Services This Week — St. Edward's Church, Cambridge

Bob Booth. (2010). *I Am Your Neighbor.* [Oil on canvas].

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 16 October
10:30pm — BCP Holy Communion (Revd Dr Mark Scarlata)

Friday 16 October
2:30pm — Memorial Service for Ruth Lynden Bell
Please join us at St Edwards Church to honour the life of Ruth Lynden Bell. The service will also be available via livestream on our YouTube Channel.

Sunday 18 October
11.00pm — Holy Communion
Sermon: ‘Jesus, Our Rescuer’ (Revd Dr Matthias Grebe)
Service Sheet: Here

Other notices:

StED Talks — 2026 Michaelmas Term Card
StED Talks are series of presentations to engage theologically with experts on topics related to the life of the church and the academy. We invite you to join us at St Edward’s for the following talks which will begin at 5pm followed by time for Q&A. Wine and nibbles will be served afterward. These are free events, but ticketed through Eventbrite (for catering purposes). Please follow us on social media to access tickets to each talk or sign up to receive email updates at : www.stedwardscambridge.co.uk

28 October, 5:00pm — Prof. Aaron Koller
‘On the Nature of Humanity in Biblical thought: The Garden of Eden in the Modern World.’
University of Cambridge, Regius Professor of Hebrew.

18 November, 5:00pm — Prof. Ben Quash
’Anglican Aesthetics: Do They Exist?’
University of Cambridge, Regius Professor of Divinity

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 — Teresa of Avila, 1582

Teresa was born into an aristocratic Spanish family in 1515. Following her mother’s death, she was educated by Augustinian nuns and then ran away from home to enter a Carmelite convent when she was twenty. After initial difficulties in prayer, her intense mystical experiences attracted many disciples. She was inspired to reform the Carmelite rule and, assisted by St John of the Cross, she travelled throughout Spain founding many new religious houses for men as well as women. Her writings about her own spiritual life and progress in prayer towards union with God include The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle, which are still acclaimed. She knew great physical suffering and died of exhaustion on 4 October 1582. Her feast is on 15 October because the very day after her death the reformed calendar was adopted in Spain and elsewhere and ten days were omitted from October that year.

O God, forasmuch as without you we are not able to please you; mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; 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.