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Back to Normal
It does feel rather difficult to get back to normal, whatever normal is. I’ve been neglecting the blog (and everything else) over the last few days. I love Christmas but I am all too aware that it is very different for me than for most people. This year it has been just lovely. Fabulous music…
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Rrrrrrrrest in Peace, Eartha
[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6IfGBQ-T_GY]
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Christmas Sermon 2008
Apologies about the video quality – one or two technical problems last night. Audio is mostly there though.
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Primus responds to Pope
Read it all… Here
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Advent 4 – The Annunciation
Here is Sunday's sermon A few months ago, I was waiting to begin Evensong and my attention was drawn by two children. They had been cycling on small bikes outside, watched by their father. Can we come in, they asked. Of course I said, and beckoned them all in. The father introduced himself as a…
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Carol Service
It was extra seats to pack them in tonight at our Nine Lessons and Carols Service which was wonderful. I’m very grateful to all those who took part. The music was such a treat. I used to be firmly of the view that the Nine Lessons service was grim, but I guess that it because…
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Rejoice, Rejoice. Its coming back!
[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSIlx9hiu8]
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Street Music
I was out and about today in the city of Glasgow doing good works and healing the sick and raising the dead and all the things that a busy clergyperson does the week before Christmas when I came upon a familiar sound. It was the sound of a Salvation Army band playing Christmas Tunes. I…
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Every breath we drew was hallelujah
Frankly, I prefer the versions by Mr Buckley and Mr Handel to this nonsense from the X-Factor. And all people of good taste agree with me.
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Glasgow Terror Attack Broadcast
There have been two things recently which have very strongly reminded me of the service which was broadcast on Radio 4 from St Mary's on 1 July 2008. Firstly, one of those responsible has just been found guilty in an English court. Reading the reports of the court case has been unnerving. It is hard…