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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 Cathedral
Church Of Scotland,
Dornoch
IV25 3SH
Session Clerk
07845 970923
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.
Concert Scottish Opera Pop-up Opera Sunday 24th June
On Sunday 24th June the Scottish Opera perform in the West Church Hall. The production comprises of 30 minute samples of operas such as Die Fledermaus and Eugene Oregin with a storyteller and two singers plus instrumentalists. Tickets available at www.scottishopera.org.uk
Christian Aid Week 14th to 20th of May
Here are links to a lovely presentation and an interesting video showing some of the work that Christian Aid do. We shared these in worship on Sunday 14th May as Christian Aid week begins.
Links…
Presentation – The story of Esther and her pigeon peas
Video link – Welcome from Malawi
Choral Concerts at the Cathedral
Sunday, 14th May at 7pm in Dornoch Cathedral
ON Thursday 8th June @ 8pm
Music of Love and Loss | choral music from 17th & 18th century Italy
Cathedral Coffee Mornings – update
Please come along and enjoy company and home baking in the West Church Hall at our regular Coffee Mornings which run from 10.30-12.00 on Fridays.
Dates for your diary:
Underlined Fridays are change of dates.
Can you spare some time to help on Fridays? Could you spare a little of your time to join or help the social committee to run or even help organise some of our social events throughout the year. It is a fun group. Please contact Una Reid on une.reid@icloud.com
Meeting the Bible again for the first time – open to everyone!
The Rev. Graeme Muckart is planning to offer a short series of meetings under the above heading, to start at the beginning of February. We would look together at such topics as “What is the Bible?”, “How did the Bible come to us?” “What is included and what isn’t? – and how was that decided?” etc., and whatever else you might have wondered about which emerges from discussion we share in.
This is open to everyone. It would help with planning to decide when and where to meet, if anyone interested would let Graeme know by Sunday 22nd. January.
Email: gw2m.kildale@gmail.com
Mobile/text 07737 424565.
Cathedral Coffee Mornings
Please come along and enjoy company and home baking in the West Church Hall at our regular Coffee Mornings.
Dates for your diary:
Perhaps you can spare some time to help on Fridays?
We would like to invite anyone who has some time to join our social committee to help organise a range of other social events throughout the year .
Contact Una Reid on une.reid@icloud.com