The annual Mass for Married and Engaged Couples is on Wednesday 29 May 2024, 7.15pm, at Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Come and celebrate the gift of marriage, renew your commitment and receive God's blessing upon your love.
Enquiries and requests for special invitations to be posted to couples celebrating significant anniversaries may be sent to vemarriage@staned.org.uk or by calling 0131 334 1693.
The Sacred Triduum begins on Thursday. While Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday are not holy days of obligation, all are encouraged to attend these special liturgies in preparation for Easter.
On Holy Thursday, the Mass of the Lord’s Supper is at 7:00pm with Archbishop Cushley, and is followed by a procession with the Blessed Sacrament to the Altar of Repose, with watching until Night Prayer at 11:00pm.
Good Friday is a day of fasting and abstinence which means that all Catholics are obliged to abstain from meat, and all adults between 16 and 65 are obliged to fast. The Passion Liturgy will be held at 3:00pm by Archbishop Cushley. For those who cannot attend, there will be Stations of the Cross at 7:00pm.
On Holy Saturday His Grace will celebrate the Easter Vigil Mass at 7:00pm and 19 catechumens and candidates will be received into Full Communion with the Catholic Church at this Mass.
Summary
Thursday 28 March | 7:00pm Mass of the Lord's Supper.
Friday 29 March | 3:00pm The Passion Liturgy.
Saturday 30 March | 7:00pm Holy Saturday at the Tomb of Christ.
Sunday 31 March | Noon Easter Sunday of the Ressurection of the Lord.
For more details of services and Masses over Easter at St Mary's Cathedral please visit: stmaryscathedral.co.uk/news
The next Mass to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life in the Archdiocese is on Monday 22 April at Our Lady & St Andrew, 63 Stirling Street, Galashiels, TD1 1BS at 6:00pm.
Episcopal Ordination of the Right Reverend Francis Dougan as Bishop of Galloway takes place at the Church of St Peter-in-Chains, Ardrossan, on Saturday 9 March 2024. Watch live here.
The Mass of Welcome for those attending this summer's Lourdes Pilgrimage takes place at St Cuthbert's Church, Slateford Road, Edinburgh,EH14 1PT on Sunday 16 June 2024 at 3pm. Refreshments in the church hall afterwards.
While the Mass is aimed at those going on the Pilgrimage all are welcome!
The next Mass to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life in the Archdiocese is on Sunday 21 January at 6:15pm at St Albert's Catholic Chaplaincy, 24 George Square, Edinburgh, EH9 9LD
Archbishop Leo Cushley will celebrate Mass for the Feast of St Andrew at St Mary's Cathedral at 12.45pm on Thursday 30 November.
Make time in your diary this year to celebrate the feast day of our National Patron at the Cathedral which has the National Shrine of St Andrew and his relics.
It was Andrew who, famously, brought Peter to Jesus – this feast day is your opportunity in a special way – to go to Jesus, through Andrew.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on the Vigil of St Andrew on Wednesday 29 November from 7.30pm, which will conclude with sung Evening Prayer of the Vigil at 8.15pm and then Benediction.
The Knights of St Columba will host a Mass to celebrate the value of human life from conception to natural death, to pray for an end to abortion and to support life-affirming choices.
Everyone is welcome at St Margaret’s Church, East Port, Dunfermline, on Saturday 7 October at 12 noon. Mass will be said by Fr Paul Lee, Provincial Chaplain to the Knights of St Columba Province 3 and parish priest at St Agatha's in Methil. The speaker will be Paul Atkin, from the Archdiocesan Pro-Life Office.
The Knights of St Columba is an Order of Catholic men bound together in Charity, Unity and Fraternity in order to enrich their own faith, spirituality and by words and actions, to proclaim the spiritual, moral and social message of the Catholic Church. Find out more about their work at https://ksc.org.uk/
The next Mass to pray for Vocations to the priesthood and religious life in the Archdiocese is on Monday 4 December at 6.30pm at St Columba’s, 7 Upper Gray Street, EH9 1SN.