Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - 14th July 2024
Services this Week
Saturday 13th July 2024
6.00pm Vigil Mass
Sunday 14th July2024
10.00am Mass
Monday
10.00am Holy Communion Service
Tuesday
10.00am Mass
Wednesday
10.00am Mass
Thursday
6.30pm Exposition and Private Prayers
7.00pm Mass
Friday
9.30amm Rosary
10.00am Mass
Saturday
10.00am Holy Communion Service
5.30pm Confessions
6.00pm Vigil Mass (Margaret Hunter, rip.)
Sunday 21st July
10.00am Mass ( Jordan Russel, rip)
In your charity, please remember in your prayers...
Father Forrest, Jean Blair, Mary Robertson, , Jan Stewart, Amy Robertson, Baby G and Sadie Clelland and all the sick and the housebound. Also, Norma Moffat, John Burns, Sheila MacIver, Paddy Duffy, Kenneth Bain, Mary Wingrove, Catherine McCarthy, Daniel McIntosh and Joan Millar whose anniversaries occur at about this time.
Latest News…
The Offertory Collections last weekend amounted to £437.46, grateful thanks to all donors.
There will be a special collection today, 14th July, for Sea Sunday. All funds raised on Sea Sunday are sent to Stella Maris (formerly known as Apostleship of the Sea) which is the maritime agency of the Catholic Church. Its teams of chaplains provide practical help and pastoral care to seafarers and fishers in the UK and around the world. Every penny helps them stand alongside seafarers and fishers so that they will always have a friend in port who they can turn to. Locally, Stella Maris work extensively at Grangemouth to ensure seafarers are well supported both practically and spiritually, and their work nationally around human trafficking has been groundbreaking. If you can offer any support, it will be very much appreciated! Gift aid envelopes are also available in the church hall.
Happy birthday to George Fairholm who celebrates his 90th birthday on 19th July.
New priests in the Diocese: Congratulations to Fr Peter Shankland and Fr Paul Henderson who were ordained to the sacred priesthood recently! Fr Paul will be based at St Margaret’s in Edinburgh, and Fr Peter will be based at St Francis Xavier’s in Falkirk.
Date for your Diary: This year’s Parish and Community Fun Day will take place on 11th August. If you can help in any way at all, please let us know.
Join the Schola Cantorum of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, for sacred jazz music, featuring Scottish jazz legend Richard Michael, and Ben Shankland, winner of the BBC Scotland Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2023. The concert takes place at St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, on Monday 12 August at 7:30pm.
The Edinburgh Fringe: Faith-based theatre comes to the Edinburgh Fringe with ‘Gaudí: God’s Architect’. It runs from 19-26 August at Lauriston Halls. The play is from the Archdiocese of Glasgow Arts Project.
The MA in Applied Catholic Theology is a two-year, part-time course hosted by St Mary's University, Twickenham, at its Scottish Campus in Edinburgh. Find out more at https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/edinburgh/about.aspx. Course begins in October 2024
Salamanca Pilgrimage: St Mary’s Parish in Stirling invites people from across the Archdiocese to join them on pilgrimage to Salamanca, Spain, 12–19 October. Email: admin.stmarystirling@staned.org.uk or call 01786 473749
Events in the Archdiocese: For a full list of forthcoming events in the Archdiocese visit https://archedinburgh.org/news-events
A Prayer for Peace: O Loving God, your Son, Jesus Christ, came into the world to do your Will and leave us His Peace. Through the intercession and example of our Blessed Mother Mary, Queen of Peace, grant us the wisdom and humility to reflect that peace to the world. Inspire our thoughts, words and deeds to bear witness to your presence in our hearts. May your Holy Spirit fill us with every grace and blessing so that we may pursue what leads to peace for all humanity. Amen