Our Paisley Synod Moving Froward. Our large Steering Group met and considered common themes and directions emerging from our nine Task Groups and came up with the following proposal. In the coming months we will develop a plan to visit parishes at their Sunday Masses, meet with parishioners and gather together an inventory of work the laity are already doing, as well as new skills or services the laity are now happy to volunteer to parishes and diocese, as well as getting a sense of what parishes want us to concentrate on first. Then we will work to match up these offers with parishes that want those lay skills and services so as to open up new channels of life and growth around the diocese. Our Paisley Dicoese: All Together Sharing the Good News!

Dear brothers and sisters.   It is always a joy to be with you in Saint Joseph’s, especially today as we celebrate the institution of our parishioner Paul Graham as Acolyte in the penultimate step of his journey to the permanent diaconate in the diocese of Paisley.