Dear Friends,
Rev Marion Paton, our wonderful Locum Minister, is currently in Spain walking the Camino from Leon to Santiago de Compostela. Thanks to Rev Alastair Symington, our Interim Moderator, who is leading today’s service. I sincerely hope the walking conditions are good for Marion and we all wish her every opportunity for relaxation and a thoroughly deserved holiday. Pilgrimage, walking and reflection often go together. For St Jerome, walking was an opportunity to solve problems, to talk to people you may never meet again, and to enrich and re-energise yourself physically and spiritually. As Ian Bradley in his excellent book ‘The Pilgrim Way’ explained, being a tourist and being a pilgrim often go side by side – the lines are easily blurred. For very few, extraordinary things can happen on journeys – Paul on the road to Damascus, the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. For many more, time for reflection leads to greater spiritual awareness as step follows step and thought follows thought.
Holy Trinity marks the end of the Fife Pilgrim Way and more and more people are visiting the church as a result. Some have walked all 64 miles from Culross via Dunfermline Abbey and visited the beautiful churches at Markinch and Ceres, finally arriving at St Andrews. You can be given a pilgrim stamp on a card and you will certainly also be given a warm welcome. To those of you visiting Dunino and Holy Trinity this Sunday, a particular welcome. We are delighted to see you. To all of us on our journey of faith, may reflection and prayer on this Trinity Sunday bring wisdom and greater awareness of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Dr Michael Carslaw
(Session Clerk: Boarhills, Dunino and St Andrews: Holy Trinity)
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