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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity - 4th June 2023

Services this week

Sunday 4th June 2023

Mass        10.00am

First Holy Communion        1.00pm

Monday

Holy Communion Service    10.00am

Friday

Holy Communion Service    10.00am

Saturday

Holy Communion Service    10.00am

Vigil Mass          6.00pm

Sunday 11th June 2023

Mass        10.00am

 

In your charity, please remember in your prayers Father Forrest, Jean Blair, Mary Robertson, Lisa Tucker, Oliver Suligowska, a special intention and all the sick and the housebound. Also, William Dickson, Dorothy Mulraney, Jeanie Rutherford, Fiona Downie, Rose Martin, Bill Brown and Margaret Morgan whose anniversaries occur about this time.

 

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The Offertory Collections last weekend amounted to £511.30, and there was a donation of £90 - grateful thanks to all donors.

SVP News - Caravan

We have been allocated one slot at Port Seton this year, Saturday 19th August, for one week, for any parishioner in need of a break. Transport can be provided.

Fratelli Tutti event

Explore the key messages of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti and how it can inform your life, at an event at Sacred Heart Parish, 28 Lauriston Street, Edinburgh EH3 9DJ on Wednesday 7 June from 7-9pm.

Run Alpha

The Archdiocese hosts a ‘Run Alpha’ training day for parishes interested in trying Alpha. Alpha is an evangelisation tool used by many churches and denominations throughout the world and can be utilised in a Catholic context. Join us on Saturday 10 June, from 9:30am to 3:30pm at the Gillis Centre, 100 Strathearn Road, Edinburgh, EH9 1BB. Please bring a packed lunch. Register on Eventbrite: bit.ly/archedventbrite

Tarira Concert

A choir from the Faroe Islands, will give a free concert at 7:00pm on Saturday 10 June at Sacred Heart Church, Lauriston Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DJ. The programme includes music by Gibbons, Pärt, Byrd, Victoria and Lauridsen, together with Faroese composers. All welcome.

Corpus Christi Procession 

A Corpus Christi procession will take place in Falkirk town centre at 2:30pm on Sunday 11 June. The procession will head to St Francis Xavier’s Church for Benediction followed by refreshments in the church hall. Altar Servers can wear their altar robes and those who have recently had their First Holy Communion can wear their dresses/suits.

St Margaret’s Pilgrimage 

St Margaret’s Pilgrimage returns to Dunfermline on Sunday 18 June. Mass is at 2:30pm in St Margaret’s Memorial Church in East Port, with Archbishop Cushley as principal celebrant. Ecumenical service at 12:30pm in Dunfermline Abbey, followed by prayers at the tomb of St Margaret. Join people from across the Archdiocese and beyond to give thanks to God for St Margaret’s example of faith, charity and leadership. 

Compassion to Hope

An event to celebrate the lives of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland, with ‘music, poetry, silence and celebration’. This event takes place on Tuesday 20 June at 4:30pm in the hall of Sacred Heart Church, 28 Lauriston Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DJ.

Vocations Mass

The next Mass to pray for Vocations to the priesthood and religious life is at 7pm on Friday 23 June at St Margaret’s, Hope View, Loch Road, South Queensferry, EH30 9LS.