Dear Friends,An examination was being held in Emma’s class at school, and the question was asked, ‘Upon what do hibernating animals subsist during the winter?’ Emma thought for a few minutes and then wrote, ‘All winter long hibernating animals...
Read More20th February 2022: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,Today, whilst I have been working in my study, my friends Eric and Alan, who used to look after my garden in Dundee for many years, have been painting my fence. And I have been plying them, and myself, with cups of tea. The fence was...
Read More13th February 2022: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,One evening, just before the great Broadway musical star Mary Martin was to go on stage in South Pacific, a note was handed to her. It was from Oscar Hammerstein, who at that moment was on his deathbed. The short note simply said...
Read More6th February 2022: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,I don’t know whether you have ever watched one of those time-lapse films that speeds up the opening of a flower or the growth of a bulb or the emergence of a dragonfly from a chrysalis, but if you have you will know how beautiful...
Read More30th January 2022: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,Isn’t it good to be able to sit down to a cup of tea/coffee and a chat again after the service? I hope those of you who share in this service at home will be able to do the same. If Covid has taught us anything, it is just how...
Read More23rd January 2022: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,Today in Holy Trinity we are delighted to welcome our choir back to our worship after their Christmas break. So many people have told me how much they miss them, and we are very privileged to have such a fine choir to enhance our...
Read More16th January 2022: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,In Holy Trinity it is that time of year again when we are trying to encourage people to join the Reader’s Rota. I know there are quite a few people who worship with us regularly but who are not communicant members of the...
Read More9th January 2022: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope you are all keeping well and that you have had an enjoyable Christmas celebration.This is the time of year when the Christmas decorations come down and we return to normal, whatever normal is these days! It...
Read More19th December 2021: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,As you will all be aware, this has been a difficult week with so many changes to guidance concerning services and what we should and should not do so I want to begin by underlining what services will take place. Of course, everyone...
Read More12th December 2021: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,I must begin with a big word of thanks to you all for the wonderful party last Sunday. I had not expected anything so lavish and I am so grateful to you for all that you did to make the day special. It is such an honour and a...
Read More5th December 2021: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,This Sunday is a special day for many reasons, and I am delighted to welcome to Holy Trinity our friends from Boarhills and Dunino, together with friends from the Howe of Fife and St David’s High Kirk Dundee. You are all most...
Read More28th November 2021: Letter from the Locum Minister Rev Marion Paton
Dear Friends,It seems very odd to be writing this letter so far in advance, but as I shall be having a break next week, it seemed sensible to do it now. This coming Sunday is Advent Sunday, the first Sunday of the new year in the Christian...
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