I am a member of Davidson’s Mains Parish Church in Edinburgh but on the last Sunday of October 2022, I received communion in Blackhall St Columba’s. For me this was a Sunday of memories because that day marked seventy years since I first shared in the sacrament of Holy Communion in that beautiful stone building.
On the previous Friday evening which in those days was usually the time for the Preparatory service, when those coming on Sunday “prepared” themselves to take part in the solemn act of Communion. I had professed my faith publicly, answered the questions given by the Church of Scotland and been admitted to membership.