The Day of St. Cuthbert, 4th September.
At Eucharist Community, the Bidding Prayers included for the families at Channelkirk.
Interesting LINK: and the LINKAGE may follow Candlekirk, Childrenkirk and the Church history and Liturgy of Candlemass.
Looking for NEWS on the St. Cuthbert Way, the walk between Melrose and Lindisfarne.
Lauderdale Settlements
http://oxtonchannelkirk.com/village-history/lauderdale-settlements/
The quiet village of Oxton lies to the north of Lauder. The surrounding area is rich in historical interest. Lauderdale was on the Roman route north from the fortress at York. The remains of a Roman encampment exists at Kirktonhill. Lauderdale’s mother church at Channelkirk (1817), above Oxton stands on a site where traditionally people have been meeting to worship since 800A.D.
St Cuthbert, the shepherd boy who was born in Channelkirk in 635A.D., went on to become the Bishop of Lindesfarne. To mark the significance of the association between the young St Cuthbert and Channelkirk a suitable inscribed stone slab stands near to the Holy Water Cleuch (spring) perhaps used by St Cuthbert to baptise his early converts and since then in the christening of children born in Channelkirk.
Cuthbert spent his youth tending his sheep in the surrounding Lammermuir hills, where in 651A.D., he saw in a vision the soul of Bishop Aiden of Lindesfarne ascending to heaven. This led him to seek instruction in the Christian faith from the monks at Melrose and to devote his life to preaching the gospel among heathen folk living in the glens of Northumbria. He became a ‘Monk in Mailros’.
Cuthbert spent his youth tending his sheep in the surrounding Lammermuir hills, where in 651A.D., he saw in a vision the soul of Bishop Aiden of Lindesfarne ascending to heaven. This led him to seek instruction in the Christian faith from the monks at Melrose and to devote his life to preaching the gospel among heathen folk living in the glens of Northumbria. He became a ‘Monk in Mailros’.
A chapel at Glengelt and another at Carfrae, both apparently domestic chapels, were then under Channelkirk. The Holy Water Cleuch, a little to the west and mentioned in 1588, is believed to have been connected with the now obliterated Roman fort for sacred purpose.
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