• Hail Bright Cecilia – patron of musicians

  22/11/2013

  

  Hail Bright Cecilia on this her feast day. Thank God for musicians everywhere. Alleluia. Amen.

  Cecilia, musicans everywhere

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• Two literary questions

  02/07/2007

  As my mind clears from the haze of this weekend, which ended with a blast of an evensong and a choir party, there are two literary questions that I need answers to. Both of these arose at the party. Firstly, I was asked about the second verse of the last hymn we sang on the…

• Sermon for BBC Radio 4 – 1 July 2007

  01/07/2007

  Not long ago, I took a walk with a friend along the riverside path from close to where we’re worshipping now, down the river Kelvin. We walked, we talked and suddenly, he said, “Look, what’s that?” It was a flash of blue darting over the water. We stared intently for a few moments. The river…

• Turn your radio on

  30/06/2007

  Those of you who are in range of the BBC’s transmitters can hear a service from St Mary’s tomorrow. We are doing the 0810 Morning Worship slot on Radio 4. 38 glorious minutes of Sunday morning prime-time. Those of you furth of these shores can hear all of this on the BBC’s listen again page…

• Picking up comments

  30/06/2007

  Just to pick up a few comments from elsewhere that need to be answered. Jenny Berrie – of course I remember you. Many a happy knitting class in the chaplaincy in Stirling. Now, remember all I told you: knit one unto another, perl one unto another. Robin asked why we moved John the Baptist to…