Notices

Christian Aid Week 2008 10th – 17th May

3M’s & Holy Corner Churches

Sale of Books, DVDs, Videos and Special Collectables.

Opens on Saturday 10^th May in MUC Hall and continues all the following week. Volunteers to sort and price books needed from Monday 28^th April. Volunteers for selling needed during the sale - 10^th – 17^th May. Able-bodied Volunteers also required to set up hall from Sunday 27^th April and to clear up after the sale. This year we hope to be joined by Polwarth and Marchmont St Giles Churches in addition to the usual MUC, MBC and Christ Church members. 

New Members for the Sacristy Team

Several members of the Sacristy Team have retired or moved away in the past year and we are now urgently seeking to replace them.  Helpers work in pairs and have a regular Sunday each month when their tasks are:-  to clear up, clean and out away the vessels used at the 10 am Sunday Service.  This takes about 30 minutes and follows a straightforward instruction sheet kept in the Vestry.  

When new people join we make sure they have an experienced person to work with who will guide them through the details.

Please phone me on 447 1140 if you are interested to join us.

Rosemary Procter

Sacristan

Love is what's left over

 “Love is like a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides.  And when it subsides you have to make a decision.  You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.  Because that is what love is. 

Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion... that is just being ‘in love’ which any fool can do.  Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.  It is both an art and a fortunate accident...

We had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.”

[From Capt.Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres]

FRITH ROBB

Morningside Riots

Does anyone remember - or remember hearing of - the Morningside Riots of June 1935?    Gail Sanderson, an Episcopalian from St John's Rothiemurchus, is doing an Hons.Theology Dissertation on sectarianism in Central Scotland in the 1920s and 30s and is interested in investigating the stance of the Episcopal Church in all this.  As part of her research, Gail would like to find out more about a riot whipped up by a Protestant extremist group, with 10,000 Morningsiders taking to the streets in June 1935 to express umbrage at the concept of Catholics being in their backyard.  Gail visited Christ Church in early February and, with the help of Robin Morris, looked through our Vestry Minutes from that period  but could find no mention of these riots.  So if you remember this event, or of hearing about it at the time or at a later stage, Gail would be very pleased to hear from you.  If you would prefer to talk about your memories face to face with Gail she will be happy to make a trip to Edinburgh to meet with you personally

Her contact details are:

Mrs Gail Sanderson

3 Meall Buidhe, Aviemore,

Invernes-shire,

PH22 1LA.

tel:  01479 812766

email: Prcgsanderson@aol.com

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