On Saturday 14 December 2019 a service of celebration will take place at St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth to mark 25 years since the first women were ordained to the priesthood in the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC).

After many years of debate, the SEC agreed at the meeting of its General Synod in 1994 to recognise the vocation of women to the priesthood. The first ordinations took place on 17 December 1994 when 42 women were ordained in Cathedrals across the country.

The service will be held at St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth at 2pm.  The Rt Rev Anne Dyer, Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney, will preside at the Eucharist and the Rev Canon Dr Anne Tomlinson, Principal of the Scottish Episcopal Institute, will preach the sermon.

The service is open to any who wish to attend. If you plan to attend, please RSVP by email to womenpriests@scotland.anglican.org so that the event organisers have an indication of likely numbers.

There is no onsite parking however there are several public car parks nearby.  The organisers have prepared a list of car parking facilities nearby which can be downloaded here.

For further information please click the link below.

MU E newsletter – December 2019 (2)

Bishop Ian came to St Mary’s on Sunday 17th November 2019. His first visit to the Linkage since his institution (almost a year ago) as Bishop of The Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.

Sunday was a linkage service, jointly with St Andrews, in order to confirm 7 members of our congregations in their Anglican faith. Indeed one of the candidates was christened at the service, prior to confirmation.

So a big thank you to Bishop Ian for coming to the linkage. It was a joy to meet him and have his views.

 

Please click the link below to open new resource for Scottish Interfaith Week:

EAT, SHARE, LOVE IN DIFFERENT FAITHS

 

Not long until Scottish Interfaith Week and we hope you are looking forward to it. We have created a new resource outlining the key principles of ‘Eat’, ‘Share’ and ‘Love’ in six major world religions. Please forgive us if your faith does not get a mention, it was a time-consuming project, and that’s all we had time for on this occasion!

We now have nearly 50 events listed on the website. Please keep checking back as we will keep uploading new events as they are sent to us next week.

http://scottishinterfaithweek.org/programme-2019

If you are planning an event and haven’t yet sent us the details we encourage you to do so as soon as possible so that more people get to know about it. You can submit your event through the link below, or email us at info@interfaithscotland.org with the details.

http://scottishinterfaithweek.org/submit-an-event

Looking forward to a wonderful Scottish Interfaith Week!

Frances Hume

Senior Development Officer

Interfaith Scotland

Flemington House

110 Flemington Street

Glasgow G21 4BF

 

0141 558 0778

 

www.interfaithscotland.org

For further information please click the link below:

SP Newsletter Nov 19

At St Catharine’s we celebrated All Saints Sunday with a Cafe Church. During the service we sang new hymns to well-known tunes accompanied by keyboard and guitars, matched descriptions to saints’ names, made haloes to remind us that we are all called to be saints, and ended our time of fellowship with bacon rolls. We all enjoyed the opportunity to try worshipping in a different style.

HOST UK arranges one day and weekend visits for International students all year round with three-night visits during the Festive season. Such hospitality is greatly sought after and valued by students far from home whose only alternative may be a lonely hall of residence.

Our “festive season” does not just mean Christmas but can also mean weekends in the run up to Christmas, and New Year. Your guest will be someone curious to experience British life with all its special traditions and culture…and keen to share those of their home country. Your hospitality will be a unique gift, a treasured memory and rewarding in so many ways.

Please consider opening your home and heart to an international student and remember that if the festive season is difficult for you, we do operate all year round,  so hosting can become one of your New Year Resolutions!

If you should like to know more, please go to our website www.hostuk.org or leave us a message on

http://visits.hostuk.org/Public/ApplyToBecomeAHost

Lay Readers from around the diocese enjoyed a time of fellowship over lunch at the Black Watch cafe, on Thursday 3rd October, 2019, followed by discussion with Bishop Ian about their roles in the diocese.