The livestreams are all continuing, and we are hoping these will include livestreams from the church building soon!The following services will be made available via the St Ed's Facebook page:Sunday 20th September 9:30 am, with Rev Phil (using spiritual communion Trinity liturgy on separate webpage) Sunday 20th September 11am, with Rev Paul (service sheet attached)Sunday 20th September evening 6.30pm with Rachel and Sophie (for Sunday Club and the young at heart)Tuesday 22nd September 10am Tiny Tunes (music for all young people)Wednesday 23rd September 10.30am Rev Paul/Rev PhilWednesday 23rd September 9pm, Rachel’s Rectory Ramblings (with slippers) Watch live if you are able --- or join later on 'catch up'.Everyone welcome.Also online : Rspace Zoom for teenagers every Tuesday at 7.00pm. Details Rev PaulServices in church We are continuing to hold small services. The dates are :20th September (9.30am indoors St Ed’s)27th September (11.00am at St Peter’s Ringland)4th October Harvest Service (9.30am outdoors St Ed’s)The sign-up sheets are all at the back of St Eds church or contact Rev Paul to be added to the list. Tuesday evenings We are also hoping to restart our times of meditation and Compline. These will be fortnightly, at St Peter’s Ringland, at 7.30pm beginning 22nd September. At present unfortunately these will need to be restricted to anyone who has not been to a Sunday service in either church on the previous SundayHarvest service The 9.30am service on 4th October will be outdoors. As this is our Harvest service we will meet whatever the weather! There is a sign- up sheet in St Eds church as usual. This service will also be livestreamed.
“Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, if my brother keeps on sinning against me, how many times do I have to forgive him? Seven times?” Matthew 18 : 21 - 35Bible reading: Matthew 18 : 21 - 35Thought for the weekSome years ago I was able to visit Rwanda. It was just a decade after the devastating Genocide which had torn the country apart and released such a traumatic evil upon the nation. I met survivors and the scars both physical and psychological were everywhere.Yet Rwanda today is a very different nation. The man who liberated the people from the tyranny of cruelty is still the President, Paul Kagame, and the nation is secure and stable. Moreover Kagame has nurtured the people to think of themselves not as individual tribes, but as a family. Forgiveness has meant change. A change in how the people see themselves. A change that has brought hope for a new future. We are changed through receiving forgiveness, and showing forgiveness. In the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant the problem is there has been no change in the servant on receiving forgiveness, and so he does not show forgiveness in turn.When we realise the sheer freedom and grace of the Lord’s forgiveness of us, we are changed into the fullness of the people Jesus calls us to be. Jesus has won forgiveness through the Cross. When we receive forgiveness from Him our lives are changed forever. Rev Paul Prayer for this weekMerciful God,your Son came to save us and bore our sins on the cross:may we trust in your mercy and know your love,rejoicing in the righteousness that is ours through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The livestreams are all continuing, and we are hoping these will include livestreams from the church building soon!The following services will be made available via the St Ed's Facebook page:Sunday 13th September 9:30 am, with Rev Phil (using spiritual communion Trinity liturgy on separate webpage) Sunday 13th September 11am, with Rev Paul (service sheet attached)Sunday 13th September evening 6.30pm with Rachel and Sophie (for Sunday Club and the young at heart)Wednesday 16th September: 10.30am Rev Paul/Rev PhilWednesday 16th September 9pm: Rachel’s Rectory Ramblings (with slippers) Watch live if you are able --- or join later on 'catch up'.Everyone welcome.Also online : Tuesday 15th September 10am music for little ones (babies and toddlers)Rspace Zoom for teenagers every Tuesday at 7.00pm. Details Rev PaulServices in church We are continuing to hold small services. The dates are :13th September (11.00am at St Peter’s Ringland)20th September (9.30am indoors St Ed’s)27th September (11.00am at St Peter’s Ringland)The sign-up sheets are all at the back of St Eds church. Tuesday evenings We are also hoping to restart our times of meditation and Compline. These will be fortnightly, at St Peter’s Ringland, at 7.30pm beginning 22nd September. At present unfortunately these will need to be restricted to anyone who has not been to a Sunday service in either church on the previous SundayHarvest service The 9.30am service on 4th October will be outdoors. As this is our Harvest service we will meet whatever the weather! There is a sign- up sheet in St Eds church as usual. This service will also be livestreamed.
“Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. Keep me from paying attention to what is worthless; be good to me, as you have promised”. Psalm 119 : 36-37Bible reading: Matthew 18 : 15 - 20Thought for the weekAll our readings this week feature the call to turn back to the Lord, to follow His commandments, to turn away from sin, and the disruptive effects of following our own paths and our own desires.This week also marks the beginning of what has come to be known as ‘Creationtide’. The celebration of the Lord’s loving hand in Creation and the revealing of His presence, power and gentleness in nature.We are daily being reminded of the consequences of our own willfulness and self – centredness in the trauma suffered by our planet. In Matthew’s Gospel Jesus tells us sin can have a disruptive effect within the church and amongst believers if we are not careful, and needs to be dealt with.Yet there is Good News in the person of Jesus. He has come amongst us, and even took our sin to the Cross for our forgiveness and new life. This is the Good News for each of us when we turn back to the Lord. There is even hope for our planet – more blue whales have been sighted than for many years. Praise be to Jesus who calls us into His ways, and has won for us hope, forgiveness and a new beginning. Rev Paul Prayer for this weekAlmighty God, you search us and know us:may we rely on you in strength and rest on you in weakness,now and in all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
