St Ninian's & St Clement's, Catholic Churches Together
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 🙂
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 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! 🙂
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.
Saturday 15th June was a very special day for 12 boys and girls from St Ninian’s Primary School who received their First Communion in St Ninian’s Church, Menzieshill. The lovely Mass was celebrated by Fr. Johney and families and staff joined them for their happy holy day. Prayers and best wishes to them all.
Below, is a video of the children singing and signing their special hymn, ‘Come to the Table of Mercy’.
