Welcome
Welcome to the website of St Ninian’s Catholic Church in Knightswood, Glasgow. I hope and pray this will be a resource for spiritual nourishment for you who visit, that it will be a source of inspiration for parish outreach, allowing us to be the heart and hands of Christ for those around us, and that it will make a contribution to community building for the entire Knightswood area.
As we make our way through the year, let God’s light lift up our Spirits and our faith. May we have the courage to meet and embrace the challenges and the encounters of life with a renewed sense of purpose in the weeks and months ahead.
Thank you for visiting our website and our thanks to David Gray for permission to use his wonderful photographs of our Church.
Fr. Paul
The World Union of Catholic Teachers
The World Union of Catholic Teachers (UMEC-WUCT) is committed to supporting Catholic educators across the world, and particularly those teaching in Catholic and nondenominational schools and universities. During the Jubilee Year 2025 this survey aims to learn more about Catholic teachers. We invite you to follow this link or scan the QR code and complete the questionnaire to help understand the identity of the Catholic teacher. It should only take 5-10 minutes of your time. The results of the survey will be presented at the Jubilee conference of the Education, in November 2025 and published on the UME-WUCT webpage. Please respond promptly, by the end of May at the latest.
Pope's Prayer Intention for May
6th Sunday of Easter
God will make his home with each of us
This last Sunday, before Ascension and Pentecost, we see Jesus’s earthly ministry come to a gradual conclusion.
Jesus is about to return to the Father, but his final words contain a promise (Gospel): through his Spirit of power, courage and knowledge (he will always remain with his disciples. Jesus is ensuring that his ministry will continue.
In the First Reading we see that the same disciples do not make any decisions without consulting the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who keeps them (and us today) faithful to Christ’s word.
In the Second Reading, John speaks of being carried away in the Spirit. The Holy Spirit of consolation, strength and wisdom is essential for everything. When we, too, know and feel this lifegiving presence of Christ’s Spirit in our hearts, we can repeat the words of the Psalmist who praises God in all and for all.
Through the grace of this same Spirit, we are Pilgrims of Hope in this Jubilee year. Let’s rest in that grace this week, as the Spirit makes her home in us, and through whom we receive light, blessing and wisdom to be of service to others.
(With thanks to St Beuno's Outreach)
ARTWORK
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Alabaster, 1660)
St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City
Mass Times at St Ninian's
Sunday Mass
Saturday Vigil Mass 5pm;
Sunday 9.00 am & 11.00 am (with Children’s Liturgy) & 5.00 pm
Weekday Mass Mon - Sat:
10.00 am
Confessions
Saturday 10.30 am; 4.15 - 4.45 pm
St Ninian Mosaics
Mosaics (Opus Sectile) in the high altar above the tabernacle. The right-hand panels depict St Ninian building the White House at Whithorn, and the left-hand panels depict him preaching the Gospel to the Southern Picts.
