Category: Eco

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! 🌍

• Monday – Take a walk in nature, look all around you and see the beautiful world of plants, animals, flowers, insects (some are so pretty!) 
• Tuesday- travel in an eco friendly way ! Walk or take an electric bus!
• Meat free Wednesday – eating less meat is good for the planet in lots of ways
• Thursday – Save energy – turn off lights you don’t need, turn off tv if you’re not watching!
• Friday – Save plastic by having reusable items such as water bottles and lunch boxes 
• Saturday – Save water! Turn off when you clean your teeth!
• Sunday – Talk with your family and friends about how you have been saving the planet. 
• NOW THINK BACK ON ALL YOU DID THIS WEEK AND KEEP GOING, DON’T STOP! 😍

Happy Easter to everyone! It’s great to see how well everyone has done with the special parishes’ Lenten efforts they started 6 weeks ago:

• Every week, parishioners from St Ninian’s and St Clement’s have come together to pray the Stations of the Cross.
• Fr Johney and many parishioners joined the Muirhead Church for an ecumenical service
• People have been very generous in bringing food to donate to the Foodbank, and the Foodbank’s calendar was a big help;
• A group effort made the Parishes Together Big Lent Walk a success. 20 parishioners signed up for this and have raised over £4,000! Very well done!
• And of course, the Wee Box appeal- these will be returned to the churches, monies counted then sent to SCIAF.

Fr Johney and several parishioners enjoyed a well-deserved hot drink after their bracing walk along Riverside to complete their Big Lent Walk.

• On Good Friday evening, a Passion Play was acted out beautifully in St Ninian’s. A special mention and a huge thanks to Maureen Ruddy who was the director and the main driving force behind this moving enactment of the passion of Our Lord. Also many thanks to those behind the scenes getting costumes and make up ready, practising lines, musicians and singers and of course a big shout out to the young folk- the actors who were amazing.

All our fundraising will be a massive help to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable. View the video from SCIAF’s partners and project participants in Rwanda

As Spring (slowly) begins to make an entrance, work begins again in the Church gardens. Time to clear up after the wet Winter, to admire the first of the flowers – the crocus bulbs that the children planted and our annual daffodils ready for cutting, to look at the new additions such as the Sweet Pea Wigwam, the Hedgehog House and the beautiful Memorial Cross. Our little pal Bob the Robin is ever present and generally spends the whole afternoon with the Garden Gang. Please do come along and visit or lend a hand as Spring progresses.