St Albert's Network
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How St Albert's is dealing with the 'new normal'
Facebook live-streaming Mass, Zoom or Teams calls ("that never end") to the creation of YouTube vlogs or parody song videos, this is life...
St Albert's Network
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Sr Mary Thomas (Helen Brown) recalls her conversion, CSU memories and her call to becoming a nun
The CSU was part of my life from my arrival in Edinburgh as a postgraduate in 2001, to my departure from academia in 2008 to enter the...
St Albert's Network
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Tony & Jane Fletcher recall life at St Albert's in the 60's, as students, marriage & family life
I arrived as a fresher in 1960, and met the Dominicans for the first time. They introduced me to God. Before that I had only been...
St Albert's Network
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Fr Lawrence Lew OP recalls his fondest St Albert's memory
My first 4 years in pastoral ministry were spent at St Albert’s, and there are many happy memories, especially of baptisms,...
St Albert's Network
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Liz Murphy, exchange student, shares her CSU experience
When I was preparing to study abroad at the University of Edinburgh for the spring of 2019, my one constant prayer was, “God, please...
St Albert's Network
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Benedict & Gabriela Harris share how they met and got married at St Albert's
We never officially met, not that either of us can remember. Our shared interests pushed us together from the start: both Catholic,...
St Albert's Network
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Andy Loughe, former CSU President, fondly takes us down memory lane
Locus iste a Deo factus est. I never planned to join the CSU, let alone take on the role as President one day. I actually sort of ‘fell’...
St Albert's Network
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Sara & Paul Parvis contemplate the sharing of Faith at St Albert’s and the University of Edinburgh
Academic theologians have been described as ‘the inarticulate in pursuit of the ineffable’. In other words, Paul and I make a living...
St Albert's Network
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Brandon Enriquez reflects about his exchange experience
During my time on exchange at the University of Edinburgh last fall, the tranquil house on George Square home to the Catholic Students'...
St Albert's Network
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Lilian Lee reflects on being a student at the CSU to becoming Lay Chaplain at St Albert's
St Albert's Catholic Chaplaincy has played a much bigger part in my life than I could have ever expected. When I arrived in Edinburgh...