Collect  

Almighty God,  you have knit together your elect in one communion in the mystical body of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord:  grant that we may attain, with all your saints, the whole measure of the fullness of Christ;  who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy 

Spirit, one God, world without end.

Amen

 

Readings         

Revelation             7 : 9-17

Psalm                    34 : 1-10, 22 

1 John                      3 : 1-3

Matthew                 5 : 1-12

                                                                                                                                                 

Services

   9.30 a.m. – Eucharist – St. Catharine’s

11.15 a.m. – Service of the Word -  St. Anne’s 

 11,15 a.m. – Eucharist – St. Ninian’s

                           

ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETINGS

ST. CATHARINE’S Sunday, 15th November after the Service,   Please let Sarah Gammell have any

                                reports by Monday, 9th November either in writing or send to                                 

                                sarah@thegammells.com      

 

ST. ANNE’S            Sunday, 22nd November in the hall after the Service.

 

ST. NINIAN’S         To be arranged          

 

BIBLE STUDY  on Monday, 2nd November, at 7.30 p.m. (7 p.m. for tea and coffee) in St. Catharine’s. The Bible Society resource “The Bible Course” is our book.   This is God’s big story in 8 weeks, from Genesis to Revelation

 

MEDITATION GROUP meets at 10.45 a.m. on Tuesday, 3rd November at the home of

Margaret Linley (Ivy Cottage. Whitelea Road, Burrelton).

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SUNDAY, 8th NOVEMBER, 2026

PENTECOST 24

REMEMBRANCE SUNJDAY

 

10.00 a.m. JOINT SERVICE – ST. CATHARINE’S 

followed by Act of Remembrance in the Wellmeadow

 

NO SERVICES IN ST. ANNE’S OR ST. NINIAN’S

 

Readings

Amos                        5 : 18-24

Psalm                    70

1 Thessalonians  4 : 13-18

Matthew            25 :   1-13 

 

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BRF (Bible Reading Fellowship) meets on Tuesday, 10th November at 10.30 a.m. at the home

of Averil Valentine (Cullykhan, Bogside Road, Coupar Angus).

 

MARY’S MEALS

There is an invitation to join members of Blairgowrie Parish Church Guild at 2 p.m. on Monday, 2nd November in the Parish Church Hall for tea and biscuits.   The new Mary’s Meals film will be shown which continues the story of Lettie, the girl who received Mary’s Meals at school and featured in the first film, Child 31.   You are welcome to take friends along with you.

 

SAVE THE DATE!

If you want to know more about the “Piskie Pub/Inn” owned by Moray, Ross and Caithness Diocese, tune in to Channel 5 on November 10th to see Ben Fogel on his exploring unusual places to live programme.   More information is available on the Scottish Episcopal Church Facebook page.

Could be worth a trip??!!!

 

MOTHERS’ UNION are once again collecting toiletries for Blairgowrie Cottage Hospital (men and women), and Women’s Refuge.   A box is at the back of the churches for any donations .

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MOTHERS’ UNION PROVINCIAL RETREAT 2027                                    

Tuesday 13th April – Thursday 15th April at St. Mary’s Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth. 

The theme will be “Exploring with Jonah” leader Rt. Rev. Dr. NicholaS Bundock 

(Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway). Cost £260 full board per person.  Open to all 

not just Mothers’ Union members.  Further details can be obtained from 

Margaret Linley.

 

 

 

                                                THE LANGUAGE OF PRAYER

 

Met a man today.  Man I had seen many times before.   Just sitting.  With his legs crossed, 

hands knotted together, head hanging, hat down and collar up.

A daily fixture on the stone bench across from the children’s fountain on the town green.   Asleep, I think.   But his lips are moving – very carefully moving.   An ordinary average-middle kind of man.   Size, age, clothes, condition – all ordinary average middle.   From one to two

each day he sat – undisturbed by dogs, children, buses, laughter, rain or cold.   He sat.   

Saying something to himself, maybe.   Daily.

 

So I asked him.   One day I had to ask him.   Asked him was he alright (which meant,“what’s

 going on”)

 

And you know what he said?   Said he was praying.   Praying.  Not that praying is so strange,

but he said he was praying the alphabet.   Just reciting the alphabet over and over for an

hour each day, leaving it to Almighty God to arrange the letters into the proper words of a proper prayer.   What was missing in words, he said, he made up for in fervour   He figures 

God could handle it and would understand.

 

 

                                                                                         Robert Fulghum

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Website: abcsaints.co.uk

Facebook: ABC Saints, Perthshire

Rector:             The Reverend Kim Lafferty                                   

                        10 Rosemount Park, Blairgowrie PH10 6TZ

Tel. (Home) 01250-872715. (Office) 01250-874583

e-m, abcsaints@btinternet.com

Usual non-working day FRIDAY     

 

Organist at St. Catharine’s and St. Anne’s Austin Wilkie

 

St. Catharine’s Centre Coordinator: Kirsteen Moran. Normal working hours

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 9.00  a.m.– 1.00. p.m. 

 T. 01250 874583.   

E: stcatharinescommunitycentre@btinternet.com

 

Items for Pew Leaflet to Mrs. Margaret Linley by 5pm on Wednesday

T.07778 570515 (text only) E: linley314@tiscali.co.uk

 

OSCR NOS. St. Anne’s SC 014389, St. Catharine’s SC 003473, 

                      St. Ninian’s SC 005907, St. Michael’s SC 009176

 

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