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New Commission
I've commissioned new artwork from a local artist to put on the Church website over Christmas. “The Holy Nativity” is on display from now until new year, after which it will change to “The Glorious Epiphany”.Take a look – www.saint-saviour.org
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O Adonai
O Lord and Ruler of the House of Israel, who appeared to Moses in the flame of the burning bush and gave him the law on Sinai: come, and redeem us with outstretched arms. Amen.The same one who is known as Lord, flickers in an unsteady fire – a fire extinguished neither by our own…
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Advent
I am indebted to Maggi Dawn for reminding me of this poem which makes me quiver. It will be one of the readings at the Carol Service on Sunday evening at St Saviour's. The Scottish Vienna Horns will be playing, the choir have prepared carols, the church will be decorated and I will be singing…
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O Sapienta
O Wisdom, who came from the mouth of the Most High, reaching from end to end and ordering all things mightily and sweetly: come, and teach us the way of prudence. I intended at one point to put some kind of Advent calendar on my blog, or on the church website, but somehow that did…
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Music – what's playing on planet Holdsworth
Dusty Springfield: Son of a Preacher Man [Sing it sister!]Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mass in B Flat and Mass in D [Easter next year?]Jim Moray: Sweet England [Though I don't like Jamie Calum]The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Urban Spaceman [Produced by Paul McCartney – did you know?]Supertramp: Breakfast in America [No I don't know why either]Beatles: Here…
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Winter Blues
Someone promise me that the sun will come back.
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Sermon 12 December 2004
One of the most important things that churches are learning about reading the bible is we must pay attention to the time and the place and the space in which we read it. For our God is alive and is with us in the here and now. When I turned to the gospel reading that…
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White Smoke
Habemus Papam. Reverendissimum Patrem David Chillingworth, Sanctae Catholicae Ecclesiae Presbyterem
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Seen Online
On the website of St Salvador's Church, Dundee, I noticed this entry: Wed 8 Conception of Mary 10.00 am My question is, how can they be so precise? It takes a true Anglo-Catholic to know the exact time.
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Questions for Ordinands #3
Prepare an Advent sermon to explain the phrase, “we who bear your threefold likeness look for the City of Peace” [Hint – consider how you would explain this phrase to the young church group]