A Service of Lessons and Carols

for Christmas

 St. Andrew’s Scottish Episcopal Church

Glebe Crescent, Tain

SUNDAY 21st December

6:30pm

Followed by seasonal refreshments

EVERYONE WELCOME

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:

• St Andrew’s, Tain at 11:00am
• The service will be followed by a ‘Bring and Share‘ Harvest Lunch
• Note – this is also a ‘Bring a friend to Church‘ Sunday, so visitors are especially welcome both at the service and for lunch afterwards.
• There will be collecting boxes for tins, packets and other food stuffs for the Tain Food Bank, so please share freely of your bounty with those less fortunate than you.

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

On Tuesday 25^th March we celebrate the solemnity of the Annunciation.

This special day celebrates the appearance of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to announce the incarnation.

Come along to a special Eucharist at 7pm in St Finnbarr’s Dornoch to find out what’s going on and why this day is so important!

• Saturday 21st Dec – Christmas Carols at the Mart with collection in aid of Air Ambulance and Tearfund
  with Simon Scott and the Harmony Choir, followed by mince pies and mulled wine
  • Rogart Mart, Rogart at 6:30pm

• Sunday 22th Dec – Christingle and Carol Service with collection in aid of the Children’s Society
  • St Finnbarr’s, Dornoch at 3:00pm

• Monday 23rd Dec – Service of Lessons and Carols with collection for the Samaritans
  • St Andrew’s Church, Tain at 3:00pm (followed by seasonal refreshments)

• Tuesday 24th Dec – Christmas ‘Midnight’ Services
  • St Finnbarr’s, Dornoch at 7:00pm and
  • St Andrews, Tain, at 9:00pm.

• Wednesday 25th Dec – Christmas Day Services
  • St Maelrubha’s, Lairg at 8:30am,
  • St Finnbarr’s, Dornoch at 10:00am and
  • St Andrews, Tain at 10:30am.

• Saturday 28th Dec – Crask Carol Service
  • the Crask Inn at 2:30pm (followed by seasonal refreshments)

• Sunday 29th Dec – Christmas Service
  • Christmas Service at St Columba’s, Brora at 4:00pm

All are welcome at any of our services.

As part of our Season of Remembrance, all are invited to join us at:

St Finnbarr’s Episcopal Church, Dornoch

on Sunday 3rd November

at 7:00pm

for a special service at which we remember those we have loved and lost.

At this service the names of the departed will be read aloud. We will read the names of your loved ones even if you can’t make it to the service, as this is something that we do for each other and for the wider Church community.

We have lists of names from previous years, all of whom will be remembered, but if there are others that you wish us to add please get in touch.

(The service this year is on 3rd, because we will be celebrating All Saints Sunday in the morning on the 3rd and the All Soul’s Service should come after All Saints:-)

A service of thanksgiving
for the life of

Charles Weston Brooke

(27th January 1951 – 6th October 2024)

will be held on

Thursday 24th October 2024
at 2:30pm

in Dornoch Cathedral

following a family funeral and cremation earlier in the day