Towards the beginning of the first lockdown last March, I was out walking round the little circle in front of the church. One of our older parishioners was passing by and I went up to greet her, stopping of course at a “safe distance” as we are told to do...
Call to Prayer: Sunday 14th February 2021 Prayer @ 7pm In the Gospel of Mark, we find the disciples of Jesus journeying with him and experiencing something which they struggle to comprehend and express. Jesus takes Peter, James and John to ‘a high mountain’ and there he is ‘transfigured before...
On this National Day of Prayer for Those who have Suffered Abuse, the faithful are invited to join their prayers with those of the Catholic Church throughout Scotland for people in our families and communities who carry within themselves the deep and traumatic wounds of abuse in any way inflicted...
What’s not to love about Simon Peter of Bethsaida and then of Capernaum? He is a loveable rogue, a rough diamond and a salt of the earth kind of man. He is impulsive and brusque in his manner, yet soft as putty in the hands of Jesus. For all the...
We saw last Sunday how the power of Jesus’ preaching in the synagogue of Capernaum discombobulated those who heard him. It claimed an absolute authority over them. It even chased an unclean spirit out of one of their number. Today, the scene changes from a public one, a synagogue, to...
