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Listen again
For 7 days, the service that was broadcast from St Mary’s yesterday can be heard from the BBC’s webpages.
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Sermon for BBC Radio 4
In the name of God, Creator, Saviour and Spirit. The context for the conversation between Jesus and this Gentile woman whose name goes unrecorded, was a place quite different to our own. The two of them met in a place called Tyre – the same city in southern Lebanon which has featured so often in…
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L'Arche Event
The cathedral is open today and tomorrow for an art and craft sale which has been organised by folk associated with L’Arche. The pics on the walls are lovely and it is good to have the place open for people to drop in. Getting the building open for more hours per week is a part…
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Back to work
Back to work today after a fortnight’s holiday. Most of the mail was responses to a consultation document that I’ve published about one or two aspects of the cathedral’s life. I’ve put a copy on the blog too in another post. Responses are welcome from far afield as well as from within our own community.…
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Consultation Paper
The following paper has been published to the congregation. Comments welcome from outside the community as well as within. Dear Friends I spent some time this week reading a sermon that was preached by a former Provost of this church some years ago. It contained the following quote: I remember in my third week at…
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Blog Migration
I’ll be migrating this blog over the next day or so. I’m moving from postnuke to wordpress. Those who read via RSS may need to resubscribe. UPDATE – Wednesday 1930 The update is now complete. Whole site moved from one CMS to another. Like the redesign? You need to refresh the page a few times…
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Two weeks off
Someone has started a Wikipedia entry on me. I’m trying to follow the convention that you don’t edit the entry about yourself. Not easy. Do fill in the blanks.Two weeks off blogging is in order I think. Back soon. Comment moderation on until I get back.
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Cat Pic
LP asked for a cat pic on Sunday evening. Thus, madam appears on the photoblog: http://photoblog.thurible.net/?p=193I told you she was trouble. The subtext to the picture is that I’m about to take her, first to the Vet and then to Cat Barlinnie. She was not impressed by either. Not even when the assistant at the…
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Evensnog
Yesterday was the first day of choir term and it was great to have them back.Who would have guessed that I would get so much nourishment from Evensong? I certainly wouldn’t have done before coming here. No doubt it helps to be singing it with Scotland’s premier church choir but even during the summer when…
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