Services This Week
Hildegard von Bingen. (1150). Scivias 1.6: Humanity and Life. [Medieval ink and gold leaf].
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 18 September
10:30am — BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Sunday 20 September
11.00pm — BCP Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘The God Who Provides’ (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)
Service Sheet: Here
Other notices:
Harvest All-Church Meal: Join us as we celebrate the arrival of Harvest as a congregation on Sunday, 27 September. We will gather for a bring and share all-church lunch directly following the regular morning service. Please use the signup sheet in the entryway to confirm you will attend and what you plan to bring. If you have questions, please speak to Elizabeth Bam, Olivia Brooks, or Josey Wright.
Cambridge Scriptorium: Scriptorium is a place for postgraduate students to study within a structured framework of prayer, fellowship, and discussion. Our term will reconvene on Tuesday 29 September at St Edward’s, and will meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9am-4:30pm throughout the term. Feel free to come and go throughout the day as your schedule permits. If you’d like to join, please contact Peter Elliott at peter.elliott@trinityforumeurope.com.
Ladies of St Eds: All women of St Edward’s church are invited to share in midweek study, fellowship, and prayer. The group meets every other Tuesday starting on 29 September. This term, the group will be using resources from the Bible Project for their study of the scriptures. For more details, please speak to Elizabeth or email: elizabeth.bristol.18@gmail.com
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 — Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard was born in 1098 at Böckelheim in Germany. From her earliest years she had a powerful, visionary life, becoming a nun at the age of eighteen. She was much influenced by her foster-mother, Jutta, who had set up the community and whom she succeeded as abbess in 1136. Her visions of light, which she described as ‘the reflection of the Living Light’, deepened her understanding of God and creation, sin and redemption. They were, however, accompanied by repeated illness and physical weakness. About twenty years later, she moved her sisters to a new abbey at Bingen. She travelled much in the Rhineland, founding a daughter house and influencing many, including the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. She was a pastor and teacher, seeing herself as a ‘feather on the breath of God’. She wrote three visionary works, a natural history and a medical compendium. She died on this day in the year 1179.
Most glorious and holy God, whose servant Hildegard, strong in the faith, was caught up in the vision of your heavenly courts: by the breath of your Spirit open our eyes to glimpse your glory and our lips to sing your praises with all the angels; 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.
