Over this weekend Luss Parish Church welcomed the Reverend Doctor Laurence Whitley to Luss. He arrived with his wife, Catherine, on Saturday evening and saw round some of the work which is being done for the fifteen hundredth anniversary celebrations of our congregation before sharing in a dinner party with some of the members of Luss Church. On Sunday he preached before an excellent congregation in the Parish Church, bringing us the best wishes of his congregation at Glasgow Cathedral. Following the service, lunch was served in the Manse for everyone who had been in Church -- and for a few others who just wandered in!
Christianity was brought to Luss in the year 510 by Kessog whose death ten years later led to Luss being established as a place of pilgrimage. After the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 pilgrimage to Kessog's burial place in Luss increased to such an extent that in 1429 the little village Church was raised by Bishop John Cameron to the level of a prebend of Glasgow Cathedral -- a position which it retained until the Scottish Reformation. It is this period of the congregation's life which has been celebrated this weekend.
Laurence's words were both challenging and encouraging and will soon be available as a video on this web-site. Our picture shows Laurence with Dane in front of the Church before the Sunday service began.
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