Welcome!e
Holy Trinity is a member of The Scottish Episcopal Church and you can find us in Melrose in the beautiful Scottish Borders.
With some restrictions, we are now delighted to welcome you back to the Church in person, and we look forward to seeing you.
Visit our Contact us page if you have any questions, would like more information and to see a map of our location.
Please join us for our Sunday worship
You can join Holy Trinity's Sunday services in a number of ways:
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attend a service in church (see guidance in box on right)
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go direct to this Sunday's live-streamed service
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find all our online services on Holy Trinity's YouTube channel
Many thanks for any donation you are able to make, which will help us to support our online and local congregations, and our local community.
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SERVICES THIS WEEK
Sunday October 2 at 11am - 'First Sunday' Service
Wednesday October 5 at 11am - Said Eucharist
DVDs and CDs of the services are available for anyone who has no internet access. Just let us know.
Sanitised pots of consecrated communion wafers are available in the church porch. Please let us know if you can’t get there
Holy Trinity Morning Prayer
09:30, every Friday; Weekly Zoom Prayer Meetings
lasting about half an hour
The link is: Jane Stevenson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85477032624?pwd=SXBuNEl5eHBzSU52NlhyUzR4cHBRdz09
Meeting ID: 854 7703 2624
Passcode: 549928
WORSHIP AND PRAYER
Current guidance for attending church:
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We are now exempt from wearing masks in Church
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However if you wish to wear a mask for some, or all of the service, you are welcome to do so.
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The area at the back is for those who feel safe, and more comfortable, if they can maintain social distance.
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The pews are for people who do not feel the need to socially distance.
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Our Wednesday services will remain socially distanced.
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The church is now open during daylight hours. It will not open on Sunday before the service to enable the Rector to give everything a quick wipe down!
MUSIC and POEM of the Week
Poem of the week
The Sandalwood Tree
by Hafiz (c. 1320-1389)
The sandalwood tree shares its lovely
scent with any who come near.
God is like that.
Does the tree ever think to itself,
I am not going to offer my fragrance to that man because of what he did last night, or to that woman who neglected her child, or because of what we might have ever done?
It is not the way of God to hoard.
He is simply there, emanating freely,
if we wish to grab a handful or fill the basket of the eye.
Music of the week
Laudate Dominum by Mozart
Sung by Emma Kirkby
Hymn of the Day
Sing along to a new hymn every day on the Royal School of Church Music's YouTube channel.
Choral Evensong
Visit Choral Evensong's livestreams and recorded webcasts of Evensong and Compline in Britain and Ireland at any time.
Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC)
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Official liturgy for daily prayer online - morning prayer, evening prayer and compline
NOT ONLINE? The Archbishop of Canterbury has set up a Freephone Daily Hope service of hymns, prayers and readings. It is available 24 hours a day on 0800 8048044 RADIO 4 LONG WAVE. Daily morning service Mon-Fri 9.45am.
Online Services for Children
Diocesan service from St. Mungo's Balerno. Join us for Mighty Mungo’s focused on families and primary age at 10am Sundays. Every week our team are producing high quality resources for our families to engage with as we seek to support our kids in this season. Our resources are here: https://stmungos.org/ Look down the page for Children and Youth and select Pre-school video resources or Primary video resources or Youth video resources
Provincial Children’s Chapel - You can join this week’s Children’s Chapel from 8am at: https://www.scotland.anglican.org/broadcast-sunday-worship/ scroll down to Children’s Chapel and choose either Facebook or Youtube