15 December 2024
Good morning, This is the Third Sunday of Advent, and the final morning service at St Salvator’s Chapel in 2024. It’s a service of readings and music – there will be five poems drawn from the newly-published second…
Good morning, This is the Third Sunday of Advent, and the final morning service at St Salvator’s Chapel in 2024. It’s a service of readings and music – there will be five poems drawn from the newly-published second…
Greetings, This evening is the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at St Leonard’s Chapel, beginning at 8 pm. This beautiful chapel near the Cathedral, accessed from South Street or the Pends, will be candlelit, as we…
Happy St Lucy’s Day! St Lucy, or Santa Lucia, was martyred in Sicily in the late third Century for refusing to offer a sacrifice to the Roman Emperor. Her feast-day is of particular significance in Scandinavian and…
Feathers Part 12 The story so far: Maryam and Joe have decided to move in together to prepare for the birth of Maryam’s child, but the cottage is not yet ready. Maryam’s parents expected she would get a flight home as…
Good morning, I hope you are enjoying Feathers, in which I’m dovetailing a story I’ve known since I first donned a dressing gown for a nativity play, with my current studies in Creative Writing. If you’d like to know…
Welcome… …to Day 10 of the Advent Calendar. Feathers Part 10 The story so far: Joe, walking at night to clear his head, is spoken to by a golfer in the video in the Auchterlonie’s shop-window. Joe stared at the…
Good morning, This evening, it’s the turn of alumni to gather for a Carol Service. This will be in St Salvator’s Chapel at 7 pm. The Renaissance Singers will offer choral interludes, and the Assistant Chaplain Revd…
Greetings, It’s the second Sunday of Advent – a second Advent Candle will be lit in this morning’s service at St Salvator’s Chapel beginning at 11 am. Fresh from a beautiful University Carol Service last night, St…
Good morning, It’s the day of the University Carol Service. It could be windy this evening, so I recommend wrapping up warm. Doors open at Holy Trinity Church, South Street, at 6.45 pm and the service will begin at…
All across Europe, especially the German-speaking world and the Low Countries, children have woken up today to see if St Nicholas has put goodies into the boots they left outside their door. For many years I conducted…