Archive for the ‘Religious life’ Category
A conference for young people to explore the synod on Faith, Youth and Vocational Discernment. Come and join us for a weekend looking at the role of young people in the church in the 21st Century- particularly looking at how to live your lives transformed into Christ. An exciting opportunity for young people […]
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Dear Friends The flyer above is a save the date notice for a young people’s event being organised on 2nd – 4th November 2018 by the Vocation’s Forum of the Conference for Religious in Scotland. The forum has recently been re-established and this event is part of a longer term strategy to make religious life […]
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Social Media Day for Religious
Last Saturday, we hosted a social media training day for religious sisters and brothers, organised by the Vocations Forum of the Conference for Religious of Scotland (CRS). One of the main aim of the Vocations Forum was to make the Religious of Scotland more visible. As part of the training day, to prove how effective facebook […]
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Tags: Religious life, vocations
BBC4 has done a TV series about various Benedictine monasteries in the UK. Each episode has scenes filmed at the monastery- from the monks at prayer and work. Calm, quiet, uplifting and an interesting insight to the lives of monks, which an outsider would not normally see. The monasteries covered are: Downside Abbey, Pluscarden Abbey […]
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Bad Habits, Holy Orders
A TV series has recently been on channel 5 about five young women who live a party lifestyle visiting the convent of the Sacred Heart in Swaffham, Norfolk. Beautiful to see the positive effect that this spiritual experience has on the young women. Worth a ‘watch again’ if you’ve not seen it.
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Tags: convent, nuns, Religious life
Day for Life
Yesterday, 31st May, was the Feast of the Visitation and the Day for Life in Scotland. We celebrated with Mass in our chapel. The celebrant was Fr Ross Campbell. Sr Jess transitioned to the next stage of discernment and formation, noviciate. Every day, at 3 pm, we say a prayer for life. This is a prayer to […]
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Tags: Day for Life, feast day, Gospel of Life
Sisters Visit from Dundee
We have been blessed to get to know some Nigerian Sisters who are missionaries in Dundee! They are Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ (IHM). In Dundee their work is to support the St Ninian Pastoral Institute. What a change for them to move to Dundee from Nigeria! They very kindly hosted […]
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We watched a documentary about the life of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in Bradford. A fun and inspiring watch, gives a good insight into what religious life is like. Still available on BBC i-player if you missed it! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mk2tv
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We had the pleasure of hosting two Nashville Domincans, Sr Teresa Anne and Sr Mary Amata, who came over from their convent in the Netherlands to Glasgow for a TEFL conference. On their day off, we took them sight-seeing around Glasgow, to Loch Lomond and over to Dunfermline. In Dunfermline, Fr Chris Heenan very kindly gave us a tour […]
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Tags: Dunfermline, Nashville Dominicans, St Margaret of Scotland
Life as a Postulant
Jess joined the Sisters of the Gospel of Life as a postulant on the 8th of September 2016. Here is a letter in which she reflects on her experiences so far… Dear friends, Five and a half weeks in, I have finally managed to sit down and find some time to reflect and write about […]
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Cardinal Winning Pro-Life Initiative 