The Bishops' Conference of Scotland

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The Holy Year which began in Rome on Christmas eve will leave its mark on St Andrew’s Cathedral … as the sanctuary area will play host to a newly commissioned cross for the next 12 months
The Jubilee Year will open in every Cathedral of the world on Sunday December 29. The Vatican has drawn up a liturgical celebration which will see a special ‘Jubilee Year Cross’ placed in each Cathedral.
In Glasgow a new cross has been created which will be placed above the Archbishop’s ‘cathedra’ or chair on the rear wall of the sanctuary behind the altar throughout the Holy Year.
It will be a Greek cross (each arm of equal length) made of wood with the traditional symbols of St Mungo (bird, fish, bell and tree) represented at the extremities of the cross while at the centre the symbol of the 2025 Jubilee will feature bearing the image of ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.
All welcome at the Cathedral on Sunday at 12 noon Mass with the Archbishop to mark the start of our Holy Year.

This Sunday I will inaugurate the Holy Year within Argyll and the Isles during the 10.30am Mass in St Columba’s Cathedral, Oban. We will gather around the outdoor Crib - facing outwards across our beautiful diocese, process into the Cathedral behind the Cross, be sprinkled with Holy Water at the baptismal font before celebrating the Eucharist. Everyone is most welcome. If you live in or near Oban or are visiting the area please join us. Let us be ‘pilgrims of hope’.
+Brian

Thanks to all who prayed for life at the recent Advent Rosary, hosted by the Bishops' Conference of Scotland's Marriage, Family & Life Office. Here is the final reflection from Archbishop Leo Cushley (2 min watch).


Archbishop Leo Cushley gives his reflection at the Advent Rosary for Life. Event organised by the Bishops' Conference of Scotland's Marriage, Family & Life O...

Gospel of the Day (John 1,1-18)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

A man named John was sent from God. He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him.

But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man's decision but of God. And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth.

John testified to him and cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'The one who is coming after me ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.'" From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace, because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father's side, has revealed him.

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