New academic year countdown…
Good morning, It is a warm sunny morning in St Andrews, distinctly summery. But our minds in the Chaplaincy are turning to the new academic year beginning next month. Higher results are out – congratulations to…
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Good afternoon, I’m writing the first Companionship email for a long time because for a number of reasons, I’ve been thinking about a subject rarely explored today – the threat of nuclear war. For one thing, I went to…
30 April Recorded Service
Good Morning, A quick message about the livestream of the service at St Salvator’s Chapel on Sunday past, 30 April. If you were watching it, you will have found it stopped after about 15 minutes or so. We’re really…
International Woman’s Day
Good morning, It’s International Woman’s Day. And it falls squarely in Lent. Here are words from Sam Wells from Power and Passion, which offer a reflection on women in the days before Jesus’ death, and at the…
Ash Wednesday
Good morning, Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. From today until Easter, Christians have traditionally fasted, forgoing rich foods such as meat, dairy and eggs. As a consequence, the day before Ash…
Advent: 25 December 2022
Merry Christmas! It’s Christmas Day and the final day of our Advent Calendar. We’ve reached the last letter of the alphabet. Z is for… Zzzzzzzzzz. It’s time for sleep! Now you may have found some of the calendar…
Advent: 24 December 2022
Greetings… …on Christmas Eve. It’s the penultimate day in our Advent Calendar, and so the second last letter in the English alphabet – Y. Y is for… Yule. Yule was a midwinter festival observed by Germanic and Norse…
Advent: 23 December 2022
Good morning, Behind our window today is the letter X. X is for… not very much really. X-rays of ancient wood some think come from the actual manger? Xylophone version of Joy to the World? But X is also for Xmas. …
Advent: 21 December 2022
Good morning… …on this, the shortest day of the year – in the northern hemisphere. Our honorary Pagan Chaplain has organised for the third year a candlelit labyrinth which all are invited to walk this evening, on the…
Advent: 20 December 2022
Greetings, In our Advent A to Z we open the window today for the letter U. U is for… the University of St Andrews. And what I’ve found is a rare copy of directions for a University of St Andrews Nativity. It seems…