Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, food on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
BUY YOUR ULTRA-DELICIOUS CHRISTMAS
PUDDING FROM L’ARCHE THIS YEAR
All puddings cost £5. Cash or cheques only (Cheques
payable to L’Arche ODF). £2 from each sale goes to
L’Arche Zimbabwe
All puddings weigh one pound and come in three flavours:
Traditional Christmas plum pudding, Chocolate Sponge and Ginger Sponge.
They are made by the Ultimate Plum Pudding Company – winner of a [...]
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Posted in Church, tagged Events, St Mark's on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Please keep an eye on the website for up to date news of events at St Mark’s http://www.stmarksportobello.org
Due to ill health, the Alternative Service will be postponed from this Sunday to next - the 9th at 7pm.
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas gifts, Sick on November 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
If blogs had sound then you would be amazed at my Barry White impersonation. I’ve got some dreaded virus which clergy can really do without at this time of year. So not much blogging and not much work being done this week.
Read on Clarissa’s blog about her Christmas wish list. You can find my booky [...]
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Posted in Church, tagged Church, Fire on November 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
As part of our new Health and Safety Guidelines we now have new fire exit signs all over the place and lights to guide us in the dark. Yesterday we finally held our Fire Drill and had everyone out the church in 1 minute 10 seconds which wasn’t bad. Mind you I was bringing up [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Website on November 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
St Mark’s has finally got a new website. It is still under construction and needs a bit of tweaking. And I am wrestling a bit with the photos, but you can keep an eye on its development at
http://www.stmarksportobello.org
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Posted in Book, tagged Books on November 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have managed to get a bit more preparatory reading done this week. Here is what I have been dipping in to:
Liturgies for the Journey of Life by Dorothy McRae-McMahon. Inspiration on symbol and ritual in liturgy by a minister in the Uniting Church in Australia.
Crafts for Creative Worship by Jan Brind and Tessa Wilkinson. [...]
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Posted in Book, tagged Books on November 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I am trying to have a Reading Week this week. That’s a week where you don’t do any work except reading, as if you hadn’t guessed. It is not going terribly well. But I have got lots of other work done, which was really not the point.
However, I have finished our next Reading Group book [...]
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Posted in Church, tagged children, Church, Nativity Play on November 21, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Please note that we will not have a Family Service this Sunday. Instead the children will begin rehearsals for the Nativity Play. If you want a part, you’d better be there!
Talking of which, did you ever get to be in a Nativity Play? Were you a frustrated BVM? Did you mess up your lines?
I got [...]
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Posted in Church, tagged Hats on November 21, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I know of a certain Provost who wears his biretta only when it is snowing. I myself have never entered the mysteries of ecclesiastical headwear for fear of getting hat-hair. (Same reason I didn’t get a wee Lambretta for scooting round the parish.)
But look what I’ve found…
http://www.dieter-philippi.de/mydante_1479.html
Never have I seen so many hats. And the [...]
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Posted in Church, tagged AGM, Church, St Mark's on November 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I wonder if our little flocks realise what angst we clergy go through at AGM time.
First, there’s that whole remembering who to thank thing. If you forget someone you know you will never recover that relationship.
And AOB can strike terror in our hearts too. Some even insist is has to be done in writing the [...]
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