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It is our custom …
The choir members are back from their holidays today, so Choral Evensong recommences at 6.30 tonight. Indeed, we have a treat today as we can listen to St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh on Radio 3 first. (And they are not singing Kelly in C this year). My Presbyterian friends, (yes I do have Presbyterian friends,…
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Magnificat Monthly – August 2007
Here is the latest newsletter: Magnificat Monthly August 2007
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Buildings
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Tartan Friday
From the comments on a previous post, we have this, from Michael Hare: So what tartan do Episcopal clergy wear? Those of us who are of non-Highland connection would like to wear Clergy but the tartan makers refuse to make Clergy in kilt-weight. Should we denounce them from the pulpit?! Heavens, how should I know?…
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Piscy Blogger Spotted
Hey, why didn’t you tell me that Duncan MacLaren is blogging? He is Associate Rector at St Paul’s and St George’s in Edinburgh (aka P’s and G’s) I know he’ll be coming up with interesting stuff because I’ve read and reviewed a book of his. It was one of the more interesting bits of thinking…
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Edinburgh?
Off to Edinburgh yesterday. The transformation of the city in August is never anything less than extraordinary. Visitors cannot really appreciate what it is like to see a city thus transformed. Watching Edinburgh in August is like seeing a maiden aunt take to the gin on New Year’s Eve and do the can-can. Every year,…
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Kilt Monday?
Can anyone tell me who designated Monday as Kilt Monday? Was it the spiritual residue of so many bekilted pipers marching about on Glasgow Green in the rain over the weekend? Three kilt incidents – all on Monday. I just don’t get it. Firstly, a long discussion after Morning Prayer which included the sentiment that…
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Sunday Sermon -12 August 2007
I’d like to begin this morning with a poem. In fact it is something that one of you quoted to me this week. I remembered the fragment and wanted to look it up. “The Place Where We Are Right,” by Yehuda Amichai From the place where we are right Flowers will never grow in the…
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The Walker
Just back from the GFT. Saw The Walker the new Woody Harrelson flick. Lauren Bacall tossed her head in caustic fashion. Kristin Scott Thomas bit her lip over and over again. And Mr Harrelson spent most of the film being a deeply unattractive man. Turned out to be a better film than you thought it…
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From the place where we are right
There is a link here to the poem that I used in yesterday’s sermon. Its the one that begins thus: From the place where we are right Flowers will never grow In the spring.