Last week (while we were offline) marked the seventh anniversary of the death of Cardinal Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow and founder of the Pro-Life Initiative.
As our local ordinary, it was Cardinal Winning who endorsed the foundation of the Sisters of the Gospel of Life, and when he died on Father’s Day 2001, we lost a true and faithful friend.
This wonderful video was put together by Martin Ketterer of STV. The narration comes from an 1994 interview marking Archbishop Winning’s elevation to the College of Cardinals, making him only the second cardinal resident in Scotland since the Reformation.
Apologies for the somewhat intermittent nature of recent posting, we’re having some technical difficulties which will hopefully be resolved soon.
In the mean time here’s a link to the recently uploaded ‘Seven Last Words’ meditations fromGood Friday at St Mungo’s in Townhead. Sr Andrea joined members of the Passionist community, giving the reflection on “Today you will be with me in Paradise”. You can hear all of the meditations here, courtesy of Sermo Crucis.
We mentioned last week that Sr Roseann was in St Andrews with Fr Roger Nesbitt. Here’s Fr Nesbitt with some of the students of the wonderful Canmore Catholic Society.
This evening I’ll be accompanying Fr Roger Nesbitt to St Andrews where he will be giving a talk entitled ‘For me to live is Christ’ at the Canmore Catholic Society. It’s always great to visit Canmore though it’ll be nice to be in the audience this time. I’d imagine that the talk will be well worth listening to - it’ll soon be available on the Society’s podcast page.
Last night we were in Milton of Campsie for the first ever session of the new group established for the young people of St Paul’s, Milton of Campsie and St Patrick’s, Kilsyth. Many of these young people have faithfully attended the talks and events we’ve organised at the Initiative over the last year and it was great to be involved in something geared towards them specifically. Please say a wee prayer for the success of the group.
Arise, Jerusalem, shine, for your light has come, the glory of the Lord is rising on you.
Almighty, ever-living God,
on this day your Only-begotten Son
was presented at the temple,
in flesh and blood like ours:
purify us in mind and heart
that we may meet you in your glory.
We make our prayer through Christ our Lord.
Today is also (in the Passionist calendar) the Solemnity of the Commemoration of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Titular Feast of the Passionist Congregation.
Happy feast to our friends at St Mungo’s Retreat in Townhead!
Today is the Feast of St Brigid of Ireland, known as the Mary of the Gael, secondary patron of Ireland - she’s is also Sr Roseann’s Confirmation patron.
If you click here you can watch a short video of Fr Augustine of the wonderful Pluscarden Abbey explaining the importance of the witness of monastic life.
Unfortunately we couldn’t embed the vido here and the site is in Danish, but you can watch the video.
We’ll be spending the next few days in Lancashire at the Faith Winter Conference. The theme for the session is ‘Hearing God’s Word’ and the talks will include:
‘The Bible belongs to the Church’
‘Christ – the Key to understanding the Old Testament’
‘The Gospels – Historical and true’
‘The Bible in our prayer and in our lives’
It’s unlikely that internet access will be available (though Fr Tim may well find a way to post!) so we’ll publish a full update when we return. Normal blogging will also (hopefully!) resume - apologies for the somewhat irregular rate of posting lately.
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