It wasn’t quite what the St Mungo Singers had envisaged for their celebration of 50 years’ service to the Church. Pre-Covid, plans had vaguely included a pilgrimage – perhaps to Rome – a party to which families, friends and...
Read MoreIn this, their 50th anniversary year, the St Mungo Singers are at last back singing in person, albeit in masks. With the easing of restrictions, rehearsals started with appropriate distancing, sanitising and recording of...
Read MoreMusic for Mass on Jan 13 The Feast of St Mungo, patron saint of Glasgow Entry: You alone are holy Psalm 18 Sanctus Communion: As we eat this bread Let Glasgow Flourish...
Read More‘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...
Read MoreThe 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 MoreThe 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 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 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 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...
Read MorePerhaps 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...
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