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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...
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Dec 17, 20183 min read
Dysfunctional Family?
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...
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Dec 13, 20182 min read
Call and Response
The jazz musician Courtney Pine finished off his tour dates for 2018 this week in Glasgow at the Òran Mór. Despite a previously gruelling...
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Dec 10, 20182 min read
What More does God Want of Me?
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....
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Dec 7, 20182 min read
Heart and Hearth
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...
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Dec 7, 20182 min read
‘One for All and All for One’
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...
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Dec 4, 20182 min read
The Awkward Squad
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of John the Baptist. Because Jesus ‘stole the show’, we tend to forget sometimes what a...
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Dec 2, 20183 min read
Be Careful What You Wish for
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...
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Dec 2, 20181 min read
Children's Mass - 1st Sunday of Advent
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...
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Nov 28, 20182 min read
Making Room in our Hearts
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...
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Nov 27, 20183 min read
Lord of Light
We’ve been encouraging the children of the parish to make cardboard or paper advent candles to bring up in the procession this coming...
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Nov 26, 20183 min read
The long hello
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...
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CANON TOM SHIELDS
Nov 22, 20182 min read
A Symphony, not just a theme
‘Welcome Christ in Your heart’. It seems straightforward doesn’t it? There’s also a certain ‘glow’ about the phrase: every time someone...
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