He was born in Normandy, France in 1601. He joined the French Religious Community of the Oratorians and was ordained a priest at the age of 24. During the severe plagues of 1627 and 1631 he continued preaching among the people and cared and nursed the sick. In order to prevent the spread of the … [Read more…]
Fr Ryan Black, newly ordained priest with Fr Joe his former PP in St Francis, Port Glasgow. Ad multos annos vivat!
In response to the rich young man in yesterday’s Gospel not taking up Jesus’s invitation to follow him because he was unwilling to renounce his great wealth, Jesus warns his own disciples about wealth and its dangers. Although this rich young man follows the commandments that Jesus lists, Jesus calls him to be perfect. Now … [Read more…]
St Stephen was born between 970-975 and was the fourth Magyar Duke to rule in Hungary. He was baptised a Catholic together his father in 985. When he was 20 years of age, he married Gisela of Bavaria who was the sister of St Henry, who would become a future the Holy Roman Emperor. On … [Read more…]
Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, body and soul as a Dogma of Faith on the 1st of November 1950. This is part of what he said “We pronounce, declare and definite it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever- virgin Mary, having completed … [Read more…]
Collection Gift Aid: £135.00 Non- Gift Aid: £135.40 Gift Aid Building Fund: £110.00 St Anthony’s: £59.40 Monthly Standing Orders: £1,677 Weekend Masses: Saturdays @ 4pm and Sundays @ 8.30am (until further notice.) & 10.am. Weekday Masses: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays @ 10am. The Church will be opened for Mass only and 20 minutes before … [Read more…]
St Maximilian Mary Kolbe was born Raymond Kolbe in 1894 near Lodz, Poland. He became a novice of the Conventual Franciscans at age 16 and was given the religious name Maximilian. When he made his Solemn Profession in 1914, he added Mary to his religious name. He was ordained in Rome in 1919 and returned … [Read more…]
The Rev Ryan Black will be ordained a Priest for our Diocese this Saturday the 15th of August at 12 Noon in St Mirin’s Cathedral. The Ordination Mass will be live-streamed. His First Mass will be celebrated on Sunday the 16th August, the transferred Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Blessed Lady into Heaven at … [Read more…]
St Pontian became Pope in the year 231 and was banished by the Emperor Maximus and exiled to Sardinia in 235. He resigned the Papacy so that the Church could elect an active Pontiff. He died in Sa as a result of ill treatment and exhaustion in the salt mines of Sardinia about the year … [Read more…]
Within the church and within our communities there will be times when we have to fraternally correct others in order to bring about their holiness and sanctification. The emphasis in this passage from Jesus is about first and foremost, reconciliation. However, if there is a resistance to private correction then Jesus advises one or two … [Read more…]