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Scottish Episcopal Kalendar 2026

31/12/2024

For years now, I’ve produced a Kalendar for the Scottish Episcopal Church with all the bible readings set out for the year.

This year’s Kalendar is available online so that anyone can download it and print it out for themselves.
It is available right here: Scottish Kalendar 2026

Anyone who would like to make a donation because they enjoy the Kalendar so much and want to encourage me to keep doing it is welcome to do so via paypal. I used to offer printed copies at £5 per copy.

The summary of the Bishops’ Instruction on Fasting and Abstinence is available as a single pdf here: Bishops’ Instructions on Fasting

9 responses to “New statement on Civil Partnerships from the Scottish College of Bishops”

Beth Routledge

29/11/2013

No occasion at which the Cope of Glory — which has attended blessings in the very furthest flung parts of Diocese — has been deployed can ever be thought truly informal.

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Stephen Peters

29/11/2013

I think I’d like to become a Scottish Episcopalian in exile. (And after all, France and Scotland do have a long historic connection….)

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PamB

29/11/2013

I have long maintained that we should start by annexing the Diocese of Carlisle.

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Kelvin

29/11/2013

One of the things that surprises me a little is that I’m unaware of people from England registering a Civil Partnership and then popping up here for a blessing. Straight people regularly come to Scotland to get hitched.

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1. Anne Jones
  
  29/11/2013
  
  Perhaps they don’t know that it’s a possibility.
  
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Kelvin

29/11/2013

Parts of this diocese are further south than the cathedrals in Carlisle, Newcastle and I think, even Durham.

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Zebadee

30/11/2013

Could there not be a new border say from the Humber to the Mersey? Did not the old Kingdom of Strathclyde stretch down to Preston on the west side of Englandshire?

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1. Beth Routledge
  
  30/11/2013
  
  I’m all for extending the border down to about Cornwall. No need to do things by half measures.
  
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Stephen C

01/12/2013

I reckon this is an advance…but it is not straightforward!

I long for the day when we will affirm that there will be no difference between the way we treat gay and straight people
And that Bishops might feel free to go to what ever functions they like!
I am 61, and I have decided “Bugger it!” (I am an Australian after all) I am going to do what I think is right. There must be some privileges in getting old. If the Bishop (of Adelaide) wants to take me to the High Court and contest my tenure for contesting his discriminatory and arbitrator rules then so be it, let him do so!

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