6pm, Thursday 9th December, 2021, at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Perth – celebrant Bishop Stephen Robson. The original livestream has been updated. The Catholic community of Perth had been well served by St John’s Church, Melville Street which opened in 1832 and by St Mary’s Kinnoull which opened as a Redemptorist Monastery in 1869. However, after World War II, it became apparent …
The Catholic Church in Scotland has appointed The Hon Lady Rita Rae QC as the first Board Chair of the new Scottish Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency (SCSSA) which will operate as a private company. Lady Rae will begin to recruit SCSSA Board Members in January 2022. The SCSSA will operate entirely independently of the Catholic Church, with its own staff and non-executive …
Celebrant – Canon Kevin Golden, Cathedral Administrator
Bishop Stephen Robson has confirmed the following arrangements for the funeral of Fr Colin Golden, parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes, Perth. 6pm, Thursday 09 December 2021Reception of Fr Colin’s body into Our Lady of Lourdesfollowed by Holy Mass. 12 noon, Friday 10 December 2021Requiem Mass Thereafter to the graveside at Wellshill Cemetery, Perth Livestream If a stable connection …
Following the deaths of Mgr Charles Hendry and Mgr John Harty last year – and replacing two other long serving priests, Canon Neil Drysdale and Mgr Basil O’Sullivan, the following priests of Dunkeld Diocese were installed as Canons of the Chapter of St Andrew’s Cathedral on Tuesday, 30th November, 2021: Fr Mark Cassidy, Fr Brian McLean, Fr Tom Shields and …
Photos by Eddie Mahoney Watch out for a special feature on Our Lady of Victories – featuring a look back at the parish’s Centenary Celebrations – in next week’s new edition of Dunkeld News.
News of Fr Colin Golden’s death was announced at Sunday Masses in parishes across Dunkeld – many of these parishes had their own fond memories of the popular priest. When Fr Colin was ordained on June 24th, 1998, in the parish of Ss Leonard and Fergus’, Dundee it have might have been said that he was a late vocation to …
Mgr Patrick McInally, parish priest at St Columba’s, Cupar as well as the parishes of north Fife at Tayport, Newport-on-Tay and Auchtermuchty, celebrated 11am Mass on the First Sunday of Advent at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Dundee. During the Mass – Mgr McInally read out the Pastoral Letter from the Bishops of Scotland announcing the return of the Sunday and Holyday …