Christ Church Morningside

Located within close distance of many universities in Edinburgh, including  Napier, Heriot-Watt, and the University of Edinburgh, Christ Church is host to a number of students who live or work in the area.  Often gathering for tea and coffee after church, in addition to the occasional meal, young adults are able together in faith to [...]

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Fifth Sunday Lecture  “Our Story in Context” (The Scottish Episcopal Church)

Dr Mark Elliott, Senior Lecturer in Church History at St Andrew’s University, will preach at the10am Sung Eucharist followed by Lecture and Discussion in the Church Centre at 11.30am. Coffee and tea from 11.15am

May 2010

CURRY NIGHT
Curry Night, on 22nd May @ 7pm in the Church Hall. A fundraising dinner to support the Edinburgh-Cape Cost Youth Link Team( Rebecca, Anderson, Paul and Hannah) travelling to volunteer at the 2010 Youth Camp being organised by the Anglican Diocese of Cape Cost, Ghana. The dinner is open for all. To sign up, [...]

As part of our engagement with wider society, four times a year we invite speakers to address a contemporary issue in the course of the               10 a.m. Sung Eucharist.  Afterwards we move on to the Church Centre for about 45 minutes, for an open discussion over coffee
Revd Dr Jolyon Mitchell,  Senior Lecturer in Communication, Theology [...]

Easter Day (4th April)

6.30am Dawn service on Blackford Hill followed by breakfast at Morningside United Church
8.00am          Holy Communion
10.00am       Festival Eucharist with Baptisms followed by festive refreshments in the church hall and Easter Egg Hunt for children
No evening service

John Stainer

Jesus and Power Lent 1. Susan Macdonald
Jesus and Power Lent 2. Elizabeth Koepping
Jesus and Power Lent 3. Anderson Jeremiah
Jesus and Power Lent 4. Anderson Jeremiah
Jesus and Power Lent 5. Susan Macdonald

CANCELLED
This event has been cancelled – sorry for the short notice.  We may attempt to reschedule it at some point.

The Recycling Roadshow
Sunday 28 March at 11:30 in the Christ Church Hall
A spokesperson for the council’s “Waste Aware” programme will talk us through recycling provision by commenting on the things people find difficult to understand. If [...]

Palm Sunday (28th March)
8.00am            Holy Communion
10.00am         Sung Eucharist with the Liturgy of the Palms and dramatic reading of the Passion Gospel according to Luke
6.30pm            Stainer’s Crucifixion

Monday of Holy Week at St Peter’s RC Church, Falcon Avenue
7.30pm            All churches in the Morningside area are welcome to [...]

Sundays in Lent sermon series at the 10am Sung Eucharist  “Jesus and Power”
Wednesday mornings : The Wednesday Morning Reflection Group, which meets weekly at 10.15am  in the Church Centre,  will become a Lent Group for from Ash Wednesday to Holy Week.     The group will be using the book Lent for Everyone: Luke by Tom [...]

8.00am        Holy Communion (Prayer Book)
10.00am     Sung Eucharist  (creche meet in the Church Centre, Young Church begins in Church): Sermon series on Jesus and Power.

11.45am to 1.15pm Fund Raising Soup & Bread Lunch for Bethany’s Winter Care Shelter in the Church Centre. Donations be used to buy food for a meal for homeless people, [...]

Fifth Sunday of Month 5-6 p.m.
Whenever there is a fifth Sunday in a month, we have Choral Evensong at 6:30 p.m., prefaced by a lecture in the Church Centre at 5 p.m. that is followed by questions from the floor and tea.  Those who wish can then stay on for the service, although there [...]

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13th DECEMBER 2009 @ 10:00am

Sung Eucharist for the Third Sunday in Advent

Guest Preacher:  Professor Hugh Goddard
(Director of the Prince Alwaleed  Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Edinburgh)

followed by Faith in Dialogue session on Christian Muslim relations [...]

Sunday 29th November 2009 at 5:00pm
Fifth Sunday Lecture (in the Church Centre)
“Theology from the Broken Middle”
By Revd. Dr. Anderson Jeremiah

Followed by Advent Procession
A Candlelit Service Of Music and Readings With the Choir
in church at 6:30pm

Incarnation: Then and Now
This Advent study group will explore the origins and development of the doctrine of Incarnation within the Church from various perspectives and also attempt to reflect on the relevance of it from the contemporary context. It will start on the 25th November at 7:30pm and continue every Wednesday for four weeks in [...]

In late October Susan Macdonald, Rector, along with her sister Moira Horton visited the Somme to unravel something of a story that has been part of their lives for as long as they can remember, and which Susan referred to in her sermon on Remembrance Sunday.

Download a copy of the sermon to read.

There will be an Act of Remembrance during the 10.00am Sung Eucharist on Sunday 7th November.    At the end of the service all are invited to place their poppy on the altar in the memorial chapel.  They are then placed in the wreath on the cross outside church, which remains in place until the [...]

Along with  hundreds of other knitting groups in the UK, the Christ Church group took part in the Macmillan Comfort Blanket Campaign.
Members of the group and others from Christ Church knitted enough squares for one and half blankets, so we are now knitting even faster to complete two blankets in the near future!    The squares [...]

We now have a schedule of forthcoming events for youth and young people – you can see them on the youth page in the families section of the website.

Dr Elizabeth Koepping, member of Christ Church and lecturer in World Christianity at New College, was ordained to the diaconate on Sunday 13th September.   Elizabeth is pictured here with Rt Revd Brian Smith, Bishop of Edinburgh, in St Mary’s Cathedral

Service of Blessing and Affirmation of the marriage of Anderson and Rebecca in Christ Church on Saturday 12th September, 2009  The marriage  took place in St John’s Church, Vellore on Friday 28th August.     Anderson is Associate Priest at Christ Church

Rebecca Aechtner and Anderson Jeremiah were married on August 28th at St John’s Church, Vellore, India.  If you click on a picture, you will get a bigger version of it – but this can be slow on slow connections.
We also have pictures of the blessing and other celebrations at Christ Church.

Rebecca Aechtner and Anderson Jeremiah were married on August 28th at St John’s Church, Vellore, India.

Susan sent this picture from her Blackberry – more news later!

Many of us brought up in the Anglican tradition were baptised as infants and confirmed as young teenagers, an event which was often linked to our first communion. By 1990, however, admission to Holy Communion prior to Confirmation had been taking place in a number of churches in our Province over a period [...]

On July 10th, we held a special service of thanksgiving for the birth of a child, Florence Chinganya Lubaba.

Florence is being held by Canon John Williams.  Also in the photograph: Florence’s parents Caroline and Caesar, Susan Macdonald (Rector), Anderson Jeremiah (Associate), Sheila Anderson, Sheila Rutherford, Jean Williams.