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an actual walking pilgrimage, Sarah attended the Ordination
then this is a book for you! of the new Bishop of Galloway,
The Right Reverend Francis
On Saturdays Fr. Simon Dougan, and the following day
celebrates a Vigil Mass with the at St Margaret’s Cathedral Ayr
parish. He is also available to where he took possession of the
provide cover for priests who Diocese. Sarah was invited to
need to be away for a break or formally represent the parish
who may be off sick and last at this event. Fr. Dougan had
year covered duty for a couple of been a priest of the Diocese of
months at St Joseph’s, Stranraer. Motherwell. His chosen motto
is from Isaiah: “Quench not the
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Jamie Ballie at the Angelicum in Rome
AMIE BALLIE, one theology and philosophy. Jamie is studying St.
J Jof our Altar Servers, Thomas Aquinas and his philosophy.
has gone to study at the
Angelicum in Rome, a rare On 7th March, the 750th anniversary of the
privilege for a layman. The death of St. Thomas Aquinas, Jamie wrote,
Pontifical University of “Today, I venerated St. Thomas’s cranium at
St. Thomas Aquinas, also Fossanova. Touched my Rosary and Prima Pars
known as the Angelicum [Prima Pars is the First Part
in honour of its patron the of the Summa Theologica, the
Doctor Angelicus Thomas great Theological treatise
Jamie Baillie
Aquinas, is a Pontifical Jamie B aillie written by St. Thomas
University in the historic centre of Rome. The Aquinas] to the glass too, so
Angelicum is administered by the Dominican maybe that means they are
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Order and is the order’s central locus of Thomist third class relics now!” St. Thomas Aquinas
December Rorate Mass in Inverness
ORATE CAELI (‘Drop down, ye heavens’) The readings and prayers of the Mass foretell
R Rare the opening words of Isaiah 45:8 in the the prophecy of the Blessed Virgin Mary who
Vulgate. The Rorate Mass, celebrated in the would bear a Son called Emmanuel, and they call
Oratory of St. Joseph in December, originated in on all to raise their hearts to let Christ the King
the Middle Ages as a popular Advent devotion to enter, asking for the grace to receive eternal life
the Blessed Virgin Mary. by the merits of the Incarnation and the saving
Resurrection of Our Lord.
The Mass is usually offered in the early morning
with the chapel lit only by candle-light. It is
a votive Mass in honour of Our Lady and the
interplay of light and darkness speak of the
meaning of Advent. In the dimly lit chapel, the
priest and the faithful honour Christ, the Light of
the world, who is soon to be born, and offer praise
to God for the gift of Our Lady. As the Mass
proceeds and sunrise approaches, illuminating the
chapel, our Faith is illumined by Christ.