Candlemas 2025
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1w ago
A sermon preached at St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth on 2nd February 2025. + ‘The Lord you seek will suddenly come to his Temple’ (Malachi 3.1). This is a really rich feast and it is very human. The Presentation of Jesus. The words and symbols of this feast teach us a lot about Jesus and ourselves ..read more
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Theology of Creation 4 – Creation perfected in praise
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by amalarius
2M ago
As children of your redeeming purpose we offer you our praise, with angels and archangels and the whole company of heaven, singing the hymn of your unending glory: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. (1982 Scottish Liturgy Eucharistic Prayer 1) ‘We offer you our ..read more
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Theology of Creation 3 – New Creation in the Spirit
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by amalarius
2M ago
Through your Holy Spirit you call us to new birth in a creation restored by love… Help us, who are baptised into the fellowship of Christ’s Body to live and work to your praise and glory; may we grow together in unity and love until at last, in your new creation, we enter into our ..read more
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Theology of Creation 2 – Creation through the Word
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by amalarius
2M ago
‘In Christ your Son our life and yours are brought together in a wonderful exchange. He made his home among us that we might for ever dwell in you… He is the Word existing beyond time, both source and final purpose, bringing to wholeness all that is made’. 1982 Scottish Liturgy Eucharistic Prayer 1 The ..read more
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Theology of Creation 1 – The Mountain behind the Mountain
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by amalarius
2M ago
This is the first of four lectures on the theology of creation given at the invitation of the Scottish Episcopal Institute and released on YouTube in Advent 2024. They are available here and here. They are being used by individuals and discussions groups to go deeper into the Christian doctrine of Creation. They present the ..read more
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Sung Prefaces for the 1982 Scottish Liturgy
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by amalarius
1y ago
We have a fine, new, updated edition of the 1982 Scottish Liturgy but something is missing… Following a tradition that goes back to the early Church, it is common in Anglican worship to sing the dialogue and preface at the beginning of the Eucharistic Prayer, the part which leads into the Sanctus. The commonly used tones for this are ancient. The dialogue shows that priest and people together offer the prayer: ‘the Lord be with you- and also with you – lift up your hearts – we lift them to the Lord – Let us give thanks to the Lord our God – It is right to give our thanks and praise’. The prefa ..read more
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Why we pray to the Saints, by MEM Donaldson
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by amalarius
1y ago
The following extract is from The Islesmen of Bride (1922), a semi-autobiographical novel about an unnamed island in the Hebrides by the remarkable Episcopalian, pioneer photographer, and traveller in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson (1876-1958). She recorded a vanishing way of life in lively books infused by a romantic Celticism, a Jacobite Episcopalianism and a passion for the people of the Highlands and Islands. She does not hide her prejudices, particularly against Anglo-Saxons (the English) and Calvinist Presbyterianism. MEM Donaldson travelled with her com ..read more
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A Trip to Ukraine
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by amalarius
1y ago
I have recently returned from a six-day road trip to Ukraine, delivering SUVs to the Ukrainian Army in a convoy with the excellent Scottish charity Jeeps for Peace (J4P). It feels like a month of experience crammed into a few days, but one meeting remains in my mind. In the South of the country we handed the jeeps over to the army and had a dinner with some of the troops who were to drive the vehicles to the front the next day. They looked tired, lean and tanned. With them was their chaplain, who also had dirt engrained in his hands from the trenches. He had one of those smiles where you don ..read more
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Saint Balthere (Baldred of the Bass) 4 : Saints of the Forth
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by amalarius
1y ago
The previous two posts have explored the original Balthere and his world. Now we will look at the veneration of Balthere, now called Baldred, as it was in the early sixteenth century. We can do this because of the work of Bishop William Elphinstone of Aberdeen (1431-1514) who complied the Aberdeen Breviary, published in 1510, which includes six lessons for his feast. A translation of the six readings is given below, with thanks to Alan Macquarrie. We know that Elphinstone’s team collected material from all over Scotland and so we can presume an East Lothian origin for this material, probably f ..read more
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Saint Balthere (Baldred of the Bass) 3 : Saints of the Forth
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by amalarius
1y ago
Balthere is a saint of the sea and the coastlands of East Lothian and this post will concentrate on the saint’s places, beginning with the most dramatic. In Alcuin’s poem the Bass Rock, in addition to representing the rock from the gospels, is understood as a ‘desert’ in the context of the Christian ascetic tradition as received in the insular churches (the churches of Britain and Ireland). In Adamnán’s ‘Life of Columba’ we meet the monks Báeán and Cormac who sail off in search of a ‘desert in the ocean’ (‘in oceano disertum’, i.20, 25b) or a ‘hermitage in the ocean’ (‘heremum in oceano’, 1.6 ..read more
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