Online Worship

Welcome to this online service of worship from Mayfield Salibury Parish Church.

A recording will be uploaded here at 3.30pm on Sunday or shortly therafter. Livestreaming will return soon.

 

Sunday 13 June 2021

 

 

Led by Revd Dr Sandy Forsyth and the congregation in church and online 

  

 

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NEWS AND INTIMATIONS

ZOOM COFFEE SUNDAY AT 12 NOON

Everyone welcome after the service for Zoom Coffee and Chat! The details are:  Meeting ID: 916 2088 9282         Passcode: 335845

https://zoom.us/j/91620889282?pwd=SWVlZmQzMk9YZ2lBaTRCVlUvZ215dz09

Bring your own coffee (or tea/juice!) If you prefer to phone in,

the number to call is 0131 460 1196.

 

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FORTHCOMING SERVICES  The service next week (20 June) will be at 09:30am and we will be celebrating Communion again. The following week (27 June) the service will be at 10.45am. Throughout July and August the service will be held at 10:15am.. In July there will be no Sunday School provision. If you need any more information please call the church office (0780 801 1234) or check the website: www.mayfieldsalisbury.org  

 

SESSION CLERK  Charles Garland has stood down as Session Clerk after three very busy years and we both thank him sincerely for all he has done and wish him well. The Kirk Session has appointed Boyd McAdam to succeed him, and we are delighted to welcome Boyd to this new role. Boyd may be contacted at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or on 07773587579.

 

YOUTH GROUP (P6-S1 IN-PERSON) TONIGHT! The P6-S1 group will meet TONIGHT from 7:00-8:30pm for an end-of-theyear party in the church garden! There will be s'mores, discussion and games! 

Youth Group (S2-S6 in-person) 20 June: The S2-S6 group will meet from 7:00-8:30pm for an end-of-the-year party in the church garden! There will be s'mores, discussion and games! 

Important covid-related details about the sessions, and information about how to book, can be accessed on the church website on the 'young people' page. Contact Hillary if you have any other questions!

 

MIDWEEK PEACE AND PRAYERS RETURNS!  Midweek Peace and Prayers has resumed. Morning prayers returns to its original Tuesday morning and again we are combining this with the opportunity for silent reflection in our beautiful sanctuary.

The timetable every Tuesday is led prayers 10:00-10:30am, with the sanctuary remaining open 10:30-11:00 am. All are welcome to participate in either or both.  

 

ART INSTALLATION UNTIL 28 JUNE We are delighted that the artists Peter and Heidi Gardner have created an installation called ‘Hope Glimmers’ on the grass on the West Mayfield side. More details at mayfieldsalisbury/art , and in the news story run by the Church of Scotland - https://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news-andevents/news/2021/articles/Hope-Glimmers-art-installationopens-at-Edinburgh-church You are invited to a Zoom event to ‘Meet the Artists’ on Sunday 20 June at 7pm – register via our webpage.

 

PLEASE NOTE Due to current restrictions, Revd Dr Sandy Forsyth is regrettably unable to meet after the service today. Please feel free to be in contact by telephone 0131 667 1286 or by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

PASTORAL CARE Our pastoral visitors have recently all gone through some training and are eager to meet some new people. Do you know of someone who would benefit from having a visitor or someone phoning regularly?. Contact Kay for details 07903 266 307

 

SUPPORT MAYFIELD SALISBURY CHURCH   Regular and one-off donations, now possible through: give.net/20311853 

 

OUR E-MAIL PRAYER CHAIN IS UP AND RUNNING!   All prayer requests should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or handwritten and placed in the prayer box at the church door. An email will go out from Kay once a week with the prayer requests set out. If you would like to receive the weekly email and to pray for those situations, please also get in touch with Kay.

 

 

Books for the Journey

Steve Aisthorpe, Re-Wilding the Church (2020)

Bruce Stanley, Forest Church (2020)

Walter Brueggemann, Virus as a Summons to Faith (2020)

 

Forthcoming Deadlines

Order of service for next week: Thursday at 6.00pm.

Next Grapevine:  Friday 25 June at 6.00pm.

Please send submissions to the Church Manager, William Mearns.

Phone: 0780 801 1234 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Copyright Notices

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.The ‘NIV’ and ‘New International Version’ trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica. Use of either trademark requires the permission of Biblica.

 

Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church holds a CCLI Streaming License: #88916

Some images from Pixabay / MotionWorship under licence.

