Each year the Scottish Catholic Youth Service organises a major Pilgrimage event for teenagers and young adult Catholics. This year the venue was Pluscarden Abbey. So young pilgrims from all over Scotland arrived here around midday on Saturday 26 September
Another African Visitor
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 26A, 27 September 2026: Phil 2:1-11
In St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians, we see him at his happiest. The Christians in Philippi had none of the severe problems that beset other Churches, for example in Galatia or at Corinth. Here was Paul in his prison cell, chained either to a wall or to a soldier, and whenever he thought of the Philippians, he was cheered and consoled.
Homily for Sunday 25A, 20 September 2026
Isaiah 55:6-9; Philippians 1:20c-24, 27a; Matthew 20:1-6
What is the Kingdom of heaven like? What is God’s way of salvation like? What is the Christian life like?
Once upon a time, a householder set out to hire labourers for his vineyard. Our Lord tells us this story, which may perhaps strike us as somewhat bizarre, then he leaves us without any sort of explanation. So that gives us rather a lot of freedom to interpret or apply it as we can.