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A message from Currie Kirk: 07.11.2025
Weekly Message
Today is the 8th of November and tomorrow will be Remembrance Sunday.
Across the country, in personal spaces, in churches, at local war memorials or Cenotaphs, many people will keep silence and remember. You will have your own personal ‘remembering’ to do over this weekend and on November 11th.
The communion table in my last church carries this quotation from John 15.13: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
Those are powerful words and we quote them as we try to acknowledge the depth of sacrifice that has been (is being?) demanded of too many. The sheer scale of the events remembered their cost and continuing legacy beggar belief.
It occurs to me that the ‘big words’ of our faith, words such as ‘redemption’, ‘forgiveness’ and ‘atonement’ mean little if they do not come alongside us in these silent and shared places of our remembering, the very places where words fail.
Similarly, all our concerns about the future of our church, locally and nationally mean little, if that church cannot engage honestly with people’s search for meaning in today’s circumstances.
We are those who ‘were bought at a price’. Times of war and of relative peace have their own demands. Much is asked of people. We have such a debt of gratitude to all who give of themselves so that others may flourish.
Holy and eternal God,
we fall silent as we remember
times, places, people and their names;
even our prayers seem cheap
but with you there is mercy,
new every morning.
Amen.
RH 8/11/25
Worship:
9th November — Remembrance Service in Currie Kirk at 10.30am. Followed by a Prayer Tree Service.
16th November — Worship led by Rev Roy Henderson.
Currie Kirk at 11.15am.
23rd November — Worship led by Rev Roy Henderson.
Currie Kirk at 11.15am.
30th November — Worship led by Rev Roy Henderson. 1st Sunday in Advent. Currie Kirk at 11.15am with a Full Communion.
Intimations
10th November — Meeting of Elders, Gibson Craig Halls. 7.30pm.
11th November — Messy Church Planning Meeting, all helpers most welcome. Gibson Craig Halls — Lounge. 7.00pm.
12th November — Soul Mates meeting on Thursday 12th
November at 2.00pm in the Lounge at the Gibson Craig Halls.
This is a monthly reflective Prayer Group. All are welcome.
14th November — Christmas Fayre Planning Meeting.
Gibson Craig Halls. 7.00pm.
Kirk News Deadline — 21st November. Articles to be sent to
isobelwebber@btinternet.com
FRESH START — Cookers for Christmas Appeal 2025.
The Cookers for Christmas Appeal helps provide essential white goods making a house feel like a home. Financial donations or items for starter packs which include cleaning supplies, kitchen equipment, tea towels and toiletries are very much appreciated. Thank you for your support.
Christine Wilson.
The Voyage —
Saturday 8th November. Greyfriars Kirk, 7.30pm.
Join the Heriot-Watt Choir & Orchestra and young singers from Clifton Hall School for a programme featuring Bob Chilcott's
'The Voyage', Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, Smetana's
Vltava and Gershwin's Promenade.
Heriot-Watt Musical Theatre —
Saturday 15th - Sunday 16th November - JW1,
Heriot-Watt Campus, 2.30pm & 7.30pm.
I love you, you're perfect, now change! - The longest running
off-Broadway revue in history which has been revised for the 21st century! This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum known as “the relationship.” Through sketches and songs, Act I explores the journey from dating and waiting to love and marriage, while Act II reveals the agonies and triumphs of in-laws and newborns, trips in the family car and pick-up techniques of the geriatric set. This hilarious revue pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their face at the portal of
romance, to those who have dared to ask, “Say, what are you
doing Saturday night?” Suitable for age 14+.
If you want any information or need to speak to someone please call the Kirk office (451 5141) or contact one of the Session Clerks - Louise Lamont (07910 594188) or Isobel Webber (07702784186)
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