Saturday 10	10:00am Mass 5:00pm Vigil Mass	Ellen Fortune Joe Walker
Sunday 11 (28th Sunday of the Year)	10:00am Mass	William Stirling
Monday 12	No Mass
Tuesday 13	7:00pm Mass	Private Intention
Wednesday 14	10:00am Mass	People of the Parish
Thursday 15 (St Teresa of Jesus)	9:30am Adoration 10:00am Mass	Noreen Hunter
Friday 16	10:00am Mass	Emily Riall
Saturday 17 (St Ignatius of Antioch)	10:00am Mass 5:00pm Vigil Mass	Jim Lennox Sr Clare Frances (Anna Kearney)
Sunday 18 (29th Sunday of the Year)	10:00am Mass	June & Graham O’Connor

 

 

Sunday Missal:  28^th Sunday of the Year (A) – Page 790.

 

Teas and Coffees available after Mass on Sunday and Thursday.

 

Next Sunday is World Day of Prayer for the Missions, when Catholics across the world unite in prayer and generosity for the Church’s missionary work. Pope Leo XIV invites us to be “One in Christ, One in Mission.” Through Missio Scotland, your prayers and financial support help sustain missionary priests, religious sisters and brothers, lay catechists, and communities where the Church is young, growing and often in great need. Please give with your usual generosity.

 

Thank You for your birthday wishes, cards and especially for that very generous gift I was presented with in the hall last Sunday.  I was lost for words and deeply appreciate your kindness.

 

 

 

Save the Date: The Social Committee are delighted to announce that there is going to be a Lebanese night in the Church Hall on Saturday 28^th November 2026.  This will include a 3-course meal and a glass of Lebanese wine, all for £20.  It is also a bring your own bottle event.  We are restricted to 40 places and tickets will go on sale on Saturday 24^th and Sunday 25^th October 2026.  We are collecting the money in advance so that our Lebanese chef can purchase all the ingredients and we can order the Lebanese wine.  More details about the menu (which sounds amazing) to follow.

 

Further Dates for the Diary: Saturday 28 November: Children’s Advent Day; Sunday 20 December: Children’s Christmas Party.

 

Archdiocesan events are listed at archedinburgh.org/events

 

Anecdote - Clothing and Spiritual Change: Clothing is a common New Testament metaphor for spiritual change. Paul wrote in Romans, “Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature” (Rom 13:14). And in First Corinthians, “The perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. (1 Corinthians 15:53). In Colossians, we read, “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. (Colossians 3:12). Finally, in First Peter we are admonished, “All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble'” (1 Peter 5:5). Being clothed anew is a consistent New Testament expression for holiness and righteousness. The old clothes have to come off, and new ones need to be put on. —Sunday’s Gospel text confronts us with the paradox of God’s free invitation to the banquet with no strings attached and God’s requirement of “putting on” something appropriate to that calling. The theological point is that we are warned of the dire consequences of accepting the invitation and doing nothing except showing up. (Rev. Mickey Anders, When Showing Up Isn’t Enough.  (https://frtonyshomilies.com/)

 

From Pope Leo’s Message for the 100^th World Mission Day 2026: Filled with admiration for men and women missionaries, I make a special appeal to the whole Church to join them in the mission of evangelization through the witness of our lives in Christ, through prayer and through our contributions to the missions. As Saint Francis of Assisi said, “Love is not loved,” and we look to him in a special way on the eight hundredth anniversary of his passing to heaven. Let us find inspiration in his desire to live in the love of the Lord and to transmit it to those both near and far, because, as he said, “this love Who hath loved us much is much to be loved” (Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, The Life of Saint Francis, chap. IX, 1; Fonti Francescane, 1161). Let us also draw inspiration from the zeal of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, who declared that she would continue her mission even after death: “I shall desire in heaven the same thing as I do now on earth: to love Jesus and to make him loved” (Letter 220 to l’Abbé Bellière, 24 February 1897).

 

Inspired by these testimonies, let us all commit to contributing to the great mission of evangelization — which is always a work of love —according to our own vocation and the gifts we have received. Your prayers and practical support, particularly on World Mission Day, will be a great help in bringing the Gospel of God’s love to everyone, especially the poorest and those most in need. Every gift, no matter how small, becomes a meaningful act of missionary communion. I renew my heartfelt gratitude “for everything you will do to help me help missionaries throughout the world” (Video Message for World Mission Day 2025, 19 October 2025).

 

To foster spiritual communion, I give you my blessing with this simple prayer:

Holy Father, make us one in Christ, rooted in his love that unites and renews. May all members of the Church be united in mission, docile to the Holy Spirit, courageous in bearing witness to the Gospel, proclaiming and daily embodying your faithful love for all creatures.

Bless all missionary men and women, support them in their efforts, and watch over them in hope!

Mary, Queen of Missions, accompany our work of evangelization in every corner of the earth: make us instruments of peace, and grant that the whole world may recognize in Christ the light that saves. Amen.