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Dornoch Cathedral
Church of Scotland
Dornoch
IV25 3SH
Services
Sunday at 11:00am
Sunday at 11:00am
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Interim Moderator
Rev. Alistair Drummond
01349 852480
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Locum Minister
Carol Anne Porter
07400 313303
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Session Clerk
Mrs Liz Manson
Lamington, Invergordon
IV18 0PE
07845 970923
Dornoch Firth Church Of Scotland
Dornoch Cathedral
Dornoch
IV25 3SH
Session Clerk
07845 970923
Rev Carol Anne Porter Intimation
Notice is hereby given that Clèir Eilean Ì has received a Call from the congregation of Dornoch Firth Church of Scotland addressed to Rev Carol Anne Porter to be their new minister. This Call has been sustained as a regular Call, has been accepted by her.
The Presbytery, having judged the said Rev Carol Anne Porter qualified for this charge, has resolved to proceed to her induction on Saturday, 14 June 2025 at 2.00pm, at Dornoch Cathedral.
The only circumstance in which this would not occur is if an objection occurs which may reasonably impede it.
Notice is given that if any member of the congregations of Dornoch Firth Church of Scotland has objection to the life or doctrine of the said Rev Carol Anne Porter you should intimate your objection at the earliest opportunity to the Presbytery Clerk. If you do this, you will also need to submit to the Presbytery Clerk appropriate evidence to substantiate your objection.
The Presbytery is to meet at Dornoch Cathedral on 14 June 2025 at 1.45pm. If an objection is not notified in advance but is first brought at that meeting the objector must satisfy the Presbytery that there was no earlier opportunity to bring the objection to the attention of the Presbytery Clerk.
Unless a substantiated objection is made which is then upheld, the Presbytery shall proceed to induction of the said Carol Anne Porter without further delay.
By order of the Presbytery,
W Stewart Shaw DL
Presbytery Clerk (pro tem)
Dornoch Firth Parish Newsletter Ready for Sunday
The Dornoch Firth Parish Newsletter is ready @ £1.50 on Sunday 25th May.
This is a bumper edition with articles on The Chosen, Holy Week thoughts, Tent for Lent Guild, Tower opening and update from groups, Care Homes, VE Day Celebrations and Dates for diary in June & July.
Music in the Cathedral: Dreams of Peace & Freedom
Friday 20th June | 7.30pm
Cathedral Bells will ring for VE Day celebrations in Dornoch
On the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, Dornoch will host a wreath-laying ceremony at the War Memorial at 9am on the morning of Thursday 8th May. Later that evening, the town’s bells will be rung at 6:30pm from the Cathedral, St Finnbarr’s and the primary school.
Lily Casson and Robert Blackmore with a projection of their great grandparents, Sylvia and David Maxwell Fyfe
May 10th ‘Classics for Strings’ Concert in the Cathedral
Come and enjoy a memorable evening with D James Ross conducting “Classics for Strings” in Dornoch Cathedral and with the guest soprano Hasmik Harutyunyan.
Doors open at 7.30pm for 8pm – admission at the door adults £10 and £7.50 for children (16 & under).
Please come along and enjoy this concert and support our fund raising plans for 2025 and help us maintaining our 800 year magnificent of place of worship which is a prominent feature of Dornoch’s history, heritage and religion.
Concert in Dornoch Cathedral
The Chosen
In February, some of us began watching ‘The Chosen’, a new multi-season drama about the life of Jesus, some at home but most together in the West Church Hall.
We begun with Season 1, Episode 1, I have called you by name. And we worked out that if we watched the second episode, Season 1, Episode 2, Shabbat, and keep watching each week through Lent, we will have watched the entire first season. This means making The Chosen our Lent discipline, meeting mostly on Wednesday evenings and Thursday mornings (there may be one exception to allow hall bookings already taking place to happen smoothly but this will be confirmed).
If you haven’t made the showing of the first two episodes, you can watch on your preferred device either by searching the App Store for ‘The Chosen’ or going to your preferred search engine and typing in ‘thechosentv’.
We’ll watch the second episode this coming Wednesday (26th) in the West Church Hall at 6.30pm. Teas will be available from 6pm. There will be a second showing for those who prefer mornings on Thursday morning at 11am. Teas will be available from 10.30am.
When we get to Lent, we’ll change the timings at little as follows:
Wednesday nights from 5th March:
Film begins at 6.30pm, Refreshments and Discussion from 7pm
Thursday mornings from 6th March
Film begins at 11am, Refreshments and Discussion from 12noon
Please feel free to be flexible in how you engage with the series. If you prefer to watch at home and come for the discussion please do. If you want to watch the film and go that’s okay too. And obviously, if you’re an ‘in for a penny, in for a pound’ kind of person, come for the whole shebang!
Carol Anne Porter (Rev)
Image © The Chosen
The Closing Service for Creich Church
The Closing Service for Creich Church is ready for you to watch via Dornoch Firth Church of Scotland Facebook page.
If you are not a Facebook user you can see it on the Worship Page as most services are presented there.
Or you can just watch it here…