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Bishop John’s Vocations Message 2021
An Invitation to Consider the Call in 2021. Bishop John Keenan, the Bishop of Paisley - whose remit also includes Priests for Scotland - has recorded this video message to invite young men and women to make 2021 the year they consider giving themselves to the Church...

Bishop Vincent Logan RIP
On Thursday 14th January 2021, the death was announced of Bishop Vincent Logan, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Dunkeld, aged 79. Bishop Vincent was the first bishop-president of "Priests for Scotland" and a tremendous supporter and guide over the years. In some...

Covid-19: Bishops’ Pastoral Letter
In early December 2020, the Bishops of Scotland sent out a pastoral letter to encourage people during the time of pandemic, especially after months of restrictions, hardships and worries, illness and death. With the dark days of the Scottish winter upon us, these can...

Think Vocations 2021
Click on the link below for the latest set of "inserts" for parish bulletins, websites and other social media and communication platforms you might use. The texts cover the Sundays and major feasts of the year from Advent 2020 to Pentecost 2021. Why not think about...

Devotion to Sacred Scripture
Pope Francis on love for Scripture 30th September 2020 marks 1600 years since the traditional date of the death of St Jerome, one of the early Church's most fascinating and learned characters. Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ (St Jerome) Born around 340AD...

Vocations Awareness Week 2020
13th - 20th September 2020 2020 has proven to be a very strange year for all of us, from lockdowns to closed schools, to cancelled holidays and working from home. We have been forced to reconsider some of our priorities and to think about what is truly important for...

Thinking Vocations for 2020
Bulletin and Website Notices for Vocations Trinity Sunday to Christ the King 2020 This page offers brief reflections drawn from the readings for Mass from the Sundays and major feast days in the second half of 2020. We hope they can prompt some thought and prayer...

Word of God Sunday
On the 30th of September 2019, the feast of St Jerome, Pope Francis published an "apostolic letter" under the title "Aperuit Illis" in which he invites us to mark the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time each year as "Word of God Sunday". This was something he had already...