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 27th September 9:30 am, with Rev Phil (using spiritual communion Trinity liturgy on separate webpage) Sunday 27th September 11am, with Rev Paul (service sheet attached)Sunday 27th September evening 6.30pm with Rachel and Sophie (for Sunday Club and the young at heart)Tuesday 29th September 10am Tiny Tunes (music for all young people)Wednesday 30th September 10.30am Rev Paul/Rev PhilWednesday 30th September 9pm: Rachel’s Rectory Ramblings (with slippers) Watch live if you are able --- or join later on 'catch up'.Everyone welcome.Services in church We are continuing to hold small services. The dates are :27th September (11.00am at St Peter’s Ringland)4th October Harvest Service (9.30am outdoors St Ed’s) – As this is our Harvest service we will meet whatever the weather! This service will also be livestreamed11th October 9.30am St Ed’s and 11.00am St Peter's The sign-up sheets for all these services are all at the back of St Eds church or contact Rev Paul to be added to the list. Tuesday evenings The next fortnightly meditation and Compline is 6th October at St Peter’s Ringland, at 7.30pm 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 SundayShoeboxes We are collecting the shoeboxes for Blythswood this year. for details on their appeal visit the Blythswood website (https://blythswood.org/shoeboxappeal/)Leaflets will be in St Eds church. The deadline will be Sunday 25th October with a service at St Peter's Ringland Church at 11.00am
For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard Matthew 20 : 1 Bible reading: Matthew 20 : 1 – 16Thought for the weekLife’s never fair! I wonder if we heard this when we were growing up? When we were beginning to understand the world, the realisation that others always seemed to have better opportunities, more possessions. And all that anyone could ever say is that ‘life’s never fair’.Jesus tells the parable of the workers in the vineyard. How the owner pays the same whether the workers have been labouring all day, or only the last hour.There is unfairness on the one hand. Yet life is never fair for anyone. We might pause to think of the youngsters now whose future is so uncertain following the pandemic. Their potential sense of unfairness compared to the generations before them. They need our prayers now, for hope and healing.Yet there is sheer generosity, blessing, grace on the other hand. The Lord’s love for us is so freely given, and yet completely undeserved. Knowing Jesus’ love in our lives dispels all sense of unfairness, bitterness even. Because Jesus loves each of us beyond measure. Even sacrificing Himself on the Cross. The Lord is so generous in His love to us. Let us in our own way praise Him. Rev PaulPrayer for this weekLord, teach me to be generous.Teach me to serve you as you deserve;to give and not to count the cost,to fight and not to heed the wounds,to toil and not to seek for rest,to labour and not to ask for reward,save that of knowing that I do your will. Amen.(By Ignatius of Loyola)
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.
