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I discovered just recently that I seem to be the chaplain of one of Glasgow’s theatres. (I’ll refrain from saying which one until I’ve made more personal contact).What fun.

… to Mark, if I’m not much mistaken.

I’m delighted that the new leader of the Episcopal Church in the states is the Rt Revd Katharine Jefferts.Two things have impressed me about her so far.Firstly, that when all the world’s media was pointing in her direction to focus on the supposed significance of her gender, she used the opportunity to point to the…

Yes, to Edinburgh for the glories of High Mass at St Michael and All Saints. (Why they did not become All Saints and All Angels when those 2 churches merged, I will never know – St M and All Ss never trips off the tongue as well).I tend to go back to that church for…

I’m not at all sure that we really lived up to the Feast of Corpus Christi this morning. I was rushing around just before the service looking for bread and wine and wondering how on earth we were going to celebrate this particular feast day without them. I’ve a feeling that Thomas Aquinas who thought…

Enjoyed watching The Convent last night. [Reality show where 4 women go live in a convent for 40 days and 40 nights]. I know it can be a hard life in monastic orders, but obviously a satisfying one. Wish more people did it.My only regret was that the programme was not called Big Sister.

Photoblog started again – see here: photoblog.thurible.net

You can have 5 points if you know what this is:                  Sinjoro, malfermu niajn lipojn.     Respondo. Kaj nia buŝo deklaros vian laŭdon.     Presbitero. Dio, rapidu nm sa vi.     Respondo. Sinjoro, ne prokrastu nin helpi.

Mmm. A choir that can roll its Rs. (Careful!)Lovely.

Just back from synod. Synod fatigue is like no other.I like the biz and the buzz, but come come feeling exhausted every time I go. This year I was there to watch what was going on as a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church’s Organizational Review Committee. (ie ORC – there will be a quiz…