In 2027, St. Ninian’s will celebrate 100 years of faith, worship, and service. This centenary will give us an opportunity to give thanks for our history, celebrate our parish life today, and look forward with hope to the future. To mark this occasion, a programme of events is being planned throughout the year. The Parish Centenary Group is seeking volunteers to help with planning and organisation. Any time, ideas, or skills you can offer would be most welcome.
If you would like to help, please click here complete a short questionnaire online or click here to download a copy to fill in by hand. Alternatively, send your details using the parish email address stninian@rcag.org.uk, or speak to Fr Paul, and he will pass your details to the Centenary Group. Together, let us make this centenary a joyful and faith‑filled celebration for our whole parish community.
7th Sunday of Easter
‘Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven’
This last Sunday of Easter offers us a prayerful pause between the great feasts of Ascension and Pentecost. There is a spirit of anticipation and encouragement throughout the liturgy.
In the Gospel, we hear part of Jesus’s prayer for his beloved disciples, both then and now. The teaching of Jesus, his words, his actions, his very presence, all give his disciples a part in his glory.
After Jesus ascends to his Father in heaven, the disciples return to the upper room in Jerusalem and devote themselves to prayer (First Reading).
In the Second Reading, Peter gives encouragement to the early Church, counselling them to rejoice when they face persecution or suffering. By their sufferings, they share in Christ’s glory; the glory about which Jesus teaches in today’s Gospel.
We can imagine both those gathered in the upper room after the ascension of Jesus, and the early Christian community to whom Peter was writing, joyfully praying lines from today’s Psalm: The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear?
This week, let us remember our own communities of prayer; those who pray on their own and those who are members of Prego groups. United with the whole Church, and especially Church communities that face persecution, we are all gathered up as one in the Body of the risen Christ. To him be the glory for ever and ever, Amen!
(With thanks to St Beuno's Outreach)
ARTWORK
El Greco (1595-97)
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
Pope Leo's Prayer Intention for May
That everyone might have food
Let us pray that everyone, from large producers to small consumers, be committed to avoid wasting food, and to ensure that everyone has access to quality food.
Visit the website of Pray With the Pope
Visit the website of Pray As You Go for a reflection on this month's video.
Latest Edition Now Online
Diocesan Structures
Click here for an important statement from the Bishops' Conference of Scotland about upcoming consultations on the structuring of our Scottish dioceses.
Mass Times at St Ninian's
Sunday Mass
Saturday Vigil Mass 5pm;
Sunday 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.