The Season of Creation runs from 1st September – 4th October 2024. The Conference will take place on Saturday 7th September 2024, from 10am – 3pm in St. Margaret’s Parish Hall, Raploch, Stirling. The guest speaker is Ben Wilson, Director of Public Engagement for SCIAF. If interested in attending, please complete a booking form at www.tinyurl.com/46wmt9ah and more details about this free day will follow.
All the podcasts are available on the Diocesan website (www.rcdop.org.uk/podcast).
NEW EPISODE! We hear from our Director of Music, Michael Hepburn as well as members of the Choir.
5-12 May 2025 & 12-19 September 2025. Bishop John will be leading both pilgrimages. Each will include 5 nights in Rome & 2 nights in Assisi. Flights with Jet2 from Glasgow Airport. More details are available on the Diocesan website at rcdop.org.uk/2025RomeAssisi
On Thursday, 12th September, in St. John’s in Port Glasgow (6.30pm). Bishop John invites you to attend this Mass and to pray between Pentecost Sunday and the 12th September for an increase in Vocations.
Leaves Scotland on Thursday 26th June 2025 and arrives in Lourdes on Friday 27th June, returning Friday 4th July 2025. Transport by bus & ferry. The pilgrimage costs £750.00. With a deposit of £75.00 before our first meeting on Sunday 7th September in the Diocesan Offices in Paisley, you will qualify for an early bird rate of £700.00! To travel you must have a valid UK or EU Passport. Contact Fr. John Morrison for more info.— tel: 01418892026 5056 or email [email protected] for more details.
The National Commission for Marriage, Family and Life will mark this day on Sunday 28th July 2024 at Carfin Grotto with Mass at 3pm, celebrated by the Commission’s president Bishop John Keenan. The café will be open for refreshments. Come along and enjoy this inter-generational day together.
INVITATION This is a special invitation from the Nigerian Catholic Community Glasgow & Environs to our Harvest Thanksgiving & Bazaar/Summer Fete. Date: Sunday, 4th August 2024 Venue: St Roch's Catholic Church, 311 Roystonhill, Glasgow G21 2HN Time: 12:30 pm (with the Thanksgiving Mass)
Saturday 7th September 2024 in London. The Diocese of Paisley in partnership with SPUC is organising an overnight coach for pro-lifers wishing to attend. Pickup from Paisley St Mirin’s Cathedral (midnight) and Glasgow St Andrew’s Cathedral (12.30am). Return from Parliament Square at 6pm. To book your seats (£30pp or for one way only £15pp), visit: https://rcdop.org.uk/marchforlife2024
Friends of Divine Mercy Scotland The Mercy Bus is out for three days during July/August:
Thursday 1August Argyle Street, Glasgow 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Friday 2 August Paisley Cross at Cenotaph 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Saturday 3 August TESCO, Linwood 11 a.m. – 1p.m. confessions and 1p.m. Holy Mass. All are welcome. Priests will be available upstairs for the sacrament of confessions or just for a chat and hospitality downstairs. On Saturday, Sir Brian Souter (former owner of Stagecoach who has kindly donated the bus and a driver for the past 11 years) will be driving.
10th & 11th August there will be petition by SPUC (The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) with a view to removing the punitive two-child benefit (universal credit) cap. Cards will be provided in church to sign, or going to:https://www.spuc.org.uk/end-benefit-cap
We end the virtual Camino initiative on Sunday 11thAugust. Continue to record your distances. There are log sheets at the back of the church, or you can submit via the online form using the link here. Please note if submitting any photos these will be uploaded to the webpage for all to see. Camino de Santiago – Saint Joseph's Parish (stjosephclarkston.com)
To continue to record your distances, there are log sheets at the back of the church, or you can submit via the online form using the link Camino de Santiago – Saint Joseph's Parish (stjosephclarkston.com) You will also be able to find more information and our current position on the interactive map on the webpage. Please note if submitting any photos these will be uploaded to the webpage for all to see. Good luck and keep going everyone!
What do you get if you make a pilgrimage to Rome and walk through the Holy Door? A plenary indulgence! (Part 1) That is the remission of temporal punishment for sins forgiven in confession as long as you receive the Eucharist, Confession, pray for the intention of the pope, and perform an act of mercy. Pope Francis said, “The Holy Door will become a Door of Mercy through which anyone who enters will experience the love of God who consoles, pardons, and instils hope.” The doors of any Church mark the boundary between the sacred and the profane. By throwing them open Pope Francis is emphasizing his desire to throw open to the doors of the faith to the world. In Revelation 3:20, Jesus says “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”
The Care of Creation Office of the Bishops’ Conference has organised a National Conference for this year’s Season of Creation which runs from 1st September – 4th October 2024. The Conference will take place on Saturday 7th September 2024, from 10am – 3pm in St. Margaret’s Parish Hall, Raploch, Stirling. The guest speaker is Ben Wilson, Director of Public Engagement for SCIAF. If interested in attending, please complete a booking form at www.tinyurl.com/46wmt9ah and more details about this free day will follow.
The National Commission for Marriage, Family and Life will mark this day on Sunday 28th July 2024 at Carfin Grotto with Mass at 3pm, celebrated by the Commission’s president Bishop John Keenan. The café will be open for refreshments. Come along and enjoy this inter-generational day together.
ACN benefactor and friends event at Xavier Centre, Carfin on Thursday 1st August 12pm-3pm Please sign up on Eventbrite (ACN Benefactor & Friends Carfin Event) or call the Motherwell Office on 01698337470 to reserve free tickets.
MONTHLY PRO-LIFE MASS is on Wednesday, 17th July at 7.30pm at Holy Cross, 113 Dixon Ave, G42 8ER. Adoration begins at 6.15pm.Tea in the hall afterwards – all welcome. The celebrant will be Fr Nick Welsh.
To mark the end of another series of talks, the Diocesan Young Adults’group is having a BBQ on Wed 24th July in the grounds outside the diocesan office. Bishop Keenan will celebrate Mass at 6pm in the Cathedral (all welcome) before the young adults will get together for the BBQ. If you intend to come to the BBQ, please let Fr Joe McGill ([email protected]) know before Mon 22nd July.
Our Diocesan Safeguarding Advisor, Gerry McBride, is walking the St Francis section (116km) of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in October 2024 for the Celtic Foundation. The 5-day trek is entirely self-funded, with all monies raised going towards the charitable aims of the Foundation, which will be particularly focussed this year on children’s development projects and providing much-needed financial support to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children within our local communities. To support Gerry's efforts, visit https://bit.ly/McBride-Camino.
The Scottish Parliament is asking for views on proposals to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland. The short survey of a few minutes. It is vital that you engage, pointing out the dangers and showing MSPs that there is strong opposition to the proposals. Please complete as soon as you can and invite family and friends to do the same. Read our online guide for more details, including key information about the proposed Bill and how to access the short survey. Please note the survey closes on 16th August.
THE COLUMBA TRUST provides funding to organisations and individuals to support projects which promote the Roman Catholic faith, its ministry and values. The deadline for applications this year is 31st July 2024.