St Ninian's & St Clement's

St Ninian's & St Clement's, Catholic Churches Together

Category: Eco

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Tesco Award

Every little blue token certainly helped us! Our parish was one of the local causes chosen by Tesco for their community award scheme and after a huge effort by all connected to St Ninian’s in amassing those little blue tokens, we came second after Shelter.

We are very grateful to Allison, the Community Champion and her team at Riverside. They are hugely supportive of us. The money will be used to buy furniture for CC’s, our community cafe in the church hall, which we run every Thursday.
The cafe is proving very popular with people making it a regular lunchtime date in their diary every week.
Throughout Lent all the money we are raising is being sent to the Turkish/Syrian Earthquake Appeal.
Huge thanks to Tesco and to our CC’s regulars. Every little donation they are making is helping us serve our local community.

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Parish Orchard

As we continue our Eco Congregation journey, our Garden Gang are delighted to announce that, with the help of a grant from Scotmid, they purchased and have planted a number of fruit trees in the parish garden on the piece of grass in front of the house kitchen and garage.

The orchard consists of 2 apple trees, pear trees, blueberry bushes as well as a plum tree and 10 raspberry canes! We look forward to tasting the produce in the summer!

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Raffle!

An amazing raffle prize has been very kindly donated to help with our fund raising! Enjoy a week, from October to April, in the Western Isles!

Win a week’s stay in a beautifully appointed 3 bedroomed bungalow in Loch Boisdale, on the Hebridean island of South Uist. It makes a convenient holiday spot especially for those who may wish to save the expense of taking the car to the Western Isles as it is very close to the Ferry! Find out more here

If you wish to buy a ticket, email ecogroupchat@gmail.com

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Tidy up!

The garden gang have been busy the last few weeks with a general tidy up of the front and back gardens. The spring bulbs are fairly growing! Signs of Spring for sure!

Meanwhile, In CC’s, the soup and toasties are proving popular with our regulars. They kindly increased their contributions last Thursday when told we were sending the proceeds to the Turkey/Syria Earthquake appeal. We combined the £50 collected that day with another £50 donated by parishioners attending the after-Mass coffee/teas. Thank you!

Anne from SCIAF, on receiving our online donation, thanked us saying, “Through SCIAF’s partners, we are able to immediately reach out to those most in need. Our partners including Caritas Syria and Turkey are already there, working tirelessly to provide emergency relief where it’s needed most. With heartfelt prayers and thanks.”

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The Letter

On Tuesday 21st February at 6.30 at CC’s (St Ninian’s Church hall), join us to watch The Letter, a powerful new documentary about how spiritual values unite us in the face of the planetary emergency. 

After we watch the film, we’ll discuss over a cup or tea or coffee and pancakes (it is Pancake Tuesday after all!), what we can do to join the movement of people who are building a better future. For more information or to book your place please contact us

Watch the trailer of The Letter and share the invitation to this community screening with your friends.

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Garden Update

Today the Garden Gang were busy doing the first Mary Garden tidy up of 2023. It was lovely to see the shoots appearing from the spring bulbs, which made up for some of the plants that we lost due to the freezing winter temperatures.

Our little robin pal was there as always, feasting on biscuit crumbs.

If anyone has seen Winter Watch this week you will know how important old and dead wood is to the mini beasts and small mammals who make a meal of the fungus growing on it – so important for the circle of life! Imagine how pleased we were to find the log (that a child might sit on at Children’s Liturgy!) covered in some essential beastie food.

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Busy Thursday

There was a lot going on at St Ninian’s today. While the Garden Gang were causing chaos- oops, sorry I mean they were dismantling the Crib, CC’s was also a hive of activity. On the menu today was a choice of not 1, not 2 but 3 delicious soups! The customers were spoilt for choice with lentil, spicy parsnip or minted pea and spinach to warm them up on a cold January day.

We are very fortunate to have such a great team of volunteers from St Ninian’s and St Clement’s.

The 2 Brians working hard and Jim and Louise supervising perhaps?
What is Maureen up to?
Ann and Elaine on the toastie making.
A few of our happy customers enjoying their soup

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Nativity

At the 9.30 Mass today, the children from the Children’s Liturgy group enacted the birth of Jesus in a pageant, narrated by Hannah. It was beautiful and as a parishioner said, “Brilliant today with the kids and the story of Jesus’ birth. Thanks to all. Great job.”