A Major Event of New Evangelisation. Chris Stefanick is founder of Real Life Catholic which has brought hundreds of thousands of people back to the Catholic faith. Real Life Catholic’s purpose is to ignite a bold, contagious faith in the heart of every Catholic by building a movement of Catholics who share the beauty, power and truth of the Gospel with a world that has largely forgotten. Thu 27 July 7.00pm, Bute Hall, University of Glasgow. For tickets (£10 or £8 unwaged) contact the Archdiocese of Glasgow RE Department or tel. Christine (0141 226 5898) or through Eventbrite: rebootlivescotland.eventbrite.co.uk
PARABLES OF JESUS The Parable of the Sower That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow... Do we know and understand this parable?
If your heading off on holiday or just out and about for a few days here & there, be sure to pack your Saint for the trip! You will find a Saint for pretty much anything or any situation, here are just a few to get you started on your way...enjoy your summer & stay safe!! P.S. I always take my Rosary with me too!!
ANN ARBOR—New research on how birth control pills affect the level of hormones in women's blood serum has found much higher levels of hormones in women who take birth control pills compared to women who don't. The University of Michigan study was motivated by evidence that breast cancer risk increases with hormonal exposure. The authors examined seven commonly prescribed birth control pills and found that four formulations more than quadruple levels of progestin, a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone, and another formulation resulted in a 40 percent higher exposure to ethinyl estradiol, a synthetic version of estrogen.
Philanthropist Melinda Gates has said she has "agreed to disagree" with the Catholic Church on contraception. She said her foundation and the church work closely together and she is "optimistic" the Pope will change views on contraception over time.
Communion, also known as Alvaro Vega, is a really good lyricist. His flow is practiced and moves quickly, without sacrificing diction, and he seems to have a lot of fun rhyming more than just the last syllables of a verse. I believe in Jesus who frees us from all diseases, The One who came to teach us the love thy neighbor thesis “I Believe” doesn’t over-do anything. The arrangement is simple, with a piano, synth, and drum kit, and could easily be played during a service. This is fitting for an artist who is also training to be a priest. Communion offers his talent up to God, using his gift of music to evangelize youth communities of Miami and Weston with an accessible hip-hop sound.
Dear Brothers and Sisters It is a joy to welcome you to Paisley Diocese for your conference on New Movements and the wider Christian community. I am particularly pleased at how the Holy Spirit has inspired you to think about how to encourage and foster Christian family life.
I want to congratulate Catholic Charismatic Renewal on their Golden Jubilee. It is quite something to think that this Renewal of the Holy Spirit came down to us and blew mightily in our Church and world over half a century ago now. As Renewal’s liaison with the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland it is a pleasure for me to write a few words to reflect the joy and of this Jubilee and the challenge facing Renewal in Scotland in the decades ahead.
Dear brothers and sisters, Today we gather to confer the ministry of Lectorate on one of our brothers, Paul Graham, as he takes his first ministerial step to become a Deacon in our diocese and enter into the order of the diaconate.
Dear Provost, Canons, Fathers, brothers and sisters This evening we gather with our Cathedral Canons for our bi-annual chapter and, once again, it is with the special joy of raising two of our senior priests of the diocese to the order of Canon so as to make complete once again our Cathedral Chapter.
Dear brothers and sisters, We gather this evening on the Feast of Saint Columba who was perhaps Scotland’s most effective evangeliser and who is surely with us now from heaven as our friend, teacher and intercessor as we take up the challenge of a new evangelisation of our land today. Columba’s coming to Scotland marked a personal conversion in the journey of his Catholic faith and it was so powerful that it became one of the forces that created the nation of Scotland itself, unified and founded on his faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ
My dear brother Jonathan, there is hardly a greater joy for a bishop than presiding at the ordination of a new priest and seeing stand before him the joy and hope of our Church as it stretches out into the generation ahead.
The former Northern Ireland footballer Philip Mulryne has been ordained a Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order. Father Mulryne, who is reported to have once earned £600,000 a year, has also taken a vow of poverty. Philip Mulryne prostrate as he was ordained a priest in Dublin on Saturday. He was ordained in Dublin on Saturday by Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, who had travelled from Rome for the ceremony. Fr Mulryne had been ordained a deacon in October last year.
A web developer named Madalyn Parker recently took a few days off from work to focus on her mental health. When she got an email back from her boss about it, though, she was stunned by his response... A little compassion & understanding into mental health issues can help immensely for those suffering each day. Well done Ben Congleton!
Dear brothers and sisters, dear Fr. Ben, it is a joy to be with you today as we celebrate your first Mass, a Mass of thanksgiving for your priestly ordination, offered up through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary, Immaculately Conceived.
Dear brothers and sisters, it is a joy for me to be with you here in Saint Mary’s, the Mother Church of Greenock and all Lower Clydeside, this Easter Sunday. Your parish can trace its Christian roots close to Gospel times themselves and certainly from the sixth century mission chapel founded here by Saint Blane of Bute. Re-established in post-Reformation times as the Greenock Mission, the first priests of Saint Mary’s preached the Gospel across the river into Dumbarton and down through Ayrshire, founding many parishes that thrive still today, far and wide.
Dear brothers and sisters, we gather for these Vigil rites as a people of faith, all prepared to share in the adventure of a Communion of Life with God Himself, in His Risen Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ.
by "Jesus Washes an Apostle's Feet" by Laurie Olson Lisonbee, 2006. Used with permission
Dear brothers and sisters, this evening we call to mind the surpassing mystery and precious gift of the Holy Eucharist. With the celebration of Mass this evening the Church begins our Easter Triduum and so recalls the Last Supper in which Our Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed and showing His love for those who were His own in the world, gave His Body and Blood under the species of bread and wine. Offering them to his Father and giving them to the Apostles to partake of them, He commanded them and their successors in the priesthood to: Do this in memory of Me, perpetuating the Offering until He comes again.
It is a joy to be with you, my brother priests and deacons, my beloved sisters religious and my dear people, for our annual Chrism Mass. This Celebration is the most precious of our diocesan traditions and one that keeps us together as a family as the years go by and it is, indeed, a consolation to see so many of you gathered here together in our Cathedral tonight.