I’ve just spent a few days in the East Neuk of Fife listening to chamber music. It’s a favourite area of mine and where I began teaching at Madras College, St Andrews.
SUNDAY
Sunday is the seventh Sunday after Pentecost. The theme is on the Parable of the Sower.
In the first reading from Isaiah we read that the active word of God will fulfil his promises, just as rain enables seeds to grow. So these words, spoken through the prophet Isaiah, may be trusted. In the gospel passage from Matthew we read that the word of God is received differently by different people and even though many reject or lose that seed, enough absorb it to yield a bountiful harvest.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU WILL BE IN CHURCH ON SUNDAY.
IT’S REALLY HELPFUL WHEN PREPARING THE ORDERS OF SERVICE
NEXT SUNDAY
We will celebrate Sea Sunday on 19th July and remember with gratitude those who work at sea to bring us our food, necessities and luxuries that we enjoy. There will be an opportunity to give to the work of the Mission to Seafarers.
BLESSING OF PETS
We are indeed an animal-friendly church, and one of our best loved services is the blessing of pets and domestic animals. This is on Sunday 2nd August. Let’s try and bring as many pets as possible into All Saints’ for God’s blessing.
ST. VERONICA
According to tradition she wiped the face of Jesus with her veil as he carried his cross on the way to Calvary. His face left its imprint on the cloth called the Veronica (meaning true likeness), and in a striking display of magnanimity cured the Emperor Tiberius of sickness. It soon became one of the most precious relics in Christendom, able to cure blindness, fever and to slake the thirst of anyone who sucked it. Versions of it are said to be held now in St Peter’s Rome, the Hofburg Palace in Vienna the Monastery of the Holy Face Alicante, Jaen Cathedral in Spain, the Church of the Holy Face Genoa, the chapel of San Silvestro in Rome and in the little Capuchin monastery of Manopello in Italy. It also gives its name to first pass of the cape used by matadors in a bullfight!!
With love from your friend and rector,
