Please find the links and details for booking your place at the celebration of Holy Mass within your local parish:
(Please note this list is being updated as information is supplied by each parish-if you parish is not listed please call them directly for information, you can find the contact details here:
https://rcdop.org.uk/parishfinder)
Renfrewshire Deanery
Our Lady of Lourdes, Bishopton
http://stmaryrcpaisley.com/
St Bernadette's, & St John Bosco, Erskine
https://bit.ly/2Q6ZOiM
St Charles, Paisley
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/30231374582
or call 07593825035
St Conval's, Linwood
https://forms.gle/ZU2pJCq3s2GyFHnA8
St Fergus, Paisley
https://bit.ly/2CCmt3w
St Fillans, Houston
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/st-fillans-mass-schedule-tickets-113652483638
St James, Paisley
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sunday-morning-mass-at-st-james-paisley-tickets-113349944736
Church of Christ the King, Howwood
Please call 01505 702636
St Peter's, Paisley
stpeter@rcdop.org.uk
or call 0141 884 2435
Friday between the times of 12 Noon and 6pm
Inverclyde Deanery
St Andrew's Church, Greenock
https://www.facebook.com/pg/standrewschurchgreenock/events/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/st-andrews-catholic-church-greenock-30635105050
St Mary's Church, Greenock
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sunday-mass-tickets-113770348174
St Joseph's Church, Greenock
Saturday 5 pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-josephs-parish-greenock-saturday-vigil-5-pm-mass-schedule-tickets-114737109784?aff=erelpanelorg
Sunday 10:30 am https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-josephs-parish-greenock-sunday-1030-am-mass-schedule-tickets-114740275252?aff=erelpanelorg
East Renfrewshire Deanery
St Thomas' Church, Neilston
https://bit.ly/323S1If
St Bridget's Church, Eaglesham
Saturday 5pm & 6pm
https://bit.ly/34hYC4q
Scotland’s Catholic Bishops welcome reopening of churches for the celebration of Holy Mass on Wednesday 15th June, 2020
Following the announcement of the First Minister in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday, we are now moving into Phase 3 of the easing of the lockdown and of the Re-Opening of Our Churches. The Diocesan Working Party met yesterday afternoon to consider the way forward in our Diocese. I am happy therefore to inform you of the following:
1. Sunday & Weekday Mass
1.1. Please remember that this is a phased process and that you are not obliged to do anything until you have the proper stewarding and sanitisation measures in place and until you, as parish priest, are comfortable with the preparations that you have made and are sure that you are ready to move into the next phase. Please be assured that Bishop John will support you in any decisions that you make with regard to your parish.
1.2. From Wednesday 15th July, Mass with a congregation MAY be celebrated in the Diocese of Paisley. The proper physical distancing, stewarding and sanitisation measures must be in place and you must be able to record the presence of all participants at Mass (Marianne has sent us an e-mail about using the Eventbrite booking system which allows us to create a record of participants).
1.3. The maximum number of people for any Mass in Church will be 50 (apart from Funerals, see below at 2).
1.4. As Parish Priest you are free to decide whether to celebrate Mass each day from Wednesday, or on some days, or to wait until Sunday for your first public Mass.
1.5. To help with your forward planning you are reminded, and may remind your people, that priests are not permitted to celebrate Mass more than once each day. We have the faculty, for a just cause, to celebrate Mass twice on a weekday or Sunday and for a pastoral necessity may celebrate a third Mass on a Sunday or Holyday of Obligation. Therefore, any individual priest may celebrate, at most, three Masses on Sunday and two on a weekday, but the general rule is one Mass per day (CIC. canon 905).
2. Funerals
2.1. From Wednesday it is permitted to have a maximum congregation of 20 at a Funeral Mass in the Church.
3. People who are shielding
A very delicate issue is that not all our parishioners will be able to return to Church. Those who are SHIELDING according to Scottish Government guidance should not return to Church until the Government advises them that it is safe to do so.
In addition, the following parishioners should follow Scottish Government advice about whether or not to come to Church: