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…
Sunday 17 September – Livestream update
Good afternoon, Just a quick update and apology to those who were tuned in to the livestreaming of our Sunday Worship service last weekend, 17 September. Following a call for a replacement technician for this service…
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: 22 December 2022
Good morning, We have reached the letter W in our A to Z Advent Calendar. W is the questioning letter in English, for what, where, when, who, which, whom and why. Carols like a wh- question: Then why should we on…
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…