Beginning Saturday 8th of March

Daily Prayer

O glorious Saint Patrick, Apostle of Ireland!
I praise, bless, and glorify God for thy sanctity, thy zeal, thy charity, thy labours,
and the success of thy labours.
I thank thee, O great Saint Patrick,
for watching over and preserving the faith of the Irish people.

O dearest Saint Patrick!
heed not the unworthiness of thy children;
but continue, in the future as in the past,
to pray for them.

(here mention your petitions)

(remember this Parish also)

(be united with all those at prayer)

O glorious Apostle, Saint Patrick, guard and preserve, to the Day of Judgment,
the purity of the faith and morals of thy people in every land and in every clime.

O beloved Saint Patrick! obtain from God that Erin, and also our dear country of Alba,
may become again what they formerly were, “The lands of Saints and Scholars.” Amen.

St Patrick Novena 8th to 16th MarchDownload

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As announced at Masses on Sunday 16th February, we invite you to pray the Novena in honour of the Sacred Countenance of Our Lord, The Holy Face, beginning on Sunday 23rd February. Click to view more.

Unfortunately, due to illness, confession times have had to be reduced today. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Adoration is still 8am – 7pm but the updated confession times are as follows:

• 8am – 10am
• 11am – 12:15pm (and after the 12:30pm Mass)
• 3pm – 4pm
• 6pm – 7pm

Outside of these times, if you cannot wait, then you may try at the Church house next door by ringing the bell.

Please join us in celebrating the birth of our Saviour!

Prepare your hearts for the Birth of the Baby Jesus this Christmas and join some of our devotions.

This past Sunday, the last before Advent begins, we celebrated the Solemnity of Christ the King with a sung Mass followed by a Eucharistic Procession around the local streets and finishing with Solemn Benediction.

Viva Cristo Rey!

To commemorate 99 years since the passing from this life of the Venerable Margaret Sinclair, several pilgrims braved the Scottish snow to walk from her previous resting place in Mount Vernon Cemetery to her current tomb in our church. As they walked, they prayed 20 decades of the rosary, several litanies and sang hymns, stopping off at two churches en route to spend some time with Blessed Sacrament.

In the church, there was an extended period of Adoration before the 12:30 Mass to pray for the Canonisation of the Venerable Margaret.

“A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet sweetly; it was the Blessed Sacrament – it was the Lord Incarnate who was on the altar, who had come to visit and bless his people. It was the Great Presence, which makes a Catholic Church different from every other place in the world; which makes it, as no other place can be holy.” St John Henry Newman

A great evening to celebrate a great Oratorian Saint and 250 years of St Patrick’s in the Cowgate.

Today, the first Saturday of October, the month dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary, has begun with a beautiful evening of devotions, all in honour of Our Lady of Fatima, Queen of the Holy Rosary.

Fr Gerard led the congregation in a prayerful recitation of the rosary in union with OurLady’s intentions. October 5th also happens to be the feast of Blessed Bartolo Longo, who is sometimes known as the ‘Apostle of the Rosary’ due to his great devotion to this prayer and its role in his wonderful conversion after a life drenched in the demonic. Hence, Fr Ninian preached on this holy man and the power of the rosary in converting hardened hearts and overcoming powers of darkness.

A candlelit procession in the vicinity of the church followed, with Marian hymns filling our end of the Cowgate. The evening concluded with a brief period of Adoration and then Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Our Lady of Fatima, ora pro nobis.