Palm Sunday
‘Behold, your King is coming to you’
We begin our Holy Week Liturgies in a spirit of joyful jubilation, as we accompany Jesus our Servant King into Jerusalem (Entrance Gospel). The Hosannas and waving palms of an expectant people soon turn to jeers of violence and angry fists as we walk alongside Jesus through this most holy of weeks.
Now is the time for us to pay loving attention to the Passion, suffering and death that Jesus willingly entered into for our sake (Gospel). Never once condemning, but always and forever loving us, Jesus forgives us and heals us. This is the nature of his Kingship. God became fully human, to transform sin and human weakness. (Second Reading)
Isaiah’s song of the suffering servant (First Reading) foretells the manner in which Jesus will turn with courage and love towards those who betray and abuse him.
Jesus’s final prayer on the cross forms the opening words of today’s Psalm. Let us pray this text throughout this week as an offering of compassion and love for Christ, and for all who suffer with him.
‘Behold our King of compassion has truly come among us, come let us adore him, the Saviour of the world.’
(With thanks to St Beuno's Outreach)
ARTWORK
Armadio degli Argenti, Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1451-52,
Museo di San Marco, Florence
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 March Prayer Intention
For disarmament and peace
Let us pray that nations move toward effective disarmament, particularly nuclear disarmament, and that world leaders choose the path of dialogue and diplomacy instead of violence.
Visit the website of Pray with the Pope.
Visit the website of Pray As You Go for a reflection on this month's video.
Diocesan Structures
Click here for an important statement from the Bishops' Conference of Scotland about upcoming consultations on the structuring of our Scottish dioceses.
Scottish Parliament Elections May 2026
Click here to open and download the Bishops' Election Briefing Pack, with guidance on some of the issues that should be on our minds as we select the candidates to vote for.
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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.