April 2009
Services
| Sunday Services | Friday Services (except Good Friday) |
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| 8.00 am Holy Communion (Prayer book) | 10.30 am Holy Communion (Prayer book) |
| 11.00 am Sunday at Eleven | 5.30 pm Meditation |
| 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist |
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Sunday at Eleven
April 5th: Odyssey: Traps and Trappings of Power Preacher Revd Dr Malcolm Guite Our own Malcolm Guite will be the Odyssey preacher at the beginning of Holy Week, speaking on 'Traps and Trappings of Power'. He will explore the issues about power raised by Jesus' entry into Jerusalem to cheering crowds, albeit riding on a donkey, and only to be arrested and put on trial before the Roman authorities. April 12th: Easter Eucharist: The Resurrection of Christ Preacher Revd Dr Malcolm Guite A joyful celebration of the resurrection of Christ, and an opportunity to share in his risen life through bread and wine. Acording to The Book of Common Prayer, this is the one Sunday in the year when all communicant members of the Church of England should make their communion. April 19th: Easter Celebration Preacher Revd Dr Malcolm Guite This service, continuing our Easter celebrations, will draw on the arts to help us to understand the significance of Jesus' resurrection more deeply and to respond to it in a heart-felt way. April 26th: Resurrection Now Preacher Canon Fraser Watts Continuing the Easter theme, Fraser will explore how Jesus' own journey from death to resurrection provides a paradigm that we can follow in our present circumstances, both in our personal lives and in society. |
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Midweek services in Holy Week |
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| Monday April 6th to Wednesday April 8th: 7.00pm: Meditations and Holy Week Liturgies. Officiant: Fraser Watts; preacher: Alan Cole. Monday: Jesus Weeping over Jerusalem. Tuesday: Jesus in Gethsemene. Wednesday: Peter's Denial. | |
| Tuesday April 7th: 8.30pm: Goth Eucharist: Malcolm Guite on The Passion of Christ | |
| Thursday April 9th (Maundy Thursday): 7.30pm: Maundy Eucharist: Commemoration of the Last Supper and Jesus' Washing of the Disciples' Feet. President: Fraser Watts; preacher: Malcolm Guite. | |
| Friday April 10th (Good Friday): 12.00 noon: The Passion of Christ: a Three Hours Devotion. Preacher: Fraser Watts. A meditation on the passion including a full reading of the Passion Gospel, with music, readings, sermons, prayers and hymns. Those who wish may come and go during the service. 12.00 noon: Jesus' Arrest; 1pm: Jesus on Trial; 2pm: Jesus on the Cross |
Confirmation: Members of the St Edward's congregation will be confirmed in Ely Cathedral at 7.30pm on Easter Eve, Saturday April 4th. It is always a very moving occasion, and members of the congregation are warmly invited to attend.
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Meditative Eucharist - Sunday at Five |
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| April 5th | Palm Sunday | Preacher: Canon Fraser Watts |
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The service begins with a Palm procession outside the church, commemorating Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, culminating in his
cleansing of the temple, which will be commemorated by an aspurging of the church. |
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| April 12th | Easter | Preacher: Canon Fraser Watts |
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There will not be the usual Meditative Eucharist on Easter day, as many of the regular 5pm congregation will want to make
their communion at the 11am Easter Eucharist. However, for those who wish, there will be a quiet, said, Contemplative
Eucharist in a side chapel, with much silence. |
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| April 19th and 26th | The meaning of the resurrection | |
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In Eastertide, there will be a short series of sermons in which lay members of the congregation will preach on what the
resurrection means to them. April 19th: Christina Johnson. April 26th: TBAs |
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Holistic Spirituality Group: The group will resume after Easter on April 26th at 3.30pm
Goth Eucharists: Alternate Tuesdays at 8.30 pm. Liturgy, secular music and sermons on challenging issues. April 7th: Malcolm Guite: The Passion of Christ. April 21st: Malcolm Guite: 'April is the Cruelest Month...' - the Gothic Mr Eliot
Sunday 8.00 am Holy Communion: The Epistles and Gospels, from the Book of Common Prayer, will be: April 5th: Lent 6; April 12th: Easter; April 19th: Easter 1; April 26th: Easter 2.
Annual Parochial Church Meeting: The 2009 will be held in Church at 5pm on Saturday April 25th. Ten members of of Chapter will be elected at the meeting..
Churchwardens: Judith Tonry and Steven Mastin were elected as Churchwardens for a furhter year on March 8th, and admitted to office by the Master of Trinity Hall on March 15th.
Readers at 11.00 am: 5th M Lee and E Edwards; 12th S Mastin and Chaplain; 19th C Martin and C Walker; 26th G Barnes and S Cooke.
Chaplain’s Letter: De-valued money : re-valued time
The current economic crisis has been a prolonged and ghastly revelation of our corporate folly. Every day the news uncovers more of the extent and complexity of our debts. Commentators remark that we have lived in the last decade on borrowed time. No! We have lived on borrowed money, money borrowed ultimately from our children and grand-children. And now it seems we are to follow the very counsels that got us into trouble in the first place; we are to borrow our way out of debt and put off the day of reckoning again. This may be a short-term necessity but we cannot forever postpone the serious re-appraisal of all our values and priorities which this crisis demands.
One idea we must challenge is the equation of money with time. We all say time is money, but (thanks be to God) time is not money. Money we can hoard and cheat and steal from one another, and borrow back and forth with iniquitous interest. Some people are born without money and others are born with far too much. But not so with God's bounteous gift of time; He gives it equally and freely to all and, unlike money, the rich cannot steal it from the poor, however hard they try. However deep your personal debt no bailiff can ever repossess the beautiful and pristine new minute that God is about to give you.
Our false economy has given us a new euphemism about money: quantitative easing; in other words, we are printing imaginary money, ultimately devaluing all the money that people have actually earned. But we can't print time, we can only love and steward it wisely. I propose instead of quantitative easing of money, we use this crisis to do some qualitative deepening of time. Let's spend time together without spending money; let's covenant to do some corporate loving and community building, instead of expensive private consuming. We can start with the precious time we spend together with God and one another at St Edward's. Let's regard our time together as a free, weekly, untaxed, un-inflated, unthreatened gift, that can deepen the quality of time throughout our whole week - not a credit crunch, but a thankful re-crediting in each other of all that God has freely given.
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. Chapter Clerk: Mr Stephen Davies (242636, stephdvs@btinernet.com). Church phone: 362004