Advent: 3 December
Good morning, Behind today’s window are an image and haiku for Advent Sunday, the first day of Advent and the beginning of the Christian year. It is a day for anticipating of the coming of God’s kingdom, holy, good…
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Advent: 2 December
Good morning, This is the second day of the Advent Calendar, and also the day of the University Carol Service. 7.30 pm at Holy Trinity Church on South Street, with doors opening at 6.45 pm. Beautiful music from St…
Advent: 1 December 2023
Good morning, Welcome to the first message in this year’s Advent Calendar from the Chaplaincy. Each day until 25 December, there will be a daily email to the Chaplaincy mailing list from me exploring the Christmas…
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…
Oppenheimer and more..
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…