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Christmas Day Service
If you are planning to attend the short service on Christmas Day at 10:30 you are invited to bring along a present that you have received.
Reflections from the Pew 74
The last of a series looking at the stories behind some Christmas Carols, this one is O Holy Night. In a small town in France in 1843, the parish priest asked a local poet, Placide Cappeau, to write a poem to celebrate the recommissioning of the church organ, they...
Reflections from the Pew 73
The third of a series looking at the stories behind some Christmas Carols, this one is In the Bleak Mid Winter. This was written by the English poet Christina Rossetti. Her brothers Dante Gabriel and William Michael gave birth to a nineteenth-century art movement,...
Christmas Services
18th December at 10:30am - Lessons & Carols, with Rev Chris Shreeve. 24th December at 6:30pm - Christmas Eve Family Service, with Rev Chris Shreeve - will there be an early visit from Father Christmas?? 25th December at 10:30am - Christmas Day Service with Iain...
Reflections from the Pew 72
The second of a series looking at the stories behind some Christmas Carols, this one is Silent Night. This is such a famous story that there is a book The story of Silent Night. by Gallico, Paul (abebooks.co.uk) It tells the story that on Christmas Eve in 1818 Jospeh...
St Fillan’s Coffee & Scones
The first of our monthly coffee and scones morning was well attended on Thursday morning by about 60 people, a nice relaxed atmosphere with plenty of chat going on. Our next one will be held on Thursday 2nd February and the first Thursday of every month thereafter,...
Presbytery Mission Plan Roadmap December 2022
As you can see from the diagram above, the Roadmap is now complete. The Presbytery plan has been approved. It will take 5 years to be implemented. St Fillan's is one of several churches that is waiting for a decision after a report from the Historic Churches Working...
2022 Stamp appeal
Remember to collect your stamps - both ordinary stamps and commemorative stamps. The charity that the Church of Scotland World Mission Stamp appeal is supporting is slightly different this year. The aim is to raise sufficient funds to pay the salary of a pastor...
Reflections from the Pew 71
The first of a series looking at the stories behind some Christmas Carols, this one is Once in Royal David's City. This carol has introduced Carols from Kings College, Cambridge since it was first broadcast in 1928. Arthur Henry Mann, organist at King’s College...