Advent 8 – 8 December 2021
Good morning, Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, when Catholics acknowledge their belief that Mary was conceived without sin. While some other Christians don’t follow that particular conviction about…
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Advent 7 – 7 December 2021
Good morning, We stay in the Advent realm of winter weather and the possibility of hope. Behind today’s window is a poem by John Burnside, Professor in our School of English. But to appreciate the poem, which is…
Advent 6 – 6 December 2021
Happy St Nicholas’ Day! If you put boots out last night, I hope they were filled with lovely things by this morning. For the second year there is no St Nicholas’ Day service in St Leonard’s Chapel for St Leonards…
Advent 5 – 5 December 2021
Good morning, Behind today’s window are two images from Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Barns-Graham was born in St Andrews, and trained at Edinburgh College of Art, then joined a group of modernist artists at St Ives in…
Advent 4 – 4 December 2021
Good morning, Advent is a season with roots in prophecy. Sunday by Sunday there are readings from the Hebrew Bible, called the Old Testament by Christians, for example from Micah, Zephaniah, Jeremiah and Isaiah. …
Advent 3 – 3 December 2021
Good morning, Behind today’s window, a meditation on two bays in winter. The Madrigal Group’s Christmas Concert, called In Dulci Jubilo, will take place this evening at St Salvator’s Chapel at 7.30 pm. Details are…
Advent 2 – 2 December 2021
Good morning, and welcome to the second window in our St Andrews-themed advent calendar. This evening at 8.45 pm, the Chaplaincy holds our annual Service of Nine Lessons and Carols in the candlelit St Leonard’s…
Advent 1 – 1 December 2021
Good morning, It is the first of December, the first day of our advent calendar. Our theme this year is St Andrews – discovering Advent and Christmas themes with images, writing, music and more from this place. After…
St Andrew’s Day 2021
Happy St Andrew’s Day! Our Advent Calendar proper will start tomorrow, on the first of December, but I thought we could begin with a taster today. Each day until Christmas I will send out an Advent Calendar message…
On this eve of Advent
Good morning, I hope you have made it safely through Storm Arwen. I was returning yesterday evening from a Christmas High Table dinner at University Hall and found the way blocked on Kennedy Gardens because of a…