St Ninian's & St Clement's, Catholic Churches Together
Challenge yourself to a green resolution in 2025 
The easiest way to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill is to reduce how much we consume in the first place.
Doing a ‘no buy challenge’ and only spending on the essentials for a week, month or even the year if you’re feeling ambitious is a great way to challenge your habits and save a bit of money in the process.
Willing to give it a go?
On Thursday, Fr Johney and a group of 20 parishioners from St Ninian’s and St Clement’s came together to spread the joy of the season by singing Christmas carols at Roxburghe House. Their beautiful harmonies and heartfelt melodies seemed to be appreciated by both the patients and staff filling the space with warmth and festive spirit.
A big well done to the choir for bringing light and music to those who need it most during this special time of the year. Your kindness and effort truly embody the Christmas spirit. Once again a big ‘thank you’ to Maureen for making this possible and for her keyboard accompaniment
Link below to a verse of ‘Away in a Manger’:
Mary, our Mother,
As we prepare to celebrate the birth of your Son Jesus,
we reflect on the difficulties you faced.
We seek your intercession.
May our hearts and minds be opened to the many expectant mothers who face great uncertainty giving birth and the mums and dads struggling to feed and keep their children safe.
Help us to love and support our sisters and brothers in need.
Amen
We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded the Eco Congregation Scotland Gold Award for our “outstanding practice in caring for creation shown in your spiritual life, practical action and global awareness.”
We are now one of only 11 congregations in Scotland to be awarded Gold and the first Catholic parish to achieve this honour.
We are incredibly grateful to everyone involved and look forward to continuing our eco journey together responding to Pope Francis who says, “I urgently appeal, then, for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. We need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing and its human roots, concerns and affects us all..” (Laudato Si’ *14)
As we enter September, the Season of Creation, we, at St Ninian’s are considering ways of ‘hoping and acting’ with creation. The times we live in show that we are not relating to the Earth as a gift from our Creator, but rather as a resource to be used. “Creation is groaning” because of our selfishness and our unsustainable actions that harm her. So this month, we’ll focus on having a more sustainable approach to clothing……
We are planning to to set up a ‘Clothes Share’ through a Whatsapp group, help parishioners learn how to sell their items on Vinted, and a parishioner will alter and repair clothes to improve their appearance and longevity.
We are delighted to share the good news that our community wall is now in place at the back of the church. It’s looking great and from a personal point of view, it is so lovely to see the names of former parishioners. Many thanks to all who ‘made this happen’ especially the ‘2 Jims’, Jim Ashwood and Jim Hampton.
We are now collecting forms for the next batch of names to go on the wall so if you would like the names of your loved ones to be included, please get in touch.
For more information about the wall, go to https://stninianandstclement.org/community-wall/
Yes- this month you can make a difference! Join millions of people around the world by taking up the challenge to reduce our use of plastics.
Get started with the plastic-free challenge and download this document for ideas.
