Author: Fr Emmet

Change of Masses

There will be no Evening Mass this Monday, 25th of September, as Fr Emmet is away attending a meeting.

 

Mass next Monday will be as usual.

Weekday Masses

There will be a change to Masses over the next two weeks.
There will be no Mass on Thursday the 21st of July as Fr Emmet will be away.
There will be Adoration and Rosary as usual and there will be a Communion Service at 10am.
Fr Emmet is also away the following week Monday to Friday 25th to 28th July.
This means that there will be no Mass or Rosary on Monday the 25th.
There will be no Mass on Thursday the 27th of July as Fr Emmet will be away.
On Thursday 27th once again there will be Adoration and Rosary as usual and there will be a Communion Service at 10am.

The Solemnity of Our Lady of Aberdeen

This coming Sunday, 9th of July, we will celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lady of Aberdeen and not the 14th Sunday on Ordinary time.

While Mass will be at the usual time of 9 am, the readings will be different.

They will be:

1st reading: Genesis 3:9-15.20
Psalm: Judith 13:18-19
2nd reading: 1 Cor 15:20-26
Gospel: John 19:25-27

Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul

On Thursday the 29th of June we celebrate the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, which is a Holy Day of Obligation.

Mass will be at 7 pm in the Main Church.

 

Please note there will be no morning Mass or Adoration that day. 

Solemnity of the Ascension

For the Solemnity of the Ascension, there will be a Vigil Mass at 6pm in Trinity Church this Wednesday 17th of May.

There will be no Mass and none of the usual activities on Thursday this week.

 

Normal service will resume the following week.

Lenten Station Masses

During Lent Station Masses will take place in various churches across the city of Aberdeen.

They will occur each Friday until the 31st of March. The evening begins with confessions from 18:00, then at 18:30 Stations of the Cross, followed by Mass at 19:00.

Our Stations for this Lent are:

  • Friday 24 February: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Aberdeen
  • Friday 3 March: Sacred Heart, Torry
  • Friday 10 March: St Columba’s, Bridge of Don
  • Friday 17 March: St Peter’s, Castlegate
  • Friday 24 March: St Francis’, Mannofield
  • Friday 31 March: St. Joseph’s, Woodside

The “Station Mass” belongs to the ancient History of the Church. These Masses likely began as a daily pilgrimage in the footsteps of the martyrs and saints of Rome, the people would then gather at the stopping place, the statio, or Station Church where Mass was to be celebrated. They were already a practice by the 4th Century. It was Pope St Gregory the Great (A.D. 590 – 604) who formalised and regulated the practice.

In recent decades this ancient Lenten tradition has been revived at Rome and elsewhere throughout the Catholic World.