July 2008
SERVICES
| 6th Trinity 7 | 20th Trinity 9 |
|---|---|
| 8.00 am Holy Communion | 8.00 am Holy Communion |
| 11.00 am Odyssey | 11.00 am Eucharist |
| Preacher: Professor Julie Exline | Preacher: Revd Dr Malcolm Guite |
| 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist | 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist |
| Preacher: Revd Dr Malcolm Guite | Preacher: (to be announced) |
| 13th Trinity 8 | 27th Trinity 10 |
| 8.00 am Holy Communion | 8.00 am Holy Communion |
| 11.00 am Odyssey | 11.00 am Sunday at Eleven |
| Preacher: Bishop Terry Brown | Preacher: Canon Fraser Watts |
| 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist | 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist |
| Preacher: Bishop Terry Brown | Preacher: Canon Alan Cole |
| Fridays: | |
| 10.30 am Holy Communion | 5.30 pm Meditation |
11.00 am READINGS
July Readers: 6th: G Barnes & R Lynden-Bell; 13th W Caan & A Stacey; 20th D Hirst; 27th M Lee & E Edwards. Lessons to be notified as arranged.Odyssey: The preacher at Odyssey on July 6th will be Professor Julie Exline. (Note that this is a change of plan from what was announced earlier). Julie Exline is a Professor of Psychology at Cape Western Reserve University in the US, and in Cambridge for a couple of months, working with Fraser and his colleagues. She has been doing some very interesting research into people’s anger against God, which will be the subject of her Odyssey talk.
11.00 am Eucharist: The July Eucharist will be on July 20th, and it will be a thanksgiving for Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), one of the great Founding Fathers of the Church of England. Andrewes has been an inspiration to many contemporary Christians; for example T S Eliot’s well-known poem on the Magi (‘ a cold coming we had of it…’) is substantially based on one of Andrewe’s sermons. Andrewes is also one of the chief sources of the tolerant, reasonable spirit that has pervaded the best of Anglicanism. The preacher will be Malcolm Guite, who did his PhD on Lancelot Andrewes.
Bishop Terry Brown
The Lambeth conference of Anglican Bishops that takes place very 10 years
brings Bishops from all over the world to the UK. The Sunday before the conference,
July 13th, is a rare opportunity for English parishes to hear them preach,
and to get a third world perspective on the Chistian faith. At St Edward’s
we have invited Bishop Terry Brown to join us, and to preach at a special
Odyssey service at 11.00 am, and again at the Meditative Eucharist at 5.00
pm. Terry is Bishop of Malaita, in the South Pacific, one of 8 Anglican Dioceses
in the Province of Melanesia. He is a Canadian priest who spent some time
in the Solomons as a missionary, and was later invited back as a Bishop. Twelve
years as Bishop of a diocese of high unemployement and great poverty has shaped
his priorities, and taught him to value the fruits of the spirit, ‘love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control’
(Galatians 5. 22-23). He has spoken out against the hostility to homosexuals
found in some sections of the church, and recently edited a collection of
essay and testimonies from gay Christians from round the world, ‘Other Voices,
Other Worlds: the Global Church Speaks out on Homosexuality’ (SPCK, 2006).
He will be spending the final few days before the Lambeth conference on retreat
with the other Melanesian Bishops at Westcott House, and it will be a privilege
to have him preach for us at St Edward’s and to hear his vision for a global
church.
Faith and Psychology Fraser Watts will preach a series of four sermons over the summer period
looking at the Christian faith in the light of modern psychology. His
starting point is that we understand our faith better when we attend
to how it affects us personally, and that psychology can help us do
that. Psychology is not a threat to faith, but a tool that can illuminate
how it works in practice. |
Church Jobs:
From time to time I try to do a round-up of who does what in the church. This
is my current best effort. There are probably some mistakes and omissions.
Please let me know, so I can update. Thanks to everyone who helps in these
and other ways to keep the church functioning smoothly.
Fraser Watts
Treasurer: Geoff Barnes; Gift Aid Officer: Derrick Hirst; Electoral Roll:
Judith Tonry;
Organists: Matt Davies (morning, from July) & Ralph Woodward (evening);
Archivist: Elizabeth Edwards;
Sacristan: Geoff Barnes; Tower Captain: Alison Finn; Cleaning & Altar
Cloths: Marilyn Stanley;
Garden: Belinda Powell, Ann Walton & Geoff Barnes; Flowers: Brenda Deboys;
Flags: Steve Mastin;
Web Editor: Jess Monaghan (to be replaced in Sept by Adrian Stacey); Sound-system:
Ray Adams;
Purificators: Freddie Hurlock; Silver & Brass: Liz Walker; Parish Lunches:
Brenda Cole & Liz Walker; Newsletters: Brenda & Alan Cole. Sunday
refreshements: Judith Tonry (morning) & Chris Boden (evening);
Health & Saftey: Woody Caan; Term card: Steve Mastin; Library: Ann Walton;
Concerts: Geoff Barnes.
Healing: There will be laying on of hands for healing at the 5.00 pm Eucharist on Sunday 27th off July.
Chapter: The Chapter will meet at 6.30 pm on Monday 6th July.
Goth Eucharist: The next goth Eucharist will be at 8.30 pm on Tuesday 1st July. There will also probably be one on 29th July.
Meditation: The weekly meditation group will continue to meet on Fridays at 5.30 pm, led by Fraser.
From the Vicar-Chaplain - A Time of Revelation
Do you agree with all your friends about everything? Life would be very dull
if you did! A moments reflection makes us see that in our personal lives we
find and value friends with whom we may disagree on many important issues,
or even disagree about what issues are important, for friendships are not
political cabals or doctrinal purity clubs, they depend, not on unanimity,
but on trust, mutual respect, complementarity, sheer affection and playfulness.
If this is true of the community of our friends it is also true of the other
communities to which we belong, which we support and which support us, not
least the church. A reading of the letters of St. Paul and the Acts of the
Apostles makes it clear that Christians disagreed with each other about apparently
fundamental things from the outset. They took different sides on the big emotive
issues of their day; slavery, circumcision, contact with gentiles, attitudes
to government, behaviour at communion; the list goes on. And yet a reading
of the same scriptures makes it clear that in spite of these differences they
acknowledged that they were one, members of one body, responding to one calling,
bound in one love. The basis of their unity was grace, a sense of the sheer
undeserved, unexpected loving goodness of God to every one of us, friends
and enemies alike. The basis of our unity is also always and only grace; God’s
sheer grace to us, inspiring grace and courtesy from us to one another. Please
join me in praying that as the Anglican communion meets, or fails to meet,
at the Lambeth conference, that we do not make the tragic mistake of insisting
on agreement about God as the condition for community and friendship, but
rather that we may receive and share a little more of God’s amazing grace.
Malcolm Guite
Clergy: Revd. Dr. Fraser Watts (19, Grantchester Road, CB3 9ED; 359223, fnw1001@cam.ac.uk); Revd Dr Malcolm Guite (694249, mg320@cam.ac.uk); Canon Alan Cole (892286, alan73@waitrose.com). Churchwardens: Mr Steven Mastin (361041, stevenjamesmastin@yahoo.co.uk); Mrs Judith Tonry (892160, judith@tonry.co.uk). Treasurer: Mr Geoffrey Barnes (717757, Geoff.Barnes@cambridgeshire.gov.uk). Chapter Clerk: Mr Oliver Shone (olishone@hotmail.com); Church phone: 362004.
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