 

Ecotip: Use eco-friendly cleaning products


 

 Social Media

www.facebook.com/MayfieldSalisbury

www.youtube.com/user/MayfieldSalisbChurch

www.flickr.com/photos/98063709@N06/

Youth Instagram: the.msyg

 www.mayfieldsalisbury.org

Scottish Charity Number SC000785

Contact Information

Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church,
18 West Mayfield,
Edinburgh,
EH9 1TQ

0131 667 1522 / 0780 801 1234

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Scottish Charity Number: SC000785

Quotations

  • Because God is both knowable and unknowable the tension of the symbol, the multilayers of the myth and the openness of the poetic are all vital to our desire to celebrate the Mystery to whom we relate and in whom we have our being.
    Mark Oakley

  • You must love him as he is: neither God, nor spirit, nor image; even more, the One without commingling, pure, luminous ...

    Meister Eckhart

  • The purpose of our life is God's glory. However lowly a life is, that is what makes it great.
    Oscar Romero

  • Faith may justify bigotry or fanaticism, as Church history tragically witnesses. It needs a safeguard. If it is not animated as it were by the greatest of the theological virtues (love), faith can become defective.
    Thomas Norris

  • Dry not, dry not, your tears of love eternal! Only to eyes that fail to weep does this world seem so dull and dead. Dry not, dry not, those long, sad tears of love.
    Johann von Goette

  • The post modern paradigm manifests itself as a unity which preserves diversity and diversity which strives after unity.
    David Bosch

  • There is only one assertion that requires no evidence. Children are a sacred trust...Unless we care properly for our children, we shall never build a better world.
    'A Good Childhood’ The Children’s Society

  • These are only hints and guesses, hints followed by guesses; and the rest is prayer.
    'The Dry Salvages' T.S.Eliot

  • According to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
    Origen

  • Myth is a story about the way things never were, but always are.
    Thomas Mann

  • In the darkness ...The child of your love - and now become as the most hated one - the one You have thrown away as unwanted - unloved ..... The darkness is so dark .... I have no faith.
    Mother Teresa

  • I love the Bible. I owe my faith and my life to the Bible and its liberating message. It is in the Bible that I first met Jesus ... I too am included in God's embrace.
    Gene Robinson

  • It is this great absence that is like a presence, that compels me to address it without hope of a reply ....
    R.S. Thomas

  • Faith is not a proud self-consistent philosophy. It involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. It is therefore a living response to the grace of God as revealed in fragile lives.
    Mark Oakley

  • Any religion which does not say that God is hidden is not true.
    Blaise Pascal

  • The contemporary Church is losing aspects of its wide and generous memory and therefore condemning itself to become a 'swimming pool Church' - one that has all the noise coming from the shallow end.
    Mark Oakley

  • For all your doctrinal headaches take Paradox.
    Mark Oakley

  • The true vision and the true knowledge of what we seek consists precisely in not seeing, in an awareness that our goal transcends all knowledge and is everywhere cut off from us by the darkness of incomprehensibility.
    St Gregory of Nyssa

  • Death, death be hanged, the Lord has promised me that I shall live. This I believe!
    Martin Luther

  • We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life have not been put to rest.
    Wittgenstein

  • Religion is the flight of the alone to the Alone.
    Plotinus

  • Stupid clergymen appeal quite directly to a Bible passage directly understood ....
    Soren Kirkegaard

  • What is the point of the arts of reading and criticism as long as the ecclesiastical interpretation of the Bible, Protestant as well as Catholic, is cultivated as ever?
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • A figure like Ecclesiast, rugged and luminous, chants in the dark a text that is the answer, although obscure.
    Wallace Stevens

  • Myth is the poetry of the soul.
    Sara Maitland

  • Our loss of the ability to think mythically, poetically, allegorically, creatively, theologically, and artfully is a greater threat to our religious experience than anything good scientists have to report ...
    Sara Maitland

  • In general, Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.
    Douglas Hofstadter

  • 'God' is a one word poem
    Rowan Williams

  • What is today? Today is eternity.
    Meister Eckhart

  • Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things.
    Meister Eckhart

  • The most powerful hunger we have, mostly suppressed and misdirected, is the hunger for God.
    Miroslav Volf

  • We frequently judge that things are as we wish them to be, for through personal feeling true perspective is easily lost.
    Thomas a Kempis

  • Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
    Rabindranath Tagore

  • God is the beyond in our midst.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  • 'God is not the answer, God is the question.'
    Herbert McCabe