned him in the Tower of London. His friend the king did not – or could not – come to his assistance and he was beheaded on this day in 1645.
God, by whose grace your servant William Laud professed the Christian faith and in that profession came to die: grant that we, who have been baptised into your Church, may esteem Laud’s sincerity of conviction and, with like sincerity, hold steadfastly to those essentials of our faith that all your faithful servants profess, despite differing on inessentials; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever. Amen.
