Mary Bradley RIP
‘How blest are those who have died in the Lord. Let them rest from their labours, for their good works go with them. It was with the greatest sadness that the St Mungo Singers learned of the death of one of their...
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Congratulations, Mgr Gerry – 80 Years Young
The coming of the coronavirus to the UK has caused the cancellation of so many long-planned events in the Archdiocese of Glasgow and elsewhere. One of them was the Mass and Dinner to mark the 80th birthday of Mgr Gerry...
Read MoreJerry Connor RIP
The St Mungo Singers has always been as much a community as a choir and former members regularly keep in touch and are kept in mind. One such member was Jerry Connor who was a member of the tenors in the earliest days of the...
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 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 MoreJohn Limond RIP
How blest are those who have died in the Lord. Let them rest from their labours, for their good works go with them Members of the St Mungo Singers joined parishioners of St Benedict’s Drumchapel on 3rd October to say...
Read MoreFuneral of Phil McSherry
It was with great sadness that the St Mungo Singers joined family, friends and parishioners at St Joseph’s Clarkston on 2 September for the funeral of Phil McSherry, a much loved member for many years of the Bass section of the...
Read MoreSt Mungo Singers Begin the new Season
The Archdiocesan Choir began the 2019/2020 season on 18 August with a Mass followed by a short rehearsal in St. Leo the Great parish. Mgr Gerry welcomed them back to what was already shaping up to be a busy year with a...
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