Local meets global

Worship at Edinburgh 2010 this morning was spiced up with a visit from a P6 class from St Mary’s Primary on Leith Links, led by our very own Stephen Fischbacher.

It was very moving to sing together ‘Welcome everybody, it’s good to see you here/ Gathered in this place’, and reflect on the fact that here, for the first time since Pentecost, was a more or less representative gathering of the church on earth!

For me it was an exquisite juxtaposition of the local and the global - Leith kids with Stephen and Carol up front, followed by a homily from a Greek Orthodox Bishop, and a message read out from Pope Benedict XVI.

Worship concluded with the children leading us in singing ‘May you find peace, may you find hope, may you find joy this day.’ I think their prayers were answered. And the delegates loved it.

Duncan