Martinmas 2023-24
Sunday Worship services take place weekly during term time, as detailed below, at 11am in St Salvator’s Chapel. Services are available to watch online for those unable to attend in person – see ‘Livestream’ section on the Worship webpage.
| 3 September Service of Welcome |
Revd Dr Donald MacEwan University Chaplain Sermon: Holy Ground |
| 10 September Opening Service |
Revd Dr Donald MacEwan University Chaplain Sermon: The Promised Hand |
| 17 September | Revd Dr Janet Foggie Celebrant and Author Sermon: The calling of Eli: a reflection on the churches and gender. |
| 24 September | Revd Dr Doug Gay Senior Lecturer, Theology and Religious Studies University of Glasgow Sermon: Should you be angry? |
| 1 October | Fiona Barnard Honorary Global Chaplain Sermon: What’s the story? |
| 8 October | Dr Joanna Leidenhag Lecturer in Theology and Liberal Arts Leeds University Sermon: God’s bad vineyard |
| 15 October Raisin |
Revd Dr Donald MacEwan University Chaplain Sermon: In the highways and the hedges |
| 22 October | Revd Jill Clancy Prison Chaplain HM Barlinnie Prison Sermon: If your face fits |
| 29 October | The Revd Malcolm Guite Girton College Cambridge Sermon: Undeserved Abundance: a meditation on music-making |
| 5 November | Monsignor Patrick Burke Vicar General Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edinburgh and St Andrews Sermon: Distinction and Separation lie at the heart of Jesus’ teaching. Can one be faithful in theory alone? Or must fidelity, in order to be real, be translated into a concrete way of being? |
| 12 November Remembrance |
Revd Samantha Ferguson Assistant University Chaplain Sermon: Practically Perfect In Every Way… |
| 19 November | Professor Dame Sally Mapstone DBE, FRSE Principal and Vice-Chancellor Sermon: A Prophet in Her Own Land |
| 26 November | Professor Ian Smith University of St Andrews Business School Sermon: How to be a worshipper |
| 3 December First Sunday of Advent |
Professor Nina Laurie Professor of Human Geography School of Geography and Sustainable Development Sermon: El Niño cometh |
| 10 December A Service of Music and Readings |
Revd Dr Donald MacEwan University Chaplain Sermon: A Holy Land Pilgrimage |