Process

All are very welcome to this monthly contemporary evening service which is reflective, sometimes interactive and always different! Usually held on the 2nd Sunday of the month, we meet in the hall, but may move around the building, into the church, Millar Chapel, or if it is nice weather, outside. The service lasts about an hour and finishes with refreshments and chat.

Next Service: Sunday 11th May, 6.30pm – 7.30pm. During this service, Nick, our Rector, will lead us through some spiritual reflections inspired by his sabbatical in New Zealand. Any questions, please email the office. office@stpetersedinburgh.org

Forthcoming dates in 2025: 11th May, 8th June.

Previous Topics have included: A service held on Palm Sunday being a meditative journey through the Sunday Gospel readings of Lent.; Exploring some parables about the Kingdom of Heaven; Prayers for the city; Mark 10: 13-16: ‘Like a child’; Luke 24: 13-35: ‘On the Road to Emmaus’; Psalm 126 ‘Room to grow’; The Biblical story of Ruth; Psalm 52 ‘Cries of anger’; Psalm 19; and Psalm 121, ‘I lift up my eyes to the hills’, called ‘Cry of Trust’; Psalm 103, ‘Laying down and letting go’; Based on Mark 10: 13-16, a pause, a time to look back, and a time to see how we can ask God to use our past to transform our futures; a service based on the Iona Community service for Justice and Peace, prayers for the country; Taking the creation story in Genesis as a starting point, considering how we have exploited the environment before reflecting what changes we might make as individuals; and a Compline. During Epiphany 2025, the topic was looking at journeys, taking Epiphany and the Flight into Egypt as the starting point. In February, we engaged with Biblical and spiritual themes inspired by fire, around a fire bowl in the garden.

On Sunday 13th October, 2024, we had a journey into Autumn, the season of rest for creation, and it was a chance for us to reflect and respond through quiet and poetry. 

We met in the Millar Chapel for a quiet candlelit reflection on the theme of autumn.  It is a time when we see the created world preparing for winter rest and hibernation; we notice colours changing with the season; we reflect that a time of rest may follow a time of intense labour; and we recognise that human behaviour prevents the seasons and climate working as they should.

Within this context we heard a series of poems  by a range of authors, framed by the Genesis creation story, in which God rested on the ‘seventh day’, and a passage from the book of Revelation with a vision of ‘re-creation’ at the end of time.