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03/03/2023

FRIDAY, WEEKLY ZOOM PRAYER MEETINGS

9.30am lasting about half an hour

We're trying out a variety of liturgies, alternating between Morning Prayer from the Scottish Episcopal Church, Northumbria Community (Celtic Daily Prayer) and Iona Community. We are always happy to welcome anyone who would like to join us. New ideas for other formats of prayer we can use would also be great.

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Topic: Holy Trinity Morning Prayer
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01/03/2023

CONCERT AT MELROSE PARISH CHURCH

In our concert at Melrose Parish Church (Saturday 18th March 6pm) we, in the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union, are continuing our celebration of the seasons this year with winter music including Joseph Haydn’s depiction of winter, the fourth part of his oratorio The Seasons. We will also be singing Haydn’s Insanae et Vanae Curae as well as:
the second performance of water psalms by Thomas LaVoy, commissioned in 2021 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the opening of Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh for worship
A New Song by Sir James MacMillan
Now sleeps the crimson petal by Paul Mealor
Tickets - £15/£12 (£5 students) from Ticketsource or via our website (ercu.org.uk):

ERCU March Concert - Melrose at Melrose Parish Church
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27/02/2023

EARTHQUAKE HELP AND WORLD DAY OF PRAYER

EARTHQUAKE HELP
All of us will be aware of the tragedy following the earthquake in Syria and Turkey. I am sure we are all praying for those victims and their familes and friends. The most effective way to contribute to the help which is so desperately needed appears to be via the Disasters Emergency Committee, which is a joint venture on behalf of the fifteen larger UK Charities including Christian Aid, Cafod, Red Cross, Oxfam and others, to combine resources.

You can donate to the earthquake fund here:
https://donation.dec.org.uk/turkey-syria-earthquake-appeal

You can find out more about the Disasters Emergency Committee here: https://www.dec.org.uk/who-we-are

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
After the disruptions of covid, our traditional ecumenical celebration of this service this will be at 2.30pm on Friday 3rd March this year at St. Cuthbert’s on High Cross Avenue. St Cuthbert’s is happy to relight the WDP candle, passed on to them from The Parish Church at the end of the 2020 service, and congregations from all our Melrose churches are invited to celebrate the service.

It's the Christian women of Taiwan who've written this year's service with the theme 'I have heard about your faith' (Ephesians).

The World Day of Prayer Service booklet is available to read or download via this link
http://www.wdpscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/A4-Order-of-Service.pdf

27/02/2023

COFFEE MORNINGS AT LINDEAN VILLAGE HALL

These are still on Wednesdays 10.30 to 12. 30. As always all donations go to supporting two projects in Malawi..... the AMAO orphanage and 'teen club' supporting young people who are HIV positive. All will be welcome.

27/02/2023

HOLY TRINITY WEDNESDAY MONTHLY EUCHARIST, LENT AND HOLY WEEK

MONTHLY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON EUCHARIST
Our monthly Wednesday afternoon Eucharist will be held this week in the Trinity Centre at 2.30pm. The service will be followed by refreshments and an opportunity to have a chat.

LENT AND HOLY WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY MELROSE
For our Lent course this year, we will be exploring our central act of worship – the Eucharist. Over the five weeks in Lent, we will take a trip from the earliest biblical sources of the Eucharist, to our own modern liturgies, exploring the changes and the historical contexts in which these changes were made.

The course will be delivered by a weekly video on the YouTube Channel and discussions will follow. The first video is there now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8LqkJlqBxM.

So that the online community may be involved, we will have two opportunities for taking part in our discussions on these videos – one will be in the Trinity Centre, after the usual Wednesday morning Eucharists, and the other a Zoom meeting online on Wednesday evenings at 7pm. We sincerely hope that you will be able to be a part of one of these groups, and that you will enjoy the videos.

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Topic: LENT COURSE
Time: Mar 1, 2023 07:00 PM London
Every week on Wed, 5 occurrence(s)
Mar 1, 2023 07:00 PM
Mar 8, 2023 07:00 PM
Mar 15, 2023 07:00 PM
Mar 22, 2023 07:00 PM
Mar 29, 2023 07:00 PM
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27/02/2023

ANNE'S PHOTOS AND THOUGHTS

27/02/2023

MUSIC AND POEM OF THE WEEK

MUSIC OF THE WEEK
Miserere by Gregorio Allegri sung by Voces8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCSm3PlR93k

POEM OF THE WEEK
(From) Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot
This is the time of tension between dying and birth
The place of solitude where three dreams cross
Between blue rocks
But when the voices shaken from the yew-tree drift away
Let the other yew be shaken and reply.

Blessèd sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit
of the garden,
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still
Even among these rocks,
Our peace in His will
And even among these rocks
Sister, mother
And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,
Suffer me not to be separated

And let my cry come unto Thee.

Грегорио Аллегри (1582 - 1652), «Miserere», Вокальный ансамбль VOCES8 (Великобритания), #АллегриМизерере

25/02/2023

PRAYER RESOURCES ON TELEVISION AND RADIO THIS WEEK AND ONLINE RESOURCES

New Every Sunday is at 7.30am BBC Radio Scotland.
Act of Worship with Reverend Janice Andrews of Musselburgh Congregational Church.

Songs of Praise is on Sunday at 1.15pm on BBC1.
St David’s Pilgrimages
With St David’s Day approaching, Katherine Jenkins meets pilgrims in Pembrokeshire walking the ancient trail to St David’s Cathedral.

