The following services will be available via the St Ed's Facebook page or by attendance (as stated below). Christmas Day, Sunday 25th December 00:00am -Midnight Meditation (livestream)Christmas Day, Sunday 25th December 10:00 am Christmas Day Holy communion (at St Ed’s)Christmas Day, Sunday 25th December 10:30 am Christmas Day Holy communion (at St Peter’s)Christmas Day, Sunday 25th December 11:15 am Christmas Day Informal service (pre-recorded, watch via the St Ed's Facebook page)Christmas Day, Sunday 25th December 1:00 pm onwards during the afternoon - Christmas Day quiet space (at St Ed’s)Wednesday 28th December 10:30 am Holy Communion (at St Ed’s)Also Sunday 1st January, New Year’s Day, at St Ed’s: 9:30 Mustard Tree Church, 11:15am Holy Communion – with no on-line services HAPPY CHRISTMAS! From everyone at St Ed’s and St Peter’s. We hope you have a joyful and peaceful Christmas.
Due to the high demand of people wanting to come to the Christingle at 3.30pm we have decided to have an identical service at 5.00pm Please join us in St Eds if you would like to at 5.00pm. This will not be livestreamed and there is no need to book.As we are having a second Christingle service at 5pm we have cancelled the 6.30pm Contemplative Christingle service.Don't forget if you're going to join us at 3.30pm online through Facebook, Christingle kits will be available in St Ed's from 9.00am on Thursday 22nd please note the image is copyright of The Childrens Socety
Please find attached the liturgy for the Reflection and Compline service to be held at 7pm on Thursday 22nd December 2022.You can attend this service at St Ed's or join on-line via the St Ed's Facebook page Wherever we are, we gather in the Name of God, Source of life, love and hope.All welcomeThe attached sheet will help you participate in the service. Please join us on Thursday evening or watch later 'on catch up' Please note: St Ed’s has the following licences to support all our livestream services/activitiesCCLI 184420Streaming Licence 333710 Music Reproduction Licence 184420 SongSelect®Advanced
This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Matthew 1 : 18 – 19This week’s reading : Matthew 1 : 18 - 25Thought for the weekThe waiting is nearly over. Christmas Day is looming large on the horizon. The next few days will be filled with last minute preparations before we finally breathe deeply. Whether we are ready or not Christmas will come! However we are feeling about Christmas, whether we love it or dread it, whether we are ready or not, there is Good News, the best news. Jesus is born into a world where things are sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes easy, sometimes hard, sometimes straightforward, sometimes complex. That Jesus is born into the reality of life with all its many facets is Good News. Into the Mess of the world comes the Message of hope that has been there since the dawn of time. This is the Message of God's infinite love, grace and peace given to us in Jesus the Messiah - Emmanuel, God with us. This is Good News for the whole world. Happy Christmas! RachelPrayers for this weekEternal God, as Mary waited for the birth of your Son, so we wait for his coming in glory; bring us through the birth pangs of this present age to see, with her, our great salvation in Jesus Christ our Lord. AmenGod is soaked in our world. God's Spirit lives and breathes in and through all that is. We are lost only when we do not understand that God is already with and in each one of us. Our task is recognition of God's initiative to be at home in us— acceptance of God-With-Us. Then we cannot but be glad.written by Edwina Gateley in There Was No Path So I Trod One (1996, 2013). Posted on Journey with Jesus.
