Welcome to our Website. See the button immediately above, where you can click for our Church Service on the Main Page. When you click on 12th July, the service for this week will appear. This week the Service features Video prayers, the Thought for the Day, and the Children’s Makaton Blessing. Click above but remember to Back-space as you leave each item.
Last week’s service is on the Church News section and is dedicated to all who have shared Love and are sharing Love on the journey of life, and thanksgiving is made to Jesus Christ whose Love offer is constant and unconditional. Have your Bibles to hand to read the truly beautiful readings for the day. We also have a good mix of hymns. Seconds of patience are required if an advert appears. Just wait, it will go away or the sign will come up saying skip ads. Join in the hymn or prayer or anthem and at the end of each please back space. It is ever so easy the more you do it, as with all things new. Hope you explore the opportunity which develops in different ways from week to week.
Preparation is being made for Churches Opening. We’re working on this! If you would like and are able to help contact Mike Moir, Depute Clerk or myself. The Manse phone number is 01738 551942. Please leave your Name and telephone number. A Strong Rallying Call is sounded to all age groups!
***Masks: READ THIS: Dear All, like everyone, I have been considering the usefulness of face masks in reducing the transmission of Covid 19 in the coming months, particularly during winter. I had noticed that face masks are expensive and realised that many people would struggle to afford to buy them. I am wondering whether any of you would like to make or buy a mask for donation to the PKAVS mental health and well-being hub and the Salvation Army drop in centre in Perth. If so, if you bring them to my home, I will ensure that they are taken to these organisations for distribution. My details are below together with links for patterns and instructions for making masks. Linda’s address is 24, Highfield Road, tel. 01738 574405. A Kirk Elder else- where, she has now moved into Scone. Olson Mask Pattern: https://www.unitypoint.org/filesimages/COVID-19/UnityPointHealth-OlsonMask-Instructions.pdf Also, the Big Community Sew provides information on how to make masks for your community: https://www.bigcommunitysew.co.uk/
Weight loss: My Sponsored weight loss has not long to go! The longer it goes on, the more the will power is exercised. This has been quite an exercise during Lockdown so please ensure the Church benefits as much as I, and encourage the sponsorship. More recipes for the Lockdown Recipe Book are coming in, another fundraiser for Church Funds. In addition to all else the income of the Church locally and nationally requires to be sustained. We’re told that many church buildings could close. Your support of your Church is vital! The Treasurer has written us all to say he will be so appreciative of receiving the offerings saved up. Donations too are always appreciatively received. Thank you so much.
God bless you, Maudeen
We’ll go to the future purposefully and upbeat! Here are some songs to encourage you O when the saints go marching in! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1Th64YGCs then click Back Space.
Thou art before me, Lord, thou art behind, words printed below. Hear Highland Cathedral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAsdo0zMUyA then click Back Space.
What a wonderful world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddLd0QRf7Vg then click Back Space.
Thou art before me, Lord, thou art behind And thou above me hast spread out thy hand; Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, Too high to grasp, too great to understand.
Then wither from thy Spirit shall I go, and wither from thy presence shall I flee? If I ascend to heaven thou art there, and in the lowest depths I meet with thee.
If I should take my flight into the dawn, If I should dwell on ocean’s farthest shore, Thy mighty hand would rest upon me still, and thy right hand would guard me evermore.
If I should say, ‘Darkness will cover me, and I shall hide within the veil of night’, Surely the darkness is not dark to thee, The night is as the day, the darkness light.
Search me, O God, search me and know my heart; Try me, O God, my mind and spirit try; Keep me from any path that gives Thee pain, and lead me in the everlasting way.
IMPORTANT UPDATE
Dear Congregation and Community,
Just a little note to wish you God’s blessing and with a prayer that you all keep safe and well. As you are aware, all Churches are now closed even for prayer. Keep up the praying wherever you are because Prayer and Meditation are not shut down. We can pray and meditate in our homes and when we have our time of exercise.
I hope you received word about praying with all denominations of the Christian Faith at 7pm last Sunday night, and about lighting a candle and placing it in your window at 7pm.
The detail was and is on site under the section Church News.
It would be good to continue this practice not only each Sunday evening but every evening.
