No.
205 January 2009
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Let’s Take A New Direction
THE THOUGHT of a New
Year’s Resolution in the
middle of Advent leaves me
in a cold sweat.
IamwritingthisonDecember
12 because everybody is
cranking up for Christmas
and there won’t be time to
get it together for January if
we leave it...
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No. 205 January 2009 http://www. dunblanecathedral. org. ukADDRESS Let’s Take A New Direction THE THOUGHT of a New Year’s Resolution in the middle of Advent leaves me in a cold sweat. IamwritingthisonDecember 12 because everybody is cranking up for Christmas and there won’t be time to get it together for January if we leave it any later; so the newsletter deadline has been moved up by a week and it’s looming large. So here I sit, trying to put myself into that unique New Year mindset – the almost palpable deep breath everyone seems to take come January 1st (well, by the 2nd or 3rd at least) - the one that seems sensibly to say “party over, let’s get serious, let’s get organized, and decide where this year is going to take us. ” Resolve It’s almost a mental dusting down, a spring clean of the brain come early, but I’m failing… if I can manage to keep up my resolve to remember where I’m supposedtobeandwhatIsaid I’d do, then I feel I deserve to pat myself on the back and hum a wee fest
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No.
204 December 2008
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Waiting, Watching, Wanting
FROM THE MINISTER
DURING THE BUILDup to Christmas last year,
it was reported that the
head teacher of a school
somewhere in England had
banned her pupils from
mentioning Christmas in
school.
The teacher had
decided that there should be
no...
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No. 204 December 2008 http://www. dunblanecathedral. org. ukADDRESS Waiting, Watching, Wanting FROM THE MINISTER DURING THE BUILDup to Christmas last year, it was reported that the head teacher of a school somewhere in England had banned her pupils from mentioning Christmas in school. The teacher had decided that there should be no references to Christmas until 7 December, in an attempt to stop the children from becoming over-excited. Her decision received a mixed reaction from parents, apparently. Some believed this was an attempt to squash children’s natural sense of expectation and enjoyment. But others said she was right to resist the prevailing tendency for Christmas preparations to begin earlier and earlier every year - if not in schools, then certainly in the shops. But the good news for that teacher and for high-street retailers everywhere is that we are now in the season of Advent: that period of the Christian year where even in the Church we are actually allowed to star
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No.
203 November 2008
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Who Tells You Who You Are?
FROM THE MINISTER
QUESTION: What is
the difference between an
investment banker and a
pigeon? Answer - ‘a pigeon
can still put a deposit on a
BMW’.
Whatisthedefinition
of an optimist? ‘A banker
who irons five shirts at the...
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No. 203 November 2008 http://www. dunblanecathedral. org. ukADDRESS Who Tells You Who You Are? FROM THE MINISTER QUESTION: What is the difference between an investment banker and a pigeon? Answer - ‘a pigeon can still put a deposit on a BMW’. Whatisthedefinition of an optimist? ‘A banker who irons five shirts at the weekend’. So a gallows humour takes over when things get out of hand. Andthoughwemaynot understand the complexities of global finance, we do have a sense that something has gone seriously wrong. Mindboggling sums of money have been wiped off stock exchanges, banks have been forcibly merged to stop them sinking, and others have been bailed out - effectively nationalised - not just in Britain but in the seat of private enterprise, the USA. Billions upon billions of taxpayers’ money have been spent to prop up a faltering system. Who would have believed it? Ficitious Wealth Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, made this comment about why the credit crunch happen
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No.
199 MAY 2008
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HOLY COMMUNION
The Sacrament of Holy Communion will be
celebrated on Sunday 25 May at
services at 10.
30am and 3.
30pm in
the Cathedral.
A joint Thanksgiving
Service will be held in St Blane’s
Church at 6.
30pm.
using individual
cups and unfermented wine.
Our voice is...
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No. 199 MAY 2008 http://www. dunblanecathedral. org. ukADDRESS HOLY COMMUNION The Sacrament of Holy Communion will be celebrated on Sunday 25 May at services at 10. 30am and 3. 30pm in the Cathedral. A joint Thanksgiving Service will be held in St Blane’s Church at 6. 30pm. using individual cups and unfermented wine. Our voice is one of our most powerful tools. using it has been described as many things – a gift, an inalienable right, a weapon. Throughout history, voices have cried for freedom while others insisted on the “I have a rIght to my own opInIon?” quite another. It is so tempting to react rather than respond, to decide on some instinct rather than take the harder road of discovery. We as a church have a lot to cell research, especially a new procedure that uses human and animal cells. Many jumped in, speaking of the horrible abuse and danger this concept opened the door to. The images portrayed in the media were frightening, and it was tempting to leap without looki
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No.
193 November 2007
How to remember war
without getting into a fight
THOUGHT FOR
THE MONTH
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REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY SERVICES
On Tuesday 6 November, BBC Radio Scotland will be
pre-recording their Remembrance Sunday Service in the
Cathedral at 7.
00pm.
It is hoped that a good number of the...
