This year, Pentecost Sunday is also the 9th anniversary of the letter from Pope Francis to every person in the world, asking us to Care for our Common Home – to look after our beautiful planet! The Holy Spirit fills us with everything we need to make a difference every single day. The Pope’s letter…
Our very own Mgr Aldo shares a joke with Pope Francis….. Read more about his meeting in Rome where he represented Scotland’s parish priests for the final session of the Synod of Synodality. https://stniniansparish.co.uk/synodality-2023-24/
that the Church gardens aren’t just about the flowers and veg! We have lots of bird feeders and bug hotels around the area to encourage and protect wildlife and we made a “pond” from an old sink. We make our own compost and, from the leaves we sweep up in Autumn, we make leaf…
Today we have been planting out our sweet pea seedlings around the wigwam. We filled the bird feeders and the hedgehog dishes, we planted sunflower seeds in the Mary Garden and we enjoyed some flower shaped snacks! Our little robin enjoyed our company too and he says that, even though the wigwam doesn’t look…
Wow! Our parishioners who took up the challenge of the Big Lenten Walk for SCIAF certainly put their best feet forward. The combined group from St Ninian’s and St Clement’s walked the roads and the miles round Dundee and have hiked home with an astonishing total of £5000! Our super strollers send a huge THANK YOU to all…
Happy Easter to everyone! It’s great to see how well everyone has done with the special parishes’ Lenten efforts they started 6 weeks ago: Fr Johney and several parishioners enjoyed a well-deserved hot drink after their bracing walk along Riverside to complete their Big Lent Walk. All our fundraising will be a massive help…
As Spring (slowly) begins to make an entrance, work begins again in the Church gardens. Time to clear up after the wet Winter, to admire the first of the flowers – the crocus bulbs that the children planted and our annual daffodils ready for cutting, to look at the new additions such as the…
Our March CC Juniors had a litter theme! On a wet and miserable afternoon we first of all tucked in to some “litter free snacks” with fruit which we peeled and put in the compost bin and blueberry muffins baked in washable moulds! We watched some videos about caring for our world and the…