NOVEMBER 2006
SERVICES
| 5th Trinity 21 | 19th Trinity 23 |
|---|---|
| 8.00 am Holy Communion | 8.00 am Holy Communion |
| 11.00 am Odyssey | 11.00 am Holy Communion |
| Preacher: Revd Eric Hutchison | Preacher Revd Dr Malcolm Guite |
| 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist | 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist (healing) |
| Preacher Revd Dr Fraser Watts | Preacher Mr Steven Mastin |
| 12th Trinity 22 | 26th Trinity 24 |
| 8.00 am Holy Communion | 8.00 am Holy Communion |
| 11.00 am Remembrance Service | 11.00 am Mattins & Sermon |
| Preacher: Canon Brian Watchorn | Preacher: Revd Dr Malcolm Guite |
| 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist | 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist |
| Preacher: Ms Tina Hodgett | Preacher: Mr Robert Wynford-Harris |
| Fridays: | |
| 10.30 am Holy Communion | 5.30 pm Meditation |
11.00 am READINGS
Theme Old Testament/Epistle New Testament/Gospel
5 Odyssey J Billet TBA Ordinand TBA
12 Remembrance G Barnes Micah 4. 1-7 P Marshall Ephesians 2. 13-end
19 Trinity 23 A Finn Philippians 3. 17-end Chaplain Matthew 22. 15-22
26 Christ the King C Martin Daniel 7. 9-10,13-14 R Lynden-Bell
Revelation.1. 4b-8
Readers for December 3: G Barnes & C Walker
10: M Lee & E Edwards
17: P Osbourn & Chaplain
24: M Guite & D Hirst
31: B Cole & J Dent
Odyssey: The preacher at Odyssey (Nov. 5th, 11.00 am) will be Eric Hutchison, well-known Cambridge Jungian psychotherapist and priest, on faith and psychology.
All Souls: The annual commemoration of the departed will be at 10.30 am on Friday 3rd November.
Healing: There will be laying on of hands for healing at 5.00 pm on Sunday 19th November. The preacher will be Steve Mastin.
Understanding Fundamentalism: There will be a series of three talks, on this important subject, on Wednesdays at 5:30 pm on the 8th (Dr James Carleton-Paget), 15th (Prof Peter Hill), and 22nd (Dr Sara Savage) of November. Full details in the term card, or on handbills at the back of the church.
Remembrance Sunday: This special service will be at 11.00 am on Sunday 12th November. The preacher will be Canon Brian Watchorn, former Dean of Pembroke.
Advent Carols and the `Panto' service: Two special services at the beginning of December. Advent Carols with Trinity Hall Choir at 5.00 pm on Sunday 3rd, and the Panto carol service with the cast of Alladin at 7.30 pm on Monday 4th.
Goth Eucharists: These continue on November 7th and 21st, at 8.30 for 8.45 pm
Organists: Welcome to our new organist, James Holloway, former organ scholar at Balliol in Oxford.
Ordinands: St Edwards is pleased to have three ordinands on attachment with us this year, they are: Tina Hodgett and Robert Wynford-Harris from Ridley Hall, and Dylan Turner from Westcott House. During November, Tina and Robert will preach at the Meditative Eucharist, and Dylan at the Goth Eucharist.
Christina Burdett has now moved to a Camphill home in Stourbridge. We wish her well in her new life there.
From the Vicar-Chaplain
It has recently been found that the cancer, for which I had surgery last autumn, has recurred, and I will be going into hospital for further surgery on Monday 6th November. As before, I am confident of making a good recovery, and hope to be back in circulation by Christmas. I know that many people at St Edwards will be holding me in their prayers, and I very much appreciate that. I hope that people will understand if I ask not to be visited or telephoned in the early stages of post-operative recovery, as it can be tiring.
Fraser Watts
Chaplain's Letter
"This is the use of memory...for liberation" These word about memory from the Four Quartets seem appropriate for November, which is very much a month of remembrance. We are taught as children to rhyme November and Remember though perhaps the more we really remember about Guy Fawkes and burnings in effigy the less comfortable we may feel with that act of remembrance. But November opens with other remembrances both more recent and more ancient. All Saints and All Soul's day ask us to remember those whom we call the dead, those whom we love but see no longer. But what we remember on these holy days is not just the brief burst of visible life they shared with us in this world of time and dimension, but the true life that was in them, the life that is light, a light kindled, and re-kindled, we believe, by the One who is light and whose light is the life of all people. His light shines in darkness and no darkness can overcome it.
It is right to begin the dark days of November with a celebration of the saints in light. On the 12^th of November we will keep Remembrance Sunday and remember those who have fallen and continue to fall in our wars. What do we remember then? Courage certainly, and endurance in those who fought, grief and loneliness in those bereaved, but also the folly and pride that lead to war, and the inhumanity into which war always descends. Can remembering war in this way be a part of preventing it? Those who instituted this remembrance certainly hoped so, but the ghosts of the fallen at Ypres would look on in horror at the trenches in Iraq and Afghanistan, filled as theirs were, with English soldiers who hoped they might be home for Christmas.
Is there any act of remembrance that can encompass all these? Any way of remembering that would truly be for liberation and not for the perpetuation of old cycles of sin and suffering? Well there is the great act of remembrance that takes place Sunday by Sunday in St Edwards, when we remember how God himself came to be part of history, part of our story, how he died once for all so that we and all our dead might have the hope of life. And at the heart of what we do in remembrance of Him is one clear truth, that He remembers us. God has not forgotten, He is engaged with us and our world. In November we remember the dead, but however fond the memory, they are still, for us, the dead. But when God remembers us, as he promised, then in that very moment we become the living. My prayer for myself and for us all in this dark season is the prayer of the thief on the cross: Jesus Remember me when you come into your Kingdom.
Malcolm Guite
Clergy: Revd. Dr. Fraser Watts (19, Grantchester Road, CB3 9ED; 359223,
fnw1001@cam.ac.uk);
Revd Dr Malcolm Guite (07841 506484, mg320@cam.ac.uk);
Canon Alan Cole
(892286, abc-73@tiscali.co.uk),
Churchwardens: Dr. Elizabeth Edwards (313570, elizedwards@waitrose.com);
Mr Jesse Billett (476751, jdb43@cam.ac.uk);
Treasurer: Mr Geoffrey Barnes;
(717757, Geoff.Barnes@cambridgeshire.gov.uk,
Reader: Mr. Peter Marshall
(564471)