• Sermon - Year A

    7th Sunday of Easter

    Today’s gospel we’ve just heard might be difficult to understand – obviously not because of the reader – but because this text is complicated itself. Is there are a problem with the translation? Yes, there is. Let me explain this on my own. I was born and grown up in Poland, a country with its own history, culture and of…

  • Munros - Outdoors

    Eastern Glenshee

    I woke up at 2:30am and left home at 3am; two hours and 80 miles later I started climbing up the steep slopes of Creag Leachan, the first of six Munros I’d planned for the day. The sun was slowly appearing from behind the hills, the sky was spotlessly clear; only low temperature (-2 Celsius) and cold wind on the…

  • Sermon - Year A

    6th Sunday of Easter

    Last Saturday was the Judgment Day. The earth was being gradually destroyed by enormous earthquakes at 6 o’clock local time. The believers were saved and the rest of the population was swept away. If you haven’t noticed such a fundamental change in your surroundings, don’t worry, you’re not the only one. At the beginning of 21st century it’s hard to…

  • Sermon - Year A

    5th Sunday of Easter

    Some time ago we faced a problem in Elgin. The number of children for first communion was so high that St Sylvester’s Church turned out to be too small to contain all candidates and their guests. In the hot debate about solving the problem one idea was to split the group. The criteria seemed to be obvious: a Polish group…