The latest edition of Quest is now available to download as a PDF file.
In this issue:
- Comings and goings at St John’s
- India Night
- Reflections on our time in Iona
And much more!
We look forward to welcoming Rev. Gordon Craig, chaplain to Oil and Gas UK, as our guest preacher when we celebrate Sea Sunday on 31st July. There will be a collection for Mission for Seafarers.
We are holding a silent auction with cheese and wine, Friday May 13th at 7.30pm in the Threshold. Tickets £5.
There’ll be a chance to make sheep cupcakes amongst many other activities for all the family 10.30-12.30 on Friday April 15th. Can’t wait! Everyone welcome, just turn up!
On Sunday April 3rd we had our first NiteKirk service – a time for meditation and a space for peace.
There will be further NiteKirk services from 6-8pm on 1 May and 5 June.
The latest issue of Quest is now available for download as a PDF file.
In this issue:
- Our project to provide support packs for new mums and babies in need
- New Daylight: a resource for daily Bible reading and prayer
- Nitekirk: a new evening service of space and reflection
And much more!
Alleluia, He is risen!
A few photos from the 10.30 Eucharist service this morning. The sanctuary was bedecked with lily flowers (some contributed by members of the congregation in memory of loved ones); the garden scene under the altar shows the stone rolled away.
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- Cross relegated to the distance - today, we celebrate the stone rolled away from the tomb.
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- The sanctuary was awash with colour - here, lilies (some given as memorials for departed loved ones).
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- The children made Easter baskets during the service.
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- The garden scene under the altar - Cross and tomb
Our Palm Sunday service started with a procession into the street and back
David leads a procession of the choir and congregation along the street at the start of the service
David leads a procession of the choir and congregation along the street at the start of the service
We used the following as a post-communion prayer:
Almighty God, whose Son entered not into glory before he was crucified, may we, walking in the way of the cross, find it to be for us the way of life; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Holy Week and Easter Events
This year we have the following services and events during Holy Week and Easter:
- Palm Sunday (March 20)
- 10.30 Eucharist with Procession
- 6 p.m. Evensong
- Monday
- 7.30 p.m. ‘Voices in a Mystery’
- Tuesday and Wednesday
- 7.30 p.m. Compline and Reflection
- Maundy Thursday
- 11 a.m. Holy Communion (SPB)
- 7 p.m. Seder Meal and Reflection
- Feet or Hand Washing and Vigil
- Good Friday
- 10.45 PACT Walk of Witness, starting at St John’s Kirk
- 12 a.m. Words from the Cross
- Easter Sunday
- 7 a.m. PACT Dawn Service at Quarrymill
- 8.30 Holy Communion
- 9 a.m. Easter Breakfast
- 10.30 Eucharist
The altar cloth has been replaced with purple, for the penitential season of Lent.
After the service we had a bread and soup lunch – the first of several lunches to be held on Wednesdays during Lent.
Today was also Fergus Harris’s 80th birthday, so there was cake 🙂
