• Homily – Music Sunday Orchestral Megasong

    Here’s what I said to wrap up our West End Festival events on Sunday evening:

    As most of you will know, it is my habit to announce what we are doing at St Mary’s on the internet.

    Most people who come through the doors of this church these days for the first time have already encountered us online first.

    Our webpage and my blog attract people to this place who are seeking something. No doubt they also put off some others, and that’s OK too. Why waste people’s time if this is not what they are looking for.

    I was a little puzzled as to how to describe this service tonight.

    It is certainly choral evensong, but that didn’t seem to be enough. There is a touch of the festive about it, but even Festival Evensong does not seem to be a big enough description.

    I then looked to see how others were referring to it and found that someone who is singing tonight had referred to it as (more…)

3 responses to “Keeping the Feast”

  1. Mysterious stranger Avatar
    Mysterious stranger

    I am sure the music will be wonderful and give comfort and healing.

  2. Ruth Avatar

    In the Phillippine’s families will have spent the night camping out at their graveyards talking to the deceased. Not to be recommended in the chill of a Scottish November night.

  3. Stewart Avatar

    The service last night was very moving.

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