Parish News

SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT 8th December 2024

Services this week

Saturday

6.00pm     Vigil Mass (Baby G)

Sunday

10.00am    Mass (The McKeever Family (Deceased))

Monday

10.00am    Liturgy of the Word

Tuesday

10.00am    Mass

Wednesday

10.00am    Mass

Thursday

5.30pm     Exposition

6.00pm     Mass (The Liddle Family (Deceased))

Friday

9.30am     Rosary

10.00am    Mass  (George Fairholm, rip (by G Liddle)

Saturday

10.00am    Mass

5.30pm     Confessions

6.00pm     Vigil Mass

Sunday - Third Sunday of Advent

10.00am    Mass

 

In your charity, please remember in your prayers:

Father Forrest, Jean Blair, Mary Robertson, Jan Stewart, Amy Robertson, Baby G, Gillian Jamieson, Tricia Henderson, and Jim Paterson and all the sick and the housebound; Also, Agnes Ryan, Gordon Allan, Aiden Holland, Alexander Miller, Margaret Cummings, Sadie Mulrainey, Gordon Bryant, Moira Hutchison and Kathyrn Markey whose anniversaries occur at about this time. May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

 

News…

The Offertory Collection last weekend amounted to £488.77 in addition £345 per month is given through the direct debit facility. Grateful thanks to all donors.

The New Lectionary: Take a closer look at the language of the new Lectionary with Fr Jamie McMorrin. Learn key words and phrases you can listen out for at Sunday Mass and explore the Biblical background of the New Translation. Fr Jamie presents a 45-minute session on Zoom (webinar) over three weeks in Advent: Wed 11 Dec, and Wed 18 Dec at 7:00pm. You can register on the Archdiocese website.

Advent Rosary for Life -Join Catholics from across Scotland at 7:45pm each Monday in Advent to pray the Rosary for Life online. Register via the Archdiocese website

Take the Diploma in Catechetics and make the Holy Year 2025 a time of renewal and deepening of your faith. Begins January 2025. Cost £125. Register via the Archdiocese website.

The annual Carol service organised by the Lourdes Hospitalité Committee takes place on Sunday 15 December 2024 at 3pm in St Margaret's Church, Davidsons Mains, Edinburgh. 

Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Holy Year of Jubilee for the Catholic Church, an event that takes place once every 25 years. Archbishop Cushley will solemnly open the Jubilee Year for the Archdiocese with Holy Mass and the blessing of the Jubilee Cross at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, at midday on Sunday 29 December.