SCIAF Lenten Campaign 2023 – training day

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A training session for the SCIAF Lenten Campaign 2023 has been arranged for Saturday 25th  February, 2023 at St Joseph’s, Wilkies Lane, Dundee. The session will be lead by Steve McManus, SCIAF fundraising manager, and will commence at 10.30am. Tea and Coffee will be served from 10.15am.   All are welcome

Seeking Marriage Counselling Counsellors

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We are looking to increase the provision of marriage counselling available to Dioceses in Scotland.  If you are an experienced counsellor, we offer you an interesting opportunity to broaden your professional practice.  You will be provided with CPD training to help equip you for the role. We would be looking to expand upon a service already used in some areas …

Requiem Mass for Susan Cassidy

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The parish of St John’s Perth was rocked at the start of this year with the sudden and untimely death of their beloved Organist and Choir Mistress Susan Cassidy. She was 65. Susan was the second youngest child of the late Charlie and Kathleen Cassidy. She is survived by her brother Tony, a Redemptorist priest in London, her sisters Mary …

New Dawn Day

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New Dawn in Scotland invites everyone to St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Dundee, on Saturday 11th February.  The day will start at 10 am with Holy Mass, celebrated by Bishop Robson, followed by praise and worship, inspiring talks, testimonies, workshops, reconciliation and an evening healing service, led by 2 or more priests.  New Dawn is a worldwide organisation of laity …

Scotland’s Catholic Bishops urge Scottish Government to reject ‘expert’ report

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Responding to the publication of the Scottish Government’s ‘expert’ advisory group on “Ending Conversion Practices”, Scotland’s Catholic Bishops have issued the following statement: The Church is pastorally sensitive to the experience of people who identify as homosexual. They are to be met with compassion and particular care and support in the challenges that come with all that life brings them. …

An Invitation to The Letter

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The Letter, released in October 2022, is a powerful, thought-provoking documentary, exploring more about the principles of ‘Laudato Si’, the second encyclical of Pope Francis. Laudato Si has the subtitle “on care for our common home”. In it, the pope critiques consumerism and irresponsible development, laments environmental degradation and global warming, and calls all people of the world to take …

Memorial Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

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The 11am Solemn Mass in St Andrew’s Cathedral this coming Sunday 8 January 2023 will be offered especially for our Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI RIP.   While not a Requiem Mass as such, it being the Sunday of the Epiphany of the Lord, and the Prayers and Scriptures being of the Solemnity, it shall nevertheless be a Memorial Mass for …

Canon Kevin Golden is elected as Diocesan Administrator

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On 2nd January 2023, in accordance with the canons of the Code of Canon Law 1983) relating to the provision of a diocesan Administrator, the College of Consultors of the Diocese of Dunkeld gathered at the Diocesan Curial Offices for the process of the Election of a Diocesan Administrator. The Very Rev Canon Kevin James Golden MPS, currently Parish priest of …