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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
Communion on Sunday 19th November.
Everyone is welcome to join us at the Lord’s Table for Communion on Sunday 19th November.
Christmas and New Year Best Wishes
With the cost of postage continuing to increase you might wish to pass on your best wishes to friends and family via the Parish News. The details below are included in current Parish News.
We can include them in the next edition of the Parish News issued at the end November for a donation to Cathedral funds.
All hand written messages must be received by Sunday 12th November. Please enclose them in an envelope marked Parish News Christmas Greeting and handed in at the door with your donation.
Or you can email them to newsletter@dornoch-cathedral.com by Sunday 12th November.
To make your donation you can either use:
Intimations for Sunday, 22nd October 2023
If you would like to view the Sunday service or the thought for the day on You Tube please subscribe to
‘’Worship Dornoch Cathedral’’ It is also available on the website [Worship Page].
To listen to the service phone 01862 494411.
Dornoch Guild will meet on Tuesday 24th October at 2.30pm in the West Church Hall. Our speaker will be Ann McDonald from Highland Senior Citizens telling is about Network for Help. All welcome.
Prayers for our New Parish – Every Thursday in November at 10.30 am – 2nd, 9th , 30th Dornoch, West Church Hall.
16th Bonar Bridge
23rd Ardgay
A time to gather and pray for our future congregation and all the decisions we need to make. ALL WELCOME.
Christmas and New Year Best Wishes – With the cost of postage continuing to increase you might wish to pass on your best wishes to friends and family via the Parish News. The details below are included in current Parish News.
We can include them in the next edition issued at the end November for a donation to Cathedral funds.
All hand written messages must be received by Sunday 5th November. Please enclose them in an envelope marked Parish News Christmas Greeting and handed in at the door with your donation or you can email them to newsletter@dornoch-cathedral.com by Friday 10th November.
To make your donation you can either use:
· Bank transfer – details are Sort Code 80-06-36; Account 06002380; Reference ‘Christmas Greetings’.
· Cheques made payable to Dornoch Cathedral and take to the Cathedral with your name on the envelope and marked Christmas Greetings.
· Cash in an envelope taken to the Cathedral with your name on the envelope and marked Christmas Greetings.
A huge thank you to all who have contributed to our Gift Day Appeal in any way. The amazing total raised so far is £15,078. The fund remains open until the end of the month.
Quiz Night! 18th November
Soup & Sandwich for Oversteps 18th November
Harvest Thanksgiving on Sunday, October 8th
Ceilidh at Bonar Bridge: 7th October
As Dornoch, Creich and Kincardine Churches work as a group to not only worship we wish to share social time and this Ceilidh will be an opportunity to get to know each other while enjoying local talent, either dancing or watch dancers to excellent Rogart Ceilidh Band.
Dornoch Cathederal Guild News
Meetings are held on TUESDAYS at 2.30pm in the West Church Hall.
Please see 2023-2024 syllabus for the Cathedral Guild here…
A Taste of Ukraine Lunch
Recently, over 80 people enjoyed Ukrainian food and friendship organised by our Cathedral Womens Group. The West Church Hall was beautifully decorated in Ukrainian national colours.
After the lunch was opened with prayer we had one minutes silence and a toast with UZVAR a tasty beverage made with apples, honey and spice. The Toast was: Glory to Ukraine – Glory to the Heroes
We sipped our Uzvar and 3 times called out WOODMO (Bon Appel).
The Soup course was BORSCHT which is beetroot soup served with sour cream. This was followed by PIEROGI / VARENYKI, savoury vegetarian dumplings. To finish we tasted KIELBASA, which is a chocolate cake, and served with tea and coffee.
Nearly £1,000 was raised with all proceeds being donated to a Church of Scotland link Church in Hungry where Ukrainian refuges are safe from the war.
Piano Concert by ROBIN COLVILL
International Concert Pianist Performs
“POPULAR PIANO CLASSICS”
A Selection of famous classical pieces from 17th to 21st Centuries
THURSDAY 3 AUGUST at 7.30 pm
at Dornoch Cathedral
Tickets: £10 Adults ~ £1 Students under 14 yrs
Ticket Reservations via
maestromusicmanagement@gmail.com
and bought at the door on the night of the concert.
Meet Robin for CD signing after the Concert
Elikuren Chamber Choir: Sunday 6th August for our Sundays at 7
Elikuren is a young chamber choir of 14 people from Wunstorf near Hannover in Germany. The choir regularly performs locally and love to travel having had tours of Egypt in 2011, Ghana in 2013, Iceland in 2015, Canada in 2017 and Ireland in 2018. Charity concerts they organised benefitting the construction of a children’s hospital in Ghana.
Christiane Kampe says, “We are very excited to visit Dornoch on our tour of Scotland this year. The repertoire we will perform includes classical German pieces by Bach and Mendelssohn. Our performance will be an Evensong with prayer opening and closing the service. We are happy to perform free of charge. We would like donations to benefit a charitable cause.”
Summer Sundays @ 7
Our first summer Sundays @ 7 is on 4th June. These are short informal acts of worship during the summer months which consist of lots of singing mingled with prayers and readings Everyone is welcome.
Services will be led by members, adherents and friends of Dornoch Cathedral with a good variety of themes. Please join our first evening of praise which will be led by our Locum Minister, Rev Carol-Anne Porter on Sunday 4th June When is it – 7pm
Everyone is welcome with our Guild, Womens Group, Junior BBs, Cathedral Choir and even a Choir from Germany one evening. Relax as the weekend draws to a close in the wonderful surrounds of our ancient Cathedral each Sunday until the end of August.
Come and help us raise the roof in our Songs of Praise to Our Lord!
Informal Concerts in Dornoch Cathedral on 30th May & 3rd June
An Informal Concert, by Index Cantorum on
In Dornoch Cathedral
Come and enjoy an hour of musical magic.
All are welcome.
Donations towards the upkeep of Dornoch Cathedral
Concert in aid of Highland Support Refugees – 30th June at 7pm
Highland Support Refugees was started in Inverness in 2015 and has volunteers from Shetland to Moray. They collect donations of clothing, toiletries, tents and sleeping bags and once sorted, packed and sent to camps across Europe with over 200 tons of aid dispatched so far.
They also seek to engage with local communities about the refugee crisis and resettling refugees in the Highlands. Simon Evans, violinist teaches English to refugees, having taught Syrians in Dingwall and Inverness and currently teach Ukrainians on the Black Isle and Afghan teenagers in Invergordon.
Julian Davis has played piano since childhood and obtained the LRAM diploma in the 1980s. He worked until recently as Professor of Medicine at Manchester University and Manchester Royal Infirmary, while remaining active as an amateur musician. He has regularly given recitals as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles and often with Simon having played together since 1992.
Entry is by donation and you can look forward to enjoying varied music with Beethoven’s Spring Sonata a beautiful sunny piece with wonderful melodies. The Bartok is full of Hungarian Folk tunes and brims with energy. The Richard Strauss sonata is an exciting youthful piece with an extremely virtuosic piano part.