This homily is directed to parishioners in Largs, Fairlie and Sklemorlie! I want to appeal to your sense of holy defiance. Covid has had us pinned down, restricted and constricted since March. In both parishes, it has deprived many of the spiritual lifeline of Holy Communion and Reconciliation. It has...

Call to Prayer: Sunday 6th December 2020 2nd Sunday in AdventPrayer @ 7pm ‘Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.’ God speaks and the word spoken is a word of comfort to the people of God. The word is spoken to those who feel that they are powerless and...

Please see below link to a recording of a webinar recently provided by the Scottish Catholic Safeguarding Service. https://www.scsafeguarding.org.uk/Training

VOICES During Advent, a lot of voices are mentioned in the Scripture readings and hymns: “Hark! The herald voice is sounding!”; “the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘prepare ye the way of the Lord’”; “I will hear what the Lord has to say, a voice that speaks of...

Sacraments are encounters. Scriptures. Prayer. Creation. People, “even the least of these brethren” – the unborn, the terminally ill. Conscience, “vox Dei.” Hard to think of a situation where a meeting with Christ is not possible, is not already happening, at least from His side. All of the above are...

No less than four times, Jesus bids us stay awake in today’s Gospel. We need to sleep, of course, so he’s not saying that Christians are to be insomniacs. He is urging us to be ready for Him, but only because He desires that we will want to be ready...