Christ Church News Letter forMarch and April

Christ Church News Letter forMarch and April

This Sunday and the coming week at Christ Church

4. 27 February Eighth Sunday after Epiphany

Sunday 27th February Liturgy of the Scottish Episcopal Church

Liturgy of the Scottish Episcopal Church

Sunday 27 February

10am Eucharist and 11.30am in Church Centre (coffee/tea from 11.15am)

Led by Revd Canon Ian Paton, Rector of Old St Paul’s, Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh and former convenor of the SEC Liturgy Committee

Fifth Sunday Lecture on 30th January

Hebrew is a Funny Language!, lecture by Prof. Mary Smallwood on 30th January, after the 10 am service in the Church Centre.

Let’s talk about…

At our November 2010 Annual General Meeting, we had a talk about boiler controls, as a way of starting efforts to share information about how we can reduce our energy consumption (and more generally, our carbon footprints) at home. If you were there, and are looking for the promised web page with links to follow [...]

Christmas Services

Sunday 19th December Fourth Sunday of Advent

8.00am Holy Communion

10.00am Sung Eucharist with Young Church Nativity

6.30pm Carol Service (followed by refreshments in the Hall)

Friday 24th December Christmas Eve

8.00am Morning Prayer and Holy Communion

5.00pm Children’s Christmas Eve Service (followed by refreshments in the Hall)

11.30pm Midnight Eucharist

Saturday 25th [...]

World Cinema @ no.6

The next film viewing will be on 21st January at 6:30 pm. Please contact Anderson Jeremiah for details.

Friday the 12th, November, 7pm, World Cinema @no.6. An initiative to watch interesting films from around the world. All are welcome (18+). we will be watching Goodbye Lenin (Germany, 2003) as our first film in the series.

Faith and Reason- Advent Series

On Wednesdays at 7:30 pm in the Church Centre

Viewing documentaries by Richard Dawkins followed by discussion. Starting from the 24th November 2010, and on 1st, 8th & 15th December 2010. Bishop Richard Holloway will join us and facilitate our discussion on the 15th December.

On 8th December we will be viewing the documentary on [...]

Fifth Sunday Lecture: 31st October “Our Story in Context”

On the fifth Sunday of a month, we have a preacher who introduces a subject, and this is followed by a Lecture in the Church Centre from 11.30am to 12.30pm (coffee/tea from 11.15am) with time for questions and discussion.

On this All Saints Sunday, Dr Mark Elliott, Senior Lecturer in Church History at the [...]

Third Sunday Workshop 17th October : Learning from One Another

Third Sunday Workshops – meetings to deepen our understanding and practice in different areas of the church’s life and ministries

17th October 11.30am to 12.30pm (coffee/tea from 11.15am) Emmanuel, Rebecca and Anderson Jeremiah in Conversation about the Anglican Church in Ghana

Visit from members of World Council of Churches Executive

Revd Antonio (furthest left) and Ms Hae-Sun (furthest right)

At relatively short notice ACTS (Action Together of Churches in Scotland) asked if we would be willing to host one, possibly two, guests from the World Council of Churches Executive. The answer of course was ‘yes’, and so it was at the 10am service on Sunday [...]

Students welcome

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 [...]

September 2010 Magazine

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NEXT FIFTH SUNDAY LECTURE (31st October) – Our Story in Context

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 magazine

May 2010

Curry Night on the 22nd May

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 [...]

Faith in Dialogue with the Media 25 April

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 [...]

Easter Day Services

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

Palm Sunday Evening – The Crucifixion by John Stainer

John Stainer

Jesus and Power – Lent Sermon Series

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

Recycling Roadshow cancelled

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 [...]

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER

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 [...]

Lent @ Christ Church

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: [...]

Fourth Sunday of Lent (14th March)

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 [...]

31st January: Fifth Sunday Lecture – Climate Change and the Communion of Saints, Prof. Michael Northcott

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 [...]

Guest Preacher and Faith in Dialogue session, 13 December

Christ Church Morningside

Registered Charity SC003009

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 [...]

Advent lecture and procession

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

[...]

Advent Study Series

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 [...]

Visit to the Somme

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In late October Susan Macdonald, Rector, along with her [...]

Remembrance Sunday

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 [...]