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November: a month to Remember

LL SOULS DAY was indeed a day to
A Aremember at Birnie Kirk with over 160
names of the departed respectfully read out at
the well attended Requiem Mass. Remembering
the departed by name may have been new to Some Birnie-ites with Sister Imelda in the Convent Chapel
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many of those in the congregation, but from
the comments made After the Reformation the building mostly fell
afterwards, the ruin until 1898 when the third Marquis of Bute,
solemn occasion to John Crichton-Stuart, rebuilt it for the Sisters of
remember departed Mercy to use it as their convent. The Dominican
relatives and friends Sisters first arrived in Elgin in 2013 and since
was very much then have become firmly rooted, serving in the
All S ouls D a y M ass a t Birnie appreciated. Diocese of Aberdeen. The Birnie visit was most
All Souls Day Mass at Birnie
successful and ended up with tea and biscuits
EMEMBRANCE SUNDAY was kept as a and time to relax in the sunshine in the beautiful
R Rsolemn occasion at the Ordinariate Requiem Convent garden.
Mass in St Patrick’s in the Cowgate in Edinburgh.
As the Parish Mass The Birnie Trading
was also a Requiem Company
Mass for the War While there is no
Dead an appropriately such thing (yet!) as the
decorated Catafalque Birnie Trading Company,
was already in place things are most certainly
in the Chancel so the moving in that direction.
Ordinariate Mass was After ‘our’ resident stone
Philip Chatfield
offered from the High sculptor, Philip Chatfield Philip C ha tfield
anc
Remembrance Sunday in Altar instead of at the - who is really resident at nearby Pluscarden Abbey
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St P a trick ’ s , E dinbur gh Lady Chapel Altar. working on many carved stones and statues for the
St Patrick’s, Edinburgh
Greyfriars Convent visit new St Joseph’s Guest House - made the magnificent
A St Brendan carving for the Ordinariate at Birnie
GROUP OF around 24 folk from Birnie
Kirk, other items have begun
K
A irk paid a visit to Greyfriars Convent in
Elgin in October. For many of those present to appear.
this was their first experience of what happens Local Pluscarden
withing the walls of a convent. Sister Imelda was wood carver, Matthieu
delighted to show everyone around assisted, of Hommel - also know as
course, by Bryan Miller. the Grumpy Old Forester -
www.grumpyoldforester.
com - produced small
Wooden Plaques of Philip’s
St Brendan the Navigator

St Brendan
St Br endan carving. They cost £42 each.
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The Birnie-ites enjoying the sun at Greyfriars Convent t Belgian Chocolate
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The Dominican Sisters, whose motherhouse Slabs (weight approx
is in Nashville, Tennessee, have had a presence 90 gms - and the ‘gold’ is
in Elgin for more than ten years and have a role edible) of the St Brendan
teaching in the parish and in the diocese. The carving, in dark, white
convent itself dates back to 1479, when it was and brown chocolate,
built for monks from the Order of Friars Minor each with its own carved
for charitable works in the Elgin area. wooden stand, which
St Brendan Chocolate Bar
can be used to display St Br endan Choc ola t e B ar