Let the light of Faith, Hope and Love, be seen and felt throughout the parish of Scone and St Martins and may your prayers be constant for the Church and for this community, and all communities world- wide.
In your prayers be sure to include Medical, Surgical, and Nursing Staff and all who help in hospitals, hospices, residential and nursing homes, and out in the districts.
Many are the people here and, in the world, who know sickness and suffering on every day of every year and many are their dear ones who give them loving support.
Remember, too, the dying and bereaved.
Please remember each one known and unknown.
Remember that not all suffering is physical. Remember the depressed and all who know suffering in their minds, remember those challenged by a lack of life’s usual routine in their lives and all who care for them. Remember those challenged and suffering due to Covid 19 Remember all working on the Front Line including the Scientists seeking a vaccine.
In addition to your prayers at 7pm and to your lighting the candle of Faith, Hope and Love and to your placing it in your window and to your encouragement of others to do likewise it is always good to give thanks.
I was glad that the country remembered to give thanks last night, Thursday evening, for Medical, Surgical, Nursing and Caring Staff and all who support them. Again, that is good practice on every day of every month of every year. Keep the thanksgiving and prayers for their wellbeing.
It is great to hear of the good deeds quietly done as you Love your neighbour in this time of lockdown. Alive and well, my ministry continues. Thank you to those who have made contact and offered to be of help as circumstances permit. As with the word “prayer”, “society” is a word that is not redundant. Keep us posted if we can be of help in any way at all. The Manse telephone number is: 01738 551942.
Suggestion: If unable to get out for a walk, use your telephones to keep in touch. Don’t over listen to the corona virus reports but be sure to play music and enjoy it! If we are operating as if in wartime conditions may our oldest friends continue to sing the songs of these times; you’ll recall “Keep right on to the end of the road” and from the hymn book there are many hymns we may sing including “Fight the good fight” and in quieter mood, “Christ be beside me, Christ be before me” to the tune of Morning has broken.
See the guided worship, more than usual, with Prayers and a Thought, to be found under Order of Service.
Love and Blessing,
Maudeen
PRAYER of St MARTIN
It is said of St Martin that he was one of God’s Saints who influenced the West with the Good News of Jesus Christ. Martin was at one in spirit through his love of Jesus. He lived in close affinity to God’s Creation. He embraced the poor and those who were in need; he respected all of God’s creation even the very flowers and animals of the field and birds of the air. God we thank you for your servant Martin and pray that we may respect your creation in all its fullness. In this special time of challenge may we appreciate the goodness around us and share your love with all in need and remember the animals who give comfort, loyalty, and unconditional love especially to those who cherish and love them most. In Jesus Name, Amen
PRAYER of St. COLUMBA
Be a bright flame before me, O God, a guiding star above me. Be a smooth path below me, a kindly shepherd behind me,
today, tonight, and forever more
PRAYER OF ST PATRICK
Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me.
Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ inn danger,
Christ in hearts of all who love me. Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
LIGHTING THE LIGHTS
We will light three lights for the Trinity of Love
God above us, God beside us, God beneath us;
The Beginning, the End, the Everlasting One.
Jesus Christ, Son of Mary, Holy Spirit, Light of Life,
Shield and sustain us and all our dear ones,
this day, this night, and every day and night. AMEN.
Weddings: We have no weddings booked until later in the year.
God bless all who Love One Another.
Christenings and Baptisms:
We look forward to this Sacrament when the Church doors open and we are able again to have a Great Celebration of New Life! Remember these words: Let the children come to me. Do not try to stop them for to such belongs the Kingdom of God.
Funerals: At this time attendances are limited to nearest and dearest.
Services of Thanksgiving may be arranged for a later date.
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EASTER SUNDAY: Bells in Scone and St Martin will ring out The Day of RESURRECTION! THE EASTER ACCLAMATION will be made thrice: Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!!!
Further detail will be given. Keep a look out! And an ear tuned in!
If you require pastoral help do not hesitate to contact me on 55194
The Bible Study Group continues to meet on Wednesday evenings at 7.30pm in CR1 at Balformo Road. All are welcome.
Balformo Road, Scone 
Every First Thursday at Burnside Hall
Every Third Thursday at Balformo Hall