FEAST OF THE NATIVITY

The Feast of the Nativity will be celebrated from 7pm on December 24th at the Chapel of the Holy Transfiguration, Rathen. Directions are here

All are welcome.

The next Liturgy in Aberdeen will be on the 15th of December at St Ninian's Church, King St, Aberdeen at 10am. There will be an opportunity to make your confession from 09.30. In addition, there will be a community supper at St Ninian's from 5pm to 8pm. There will be some teaching for the children on the Nativity and an opportunity for the grown-ups to investigate the Liturgy in more detail. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity to make your confession before the Nativity.

We will also be celebrating the Liturgy in Inverness on the 22nd of Dec at the RNI Chapel in Inverness. Confessions from 10.00 and Liturgy starts 10.30.

The feast of the Theophany will be upon us soon, so please start maiking your preparations for the blessing of the homes. Please let me know if you would like a visit and when.

A happy, holy and restful Nativity to you all!!
Fr T

I was enjoying myself, honest!

Glen Affric

New Media

This reminds me, talking of the new media. I got a 'shout' recently from a new friend and fellow priest in the US. Fr Michael Preble and I are both on Facebook and have been skyping each other about various things. He and Fr Greg Christakos have a podcast here.

If you listen to episode 11, I get a mention! Hopefully, Fr Michael and I can set up a transatlantic podcast in the near future.

He mentioned us living in the Highlands, so I thought I'd post a couple of pictures of the real Highlands (Aberdeen is in the highlands, but not very 'Highlands' if you know what I mean!). I recently went to Cannich, north of Inverness to see Sister Petra-Clare. I was there for a couple of days of silence and rest, so I went for a hike up a hill!! In typical Highland winter weather- cold, wet and dreich! I had fun, despite the rather pained look on my face!

Feast of St Nicholas

It's been a long time since I have blogged, but today we have just finished celebrating the Feast of St Nicholas. We had a carol service last night, organised by Lucia and Virgil, which brought many people from the Romanian community in Aberdeen together for carols in Romanian and English.

My mobile phone camera is not very good, but here's a few photos.


We had a really nice time, with plenty of Romanian food and the singing was so good that I hope that they will all come back to swell the church choir!!

I did try to do a little video of the choir, but it didn't work- I'm not so clever with computers as I think I am!