30 April Recorded Service
Good Morning, A quick message about the livestream of the service at St Salvator’s Chapel on Sunday past, 30 April. If you were watching it, you will have found it stopped after about 15 minutes or so. We’re really…
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International Woman’s Day
Good morning, It’s International Woman’s Day. And it falls squarely in Lent. Here are words from Sam Wells from Power and Passion, which offer a reflection on women in the days before Jesus’ death, and at the…
St Monan’s Day – 1 March 2023
Good morning… …on St Monan’s Day. It is believed that St Monan was a hermit monk who lived near where the Inverie burn (stream) meets the sea in the East Neuk of Fife, where there is now a village which bears his…
Companionship – 24 February 2023
Good afternoon, Today is the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by the armed forces of Russia as commanded by Vladimir Putin. In St Andrews, the Chaplaincy has supported Ukrainian and Russian students,…
Ash Wednesday
Good morning, Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. From today until Easter, Christians have traditionally fasted, forgoing rich foods such as meat, dairy and eggs. As a consequence, the day before Ash…
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…