CANON TOM SHIELDSDec 19, 20183 minWelcome All Ye Noble Saints of Old! My hyacinths are blooming. I was given the bulbs as a present at the recent Christmas party in Comrie and the flowers are now out. They...
CANON TOM SHIELDSDec 17, 20183 minDysfunctional Family?It just happens that this year the last part of Advent begins on a Monday, which makes the last days of preparation for the coming of the...
CANON TOM SHIELDSDec 13, 20182 minCall and ResponseThe jazz musician Courtney Pine finished off his tour dates for 2018 this week in Glasgow at the Òran Mór. Despite a previously gruelling...
CANON TOM SHIELDSDec 10, 20182 minWhat More does God Want of Me? We reflected in our masses on the Second Sunday of Advent about John the Baptist’s cry being heard in the wilderness of peoples’ lives....
CANON TOM SHIELDSDec 7, 20182 minHeart and Hearth It was certainly a day for the fire but like so many of us I had to be out and about. One of my more pleasant duties was attending the...
CANON TOM SHIELDSDec 7, 20182 min‘One for All and All for One’ Those of us of a certain age will remember that line from the ‘Three Musketeers’. I thought of them today when I was visiting P2/3 who...
CANON TOM SHIELDSDec 4, 20182 minThe Awkward SquadIt is difficult to overestimate the importance of John the Baptist. Because Jesus ‘stole the show’, we tend to forget sometimes what a...
CANON TOM SHIELDSDec 2, 20183 minBe Careful What You Wish forUnder the heading, ‘Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time,’ I asked the congregations at mass on the First Sunday of Advent to begin the...
CANON TOM SHIELDSDec 2, 20181 minChildren's Mass - 1st Sunday of AdventToday, Sunday, 2nd December at 11am our children led us in our Mass. The theme is ‘Jesus, the Light of the World’. The children are also...