This Sunday (25th October), Bishop John Armes will worship with us at St Mark’s and license Dr Jennifer Floether as a lay reader in our diocese and in our congregation. All are welcome to the service and to the bring and share lunch afterwards. Please pray for Jenny.
We welcome you to Holy Communion with imposition of ashes 10am and 7pm on Wednesday 5 March. During Lent there is Morning Prayer 9.30am daily Monday-Thursday Discussion Group on Mondays after Morning Prayer – finished by 11.30 at latest. Discussion after church on Sunday 23rd March. Bring some sandwiches! For more ideas of Lent, please…
We’re delighted to have a great quality line up of music at St Mark’s for our summer music series 2016! Tickets are £6 and include refreshments Tel: 0131 629 1219 Email: rector@stmarksportobello.org Full poster and details below Wed 27 April at 7pm Portobello High School’s Spurtle folk/ceilidh band Philomusica of Edinburgh: The Four Seasons with sonnets…
‘Teambuilders’ – Portobello Ecumenical Holiday Club, 16-23 July 2017 This summer, our Portobello Holiday Club is running for the fourth year, with six area churches working together again in partnership with Scripture Union Scotland. From 16-23 July from 9am to 12.30pm, the halls at Portobello and Joppa Parish Church and here at St Mark’s Scottish Episcopal…
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent. During our two communion services on Ash Wednesday we will have the opportunity to receive the sign of the cross marked in ash, as we remember our mortality, our need for God’s grace and the abundance of God’s love for us. All are welcome!
In May, a group of us at St Marks watched the first series of The Chosen. This is a dramatised telling of the story of the first disciples who gathered around Jesus – chosen by Jesus! (this series is now on Netflix). 27 Sept – 17 Nov – we are watching Series 2 – do…