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  • To London, to London

    Well, actually, I’m back now. I’ve still a bit of my post-Christmas break to enjoy before I properly get back to work on Thursday, but I’m back in Glasgow after three nights in London. Want to know what I was up to? Sure you do. Well London has tended to be a kind city to…

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  • Online Evening Prayer

    The details for this week’s Online Evening Prayer service, including downloadable pdf liturgy are available here. The service takes place on Saturday at 5pm.

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  • What is prayer for?

    I had been planning to write something about praying today, but John McLuckie got there first and said it better than I did – see his post >Sometimes I Just Sit. I find the hardest part of praying to be intercessory prayer and get bewildered by those for whom it appears to be the only…

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  • Things people have been looking for

    Here are a few things that people have been looking for in search engines that have caused them to find this blog: sermon, abishag – presumably found this post acknowledging one of my favourite biblical characters. church to rent, Aberdeen – not something I think I can help with clergy tartan – series of posts…

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  • On comparing St Mary’s to Johnny Loulou’s

    I rather foolishly took a traipse into town the other day. Even given that the weather was as dreich as it can get in Glasgow in January, it was still a miserable expedition. I had not bargained on seeing as many shops closed on Sauchiehall Street as there were. I’ve been busy over the last…

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  • Sermon preached on 8 January 2012

    here’s the sermon I preached at Fr Chucks Iwuagwu’s first mass. I’m really very proud of him. Can you tell? UPDATE – Here is the text. Now then. Chukwuemeka Christian-Iwuagwu! Do I have your attention?

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  • Online Evening Prayer

    I’ll be leading Evening Prayer this evening at 5 pm in a Google Hangout. If you want to join in you need to have a Google+ account (which is free) and a webcam. Those who wear headphones offer a blessing to all the others. Here’s the liturgy and the instructions. EP Incarnation Saturday 7 January…

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  • We have a new priest!

    Great rejoicing at St Mary’s last night. The Rev Chucks Iwuagwu was made a priest by Bishop Gregor in a service of great happiness. Priestings are always emotional services. It is always a long journey to get to that moment and that in itself is but a turning point or milestone in a lifetime’s pilgrimage…

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  • Blue Veils and Golden Sand

    Somehow Epiphany seems the perfect time to revisit Delia Derbyshire’s Blue Veils and Golden Sand. Amazing, wonderful and mysterious.

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