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2024 Pluscarden Pentecost Lectures
Scottish Catholic Literature And the ‘transfiguration of the commonplace’ Four talks by Dr Linden Bicket A series of public lectures to be given at Pluscarden Abbey, Elgin 21st – 23rd […]
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Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Lent
Today, candidates from the Cathedral parish and St Joseph’s School will sign up, as it were, to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation later in the year. Through that Sacrament we […]
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Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent
Today we hear from St Mark of our Lord’s temptation in the desert, from Genesis of God’s promise to Noah and family after the flood, and from St Peter of […]
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Station Mass and Mass for the Enrolment of the Elect
May I ask, have you noticed the birdsong? The temperature rises a little and out it bubbles. City life can separate us from these things; it fills our lives with […]
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Homily for Ash Wednesday
Today, the ship of Lent sets sail and we climb on board. Today, Mother Church, Mother Lent – wearing purple – comes towards us, and puts ashes on our forehead.
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Wee Box – Big Change
On Ash Wednesday, SCIAF will launch the WEE BOX-BIG CHANGE Appeal. This year’s Lent appeal focuses on communities in Rwanda. In April 1994, 100 days of mass genocide began in […]
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2024 Day of Prayer for Survivors/Victims of Abuse
The annual Day of Prayer for Survivors of Abuse in the Catholic Church in Scotland takes place on the first Friday after Ash Wednesday every year; this year, on Friday 16th […]
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Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
In today’s Collect we turned to the “Almighty, ever-living God”. We turned to him because he “governs all things both in heaven and on earth. “Hear the pleading of your […]
