Advent: 1 December 2022
Welcome to the second day of the A to Z Advent Calendar, drawing on quotations from my newly digitised collection – and thank you for initial responses to yesterday’s window. B is for… the Baptist. During Advent we…
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November graduations
Good evening, Today was the first day of our November graduations. The sun shone over a hint of frost in the town as the day began with a service in St Salvator’s Chapel. The chapel was packed – how lovely it was to…
Advent: 30 November 2022
Welcome to this year’s Advent Calendar. Every day from now until Christmas Day, an email will bring you a new window in this Advent Calendar, opening on to words, music, art and more to help us reflect on the Christmas…
The Last Woman Born reading
Greetings, A quick reminder of the visit of Sharon Black to St Andrews on Wednesday to read from her new volume of poetry, The Last Woman Born on the Island, which I have read with great pleasure. Sharon and I grew up…
Services to mark the death of Her Majesty the Queen
Good morning, I am writing with further details of forthcoming services and events in St Salvator’s Chapel to mark the death of Her Majesty the Queen. Watching the Accession Council and Proclamation this morning, I…
Dates for your diary
Greetings, How’s the heat where you are? It’s been hot and dry here most of the time, with genuine pool parties at Castle Sands, and, more seriously, a fire in a field near the Fairmont Hotel on Thursday. It all…
Step Count Challenge
Good evening, It’s early July, and time to look back on eight weeks of the Step Count Challenge. Your Chaplaincy team, the St Andrews Peregrinos, comprising students, chaplains and a Chaplaincy friend (and her dog)…
Graduation Thanksgiving Services
Good morning, It is truly wonderful to be anticipating Graduations in the University which begin on Monday. Both the summer graduations of 2020 and 2021 were postponed, and my own contribution was recording the Latin…
Garden for Reflection
Good evening, The Chaplaincy is working with colleagues from Estates and others on a Garden for Reflection. In words largely drafted by Barbara Davey, our honorary Quaker Chaplain, the garden’s inspiration is born from…
Holy Week Services
Good morning, We have entered Holy Week, so named because it is the time Christians commemorate God’s deepest acts of self-giving: Jesus being anointed with perfume, denouncing the money-makers in the Temple, washing…