Bhileag (Newsletter) 22nd June 2025
WEEKDAY MASSES:
Mon 23rd June………No Mass
Tue 24th June……….11.00am EOLIGARRY
(Feast of Birth of John the Baptist)
Wed 25th June…….. 12 Noon CRAIGSTON
Thu 26th June……..10.00am NORTHBAY
Fri 27th June……….10.00am VATERSAY
(Feast of the Sacred Heart)
Sat 28th June……..10.00am CASTLEBAY
NEXT WEEKEND: 28th & 29th June 2025
( Solemnity of St. Peter & St. Paul )
Vigil Mass (Saturday)…..6.00pm CRAIGSTON
Sunday Masses….9.30am NORTHBAY & 11.30am CASTLEBAY
Sacrament of Confession: Every Saturday from 9.30am – 9.50am in Castlebay and 12 Noon-12.30pm in Northbay
CHURCH NOTICES
Fr. Donald MacLeod: we thank Fr Donald for looking after the parishes over the last week while Canon John Paul was away. We hope he enjoyed his time on the island.
“Day for Life” Special Collection: This weekend we will take up a second collection for “Day for Life”. A fund to support the dignity of all life- from the unborn child to the elderly. We have to pray continually for the dignity of all life and an end to the Bill of assisted dying in the UK.
Peter’s Pence collection: next Sunday is the Feast of St. Peter & St Paul and we normally take up a special collection called Peters Pence. It is a collection which is a gesture to support the Pope in his Mission. It helps support Pope Leo in his mission to proclaim the Gospel, promote peace and spread Christian charity. Therefore next weekend (28th/29th June) a second collection will be taken.
Recent Funeral: we pray for the repose of the soul of Neil MacKinnon from St. Brendan’s Road who died on Thursday 12th June aged 74. Neil’s Funeral took place last Sunday 15th June in Our Lady Star of the Sea. We extend our prayers of sympathy to all the family and relatives of Neil. We thank Fr Donald MacLeod for celebrating the Mass for the repose of the soul of Neil. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace.Amen.
Visit of Papal Nuncio to the islands: the Papal Nuncio-Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendia– who is the Pope’s representative for Great Britain- is visting every Diocese in Scotland this Summer and he will visit our Diocese of Argyll & the Isles from 22nd July- 24th July. He will arrive on South Uist on Thursday 24th July. He will go to Eriskay and visit the Fr Allan MacDonald Trail-then a visit to the Sacred Heart Home in Daliburgh. Then at 4.00pm there will be a public outdoor Rosary at the Statue of Our Lady of the Isles on Rueval. Then at 6.30pm there will be Mass with the Papal Nuncio in St. Mary’s Church in Griminish on Benbecula. All welcome.
Deanery Jubilee Mass Meeting: The plan is to have an “open air Mass” at Northbay Grotto on Sunday 3rd August at 2.15pm with Bishop Brian and with the local island Priests & parishioners and to mark the Jubilee Year of Hope- The Holy Year of 2025. Parishioners from the neighbouring islands will travel over on the 1.00pm boat from Eriskay and a bus will be available to pick them up from Ardmhor ferry and take them to the Northbay Grotto and also a bus will be available to take people back for the last ferry at 5.30pm.
Please note that on Sunday 3rd August the 9.30am Northbay Sunday Mass will be cancelled as there will be Mass at 2.15pm. The 11.30am Mass in Castlebay will remain -as well as the Vigil Mass at 6pm in Craigston.
There will be a meeting today (Sunday 22nd June) at 2.00pm Northay Hall to look at the Liturgy of the Mass; the music, Hymns, readings, prayers.
Fisherman’s Mass & Blessing of boats: it is planned for Sunday 6th July on Castlebay Pier at 2.00pm.