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No. 193 November 2007 How to remember war without getting into a fight THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH http://www. dunblanecathedral. org. ukADDRESS REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY SERVICES On Tuesday 6 November, BBC Radio Scotland will be pre-recording their Remembrance Sunday Service in the Cathedral at 7. 00pm. It is hoped that a good number of the congregation will attend this service. On Remembrance Sunday, 11 November, the Morning Service will begin at 10. 50am so that the two minutes’ silence can be observed at 11 o’clock. Following the Service, a short Service for all the churches in the town will be held at the War Memorial. The new memorial bridge across the River Allan will be dedicated during this service. My father-in-law was a wireless operator and rear gunner in the RAF in WWII. A gentler, kinder man you could never meet. He never talked about his experiences, and when the subject of war came up, he was strangely silent - but in the last days of his life, he started to talk about frien
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No.
198 APRIL 2008
FROM THE MINISTER
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Life is DifficuLt
eXActLY 30 years ago
the psychiatrist scott Peck
published a book called the
Road Less travelled, which
stood on the New York
times bestseller list for an
astonishing ten years.
since
then the book has sold more
than seven million...
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No. 198 APRIL 2008 FROM THE MINISTER http://www. dunblanecathedral. org. ukADDRESS Life is DifficuLt eXActLY 30 years ago the psychiatrist scott Peck published a book called the Road Less travelled, which stood on the New York times bestseller list for an astonishing ten years. since then the book has sold more than seven million copies and been translated into at least 23 languages. in his book Peck penned one of the most famous opening sentences ever when he wrote, “Life is difficult”. those three words actually formed the entire first paragraph. Rather than moan and complain, he advised, we need to accept this reality. Personal growth, Peck went on to write, is most often a complex, arduous and lifelong task. Culture of Success One reason Peck’s book was, and still is, so wildly successful is because that opening sentence runs counter to our accepted cultural wisdom. Ours is a culture of success, not struggle. Wecelebratewealth, prowess, power, strength, bravado and confide
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Dunblane Cathedral Magazine September 2008
6
Dunblane Cathedral Magazine September 2008
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
SEPTEMBER/EARLY OCTOBER
WHEN WHO WHERE WHAT
Back to Church Sunday
Sunday 28 September
“Because it’s you, I’ll come”
Back to Church Sunday is about making a personal
invitation to someone in order to welcome...
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Dunblane Cathedral Magazine September 2008 6 Dunblane Cathedral Magazine September 2008 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY SEPTEMBER/EARLY OCTOBER WHEN WHO WHERE WHAT Back to Church Sunday Sunday 28 September “Because it’s you, I’ll come” Back to Church Sunday is about making a personal invitation to someone in order to welcome them ‘Back to Church’. The idea began in the Church of England and is being extended throughout other denominations and nations. It is estimated that during the four years Back to Church Sunday has been running, 30,000 people have come back to church. 2008’s Back to Church Sunday is being piloted in Scotland and is being facilitated this time by ACTS. To learn more about the initiative please contact Rev Lindsey Sanderson on 01259 222361 or email: lindseysanderson@acts-scotland. org ETHICAL PURCHASES According to Ethical Consumer’s Ethiscore Reports, Samsung mobile phones come bottom of the ethical table, while HTC and Blackberry come top,
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No.
194 December 2007
COLIN’S REFLECTIONS
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Do Something Different
for Christmas
SHADRACH, MESHACH
and Abednego - the
spellchecker on my computer
is going haywire over
these names.
But you may
remember them from Sunday
School days: the three brave
men who wouldn’t bow down
before...
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No. 194 December 2007 COLIN’S REFLECTIONS http://www. dunblanecathedral. org. ukADDRESS Do Something Different for Christmas SHADRACH, MESHACH and Abednego - the spellchecker on my computer is going haywire over these names. But you may remember them from Sunday School days: the three brave men who wouldn’t bow down before Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue, and the king gets cross with them and tries to burn them in the fire, but when they are thrown in they don’t burn and Nebuchadnezzar realises that maybe there’s another kind of God to reckon with and different values to live by. Conspiracy A bit like December, I think, and our approach to Christmas. Theproblemwith getting ready for Christmas is not that it involves spending lots of money - there might not be anything wrong with that. Buttheredoesseemtobe a kind of cultural conspiracy which says that we all have to joinintheworshipofmaterial goods and pretend to enjoy it. And we do it because the kings in our society - big busines
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No.
200 SUMMER 2008
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LOOKING TWICE
FROM THE MINISTER
BY the end of this month
the schools will close and for
children seven long weeks of
summer will stretch ahead
of them.
Can you remember
how you felt on the first day
of the school holidays - that
sense of anticipation you had
of a whole...
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No. 200 SUMMER 2008 http://www. dunblanecathedral. org. ukADDRESS LOOKING TWICE FROM THE MINISTER BY the end of this month the schools will close and for children seven long weeks of summer will stretch ahead of them. Can you remember how you felt on the first day of the school holidays - that sense of anticipation you had of a whole summer at the disposal of your imagination? That first day of the holidays was always the best. “You must learn to look at the world twice if you wish to see all there is to see. ” But I remember someone writing about the summer he lost his imagination. It was the first day of the holidays for him. He had yearned for the time to come. Memories of the previous summer were still strong, long days spent playing in the garden, racing miniature cars and trucks with his friends. When the last bell of the school year rang, he ran home to get everything ready, and next morning he hauled it all outside. With the sun on his back he sat down in his special pl
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