Posted in Church, tagged Church, Family, St Mark's on September 30, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday St Mark’s, and others, flew open their doors to the discerning public. I was on duty for the first two hours and we had 13 visitors who all took an interest in our story. Almost all of them said, “We’ve passed this church so often and wondered what it looked like inside.” It made [...]
Posted in Church, tagged Events, St Mark's on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Tomorrow is Doors Open Day in Edinburgh and we are one of many buildings open to the public. (From 10am to 4pm)
After Doors Open Day St Mark’s will be open for the week from 1-6 October from 10am to 2pm.
On display will be old Records and Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths. In the evenings [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Post on September 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Can anyone explain to me why some postal/delivery services will leave your parcel in the garage or use their initiative for hiding places and others won’t?
I love coming home to a wee card that says ‘your parcel is in the greenhouse/garage/wheelie bin/back door step/under the garden table/down the wishing well/behind the large green bushy thing [...]
Posted in Church, tagged , Church, CMD, Training on September 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have a thing about lifelong learning. Those who read this blog will probably know that I am indeed passionate about it. In a small way I play my part in co-ordinating the Continuing Ministerial Development in our diocese for clergy in their first three years of ministry. But training shouldn’t stop there.
So when our [...]
Posted in Church, tagged Music, Thanks on September 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes someone does something so kind that you are lost for words. (Not for long, in my case.) So thank you Pastoral Musician for reading my blog, noting that I could do with a Choral Evensnog bookie and for sending me one. You are an angel!
Now, has anyone got that sermon…?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged meetings on September 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sorry there hasn’t been much on the blogging front this week but I have been ensconced in stuffy rooms in end-to-end meetings regarding the mission and ministry of our wee church. Are you interested in all that? I suspect not.
Today I am going to a training course on Managing Teams which might be fun and [...]
Posted in Church, tagged Our Lady, Walsingham, Church, Shrine on September 24, 2007 | 21 Comments »
I see it is Our Lady of W’s memorial day today. It brings back mixed emotions. My first trip was with my home parish on an outing and I was asked to serve for Mass by my priest. The nuns in the Sacristy were nun too pleased about me being a women and all that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s funny. You don’t see someone for ages and then all of a sudden it become Raspberry Rabbit weekend. Not only was he spotted lurking yesterday at the Music Festival but this morning I put on the radio and he popped up again on New Every Morning. You might catch it again on Radio Scotland. [...]
Posted in Music on September 22, 2007 | No Comments »
What a great day! Three hours of Scottish, Celtic, Big Band, Ceilidh and Jazz music to suit all tastes. The community turned out in droves and we even ran out of seats at one point and had to direct some upstairs to the balcony. I think I even saw a Raspberry Rabbit and fiancee too.
The [...]
Posted in Events, Music on September 22, 2007 | No Comments »
If you have nothing to do this afternoon, you could pop along to our Music Festival from 2-5pm. All sorts of Scottish, folk and jazz music to tap yer feet to. Oh, and stalls too. Many stalls.
