April 2010
Services
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| 8.00 am Holy Communion (Prayer book) | 10.30 am Holy Communion (except Good Friday) |
| 11.00 am Sunday at Eleven | 5.30 pm Meditation (including Good Friday) |
| 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist |
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Sunday at Eleven
April 4th: Easter Eucharist 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. According 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 11th: Odyssey: Jesus and New Living Preachers Canon Fraser Watts In this Odyssey sermon Fraser will focus on the new way of living that Jesus initiates, a way of living that involves a new way of relating to ourselves, to one another and to deeper reality; it is a way of living that, as Jesus showed in His resurrection, can ultimately defeat death.
April 18th: Patronal Festival: What is the church for? Preacher Canon Fraser Watts Our Patronal Festival is an opportunity to reflect on the task of the church in the contemporary situation, drawing inspiration from our many Christian forebears, including Edward King and Martyr. Fraser will preach on 'what is the church for?'. The Master of Trinity Hall will attend, and the Churchwardens will be admitted to office. There will be a parish lunch after the service in Trinity Hall; please sign up for it. All are welcome.
April 25th: Healing Service: The restoration of Lazarus Preacher Revd Malcolm Guite Malcolm will preach on Jesus' restoration of Lazarus to life, and reflect on our own needs for new life of body, mind and spirit. There will be an opportunity for laying on of hands. |
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Meditative Eucharist - Sunday at Five
April 4th: Easter Preacher Revd Fraser Watts Fraser will explore St Luke's story of the encounter with the risen Jesus on the Emmaus Road.
April 11th and 18th: Resurrection: Personal and Cosmic Preacher Revd Dr Malcolm Guite Malcolm will preach about two aspects of the resurrection, personal, and cosmic:
April 25th: (theme to be arranged) Preacher Canon Fraser Watts |
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Midweek services in Holy Week
Monday March 29th to Wednesday March 31st, 7.30pm: Meditations and Holy Week Liturgies
Thursday April 1st: Maunday Thursday, 7.30pm: Maundy Eucharist
Preacher: Fraser Watts Commemoration of the Last Supper and Jesus' Washing of the disciples' feet.
Friday April 2nd: Good Friday, 12.00noon - 3.00pm: Good Friday Service
The challenge of the fully human Jesus. Preacher: Professor Brian Thorne A meditation on the passion, including the Passion Gospel, with music, readings, sermons, prayers and hymns. Brian Thorne, formerly of the University of East Anglia, and a Lay Canon of Norwich Cathedral, is well known for his work on the interface of Christianity and counseling. Those who wish may come and go during the service.
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Gothic Eucharist: Alternate Tuesdays at 8.30pm. April 6th: Fraser on Luke/Ox. April 20th: Malcolm on John/Eagle.
Meditation: The meditation group meets on Friday at 5.30pm, with no break for Good Friday or Easter. It will be led by Christina Johnson up to April 9th, and by Fraser Watts from April 16th.
Sunday 8.00am Communion: Apr 4th: Easter; Apr 11th: Easter 1; Apr 18th: Easter 2; Apr 25th: Easter 3
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Contacts for groups and networks
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| Bell-ringing | Al Finn |
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Children / young families Goths LGBT | Chris Boden (07896 463212) |
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Holistic spirituality Arts | Malcolm Guite (01223 694249) |
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Housegroup Meditation | Christina Johnson (01223 572669) |
| Later life | Elizabeth Edwards (01223 313570) |
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Music Mental health Servers Lesson readers |
Fraser Watts (01223 359223) |
| Students | Matt Owen (07791 647927) |
Chaplain's Letter: Wisdom and Folly (Malcolm Guite)
This year Maundy Thursday falls on April Fools' Day, a coincidence that seems strangely resonant. 'What folly!', Judas must have thought, as he watched the events of Holy Week unfold; it was foolish enough to have wasted the money wrapped up in that alabaster jar that Mary broke, folly for Jesus to have provoked a scene at the temple and then withdrawn, failing to follow it through with a proper, thought-out, thoroughly planned rebellion, and now, on this Thursday, the greatest folly of all, to waste the chance of bloody insurrection with all this defeatist talk of His own body being broken, His own blood shed.
Judas could see that this little movement he had joined with such hope was going nowhere. Its numbers were already dwindling and its strangely passive leader was clearly headed for the gallows. What to do? What would be the wise course of action? Best to jump ship first before they all went down, best indeed to put some clear blue waters between himself and this crowd, lest he be dragged down with them, best indeed to bring the whole foolish charade to an end as soon as possible. The authorities were bound to pick up this great fool anyway, bound to have informers. 'If I don't do it, somebody else will', thought Judas, and slipped out into the night.
So wise Judas left the April Fool to his folly, and seemed wise enough looking on from the distance on Friday; but hidden in the folly of the cross was a wisdom Judas had never guessed: 'unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies it bears no fruit, but if it dies it bears a rich harvest', Jesus had said. In utter trust, He had made Himself the seed of all humanity, and cast Himself and all of us once and for all into the rich ground of God's eternal love.
Looking past Good Friday to that first Easter, another wise thinker, another man who might have been a Judas, but instead
became a new creation, suddenly saw it all, and said to himself and to us: 'thou fool, that which thou sowest is not
quickened except it die'. He suddenly saw that what was sown in corruption is raised in glory, what was sown in weakness
was raised in power. And so he wrote the words that should be read on this and every April feast of fools: 'the
foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.'
Clergy: Revd Dr Fraser Watts (19, Grantchester Road, CB3 9ED; 359223); Revd Dr Malcolm Guite (694249); Canon Alan Cole (892286). Lay Chaplain: Mrs Christina Johnson (572669) Churchwardens: Mr Steven Mastin (361041); Mrs Judith Tonry (892160). Deputy wardens: Mr Geoffrey Barnes (also Treasurer)(362004); Chris Boden (07896 463212) Chapter Clerk: Mr Stephen Davies (242636). Student Pastor: Matt Owen (07791 647927). Church phone: 362004