Advent 17 – 17 December 2021
Good morning, We turn today to one of the most significant stories in the infancy narratives of Jesus – the adoration of the Magi. These were the astrologers, or wise men, from the East who observed a star rising,…
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Advent 16 – 16 December 2021
Good morning, A final window today on the shepherds and angels. Here is an angel in St Salvator’s Chapel, playing bagpipes, looking down from the night-sky, perhaps a particularly Scottish member of the heavenly host…
Advent 15 – 15 December 2021
Good morning, We encountered some sheep in yesterday’s Calendar, and heard of the shepherds looking after them in MacMillan’s music. Today we turn to the angel who spoke to them, bringing news of great joy of the…
Advent 14 – 14 December 2021
Good morning, Behind today’s window we find some sheep. The nativity story describes shepherds looking after their flock in the fields by Bethlehem. St Andrews too is surrounded by fields in which sheep spend their…
Advent 13 – 13 December 2021
Happy St Lucy’s Day… Or Sankta Lucia’s Day, the start of Christmas celebrations for many people in Sweden, Norway and Finland. The observance commemorates Lucia of Syracuse, an early-4th-century virgin martyred during…
Advent 12 – 12 December 2021
Greetings on this the third Sunday of Advent, At 11 am this morning, our final Sunday chapel service of the Martinmas Semester will take place, live in St Salvator’s Chapel, and also livestreamed here:…
Advent 11 – 11 December 2021
Good morning, Behind today’s window is an image from the University’s Special Collections, from our thousands of books, manuscripts, photographs and more. The first is from an illustrated Ethiopian psalter probably…
Cancelled University Carol Service
Good evening, Some 21 months since the first Companionship email, I feel tonight as if we are not far from where we started. I am writing with deeply disappointing news. The Principal has written to say that she has…
Advent 10 – 10 December
Good morning, Further meditations today on the Annunciation. First a poem set in St Andrews by Douglas Dunn, Emeritus Professor in our School of English. This is part of his “Body Echoes” A St Andrews Garden Against…
Advent 9 – 9 December 2021
Good morning, We turn in our St Andrews-themed Advent Calendar to the Annunciation, the account in Luke’s Gospel of the visit of the angel Gabriel to Mary with the news that she would be the mother of the Messiah,…