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• Bishop's Homily - Mass at St. Conval's Cemetery

  Created: Tuesday, 03 November 2009 17:03

  Solemnity of All Saints 2009 Mass in St Conval’s Cemetery   The month of November is our special time of prayer for those we call the “holy souls”, the faithful departed. So it is fitting that we should gather today, the first day of November,...

• Bishop's Homily - 29th Sunday of the Year

  Created: Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:07

    Mass of Thanksgiving and Farewell for the Daughters of Charity   Jesus recommends to his apostles a model of leadership which is based on being a servant, and specifically on being a servant like him who, as Son of Man, did not come to be served ...

• Bishop's Homily: 26th Sunday of the Year

  Created: Friday, 09 October 2009 15:00

  26th Sunday in Ordinary Time       What a fuss Jesus makes about sin! Better to lose a hand, a foot or an eye rather than sin! Better to enter the kingdom of heaven mutilated and blind than to be thrown into the fires of hell. Even allowing for t...

• Bishop's Homily - 40th Anniversary of St. Francis' Parish, Port Glasgow

  Created: Tuesday, 22 September 2009 15:01

  Mass for the 40th Anniversary of the Parish of St. Francis, Port Glasgow   Feast of Saint Matthew     1. This parish of St. Francis, Port Glasgow, was established 40 years ago by my predecessor Bishop Stephen McGill. St. Francis is the youngest of...

• Bishop's Homily - Vocations Mass

  Created: Tuesday, 22 September 2009 14:53

  Mass for Vocations 2009   Jesus calls us together at this Vocations Mass as his friends. “I call you friends”, he tells us in this evening’s Gospel. Our common vocation, the vocation we share, is to be counted as a friend of Jesus.   Fri...

• Bishop's Homily - 22nd Sunday of the Year

  Created: Tuesday, 01 September 2009 15:13

  22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (B/2009)   1.      In a perfect world, the law of God and the law of man would coincide in a way which would bring harmony, peace, justice, prosperity and great admiration and reputation to a people. This is the vision...

• Bishop's Homily - Month's Mind of Mgr. Matthew Kinsella

  Created: Monday, 17 August 2009 18:13

  Month’s Mind Mass for the Repose of the Soul of Monsignor Matthew Kinsella Because we believe in the resurrection of the dead, it is, as the scriptures say, a ‘holy and devout’ thought to pray for the dead. And we gather this e...

• Bishop's Homily 18th Sunday of the Year

  Created: Friday, 14 August 2009 14:21

  18th Sunday in Ordinary Time   Having multiplied the loaves to feed the multitude, having given them all the bread they wanted, Jesus now reveals that he is the bread of life: “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be hungry. He who...

• Bishop's Homily - Solemn Vespers on the Feast of St. John Vianney

  Created: Thursday, 13 August 2009 00:00

  Solemn Vespers of the Feast of St. John Mary Vianney, the Curé of Ars Marking a Year for Priests   Less than two months ago, on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated a Year for Priests in celebration of the 150th a...

• Bishop's Homily 17th Sunday of the Year

  Created: Tuesday, 28 July 2009 07:12

    Bishop Philip's Coat of Arms reflect this Sunday's Gospel. He uses this to speak of the richness of the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand. ...

• Summary of Pope's Encyclical "Charity in Truth" 2009

  Created: Tuesday, 07 July 2009 15:20

  VATICAN CITY, 7 JUL 2009 (VIS) - Given below is a summary of Benedict XVI's new Encyclical "Caritas in veritate" (Charity in Truth) on integral human development in charity and truth. The Encyclical published today - which comprehends an introduction, si...

• Bishop Philip's Homily at Carfin 2009

  Created: Monday, 06 July 2009 12:03

  Faithful from around the Diocese celebrated a Lourdes Day at Carfin with Bishop Philip and priests of the Diocese. ...

• Pentecost Sunday 2009

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2009 16:03

  Neophytes and adults received into the Church celebrate Mass with Bishop Philip. The Bishop celebrated this Mass on Pentecost Sunday at St. Conval's Parish Linwood. ...

• Bishop's Homilies 6th Sunday Easter 2009

  Created: Sunday, 17 May 2009 00:00

  Sixth Sunday of Easter   1. In today’s Gospel, we hear some of the most inspiring words of Jesus assuring us of the love of the Father and of his own love for us, love we saw in action in Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for our good. We are led to un...

• Bishop's Homilies Easter Vigil 2009

  Created: Saturday, 11 April 2009 00:00

  The Easter Vigil 2009   1.     “He is risen. He is not here! Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified, is risen from the dead.” This joyful and wondrous announcement of the resurrection of Jesus is the culmination of a message of hope written by Go...

• Bishop's Homilies Good Friday 2009

  Created: Friday, 10 April 2009 00:00

  Good Friday 2009   We gather again on this Good Friday to mourn the passion and death of Jesus, our Saviour. The account of the Passion according to John induces in us a solemn and reflective atmosphere as we follow the Lord through his suffering to ...

• Bishop's Homilies Mass of Chrism 2009

  Created: Wednesday, 08 April 2009 00:00

  Mass of Chrism 2009    At this Mass of Chrism, the priests of the diocese will renew their commitment to the priestly service. We love being Christ’s priests and this is a solemn and sacred moment for us. For it expresses the unity of diocesan pries...

• Solemnity of All Souls 2008

  Created: Sunday, 02 November 2008 00:00

    “Young man, I tell you to get up,” says Jesus in the Gospel passage of today’s Mass. With these merciful and life-giving words, Jesus restored to his widowed mother a young man who had died. This miracle serves as anticipation of Jesus’ own re...

• 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2008

  Created: Sunday, 19 October 2008 00:00

  In today’s Gospel, in order to illustrate his message, Jesus uses a coin as a visual aid. A coin is money. We are in the midst of a financial crisis. I know little of high finance, but it does seem that banks and financial institutions have failed their...

• Ordination to the Permanent Diaconate

  Created: Wednesday, 15 October 2008 00:00

  Today is a first for the Diocese of Paisley. Usually when men are ordained deacon, they are ordained to what has come to be called the transient diaconate, because they will exercise their diaconate for about a year on the way to being be ordained to the ...