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New Priest for Episcopal Church on Lewis

New Priest for Episcopal Church on Lewis

The Revd Terry Taggart is to be the Scottish Episcopal priest for St Peter’s Stornoway and St Moluag’s Eoropaidh.  Terry, originally from Glasgow, was formerly a Detective Sergeant with Lincolnshire Police then a mediator with the Ombudsman Services whilst entering ordained ministry.  He is married to Samantha and they have two sons, one daughter and two Westie […]

1982 Liturgy

Scottish Liturgy 1982 PREPARATION Litirdi Albannach 1982DEASACHADH 1 Welcome Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 1 Fàilte Gràs agus sìth dhuibh o Dhia ar n-athair agus ar Tighearna Iosa Crìosd. Amen. 2 Peaceor at 16 We meet in Christ’s name. Let us share his peace. 2 Sìth Tha […]

New resource for Scottish Episcopal 1982 Gaelic Liturgy

A new page has been launched on the Scottish Episcopal Church Diocese of Argyll and The Isles website with text and sound recordings for the 1982 Gaelic Eucharistic liturgy. This resource will allow a learner to understand, practise and deliver this eucharistic service. The English text is shown in parallel with the Gaelic. David McEwan, […]

The wind and the waves

Well I’m sure I’m among many whose plans have ‘gang agley’ this week.  As I write this we are being battered by the wind and, in the outer isles, experiencing power cuts.  When you live on an island as I do, you have to be prepared to make contingency plans or just hunker down, philosophically […]

How to do Advent?

So many experiences come together at this season.  The  light decreases as we descend towards the year’s midwinter turning point.  The increasing frenzy of the retail season is hard to avoid as it seeks to draw us ever earlier into the whirl.   The church’s calendar invites us to prepare for the coming of God in […]

Litirdi Albannach 1982

Scottish Liturgy 1982 PREPARATION Litirdi Albannach 1982 DEASACHADH   1 WelcomeGrace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 1 Fàilte Gràs agus sìth dhuibh o Dhia ar n-athair agus ar Tighearna Iosa Crìosd. Amen. 2 Peace or at 16 We meet in Christ’s name. Let us share his peace. […]

Training Day Held at All Saints’ Inveraray

All Saints Inveraray was the venue for the autumn lay leadership day which this year was run by Bishop Kevin on the theory and practice of the eucharist and extended communion. It was good to see some new faces there as well as the ‘veterans’ of such occasions! Thanks to Fr Simon for offering All […]

Canon Hugh Lee Installed in Cathedral of the Isles, Cumbrae

Saturday 25th October 2014: Installation of Hugh Lee by Bishop Kevin as honorary canon of the Cathedral of the The Isles, Cumbrae. Hugh has served in the SEC for many years, latterly as the incumbent of Dunoon and Rothesay, retiring in 2006. He also served two periods in office as the diocesan synod clerk, retiring in […]

Busy weekend

It’s been a busy weekend on the diocesan front with a lay leadership event at All Saints Inveraray on Saturday, a pre-Christmas fair at Christ Church Lochgilphead and a ‘Reflection for Action’ session after the service at St John’s Cathedral in Oban.  No doubt other things were going on that I don’t happen to know […]

Heroes, sung and unsung

It’s interesting that the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Berlin wall coming down have almost coincided with Remembrance Day on this 100th anniversary year of World War One. About 18 months after the iron curtain crumbled, I visited Germany as the Scottish representative at a European Base Christian Communities gathering.  The meeting took place in […]