“Walking towards the barking dogs”: On the martyrdom of Michael Nnadi https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/laudato-si-anniversary-opportunity-speak-stand-act Virgil, Pope Francis, and the Wisdom of Memory https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/05/my-pope https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/05/pope-on-the-world-stage A Pontificate under the Banner of Mary: Hans Urs von Balthasar on Pope Saint John Paul II  

Readings: Acts 8:5-8,14-17; Psalm 65(66):1-7,16,20; 1 Peter 4:13-16; John 14:15-21 One of the awful things about our present predicament is that we miss being with people, especially with those we love. If you look at the cover of the hymn sheet today, which can be found on the parish website,...

The text below is taken from a sermon of Pope St. Leo the Great (390-461 AD) Dearly beloved, those days which intervened between the Lord’s Resurrection and Ascension did not pass by in uneventful leisure, but great mysteries were ratified in them and deep truths were revealed.    In those...

Saint Mary, Star of the Sea, Presbytery 28 Greenock Road 19th May, 2020   Dear Sisters and Brothers in the Lord It is hard to believe it, but we are approaching fast the final days of Eastertide. It was two months ago today, 19th March, that I celebrated my last...

Bishop Nolan has forwarded to the parishes in the Diocese the following information:   The Church Leaders’ Forum of Scotland has invited all Churches in Scotland to participate in the annual prayer initiative “Thy Kingdom Come”, a global prayer movement that calls on Christians of all denominations to join together in...

Bishop Nolan has sent the above invitation on behalf of the interfaith committee of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland.  

The text below is taken from a commentary on the gospel of John by St. Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD) Paul bears witness to the fact that we achieve bodily union with Christ to the extent that we partake of his holy flesh. About this great mystery he says: This...

Pope Francis has inscribed St. Sister Faustina Kowalska, the Divine Mercy visionary, on the General or Universal Roman Calendar. Although hitherto her name was listed among the roll of saints of the Church (aka the Martyrology), and that she was venerated primarily in Poland, the fact that devotion to her...

The text below is taken from the saintly Pope’s encyclical, “salvifici doloris” on human suffering. He wrote it not long after the assassination attempt on his life (which took place on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, 13 May 1981). “9. Within each form of suffering endured by man,...