OCTOBER 2006
SERVICES
| 1st Trinity 16 | 22nd Trinity 19 | |
|---|---|---|
| 8.00 am Holy Communion | 8.00 am Holy Communion | |
| 11.00 am Harvest Communion | 11.00 am Commemoration of Martyrs | |
| Preacher: Dr Roland Randall | Preacher: Revd Dr Andreas Loewe | |
| (no evening service) | 5.00 pm Meditaitive Eucharist | |
| Preacher: Revd Dr Fraser Watts | ||
| 8th Trinity 17 | 29th Trinity 20 | |
| 8.00 am Holy Communion | 8.00 am Holy Communion | |
| 11.00 am Odyssey | 11.00 am Mattins & Sermon | |
| Preacher: Dr Rupert Sheldrake | Preacher: Revd Dr Malcolm Guite | |
| 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist | 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist | |
| Preacher: Revd Dr Fraser Watts | Preacher: Revd Dr Fraser Watts | |
| 15th Trinity 18 | Fridays | |
| 8.00 am Holy Communion | ||
| 11.00 am Holy Communion | 10.30 am Holy Communion | |
| Preacher: Revd Dr Fraser Watts | ||
| 5.00 pm Meditative Eucharist | 5.30 pm Meditation | |
| Preacher: Revd Dr Fraser Watts | ||
11.00 am READINGS
Theme Old Testament/Epistle New Testament/Gospel
1 Harvest P Osbourn 2 Corinthians 9. 6-10 Chaplain Matthew 13. 24-30 &
36-39
8 Odyssey G Barnes 2 Corinthians 5. 1-5 C Martin Luke 11. 33-36
15 Trinity 18 D Hirst 1 Corinthians 1. 4-8 Chaplain Matthew 22. 34-end
22 Ref. Martyrs J Dent Wisdom 4. 7-17 C Walker Hebrews 11.32 - 12.2
29 Saints & Souls M Lee Isaiah 25. 1-10 E Edwards 1 Peter 1. 3-12
Readers for November 5 J Billett & Ordinand
12 G Barnes & P Marshall
19 A Finn & Chaplain
26 C Martin & R Lynden-Bell
Harvest: On 1st October the 11.00 am service will be a joint Harvest Communion for both morning and evening congregations, followed by lunch in Trinity Hall (£3.00, please sign up). This will be a good opportunity for the different congregations to get to know one another better, so please come if you can. There will be no 5.00 pm service that day.
Odyssey: The preacher at Odyssey (Oct 8th, 11.00 am) will be Rupert Sheldrake, well known for books such as The Sense of Being Stared At. He will speak about `The Mind Beyond the Brain'. In the afternoon on Oct 8th there will be a meeting of the holistic spirituality discussion group which will look further at the issues raise d by Rupert Sheldrake in the morning (time to be confirmed). Further meetings of the holistic group will be announced shortly.
Faith, Hope and Poetry Malcolm Guite will give a series of six talks, on reading poetry for a renewal of vision and spiritual life, on Wednesdays at 5:30 pm from 27th Sept -1st November. Full details in last month's newsletter, or on handbills at the back of the church.
Faith Journey: Life-Span Perspectives Fraser will preach a series of five sermons on the journey of life and faith at the 5.00 pm service as follows.
- Oct 8th: Echoes of childhood;
- Oct 15th: Challenges of adolescence;
- Oct 22nd: Tasks of adulthood;
- Oct 29th: Transitions of mid-life;
- Nov 5th: Perspectives of late-life.
Reformation Martyrs: The annual commemoration of Bilney, Barnes, Latimer and other martyrs associated with St Edward's will be at 11.00 am on Sunday 22nd October. The preacher will be the Revd Dr Andreas Loewe, Associate Vicar of Great St Mary's, and a historian of the Reformation.
Goth Eucharists: On Oct 10th Marcus Ramshaw will preach on The Gothic Imagination. On Oct 24th, Fraser will preach on Sexual Orientation: Why the Church should be Inclusive. 8.30 for 8.45 pm. All welcome.
Weekly Gift Envelopes: It is enormously helpful if regular members of the congregation who are taxpayers would `gift aid' their donations to the Church, so that the Church can recover income tax they have paid. In that way the value of every gift is significantly enhanced. Most Church members give Sunday by Sunday in the collection. If they would do that through the envelope scheme, and sign a gift aid declaration, the income tax paid on weekly collections can be recovered by the Church. If you are a taxpayer, and not already using the in the envelope scheme, please consider doing so. We need the additional income this would generate. Please speak about it to the Treasurer, Geoff Barnes.
Organsists: After a slightly precarious summer, we now have more stable organist arrangements. Joe Fort, organ scholar at Emmanuel College, will play on Sunday mornings in term-time, with Lindsay Stemp as a deputy. Ralph Woodward will continue to play on Sunday evenings, with Gary Davies deputizing as needed.
Linda Duckers will be ordained on Sunday 1st October at Litchfield Cathedral, to serve as Curate in the Leek and Meerbrook Team Ministry. Please remember her in your prayers.
Chaplain's Letter
As we welcome students and academics back at the start of the new academic year it seems worth reflecting briefly on our role as a church in the midst of a University. Do we swim (or float) in the mainstream of academic life, or do we represent some kind of alternative, or counter-current, some difference of direction or perspective? Our congregation has of course many academics and students and so we understand and are part of the pressures and pleasures, the principles compromises of academic life. But our faith does shed a distinct light on our academic life.
Universities are, of necessity, highly competitive places, and people can be made to feel that success or failure in exams and academic competition is somehow a statement about the actual value of their lives. Here the Kingdom values of Christ put things in perspective. We believe that our value as human beings comes not from distinctions and achievements but from our being made in God's image and valued by him at the price of his own heart's blood. Our final validation comes from loving and being loved, not from our place on a list outside the Senate House. Does this mean we are indifferent to academic life and achievement, to the great quest for truth which is what universities are really for? Far from it. We are called to love God with all our mind, and have the unique opportunity in Cambridge to live the life of the mind fully. There is a dangerous trend in some Christian circles, to denigrate the life of mind and preach an over-simplified faith which is an insult to the intellect. But there is also a long tradition of Faith seeking understanding, of intellect reflecting on the mystery of faith in a way which deepens and enhances that mystery and constantly calls the mind to new insight. That is the tradition in which St Edwards stands and I pray that students and teachers alike will find in this church a faith that challenges and broadens the mind but never loses the perspective of Love.
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)