Worship

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The Eucharist is at the heart of our worship focusing on the Sunday Services of Holy Communion and Sung Eucharist and Wednesday morning Service of Holy Communion. With our modern liturgical worship in a traditional setting we seek to celebrate the liturgical year celebrating major Saints and Feast days in faith and fellowship.

A club for young people takes place during the Sunday Sung Eucharist Service.

To augment our worship we use two settings of the Sung Eucharist and hymns from different sources. We like to include “favourites” and a weekly pew sheet is produced with readings and notices.

Examples of our varied forms of celebrations for major festivals include:

  • Advent Carol Service with Readings
  • Children’s Christmas Eve Celebration
  • Carols by Candlelight followed by Midnight Mass of the Nativity
  • Compline and Meditational midweek Services during Lent
  • Dramatic readings of The Passion
  • Congregational participation in the telling of the Easter Story
  • Harvest Festival - sharing of Harvest gifts with the housebound and Christian Aid

Throughout the year we hold joint services with our linked churches, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Martin. Our Congregation and that of the local Church of Scotland join annually for a Songs of Praise service.

Lay people assist at our main Sunday Services as Servers and with the reading of the Lessons, responsorial Psalms and Intercessions. There is a sound system installed in the Church and large print sheets are made available. A Braille version of the Service Book is available as are children’s Holy Communion Service Books.

angel font Pastoral care is an important part of our ministry and visits are made to the sick, at home or in hospital, as well as to the housebound. Administering home and hospital Communions is undertaken by Clergy and Eucharistic Assistants.

Our Prayer Group meets every Tuesday morning and a study group, Faith Matters, for the linked charges, meets monthly, and weekly in Advent and Lent. We have members of the Congregation who participate actively in the work of “Links”, the Scottish Episcopal Church’s missionary sector, either by attendance at meetings or by monetary contributions.

St. Margaret’s has an open door policy regarding Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals and home and hospital visits. All children baptized in our Church receive a Baptismal Certificate, special candle and the gift of a book on the occasion of their Baptism and thereafter an annual birthday card from the Clergy and Congregation.

Scottish Registered Charity, No. SC004621