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It’s time to reveal the winners of the St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Photograph Competition for 2023. This year the competition judge was Reverend Dr Jenny Holden. Jenny said, “I was most impressed by the quality of all the entries, and in fact, I found it quite difficult to choose the winners.”

The winning entries in the Under 18 Category are:

1. In first place entry number 32 “A place of tranquillity – Peterculter” by Luca Downs
2. In second place entry number 33 “A beautiful break in the forest” by Lara Downs
3. In third place entry number 31 “Sunrise in Auchinyell”, by Luca Downs

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The winning entries in the Over 18 Category are:

1. In first place entry number 15 “Finzean Water Mill” by Reverend Roger Dyer
2. In second place entry number 39 “Two swans at the Brig O’Balgownie’ by Malcolm Hay
3. In third place entry under 23 “Standing Cross, Co Clare” by Reverend Roger Dyer

Reverend Dr Jenny Holden also chose four highly commended photographs which are shown in the gallery below:

Many thanks to all the entrants for the great photographs and for the very welcome donations. Please look out for the St Mary’s Calendar for 2024 which should be available in November.

Any budding poets out there?  Or are you a poet and you don’t know it?  Whichever you are please enter our Poem Competition, support St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral and have fun at the same time.

The competition rules are:

1. Anyone who wishes to enter the competition should submit their poem(s) via the St Mary’s email address stmaryscardenplace@gmail.com.
2. The subject of your poems is entirely up to you and need not be necessarily church related.
3. The poem should be all your own work.
4. As a guide your poem maybe two verses and between 4 to 6 lines per verse. Deviation from the suggested format is permissible.
5. There is no limit to the number of poems that can be submitted by each entrant, but the Vestry of St Mary’s has the right to decide which poems are published.
6. Poems will be published on the St Mary’s website with a number and title.  Each entrant will be deemed to grant St Mary’s Vestry a royalty free non-exclusive licence to publish the material.
7. The entry fee for each poem submitted is £2 and you can enter as many poems as you like.  Payments can be made direct to St Mary’s bank account, or by cheque made payable to St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Carden Place, Aberdeen or via the PayPal donation facility on our website.
8. The closing date is set as Friday 30th June.
9. The best three poems will be selected by the Vestry of St Mary’s.

A wee update on all the gin bottles we collected early this year. We had intended to use these to make table lamps, but it proved to be very expensive – even if you used do-it-yourself kits. During a trip to the Country Living Christmas Fare in Glasgow I spotted a company selling nice gifts made from gin bottles.

Once back home we contacted the Aberdeen-based company called Tipsy House and sent a few photographs of the many gin and whisky bottles we’d collected. The owner, Stuart, immediately replied that they would like to give a donation for the bottles. Tipsy House gave us £100 for 48 bottles! You can discover more about the sort of gifts they produce here https://tipsyhouse.co.uk/

Cheers to everyone that saved their valuable bottles and many thanks to the team at Tipsy House for their very generous donation!

Gillian Rose

It’s time to reveal the winners of the St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Photograph Competition for 2022.

The winning entries are:

1. In first place entry number 44 “Rocky River Milton of Crathes” by Luca Downs
2. In second place entry number 1 “An angular view of the Tay” by David Rose
3. In third place entry number 23 “The praying hands of Mary”, Glen Lyon by Gillian Rose

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Many thanks to all the entrants for the great photographs and for the very welcome donations.

Blessings Always!

Fr Terry Taggart

“Jacket Potato” is an appeal to everyone to have a look through your unused coats and jackets, gloves, and scarves, and consider donating them to us here at St Mary’s. The thinking behind this venture is to ensure that as winter months fast approach, we here at St Mary’s can ‘do our bit’ to help those who might otherwise go cold.

We will be accepting coats and jackets, as well as, scarves, hats and gloves, every Wednesday and Saturday from 12 noon to 2pm throughout November.

The clothing will then be available for anyone to choose (one coat per person) on Saturday 3rd December (from 10am to 3pm). On the same day there will be jacket potatoes and hot drinks available for free to all that visit us.

“Whoever has two coats, let him give to him who has not, and whoever has food should do likewise.” (Luke 3:11)