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 MoreIt 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 MoreIt’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 Morea prayer for the feast day of Glasgow’s patron saint and city founder: Loving God, as we honour St Mungo, we pray for the city he founded and all its people. Make us glad to share the Gospel he preached, and let us show...
Read MoreAs 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 MoreSuch are the ones who seek your face, who seek your face, O Lord. Such are the ones who seek your face, who seek your face, O Lord. Glory to the Father, glory to the Son, Glory to the Holy Spirit now and for ever. Amen. Such...
Read MoreEach 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 MoreThe 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 MoreA Morning Prayer for St Margaret’s Day: Let us pray: Father, we thank you that your love for your people has been seen so powerfully in the life and work of St Margaret. Renew...
Read MoreJohn Duns (c. 1266 – 8 November 1308), commonly called Duns Scotus, “Duns the Scot”), was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher, and theologian. He is one of the three...
Read MoreThe 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 MoreWe 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...
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