My hyacinths are blooming. I was given the bulbs as a present at the recent Christmas party in Comrie and the flowers are now out. They...

It just happens that this year the last part of Advent begins on a Monday, which makes the last days of preparation for the coming of the...

The jazz musician Courtney Pine finished off his tour dates for 2018 this week in Glasgow at the Òran Mór. Despite a previously gruelling...

We reflected in our masses on the Second Sunday of Advent about John the Baptist’s cry being heard in the wilderness of peoples’ lives....

It was certainly a day for the fire but like so many of us I had to be out and about. One of my more pleasant duties was attending the...

Those of us of a certain age will remember that line from the ‘Three Musketeers’. I thought of them today when I was visiting P2/3 who...

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of John the Baptist. Because Jesus ‘stole the show’, we tend to forget sometimes what a...

Under the heading, ‘Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time,’ I asked the congregations at mass on the First Sunday of Advent to begin the...

Today, Sunday, 2nd December at 11am our children led us in our Mass. The theme is ‘Jesus, the Light of the World’. The children are also...

The other night we had our annual service for the bereaved. Despite the weather, the dark and the cold, a good number of folk gathered...

We’ve been encouraging the children of the parish to make cardboard or paper advent candles to bring up in the procession this coming...

Our Christmas lights in Crieff have been turned on. The Black Friday sales have come and partly gone. Traditions new and old seem to urge...

‘Welcome Christ in Your heart’. It seems straightforward doesn’t it? There’s also a certain ‘glow’ about the phrase: every time someone...