Events

Sun, 3 Dec 2023
Advent Carol Service The Good Shepherd	4pm members of Murrayfield Churches Together will join together to sing the Advent Carols and listen to the Advent stories of Christ's birth. All welcome and please join us for

Sun, 10 Dec 2023
Carol Service for the Order of St.Lazarus of Jerusalem The Church of the Good Shepherd	The Order of St.Lazarus invites you to join them for a Carol Service.

Sat, 16 Dec 2023
Decorating the Church for Christmas The Church	All are welcome to come along and help to decorate the Church in readiness for our Christmas Carol service and the coming Christmas celebrations. No experience of flower arranging is

Sun, 17 Dec 2023
CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE The Church	Come and join us for a good sing of Christmas Carols and listen to the readings associated with Jesus' birth. Refreshments will follow. ALL WELCOME

Tue, 19 Dec 2023
ZOOM Carol Service Zoom	Please contact us for the Zoom link and join us for a Carol Service on-line.

Wed, 20 Dec 2023
Carols around the Roseburn Christmas Tree The Christmas Tree in Roseburn on the Colt Bridge	All are invited and welcome to join us in singing well loved carols around the community Christmas tree.

Sun, 24 Dec 2023
SERVICES ON CHRISTMAS EVE The Church	10am Sung Eucharist Service for Advent 4 followed by coffee and chat 4pm CRIB SERVICE with carols

Mon, 25 Dec 2023
CHRISTMAS DAY The Church	10am Festal Sung Eucharist of the Shepherds with Christmas Carols ALL WELCOME

Sun, 31 Dec 2023
The Sunday after Christmas Hogmanay The Church	10am Sung Eucharist and prayers for the coming New Year with Carols

Sun, 7 Jan 2024
Epiphany Sunday The Church	Come and join us as we bless the Epiphany Crib and sing the carols relating to the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus. 10am Festal Sung Eucharist

Past Events

Mon, 27 Nov 2023
Advent Lectio Divina on Zoom	For 4 Monday morning 10-1030am please join us on Zoom for Lectio Divina (a prayerful reading of one of the Advent readings). Please contact the Rector for the Zoom log

Sun, 26 Nov 2023
Christ-the-King service and Congregational AGM The Church	Sunday 26th November see the end of the Church's year, with the Feast of Christ-the-King, also known as 'Stir up Sunday'. The service at 10am will be followed by the

Sun, 14 May 2023
Murrayfield Churches Together Joint Worship Saughtonhall United Reformed Church Saughtonhall Drive	Come and join MCT members as we worship together in Christian Aid Week.

Sun, 7 May 2023
Sunday 7th May 2023 Coronation Commemoration The Church of the Good Shepherd	Come and join us as we pray for the King and sing the newly composed Coronation anthem ' The mountains shall bring peace' by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange. The service will also
Coronation Celebrations 7th May 2023 Come and join the choir! The Church	Come and join the Choir to sing the new Coronation anthem by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange - 'The mountains shall bring peace'. See the notices in the church porch or on

Our Weekly Services

Come and join us for worship you will be given a warm welcome.

Our Church services are:

Sunday at 10am & Wednesday at 11am

If you are unable to attend in person you are invited to join in with the service at home by following the material in the Spiritual Communion booklet:

Praying At Home Booklet

Praying At Home (short version)

Praying at Home - Lectionary Year A Advent I 2022 - Trinity Sunday 2023

Year B Readings

The Advent Collect

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and to put on the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility: that on the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Sunday 3rd December Advent Sunday

Stir up your power, Lord, and come: that with you as our protector, we may be rescued from our sins; and with you as our deliverer we may be set free; for you live and reign with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Isaiah 64:1-9; 1Corinthians 1:3-9; Mark 13:24-37

Sunday 10th December Advent II

Stir up our hearts, Lord, to prepare the way of your only begotten-Son: that, in his coming, we might serve you with our hearts made pure; through the same Jesus Christ who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Isaiah 40:1-11; 2Peter 3:8-15a; Mark 1:1-8

Sunday 17th December Advent III

Stir up our prayers, Lord, and hear us: that they who are sorrowful and suffering may rejoice at the Advent of your only-begotten Son; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11; 1Thessalonians 5:16-24; John 1:6-8, 19-28

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