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Evening Prayer at 1700 Hrs on Google +
I will be conducting Evening Prayer in a Google+ hangout at 5 pm today. Will be accepting people into the hangout from 4.50 pm. (4.45 pm for those who have joined in previously). There are 10 places. I will supply the liturgy. You need a webcam and google+ membership, which is free. You need to…
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Predictions for 2011 reviewed
Well, Hogmanay means that it must be time to review the predictions that I made for 2011 to see how I got on. Here’s what I said on 1 January and a quick review of each one: The College of Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church will use their considerable intelligence, wit, guile and blogs…
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It’s the Internet, stupid…
Quick quiz question to begin the day: Which is greater – the number of people who have visited this blog this year, or the number of people who are present in the Scottish Episcopal Church on a typical (ie the week before Advent when the figures are counted) Sunday? It is an unfair question in…
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Zebedee redux
I’m really most grateful to Fr Madpriest for sending in this re-consideration of the Zebedee window that I was referring to the other day.
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Territory
I’ve heard about fighting in Christian churches in Israel/Palestine at the great festivals before, but the video above does show it rather graphically. The fighting is a consequence of thinking of one’s Christian mission territorially. The Scottish Episcopal Church generally tends to sit rather lightly to territoriality. We don’t really have much of a concept…
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Zebedee
One of the nice things about being in a church like St Mary’s at Christmas is that we can keep the little festivals known as the Companions of Christ. I celebrated a mass yesterday for St John and was pleased to see more than a dozen folk out. It has made such a difference moving…
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St John
Off to adore the Holy Babe and St John now.
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Online Evening Prayer for the Feast of St Stephen
There will be a service of Evening Prayer today [Monday] at 5 pm GMT for the Feast of St Stephen. The liturgy can be downloaded here: EP Incarnation for Internet Evensong This is the third service that has been held in this way and we are still experimenting with it. One limitation is the number…
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Merry Christmas to all blog readers
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20111224 Midnight Mass – Sermon
When you come up to communion this evening, you need to keep your eyes open. There’s plenty to look at near the front of the church – lovely decorations, candles, baubles and twinkling lights. But keep your eyes peeled for a couple of strange, ethereal, beautiful creatures standing on either side of the altar. Strange,…