Don’t forget, this Sunday is a service of Thanksgiving for Harvest at St Finnbarr’s, Dornoch – come along at the usual time of 11am and join in the Harvest classics like We Plough the Fields and Scatter. There will be a special collection for the fuel poverty fund managed by Tain Foodbank – Come, Ye Thankful People Come, Raise the Song of Harvest Home!
Sunday 5th October (the final Sunday in the Season of Creation) is the day when the congregation of St Andrew’s will celebrate their Harvest Festival.
The service will be as follows:
All are welcome.
So bring the first of the fruit of the ground that the Lord, has given you. You shall set it down before the Lord your God and bow down before the Lord your God. Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house.
Deuteronomy 26:10-11
Every September you can explore hundreds of fascinating buildings across Scotland for free. Some open up once a year, some just once in a lifetime. As it is such a diverse region, the Highlands is split into three areas across three weekends. buildings in Inverness, the Black Isle, and Easter Ross are open this Weekend (20th and 21st September)
This year’s shared European Heritage Days theme is Architectural Heritage: Windows to the Past, Doors to the Future. This theme celebrates the rich diversity of buildings that surround us, exploring buildings and infrastructure of all styles and scales. In that context, St Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Tain will be open on both days as follows:
On both days, we will offer refreshments and the opportunity to look round the building either using a specially prepared guide booklet or by being shown highlights by a member of the congregation.
There is some very fine Stained Glass by Ballantine and Gardiner, A. L. Ward, W. Wilson and E. B. Souden
Mousey Thompson Furnishings
Our lovely unaltered 1914 C & F Hamilton (Edinburgh) organ
and much more.
All are very welcome to visit on either day.
Our entry on the Doors Open Day web site.
CALLING ALL SINGERS!
NEW – CHORAL EVENSONG CHOIR!!
Choral evensong is one of the jewels of Episcopalian worship. We want to introduce opportunities at various times in the year to take part in this type of service. The thing is, we need a good choir to help lead us. I am asking all those who might be interested in such a group to get in touch with me by email at episcopalpriestdornoch@gmail.com and/or to come along to a first meeting and ‘sing’ in St Finnbarr’s Church, Dornoch on Tuesday 19th August at 7pm. If you know anyone from outwith our regular congregations who might be interested – SPREAD the WORD and invite them along!
Our Study Group for the Season of Creation (the month of September) this year will be based around material adapted from the Season of Creation Project.
There will be four sessions each lasting a little over an hour, at Anna and James’ house at 11 Ferry Road, Golspie on Wednesday afternoons at 2pm on the following dates:
The sessions revolve around a study of a two or three Bible passages on each occasion from the Wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible and from the Gospels and will be semi-independent, so all are welcome even if you can’t manage all of them. If you wish any more information, speak to or contact Canon James.
For those who could not make it, or those who would like to hear the music again, this is a repeat of the concert that was held at the Tin Tabernacle in July!
Scottish Episcopal Church - Dornoch, Lairg, Brora, Tain & Tongue 