Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday, October 5, 2025
Services this week
Saturday
6.00pm Vigil Mass
Sunday - 5 October 2025
10.00am Mass
Monday
No Mass
Tuesday
9.30am Rosary
10.00am Mass (Carol Rutherford, rip)
Wednesday
10.00am Mass
Thursday
6.30pm Exposition
7.00pm Mass
Friday
9.30am Rosary
10.00am Mass (Carol Rutherford, rip)
Saturday
10.00am Mass
5.30pm Confessions
6.00pm Vigil Mass
Sunday - 12 October 2025
10.00am Mass
In your charity, please remember in your prayers:
Father Forrest, Jean Blair, Mary Robertson, John Stewart, Baby G, Gillian Jamieson, Gerry Henderson, Father Alex Davie, Margaret Temperley, Angela Callaghan and all the sick and the housebound; Also, Minnie Mulholland, John Clelland, James Hamilton, Thomas Wilson, Agnes Nelson, Bridget Herron and Francis Leashman whose anniversaries occur at about this time.
News…
Exposition Thursday Evenings 6.30-7.00PM
Christ loved us so much that He wanted to be with us always. He does this by His presence in the Eucharist. Can you show your love and gratitude by visiting Christ during Exposition?
PRAY AND ACT FOR GAZA
Justice & Peace Scotland invites you to “Pray and Act for Gaza” as we approach two years of war in the Holy Land. On Monday 7th October, please join our “Light a Prayer for Peace” action by lighting a candle and say a prayer for peace. You are also encouraged to write to your MP urgently calling for action to end the suffering in Gaza. Find out more and download a template letter here: www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/Light-a-Prayer-for-Peace
God of peace and justice, We pray for the people of the Holy Land: Israeli and Palestinian, Jew, Christian and Muslim. We pray for an end to acts of violence and terror. We lift to you all who are fearful and hurting. We ask for wisdom and compassion for those in leadership. Above all, we ask that Jesus the Prince of Peace, Establish lasting reconciliation and justice for the Holy Land and all nations. Amen.
200 Club – The September winners are: No 74 – Richard Mulholland and No 95 – Anne Marie Cunningham. Congratulations.
Missions - The month of October is dedicated in a special way to promoting and supporting the Church’s missionary work. The annual collection for the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith (Missio) is on Mission Sunday, 19 October.
The Offertory Collection last weekend amounted to £729; in addition, £345 per month is given through the direct debit facility. Grateful thanks to all donors.
Catholic Conversations for Women - Faith-focused discussion on Saturday 25 October, 3:45pm-4:45pm in St Andrew’s Parish rooms (77 Belford Rd, EH4 3DS). To register, email edinburgh@almamercy.org
Dana and Friends at the Cathedral - Heartwarming music and testimony led by Eurovision winner Dana. Also features Martina Purdy, a former BBC TV political correspondent, and Elaine Kelly a former Barrister who both made headlines in 2014 when they gave life as they knew it to enter a convent as Sisters of Adoration. St Mary's Cathedral, Broughton Street, Edinburgh EH1 3JR, Friday 17 October 2025 at 7:30pm.
SVP News – SVP Scotland sent £5000 to the Church in Myanmar (Burma) after the terrible earthquake there. Bo’ness made a small contribution to this.
Appeal - St Catharine’s Convent in Edinburgh is collecting donations of old, unused sleeping bags to support those in need. If you have any, please bring to the church and we will do the rest.