‘Good Friday’
Good morning… on Good Friday. This is the day when most Christian churches around the world remember the death of Jesus. (Orthodox churches will commemorate this next week – their Easter (or Pascha) is Sunday 19…
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‘Maundy Thursday’
Good morning, Today is Maundy Thursday, the day in Holy Week which has traditionally been set aside for remembering the Last Supper when Jesus shared a meal with his disciples. Most of the gospels see this as a…
‘Passover’
Good morning, Passover/Pesach begins tomorrow, and so today’s contribution comes from Bill Shackman, one of our lay Jewish chaplains. Why is this night different from all other nights? This question is asked by the…
‘Life and work’
Good morning, In today’s Companionship email, I thought we could reflect on work. For many people work has been profoundly altered over the past few weeks. Students are attending classes over their screens, and…
‘Musical magic’
Greetings, Today’s Companionship focusses on a wonderful piece of music which members of St Salvator’s Chapel Choir sang during this morning’s service. Guided by the Director of Chapel Music, Claire Innes-Hopkins,…
‘Poems from a friend’
Good morning, To aid us in our companionship, two poems from a friend of mine, Sharon Black, poet, publisher of poetry in the pindrop press, organiser of creative writing retreats in the south of France at Gardoussel…
‘Giving thanks’
Greetings, Let me begin by thanking people who sent birthday messages to me yesterday, emails and texts, music and video-clips, pictures of cats, trees and flowers, their own favourite Alan Bennett moments and news of…
‘Birthdays locked-down with Alan Bennett’
Good morning, Today is my 50th birthday. I was born on 2 April 1970 in Glasgow, the youngest of three children. This is surely one of the oddest birthdays I have spent. I was in Glasgow when I turned 10, in Aberdeen…
‘Foolhardy failure’
Good morning, Our meditation today comes from Jared Michelson, Honorary Cornerstone Chaplain. In it he reflects on the “foolhardy failure” of continuing in preaching “as if nothing had happened.” Well, today is a day…
‘St Benedict’s Rule’
Good afternoon, This evening a group for University staff called Turning Pages will meet – I was going to say remotely but that has all sorts of poor resonances for me. We may be in different places but I hope we are…