JUNE 2007
SERVICES
| 3rd Trinity Sunday | 17th Trinity 2 |
|---|---|
| 8.00 am Holy Communion | 8.00 am Holy Communion |
| 11.00 am Odyssey | 11.00 am Mattins & Sermon |
| Preacher: Revd Dr Malcolm Guite | Preacher Mr Jesse Billett |
| 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist | 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist |
| Preacher Revd Dr Fraser Watts | Preacher Revd Dr Malcolm Guite |
| 10th Trinity 1 | 24th Trinity 3/ St John Baptist's Day |
| 8.00 am Holy Communion | 8.00 am Holy Communion |
| 11.00 am Holy Communion | (No 11.00 am service) |
| Preacher: Canon Alan Cole | |
| 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist | 5.00 pm Midsummer Parish Communion |
| Preacher: Revd Dr Fraser Watts | Preacher: Revd Dr Malcolm Guite |
| Fridays: 10.30 am Holy Communion 5.30 pm Meditation | |
11.00 am READINGS
Theme Old Testament/Epistle New Testament/Gospel
3 Angels T Hodgett Isaiah 6. 1-8 D Turner Revelation 12. 7-12
10 Trinity 1 E Edwards 1 John 4. 7-end Chaplain Luke 16. 19-31
17 Trinity 2 G Barnes Job 3 R Lynden-Bell Romans 5
Readers for July: 1: M Ramshaw & S Mastin
8: A Finn & C Martin
15: J Dent & Chaplain
22: C Walker & P Marshall
29: M Lee & E Edwards
Angels: The preacher at Odyssey this month (June 3rd, 11.00 am) will be the Revd Dr Malcolm Guite, on `angels and ministers of grace'. There will also be a panel discussion on angels on Wednesday June 6th at 5.30 pm, with Thomas D'Andrea (Fellow of Wolfson College), Malcolm Guite and Fraser Watts.
Midsummer Parish Communion: The next Parish Communion, a joint service for both morning and evening congregations, will be on June 24th at 5.00 pm. It will be followed by a social gathering in the Old Hall of Queens' College. This should be a good midsummer occasion, and we encourage everyone to try to come. Note that this is an evening service; there will be no 11.00 am service that day.
Prayer Book Sermon: The sermon at Mattins on Sunday June 17t will be an annual sermon about worship according to the Book of Common Prayer. This year it will be given by our former Churchwarden, Mr Jesse Billett, whose research is partly concerned with the Prayer Book. He is currently a Research Fellow at St John's College. At Mattins on this occasion we will follow the Prayer Book order more strictly than usual.
Sunday Evening Sermons: The theme of the 5.00 pm sermons will be June 3rd: The Trinity (Fraser Watts), June 10th: Corpus Christi (Fraser Watts), Jun 17th; The Divine Compassion (Malcolm Guite), and June 24th: Midsummer (Malcolm Guite).
Goth Eucharists: There will be a Goth Eucharist on May 22nd, that will be filmed for an item on CNN News; Malcolm will preach on `What's Good about Goth: Acceptance'. There will then be series of sermons by Fraser on `Male and Female' at the Goth Eucharists on June 5th & 19th and July 3rd.
Holistic Spirituality Group: This will meet at 3.30 pm on Sundays May 27th, June 10th & 24th.
House Group: There is currently a house group, led by Malcolm, meeting on alternate Mondays at 8.00 pm at St Mark's Vicarage, Barton Rd. The focus will be on the sayings of Jesus. Feel free to join at any stage. The dates are May 28th, June 11th & 25th & July 9th.
Hidden Treasures: This exploration in creative writing will continue on Thursdays, 12.30-2.00, starting Thursday May 24th & 31st & July 7th. A light lunch is available. Full details available on a separate handbill.
Sexuality Discussion Group: The sexuality discussion group will meet next at 3.30 pm on Sunday June 17th.
Chapter: Following the elections at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting, the lay members of Chapter are Elizabeth Edwards and Steven Mastin (Churchwardens), Elizabeth Edwards and David Gillingham (ex-officio as Synod members), Peter Marshall (Reader), Geoff Barnes, Jesse Billett, James Dent, Liz Gulliford, Roger Griffin, Michael Lee, Ruth Lynden-Bell, Judith Tonry, Christopher Walker, Ann Walton (elected members), and Jess Monaghan (co-opted). Lay Vice-Chairman of the Chapter: Ruth Lyndem-Bell; Treasurer & Deputy Warden: Geoffrey Barnes; Chapter Secretary: Elizabeth Edwards; Chairman of Finance Committee: Ruth Lynden-Bell; Chairman of Fabric Committee: Christopher Walker; Gift Aid Officer: Derrick Hirst.
Marcus Ramshaw: Members of the congregation will be interested to know that Marcus will shortly be taking up a position in Cambridge with the English Churches Housing Group (ECHG). They are one of the largest providers in the country of housing for those who might otherwise be homeless, and in Cambridge provide housing for about 175 people. Marcus has a long-standing interest in work with the homeless. As a Curate in Hythe he founded a housing association to assist them, and looks forward to having a period of working professionally with problems of homelessness. At the same time he hopes to work on a part-time Ph.D investigating 'fresh expressions' of church (of which the Goth Eucharist is an example), and will continue as a member of our congregation at St. Edward's.
Chaplain's Letter
I write between ascension and Pentecost, that strange in-between time, when we leave our understanding of God in one form, and wait to have it restored by a new understanding of God in another form. My first Sunday at St Edwards was Pentecost last year, and as I reflect on a year in which I have come to know and love this church I find that Pentecost is a good focus for those reflections. When the church received the spirit it was empowered both to remember and to discover. To remember Jesus and all he said and did in a new and relevant way, and to discover in the future more of the meaning that had been hinted in the past, or spoken but never understood.
Remembering and discovering are both part of St Edwards particular calling. We are a place where the reformation and the prayer book, the great re-discovery of Gospel is remembered and rightly remembered in a special way, but we are also called to discover the new things, hidden in the gospel, which the spirit unfolds to us. It took 1800 years for Christians to discover that the gospel made slavery impossible and redundant, the church is still discovering and assimilating what it means to say that in Christ there is neither slave nor free, Jew nor Greek, man nor woman but a new creation. I look forward to the ways in which, open to the Spirit, Christians in St Edwards will explore together what that new creation means for us now as men and women, as members of different races and cultures, as people called always out of the slaveries into which we cast one another to a new freedom in Christ.
In practical terms this means daring to think new thoughts. It means remembering and celebrating the old things, the prayer books and the bible, not as museum pieces but as a treasury out of which we can continually draw new insights, in which we can re-discover the fresh relevance of "old" truths. I'm glad we use old prayer book language in new services, like Goth and Odyssey, and I'm glad that in the old prayerbook service we read new poems and preach in the light of new science and psychology. It is that combination of old and new, memory and discovery which will keep us growing in God's spirit. I look forward to another year of change and growth in which I feel that together we are re-discovering our Christianity and proclaiming it afresh.
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: Dr. Elizabeth Edwards (313570, elizedwards@waitrose.com); Mr Steven Mastin (361041, stephenjamesmastin@yahoo.com).Treasurer: Mr Geoffrey Barnes; (717757, Geoff.Barnes@cambridgeshire.gov.uk). Reader: Mr. Peter Marshall (564471). Church phone: 362004.