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On Friday 12th April 2024, Dunkeld’s Diocesan Administrator, Canon Kevin Golden, delivered this Homily during the Mass in St Andrew’s Cathedral, Dundee as priest and people gathered together, with members of Fr Martin’s family, on hearing of the death of their Bishop Elect. I’ve had a wee refrain in my head the past couple of days. In fact, the past …
Bishop Stephen Robson’s homily – 17th April 2019 On Monday night, after returning from Mgr McInally’s funeral, I turned on the TV, to see some breaking news that Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was on fire. Flicking to BBC News 24 and glued to the screen, in the space of 90 minutes 850 years of Catholic Church history was all …
Addressing Civic and Academic leaders at the Annual Town and Gown Mass in St Andrew’s Cathedral on the Feast of Christ the King, on Sunday 22nd November 2015, Bishop Stephen Robson, Bishop of Dunkeld said: “My Dad is ill at ease with the modern world! He is 90 and heavily shocked with the world around him. Because of vascular dementia, …
On Sunday 19th July, 2015, Bishop Stephen Robson celebrated Mass in the chapel of the Wellburn Convent, Dundee, home to the Little Sisters of the Poor, as the sisters say ‘thanks’ to all who have worked for, been cared for, and supported their work for over 150 years in the city. Says Bishop Stephen, “Jeanne Jugan has left us an apostolic …
Congratulations on the 50th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the present church at St Columba’s, Cupar, in 1964-5 and also celebrate the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the parish in 1864-5. While the parish was founded in 1864, the directory shows a strange anomaly. From 1879-1885, after the restoration of the hierarchy in which the three districts of Scotland …
Although there is sometimes something funny and exciting about watching PMs question time, I must say I hate seeing or hearing political leaders in a parliamentary session just slinging mud at each other, instead of telling the truth and trying to solve the problems of the day. It is even worse when we remember that the general public voted them …