This is the presidential address to the Society of 1984 by the Revd W H M Cant of St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney. This substantial paper begins by quoting an excerpt from the Orkney writer George Mackay Brown recreating a mass on the island of Egilsay and continues with a searching and eloquent plea to the Church to find renewal in the celebration of Christ in the Word and Sacrament. It falls into three sections: 1. Christ’s presence and the transformation of life; 2. The celebration of Christ in the liturgy of the Word (A. the Gospel of Forgiveness and Reconciliation, B. The reading and preaching of the Word, C. The climactic point of the service of the Word); 3. The Celebration of Christ in the liturgy of the Eucharist (A. The eucharistic celebration of the death of Christ, B. The eucharistic celebration of the living Christ, our high priest in heaven and on earth, C. The eucharistic celebration of the paschal mystery of Christ); 4. The revolutionary power of the Sacrament for the future.
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An insert is included in this number giving details of the shape and content of family services over the years, and an explanation, given by the Revd Alastair H Gray, minister of Methil, is printed within the journal. It is regretted that the insert, a copy of the ‘Sunday newspaper’ of this congregation, was not digitalised. Copies of the Record can be consulted in New College (University of Edinbugh) and in several other similar libraries, or in the ‘master copy’ kept by the Secretary of the Society.
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 A Pattern for Family Services | 429.16 KB |
An obituary of a past president and former Moderator of the General Assembly.
A dip in the archives
This referred to a service of Holy Communion in 1985 held in Greyfriars during the General Assembly, where the musical settings of the liturgical texts as in the current Church Hymnary (Third Edition, ‘CH3’) were used along with the order in the Book of Common Order 1979. The paragraph refers to a similar event in 1975, using the Society’s Euchologion.
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| Obituary | 336.71 KB |
This is offered by the Revd W G Young, recently retired from Resolis and Urquhart.
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A minister records two couples to be married by him with appropriate names.
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| A Christmas Eve Service | 1.5 MB |
Einar Sigurbjörnsson gives an account of their new book of worship, published in 1981 and the principles behind the revision.
Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue: The Dublin Agreed Statement 1984, SPCK 1984, reviewed by Rev Dr R Stuart Louden
Creation and Evolution: The Facts and Fallacies, Alan Hayward, SPCK, reviewed by Rev William G Neill
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| Reviews | 1.5 MB |
- for the Trades House of Glasgow
- for Strathclyde Regional Council
- in Commemoration of David Livingstone
- for Engineers and Craftsmen
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| Occasional Prayers | 2.87 MB |
A discussion of the order used when inducting a minister to a charge in the Church of Scotland and a comparison with the equivalent in the Scottish Episcopal Church.
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| Editorial | 846.76 KB |
A report on the autumn conference of the Society.
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| From the President | 423.46 KB |
Recalls a spirited response by Dr Story in 1876 to the charge that the Society involved a violation of ordination vows in that it assumed a departure from the ‘uniformity of worship established by the Revolution Settlement’.
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| A Dip in the Archives | 362.41 KB |
Offered by the Revd John Heron.
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| Order for a Communion Service in Lent | 1.34 MB |
The Psalms Come Alive - An Introduction to the Psalms through the Arts, John H Eaton, Mowbray 1984, reviewed by Rev Andrew Anderson
Choosing - and Using - Hymns, Lionel Dakers, Mowbray 1985, reviewed by David A Stewart
Handbook to the Church Hymnary Third Edition, ed. Rev Professor John M Barkley, OUP 1979, reviewed by Rev R Stuart Louden
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| Reviews | 1.43 MB |
The need to widen the membership of the Society to contribute to broader debate and benefit from the many other innovative leaders of worship who do not at the moment belong.
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| Editorial | 752.71 KB |
Dr W G Young, minister of the rural parishes of Resolis and Urquhart, considers in detail, giving reasons for each aspect and item, a forthcoming act of Holy Communion.
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| Preparing Communion for a Rural Parish | 2.38 MB |
No summary currently available
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| A Dip in the Archives | 295.49 KB |