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Shh! Do not disturb
Just to say that I’m away from work on annual leave for a week or so. I’m not going far, but I’m not going to St Mary’s. The Vice Provost, Cedric Blakey is in charge whilst I’m not around. Usual rules apply to this blog whilst I am resting heart and mind and soul. Comment…
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
People of Earth. Now that you have elected me to the honoured position of Benevolent Dictator for Life, there are several rules which I must make clear. Exclamation marks shall be known forever as exclamation marks and not exclamation points. (Computer scientists are except from the first part of this regulation and may continue to…
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St Luke’s Day
Today is St Luke’s day – a good day for choosing a husband, apparently. I’ve done the research on this. If no husband appears during the day and you are wondering who it will be, then you need to get your act together before nightfall. You need to gather powder of dried marigold flowers, marjoram,…
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What am I listening to?
Oh, thank you for asking? It has been a while. Spotify didn’t manage to convince me to subscribe, so this is a season of Back to the iPod and even occassionally Back to the CD. However, the CDs do seem a bulky and rather old fashioned element in the Salon at Praepostorial Towers. There has…
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All Souls
A reminder that the sheets are available in church for adding the names of those who have died to be remembered in prayer on All Souls Day on 2 November 2011. This year the choir are singing the Fauré Requiem I’ve received this morning an invitation to go to a Regional Council Meeting that night…
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Same-sex marriage and the state
I’ve been very heartened by the many responses to my sermon on Sunday. It was reported on at length in The Times, which used it as its top Scottish story on Monday and it was used in the Herald and all over the gay press too. Whatever anyone might think about what I said, it…
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A personal message from Alex Salmond
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Sermon Preached on 9 October 2011
I wonder what is the first thought that comes into your head when you open an invitation and find yourself invited to a wedding. Do you say a wee prayer of thanksgiving for the couple? Maybe you do. Do you rejoice that two people have discovered that they love one another and give thanks for…
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Consecration
Just back from the Consecration of the new Bishop of Brechin in Dundee. Brechin may be one of the smaller dioceses in the Scottish Episcopal church but they like their pomp. Where else would the clergy procession have begun in the Council Chamber and made its way to the Cathedral accompanied by flying thurible and…
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Off to the Flagship
Off to Brechin for the consecration of the Diocese of Brechin’s new bishop. Will report later. The Diocese of Brechin was famously referred to by one of its former bishops as The Flagship Diocese of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Which only makes one wonder about the most appropriate sobriquets for the other six, doesn’t it?