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What About Saint Hilda Celebrations?
The celebration of St. Aidan materials used on August 31 have been much appreciated, and people have enquired about similar material on Saint Hilda.
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Buy Great Celtic Christans (volume 4 of the Celtic Prayer Book). This has thirty one pages of prayers, stories, songs and liturgy on Saint Hilda. Â...
St. Aidan's Celebrations And Exercises For Everyone In The World
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SAINT AIDAN’S DAY CELEBRATIONS ON HOLY ISLAND OR ANYWHERE
St. Aidan’s Day 31 AUGUST or any day
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Gather around the statue of St. Aidan in St. Mary’s Church Holy Island or around this picture any where in the world
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Ldr + In the name of the sending Father
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Edinburgh Festival And The Community Of Aidan And Hilda
The international Edinburgh Festival Fringe is back with a bang after the Covid years. This year the Community of Aidan and Hilda played a small part. Sally Simpson, a co-ordinator of the East Anglia CAH group joined Scottish and Borders members for a day there.
We enjoyed floral displays at...
Letter From A Soul Friend To A Sceptic Beginner
Dear Friend,
You say you want to try out this Way of Life, which we also call the Way of Jesus, but you have serious questions about Christianity.
You say that the Way of Life asks us to soak ourselves in the Scriptures but the Jewish Bible (the Christian Old Testament) tells...
I'm A Male Aged 83 And Pregnant
A Holy Island pilgrim recently asked me if I have a theology of old age. This reminded me of Henri Frederic Amiel's saying
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Disintegration and dying...
Seeds And A New Creation
The creation crisis that threatens our childrens’ future gets worse almost daily. It is caused by the mass selfishness of humans, but strident environmental voices partly blame Christianity for it. Chandran Nair, the founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow, says the Judaeo-Christian teaching of establishing dominion over...
The Common Good
Certificate of Participation 2022/2023 Heywood Prize
A CHARTER FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF THE EIGHT JURISDICTIONS IN THE COUNCIL OF THE ISLES
This certificate is awarded to Ray Simpson for contributing this proposal on January 18th, 2023.
‘The Common Good’ sets out principles of a civilized society drawn up by Catholic and...
Psalmic Odes From The Times Of Christ's Apostles
Who could have dreamed that, in the third millennium, beautiful love songs of followers of Jesus' Way, in the period before all the first twelve apostles had died, would have been re-discovered, pored over by scholars, honed in the devotions of Indian monastics, and translated from the original Syriac...
Aidan, App And Africa
Last week I recorded a video with young church leader Aaron Elder and Scott Brennan on Aidan of Lindisfarne, in Lindisfarne's Whitehouse garden. The link is https://www.facebook.com/scott.brennan.397/videos/10513829121046072399Â
The following evening we had a meal in the same garden with Pete Greig and his film-maker, who had just completed...
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