Sunday Worship is on BBC Radio 4 at 8.10am.
St David 900 celebrations
It’s 900 years since St David was recognised as the patron saint of Wales by Pope Callixtus II. Sunday Worship is presented from Jerusalem by the Dean of St David's, Sarah Rowland-Jones, featuring reflections from contemporary Welsh pilgrims in Jerusalem, Rome and Brittany.


ONLINE RESOURCES
The web page for the Scottish Episcopal Church broadcasts is located at www.scotland.anglican.org/broadcast-sunday-worship .

The diocesan magazine The Communicant is produced fortnightly and can be downloaded if you scroll down this page https://edinburgh.anglican.org/publications/the-communicant/

The Church of England website has lots of resources for daily prayer. https://www.churchofengland.org/resources/prayer-nation

RSCM is putting up words and music of a new hymn to sing along to each day. Have a look here and scroll down on the right for the latest one. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn-vhbQASCJhW_Gz8Fww32Nmy_XuCQmNl

Choral Evensong online - Available whenever you want it. https://www.choralevensong.org/uk/where-and-when-are-evensongs-streamed-online-around-britain-and-ireland.php

5 February The Rev Martyn Trembath, Rector of Holy Trinity, Ayr, leads a Celebration of the Eucharist. The preacher is Gordon McCulloch. The order of service follows the 1982 Scottish Liturgy which can be downloaded here: https://www.scotland.anglican.org/who-we-are/publications/liturgies/scottish-l...

25/02/2023

HOLY TRINITY MELROSE CALENDAR FOR W/C 26.02.23

Sunday 26th, 11am
Choral Eucharist, Holy Trinity and Livestreamed
Sunday 26th, After service
Eco-Cong meeting, Joan's Room, Trinity Centre

Monday 27th, 2pm
Monday Club, Trinity Centre

Wednesday 1st March, 11am
Eucharist Service, Trinity Centre
Wednesday 1st March, After service (11.45ish)
Discussion on First Lent talk, Trinity Centre
Wednesday 1st March, 2.30 pm
Eucharist Service with coffee and chat afterwards
Wednesday 1st March, 7.00pm
Zoom Discussion on First Lent talk

Friday 3rd, 9.30am
Prayer Meeting, Zoom
Friday 3rd, 2.30 pm
World Day of Prayer, St. Cuthbert’s, High Cross Avenue, Melrose

Sunday 5th, 11am
Plainsong Eucharist, Holy Trinity and Livestreamed

25/02/2023

THE COMMUNICANT - with suggestions for Lent

The latest issue of the diocesan newsletter is available to download at https://edinburgh.anglican.org/publications/the-communicant/ Lots in it this month including:

*Agenda for the Diocesan Synod

*An assortment of Lenten reading chosen by Fr. Paul Burrows

*”Teach us to pray” – A close reading of The Lord’s Prayer (Lenten series details.

*Scottish Faith in Action for Refugees – ecumenical event (Mar. 25th)

The Communicant is a newsletter with news and notices for the Diocese of Edinburgh, which is published by the Diocesan

25/02/2023

CLIMATE CHANGE AND BLISTER PACKS

Let’s talk about climate change – Feb 2023 - “Put your money where your heart is”
LET'S TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE - FEB 2023 - "PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR HEART IS"
The EcoCongregation topic for this month asks us to think about the wider impacts of our day-to-day purchases, food, clothing, household items and so on. We meet after the morning service on the last Sunday of the month in Joan’s Room in the Trinity Centre with our coffees; join us this Sunday, 26th February.


A GLIMMER OF LIGHT RE BLISTER PACKS
“We are working with the other UK administrations to introduce extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging. Packaging EPR will obligate producers to fund efficient and effective local authority collection services for household packaging waste, including blister packs. This is less straightforward for blister packs, which are not easy to recycle due to strict regulatory requirements set by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.” (This is a much-condensed reply to HTM's Eco-Cong Rep's enquiry of his MP about blister packs.)

25/02/2023

BISHOP'S LENT APPEAL 2023

In the Scottish Episcopal Church we believe it is a priority to provide high-quality training to form the next generation of church leaders. We recognize how important it is to resource our Scottish Episcopal Institute and we are proud of its success. At the Lambeth Conference last year, I discovered that this is a priority shared right across the Anglican Communion, but many Provinces struggle to find a consistent funding stream for their Seminaries and Theological Colleges.

My appeal this Lent is in support of St Nicholas’ Seminary in Cape Coast, Ghana. Cape Coast is our partner diocese and I had the great joy of visiting the Seminary when I attended Bishop Victor’s enthronement 10 years ago. The Dean of the Seminary, Joseph Bain-Doodu, was in the UK last year so I learned first-hand of his struggle to provide excellent training with limited and erratic funding sources. This water filtration project seems to me to be a wonderful example of self-help. I commend it to you and ask for your generous support. I know that the cost-of-living crisis is hitting many of us hard just now, but I hope, nevertheless, that by pooling our generosity we may help to sustain the life of a church, far away in geographical terms, but close to us within the life of Christ.

As Joseph explains, a comparatively small amount of money (for us) can make a big difference for the ongoing life of the church in West Africa.
+John

HOW TO DONATE: All the details for online donations will be posted on this page on our website: https://edinburgh.anglican.org/2023/02/bishops-lent-appeal-2023/
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In the Scottish Episcopal Church we believe it is a priority to provide high-quality training to form the next generation