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✅ New children's choirs! ✅ Soaring Sunday School numbers! ✅ A fully-subscribed youth sleepover! ✅ Exciting children's activities! ✅ Youth-led climate action! 📣 Check out EdinburghSECYouth's latest news: tinyurl.com/yvr3k4ku

🎄 Have you 'stirred up' your Christmas pudding yet? ❄️ If you haven't, fear not. 🔥 The message from The Revd Andi Hofbauer from St John's, Jedburgh, and St Cuthbert’s, Hawick, is that Christmas will 'stir' up, or 'kindle' up, things of its own. youtu.be/aM5GdCmmaIE

🎄 Today we have some festive organ music played by Imogen Morgan, Assistant Master of the Music at St Mary's Cathedral! 🎵 It's JS Bach's Chorale Prelude "In dulci jubilo" BWV 608. 🎹 Can you spot the famous tune? #Edinburgh

"Christmas is an invitation to escape into joy — not to escape from reality." In his Christmas Message, Bishop John Armes discusses our celebrations not just as affirmations of hope in God's love, but as acts of resistance against all that destroys light. youtu.be/A32E8mGKp3M

🙏 Imaginative prayer comes to us from St Ignatius. By it, we immerse ourselves in a Biblical story to encounter God more fully. ✨ Pick a story from the Gospel. Be still. Read it slowly. Set the scene in your mind. What do you see, hear, smell, feel, taste? 📸 Jonny Gioson

🇳🇿 Our link diocese of Dunedin, NZ, has elected The Ven Dr Anne van Gend as bishop! ⛪ We wish her and the people of the diocese many blessings for all that lies ahead. 🙏 Bishop John Armes has sent our congratulations and assured the Bishop-elect of our prayers and support.

🎄 See what our churches have been up to this Advent! ✨ Find out how to join them for Christmas: tinyurl.com/486bmznf

🎄 Find your nearest Christmas service now! ⛄ tinyurl.com/486bmznf ❄️ Click here for dates, times and your local Episcopal church!

🎄Happy Christmas from everyone at Diocese of Edinburgh!

The Rt Revd Dr John Armes has announced that he will retire as Bishop John Armes on 31 August this year. Bishop John, who was consecrated as 26th Bishop of Edinburgh in May 2012, will reach his 70th birthday later this year. 🔗 Full announcement here: scotland.anglican.org/bishop-of-edin…

💡At our best, we are generous and open-hearted, but “we can also be jealous and anxious. ... It is up to us which part of us we allow free reign [in] the world.” 👏Words from Rev Philip Blackledge, Rector of Holy Trinity, #Melrose. 🎙Listen from 1:22:20 tinyurl.com/522kb7tw

I was honoured to help serve food to 100+ guests on Tuesday evening at the Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society (SABS) and Hibernian Community Foundation ‘Pitch to Plate’ Multicultural Meal. On offer was food to sustain the body, but also food for thought: edinburgh.anglican.org/2025/01/food-f…

🎨There's something for everyone at our churches! 🕯Here are some shots from 'Process' services at St Peter's, Lutton Place, featuring candlelit poetry and Remembrance footprints. 💡Join them this Sun 12th or another 2nd Sun of the month, 6.30-7.30pm! 🔗tinyurl.com/bdz4byv8

Such an encouraging video from Project CARE about their evening of food and sharing. Thank you to the team for providing such a warm welcome and to St Ninian's Church for hosting 🧡 youtube.com/watch?v=DXWr_Q… Diocese of Edinburgh Scottish Episcopal Church

💐 "If Easter is to have any continuing meaning for us, we must discover the risen Jesus amongst the living." In his Easter message, Bishop John Armes discusses the search for signs of the resurrection in our far-from-perfect world.

First Minister John Swinney visited St John's Episcopal Church Edinburgh ن, #Edinburgh, yesterday to see its #WarmWelcomeSpace (part of Warm Welcome UK @warmwelcomeuk.bsky.social) in action. All welcome on Mondays, 4pm-6pm, for soup, warmth, fellowship and support.

🖍There's lots on at our churches for toddlers and their parents/carers! 🧸Why not bring your little one to a mid-week toddler group? Details below and via the link in our bio. 💡Most groups run term time only, so do check churches' own media.

✨ Why not visit one of our churches this weekend? It's Trinity Sunday tomorrow, when we celebrate God whom we believe to be Father, Son and Holy Spirit. So it's the perfect time. One such church is St David's, Pilton, in North Edinburgh. Visit stdavidepiscopal.org.uk for more.

🖍On some days, 30 children, parents and carers attend the toddler groups at St Peter's, Lutton Place, #Edinburgh! All welcome on term-time Mon & Thu, 9.30-11.30am, for £1/session. Link in bio for full times and to hear why people love it! 📸1-2 Cathy Tingle, 3 Robert Guthrie

📻 Tune in to @bbcradio4 next week to hear one of our own, The Revd Nick Bowry, speak to Clare Balding 💙 about walking the Camino de Santiago – seven times! Catch 'Ramblings' on BBC Radio 4 this Thu 26th June at 3pm or on @bbcsounds. Link in bio for the link and a Q&A with Nick!