Masses for next week
Weekend masses, Saturday, St. Mary’s Vigil 6pm, Sunday 11.15am
St. John’s Caol, Sunday 10am, Glenfinnan 1.30pm
Monday No Mass
Tuesday Mass St. Mary’s, 10.15am
Wednesday Mass St. Mary’s 10.15am
Thursday Mass St. Mary’s, No Mass or Service of word and Communion
Friday Mass St. Mary’s, 10.15am,
Saturday No Mass
Anniversaries
Eileen MacKinnon, Donnie Lamont, Martin Duncan, Allan Kennedy, Thomas McHale,
Nora Watt, Maria Sporn, Morag Skinner, Donald Smith, Anne O’ Donnell, Sandra Quinn,
James Fairbairn, Alister Macalister, Carlie Cambell, Mary MacLean, Alistair Macmillan,
Jim Macleod, Catherine Macleod, Alan Kennedy, Allan Macdonald, Charles McKinney,
Mary Theresa Wolin, John Harrison.
Organ Recorder
Last week there was an installation of an organ recorder it is hoped that when we get it up and running, we can record hymns and psalms on it, which will save me jumping up and down. Let us pray that it is a success. Fr. David.
Sick and retired Priests
This Sunday there will be a second collection for Sick and retried priests. Please be as generous as you can.
Gardening Day
It is proposed that we have a general tidy up around the house, and church, before the winter sets in. The date will be Tuesday the 2nd of September from 5-7pm.
Finance Meeting
It is proposed that we will have a Finance meeting on Tuesday the 16th of September at 7pm, in St. Mary’s chapel house.
The Parish of St. Mary’s Portee 25th Anniversary
The parish of St. Mary’s Portree will celebrate its 25th Anniversary on Wednesday the 27th of August at 6pm. If anyone is wishing to go to the celebrations and go up and down to Skye in the same day. Please get in touch with me. Fr. David.
Our Gospel this weekend can be disconcerting if taken in a particular way. The question of our final destination preoccupies us and, perhaps, worries us, particularly if we are, by the law of averages, nearer to the end of the journey than we are to the beginning. In fact, the younger we are the less prone we are to spend any time thinking about our ‘final destination’. Our Gospel extract is taken from those chapters in the Gospel of Luke which describe the journey of Jesus to the city of Jerusalem. The prophet is coming to God’s city, the city of Jerusalem, to face his ultimate and decisive trial. We should always remember that the Gospels are the final product of the memory of a group of Christian believers about Jesus of Nazareth and about the nature of his work of redemption. They are not eye-witness accounts but are the result of a whole process of distillation of information. The message of the parable and the passage is clear: don’t assume that you will be welcomed into the fulness of the Kingdom of God because you are connected to the prophet because you lived on the same street or ate and drank in his company. It is the depth and strength of our personal relationship with Christ that matters. There may be surprises when that day comes: people will come from all corners of the world to take their place, and you will be left outside. The last shall be first and the first last. If this reading is disturbing, the second reading from the Letter to the Hebrews should console us. God is a loving Father and ‘he trains the ones that he loves, and he punishes all those he acknowledges as his sons. Suffering is part of your training’. God corrects us as a loving father corrects the children in his care. This image of the loving God who corrects his sons and daughters is an image which is beloved of our present
Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV.
Rev. David Connor