Category: Glasgow events
St Mungo Festival – Festival Service at Glasgow Cathedral
Our third event was our ecumenical service at Glasgow Cathedral on 12th January, hosted by the Cathedral community and Glasgow Churches Together (GCT). The weather was much more clement than the previous day, and it was possible...
Read MoreThe St Mungo Festival – Mungo in the Mitchell – Celebrating the Life of St. Mungo
It wasn’t the best of days for the second event of the St Mungo Festival, which was the service centred on readings from the mediaeval Vita Kentigerni or Life of St Mungo. The rain was pouring down and there was a huge...
Read MoreThe St. Mungo Festival 2020 – Mungo’s Bairns
It’s January again so it is time to celebrate St Mungo in Glasgow. The St Mungo Festival grows year on year, and one of the most joyful events is Mungo’s Bairns held in Wellington Church, when B.Ed student teachers and...
Read MoreCarols for Peace 2019
As Bailie Annette Christie reminded us in her welcome, this is the 19th year that we have celebrated Carols for Peace in the City Chambers in Glasgow. In view of the capacity congregation the previous year, when people had to be...
Read MoreWorld Day for The Poor
The third annual World Day for the Poor, 17 November 2019, was marked in Glasgow by a short ecumenical service around the statue of the “Homeless Jesus” which is situated at the rear of St George’s Tron Church, in Nelson Mandela...
Read MoreFriends of the Holy Land Service
The charity, Friends of the Holy Land, was established in 2009 to support vulnerable Christians in the Holy Land and celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The Archdiocese was therefore very honoured to have them hold their...
Read MoreAnnual Mass of Remembrance at St Agnes Lambhill on 10 November 2019
Each year a Mass of Remembrance is held at St Agnes for those whose final committal has been in the cemeteries in the parish or at Glasgow Maryhill Crematorium. This year’s Mass was on 10th November and was well attended. The...
Read MoreAnnual Requiem for the Deceased Clergy of the Archdiocese of Glasgow
The annual Mass for the deceased bishops and clergy of the Archdiocese was held in St Andrew’s Cathedral on 8th November. Principal celebrant, Archbishop Tartaglia, was joined by priests and parishioners from the diocese, and...
Read MoreGlasgow – A Cradle of Faith in Action? (Pt.2)
The Centenary Mass of the Knights of St Columba The Knights celebrated the Mass for the end of their Centenary Year in St Andrew’s Cathedral just over a week after the Apostleship of the Sea celebration, on 5 October. Archbishop...
Read MoreGlasgow – a Cradle of Faith in Action? (Pt.1)
We may not recognise this description of Glasgow but it must surely have been the case at the end of World War I because in 1919 it saw the foundation of the Knights of St Columba and, in the following year, the birth of the...
Read MoreVisit of the Relics of St Therese of Lisieux
Perhaps we did wonder a bit about what the response of Glasgow’s Catholic community would be to the visit of the relics of St Therese of Lisieux to the city in this self-proclaimed secular modern age. The answer became clear to...
Read MorePause for Hope 2019
The third annual ecumenical Pause for Hope service for all people affected by cancer took place in Our Lady of Lourdes parish on 12 September and was jointly supported by Glasgow Churches Together (GCT) and the Prince &...
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