Hail Bright Cecilia on this her feast day. Thank God for musicians everywhere. Alleluia. Amen.
14 responses to “Abishag the Shunamite”
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Mary of Bethany? According to my mother I was the useless lazy one of the family. Guess what my middle name is?
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David and Abishag by Pedro Americo in 1879 Rio de Janeiro Museum of fine arts.I have a photo.
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I have just read a facinating book by Mark Davidson called “Becoming the Beloved” which places Abishag as the bride in the Song of Songs and as a wife of Solomon.
Eye opening, fantastic end time revelation. A must read!
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Two literary questions
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…
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Sermon for BBC Radio 4 – 1 July 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…
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Turn your radio on
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…
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Picking up comments
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…
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