Author: RCDA

• 10/08/2020

  Homily for the 19th Sunday of the Year

  Today we meet three people, each of them deeply troubled. In the 1st reading, the prophet Elijah, in the 2nd reading St Paul, in the Gospel Peter. It’s to their […]

• 09/08/2020

  Available Now: Light of the North Summer 2020

  The summer issue of the Light of the North is now available online. There is lots for everyone in this issue, not least  Bishop Hugh Gilbert’s letter in which Bishop […]

• 08/08/2020

  Homily for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

  God is real: “I am”, he says. God is involved. God is on our side. These are the basic propositions of our faith. Sunday after Sunday they’re brought before us. […]

• 21/07/2020

  Homily for the Diaconal Ordination of Malachy Eze and Christopher Doig

  Today’s homily is supposed to be “brief and to the point”. So, who are these like stars appearing? “Chosen men”, the Litany of the Saints will call them. Here, briefly, […]

• 17/07/2020

  BCOS – Guidelines for the Resumption of Mass

  The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland Pastoral Ministry Working Group has published this Infographic summary of guidance for parishioners as they return to church for the public celebration of Mass. 

• 14/07/2020

  Diaconate Ordination of Malachy Eze & Christopher Doig

  The diaconate Ordination of Malachy Eze & Christopher Doig will be celebrated by Bishop Hugh Gilbert OSB in St Mary’s Cathedral on Thursday 16th July at 11:00, following the coronavirus […]

• 12/07/2020

  Homily for the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time

  Today’s readings are full of the “earth”. So Isaiah: “As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it […]

• 09/07/2020

  Catholic Bishops Announce Resumption of Communal Worship

  Scotland’s Catholic Bishops have welcomed the First Minister’s comments today (Thursday 9 July) on places of worship and have announced the resumption of communal worship in Catholic parishes from 15 […]