NEW LECTIONARY: A look at the readings for Sunday
This weekend is the first Sunday of Advent (1 Dec) and a new Lectionary will be used. In this video Fr Jamie McMorrin guides us through the Sunday readings to help prepare for Mass and to better understand the new translation. Join Fr Jamie LIVE each next week on Zoom as he looks ahead to […]
WATCH: New Documentary of Assisted Suicide
Do No Harm is a short documentary which highlights some of the grave concerns around proposals to legalise assisted dying in the UK and Scottish Parliaments. The documentary gathers together experts from the medical and palliative care professions, alongside prominent politicians, ethics experts and religious leaders, to construct a unified voice of unease. Watch it below […]
Obituary: Fr Gordon Brown
People who knew Fr Gordon Brown are unanimous in describing him as a gentle, kind and quiet man. As a Catholic priest he was a man of faith. Eight weeks before his death on 4th November 2024 he had a meeting with a hospital consultant who diagnosed a malignancy in the bone marrow and who told […]
Celebrating Catholic Education Week
Last night Archbishop Cushley was joined by pupils, staff, parents and friends for Holy Mass to mark Catholic Education Week at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral, Edinburgh. He said: “Catholic Education is something close to our hearts and an an important part of how we pass on the faith. “Catholic Education Week reminds us how important […]
World Day of the Poor
This Sunday marks World Day of the Poor and Archbishop Cushley has nominated the Beit Afram Elderly Home in Palestine as the recipient of the Archdiocese’s annual appeal. Your donation will help ensure that elderly Christians living amidst the violence of war and in need of care are not abandoned and that their costs to live […]
Bishops release statement on fossil fuels
The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland has released a statement encouraging world leaders to establish a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, to commit all nations to a rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels. The statement, which is released to mark the COP29 climate summit currently underway in Azerbaijan, calls on Scotland to play its role […]
World Day of the Poor
In Pope Francis’ message for the annual World Day of the Poor, he calls every Christian to become “personally involved” in the struggle against poverty. Read the message. In our Archdiocese, parishes are encourage to have a special Collection for the World Day for the Poor, which is optional, and will take place in parishes […]
WATCH: A Closer Look at the New Lectionary
Fr Jamie McMorrin takes a look at this Friday’s Gospel for The Feast of All Saints (Matt 5:1-12) to illustrate and explain a translation example in the new Lectionary. Watch below or on YouTube. Take a closer at the language of the new Lectionary with Fr Jamie McMorrin, beginning Wed 4 Dec at 7:00pm on […]
Synod Document ‘a gift to the People of God’
In his final address at the Synod Assembly in Rome, Pope Francis said that the Final Document is the fruit of over three years of listening to the People of God, writes Vatican News. It reveals, he noted, a shared path forward toward a “synodal Church” that embodies the Gospel not merely through words but […]
SYNOD: Bishop McGee’s Rome updates
Bishop Brian McGee is representing the Catholic Church in Scotland at the second session of the Synod of Bishops in Rome. He has been posting updates on the Facebook page of the Diocese of Argyll & the Isles and we have put his posts here so you can read about the progress of the Synod. […]