Dear Friends,Our last Friday service saw 30+ people celebrating the holiday season, listening to Cliff Richard singing ‘Summer Holiday’ and eating 99s provided by Ron and Marion and charmingly served by Janie and Granger’s granddaughters. You...
Read More6 July 2025: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,This week, amongst many other things, I have been thinking about rubber stamps! This is because we will need a rubber stamp to mark people’s Pilgrim Passport as they complete the Fife Pilgrim Way. At the same time, I have been...
Read More29 June 2025: Letter from the locum minister, Rev Marion Paton.
Dear Friends,It is summer holiday time, and I guess that many of you have either been away, as I have, or are going away in the near future. But I also guess that there will be others who are not able, for various reasons, to get away for a break...
Read More15 June 2025: Letter from the Session Clerk, Dr Mike Carslaw
Dear Friends,Rev Marion Paton, our wonderful Locum Minister, is currently in Spain walking the Camino from Leon to Santiago de Compostela. Thanks to Rev Alastair Symington, our Interim Moderator, who is leading today’s service. I sincerely hope...
Read More8 June 2025: Letter from the locum minister, Rev Marion Paton.
Dear Friends,On my desk in my study, I have a little book of Christian inspirational sayings, one for each day of the year. I was particularly was struck by the one for today (4 June) which in essence says that a good and lively church fellowship...
Read MoreSunday 1 June 2025: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton.
Dear Friends,Many of you, like me, will have had or have pets. In my case Zoomy the beagle is a very companionable and very chatty friend. She can, as some of you know, be quite loud, and she is certainly not shy about making her opinions felt...
Read MoreSunday 18 May 2025: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,As I write, Christian Aid Week is just drawing to a close. Coffee Mornings and other special events have been held, donation envelopes have dropped through letter boxes or been distributed in church, and hopefully have been filled...
Read More11 May 2025: Letter from Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,As I write I have just returned from showing a party of American pilgrims around Holy Trinity Church. To say they were blown away by the history and the beauty of the building would be an understatement. What is more, they were...
Read More4 May 2025: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton.
Dear friends,It was Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) who once said, ‘A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair’. That is not a very politically correct statement for our own day for I am sure everyone would agree that we should all...
Read More27 April 2025: Letter from the locum minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,When was the last time you saw people queuing to get into church? Certainly, I have never seen such a thing in Holy Trinity on a Sunday morning, apart from on Remembrance Sunday and the Golf Service. But last Sunday we were late in...
Read More20 April 2025: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,A very Happy Easter to you all. This is a wonderful day of celebration for the event that is at the very heart of our faith. After a week of walking the way of the cross with Jesus, and for some people, a very long period of fasting...
Read More23 March 2025: Letter from the Locum Minister, Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,It was a very wise person who said that a joy that is shared is a joy doubled, whilst a sorrow that is shared is a sorrow halved. This is particularly true for those who live alone. I well remember a widowed friend of mine who was...
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