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.
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 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?! 🤩
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)
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 🙂