St Ninian's & St Clement's, Catholic Churches Together
With thanks once again to Allison, the community champion at Tesco Riverside, for her kind donation of toys for the Giving Tree and lots of gingerbread men for the children singing at the Family Carol Service on 17th December. We are very grateful.
Well done to the children who sang a lovely advent song today written by Maureen Ruddy. It made everyone smile 🙂
We met this time with a pumpkin theme! Bernadette is demonstrating the reuse of pumpkin shells to turn into hanging bird feeders! Let’s hope the birds love them! The kids are getting stuck into planting daffodil bulbs for next spring. Thanks to the Garden Gang for building this area dedicated to flowers for the bees.
We have also been collecting seed pods from the wigwam. These started out as the ones we grew from seed last year! It’s been great to watch their grow and flowering cycle and we hope these little wool pots will soon be germinating next years plants. It was a fun afternoon 🎃
Who doesn’t love getting dirty?! 🤩
It was eyes down at St Mary’s, Lochee this week as we held our bingo fundraiser event. Many thanks to all those who came along to support this and to those who donated prizes, baked cakes and helped on the evening. We raised £620!
For the month of September the children are thinking about their favourite things in creation and in what ways they will make a difference to help save our beautiful Mother Earth. We are saying the Children’s Creation Prayer and special eco bidding prayers to help us think more closely about the world’s problems.
Today we had a lovely visit from the ladies at Hogs Croft hedgehog sanctuary. We really enjoyed it! We had lots of great questions to ask such as “how fast can hedgehogs run” (and wow it’s fast!) and “what do they eat” and “how many babies do they have” ! We have learned a lot and we are doing very well with our little area to encourage a hedgehog to come and live in the church orchard 🙂
We are very pleased to see all the flowers this year in the church gardens. Here we find Charlie sitting amongst the sweet peas that the CC Juniors grew from seed! It’s been a poor summer so the plants are not as tall as we hoped but they smell lovely and Charlie was happy to pick some to take home. The more we pick the more they grow! We have grown lots of alstroemeria which have appeared on the Altar recently as well as other lovely flowers and Judi picked this bunch as her prize in the raffle! 🙂
This year, Pentecost Sunday is also the 9th anniversary of the letter from Pope Francis to every person in the world, asking us to Care for our Common Home – to look after our beautiful planet! The Holy Spirit fills us with everything we need to make a difference every single day. The Pope’s letter is called Laudato Si’ (which means Praised Be) and we are going to make a big effort in the following week to do as our Pope asks.
Here is what WE will do in Our Laudato Si’ week 2024! 🌍
