Pastoral Letter from the Bishops of Scotland on the Sixth Anniversary of Laudato Si’Pentecost 202121/5/2021
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Vigil Mass on Wednesday 7pm
Day Mass at 7pm. School Mass 9.30am. In Scotland obligation to attend Sunday Mass and all other Holy Days of obligations are still suspended but all those who would like to come are welcome. Please use our online & Phone booking services to book your place in advance. This month, SPUC Scotland is launching a new initiative to commemorate the gift of life and to particularly call to mind the many lives that have been lost in our country due to abortion. Our usual White Flower Appeals in parishes have been unable to take place for the last year. This is an important means to raise vital funds allowing us to defend the right to life, but it is also an opportunity for us to inform parishioners of the current issues around abortion.
New Government policies, facilitating “DIY” abortion, have made access to abortion easier than ever and have created a slippery path which many women have gone down, often with very little time to think or weigh up the gravity of their actions. Each abortion extinguishes a tiny human life, filled with potential and each of these is a tragedy in its own right. Sadly, these lost lives are overlooked and forgotten by a society that has become numb to the scale and malice of abortion. We want to remember each of these babies and pray that they are not forgotten but rather that their loss can compel us to save future victims of abortion. SPUC knows that the tiny baby is the primary victim of abortion, but we also understand that there are so many others affected by it. The medics and politicians who put the framework in place to destroy life are themselves damaged in conscience by what they do and we also know that women who are put under pressure to have an abortion, can often suffer mentally and/or physically for many years after the event. Our aim is to create a display of 14,000 flower images, one for every child lost to abortion in Scotland in one year. Bishop Toal will bless the physical display on Saturday, 22 May 2021 at Carfin Grotto when we create our ‘carpet of flowers for the unborn’. We are hoping that individuals will be willing to sponsor a virtual flower and these can be purchased online at www.whiteflower.org.uk TO OUR CATHOLIC UNIVERSE AND CATHOLIC TIMES READERS IN THE PARISH: - If you are unable to collect your paper at Mass you can now get it delivered direct to your home every week POST FREE (IT’S QUICK AND IT’S SIMPLE) just go to www.thecatholicuniverse.com or call us on 0161 820 5722 and we will arrange delivery for you. SPECIAL OFFER 3 MONTHS: - £25.00 SPECIAL OFFER 12 Months: - £99.00 DIGITAL COPY: - 12 Months: £55.00 OR DIGITAL COPY/AND HARD COPY FOR: - £115.00 All papers are Covid safe and packed in a sterile component. If, however you feel that you might like to start taking the newspapers in the Parish again or just want to talk the propositions over with us then by all means just email or call. (We have a Payment Plan offer for 5 copies a week @ £530.40) Keeping you and your parish in our thoughts and prayers. Free sample o the newspaper below. ![]()
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