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Parish Magazine Subscriptions

The magazine subscriptions for 2024 are now due. The cost of 7 magazines including postage is £16. A form is included within the magazine which you should fill in and return to the Treasurer, Bobby Burgon. Cheques should be made out to ‘Christ Church Lanark’ and either left in church or posted to Bobby (his address is on the back of the magazine).

Alternatively, if you use internet banking, you can transfer your subscription to: Royal Bank of Scotland, Sort Code: 83-24-12 Account No: 00125099

No Room? On the Contrary

The Ven John Barton considers the Christmas story … All over the world, doors are being slammed shut this Christmas. As the...

Christ Church Advent and Christmas Services

Christ Church Lanark with Holy Trinity Chapel Lamington Christmas Services Advent 4 10.30 am – Sung Eucharist (Lanark) 10.30...

Christmas Geese

The story is told of a farmer who didn't believe in Jesus. One snowy Christmas Eve, his wife was taking their children to a...

Monastic Musings

I always feel sorry, particularly at this time of the year, for people “in the preaching trade” because finding something new...

Notices for Sunday – 15 December 2024 (Advent 3 C) – and for the coming week.

Services  Sunday 15 December 2024 (Advent 3 C) – 10.30 am – Sung Eucharist (Christ Church Lanark) President &...

Autumn Ladies

On the 23rd of October Rev. Liz Cleland stepped in to help us as our original speaker had been admitted to hospital. She gave...

Deacon’s Deliberations

Our Memory Lane support group for people with mild to moderate Dementia and their careers provides music therapy for a large...

Notices for Sunday – 8 December 2024 (Advent 2 C) – and for the coming week.

Services  Sunday 8 December 2024 (Advent 2 C) – 10.30 am – Sung Eucharist (Christ Church Lanark) President & Preacher...

Clergy Cogitations

Dear Friends For all of us, privately and publicly, 2024 will have been a mixed year. Years are always like that. Hopes and...

Advent

Advent is a period of spiritual preparation in which many Christians make themselves ready for the coming, or birth of the...
Autumn Ladies

Autumn Ladies

The group started the new autumn season by inviting Pauline and Eileen to tell us about the Alpacas which they keep on...

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Spiritual but not religious

Spiritual but not religious

Many in the UK today – many in Lanark – describe themselves as spiritual but not religious. Maybe it’s how you respond when asked about your views. It’s good that many are still open-minded when it comes to the big questions. It shows that culture isn’t satisfied with the message that reality consists only of what can be seen, touched and measured in a science lab.

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Church can be boring.

Church can be boring.

If by ‘church’ we mean standing up and sitting down for an hour, singing a bunch of old songs and listening to a...

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