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The End of Civilization As We Know It
I dropped into Borders the book store on Friday afternoon. Borders in the UK seems to be going bust and is having a closing down sale. It was an extraordinary and horrible scene in the shop in Buchannan Street in Glasgow. A major book store closing down just before Christmas was inevitably going attract the…
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The List
The list of candidates for the election of a new Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway has now been published. They are: The Ven Dr John Applegate The Very Rev Canon Dr Gregor Duncan The Rev Canon Dr Alison Peden
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If you are looking for me….
Just to say that if you are looking for me in connection with anything to do with St Mary’s, I’m away from work until next Friday, 11 December 2009. I’m not sure whether I’ll be blogging. We’ll see.
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Radio Catch-Up
There was a lot of radio to catch up on last night. Firstly, there was St Ninian’s Cathedral in Perth doing the big live broadcast on Radio 4 at 0810. It was great to hear familiar & unfamiliar voices on the radio and imagine the place all miked up. (St Ninian’s is where I did…
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Sermon – Advent 1
I forgot to set the camera up this morning (still needing a couple of people to be the camera team, I think). So, no video from this morning. Here is the text though: The tradition in churches like this one is to try to make something special of Advent. Whilst the rest of the world…
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Prayer Resources for Advent
I’ve updated the Daily Prayer page with some new resources, specifically two bookies containing Evening Prayer for Advent. In the Scottish Episcopal version of Daily Prayer, we have prayers with the title Anticipation which we use for Advent. There are two files for evening prayer. One for the first three weeks of Advent and another…
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Glorious Failure
A very dusty hour and a half was spent on Friday trying to get audio from the church to be heard in the hall for the benefit of parents and those working with children who sometimes use the hall and meeting room during part of the 1030 service on a Sunday. I had come up…
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St Silas Webcam
Don’t miss the webcams looking at the St Silas building project. Our friends in our nearest Scottish Episcopal Church are undertaking a big programme to build hall space. It is an ambitious project which they have been working at for months. Its great to see the work actually taking shape. The webcams are a brilliant…
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web outage
I’m back online at home following an unexpected web outage. Something blew up. Back online now using a spare something from the cupboard.
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Liturgy Instruction Video
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh_nqtp3VrU] There is so much to say about this video. The scary oversize puppets around the altar and the white sixty-somethings jigging about to African drums are parts of the mass that you just don’t expect, do you? Don’t miss the asperges that you can see three minutes in. And the censing of the gospel…