Christmas Eve - Kilmodan Kirk

For the past two years most Christmas church  events have been canceled but before that our tradition was to go to the Scottish Episcopal Church in Dunoon for midnight communion, just as we had gone to similar services when living in rural Lanarkshire and  (for me)  when I was growing up in Troon. 

It is many years since I was at a service in the lovely old Kilmodan Kirk in Glendaruel (only four miles from us, and in the Clachan where Cathleen was Head Teacher when we came here 30 years ago) but their annual  Christmas Eve nativity has always involved the local children and the wider community and been much talked about. 

This year we decided to go there  (Cailean was also with us) and it was a packed and very joyous occasion.    In fact there was hardly a spare seat even though the Kirk has three balconies allegedly for three different branches of the Campbell family who did not mix. The approach to the Kirk was also beautifully lit and we went on afterwards to a small party held by a friend up the Glen. 

A change in tradition for the start of Christmas, but a good one.