• Sermon - Year A

    27th Sunday in Ordinary time

    Last year’s visit of Pope Benedict to Britain was for many a surprisingly joyful and uplifting event. To some extent it revived the faith, strengthening Catholics who live in the UK. One of the many results of his visit was the renewal of the idea of meat-less Fridays. This is now the recommended practise in England and Wales. There is…

  • Munros - Outdoors

    Carn an Fhidhleir & An Sgarsoch

    This route is very long, so knowing my schedule and aware of days ahead shortening quickly I could make the route now or wait till late spring. To have spare time I decided to start one hour before the sunrise; I’d known part of the path going to White Bridge. Despite the wind and early hour it was surprisingly warm. For the…

  • Sermon - Year A

    26th Sunday in Ordinary time

    ‘You have asked to have your child baptized. In doing so you are accepting the responsibility of training him in the practice of faith. It will be your duty to bring him up to keep God’s commandments as Christ taught us, by loving God and our neighbour. Do you clearly understand what you are undertaking?’ I have to admit that…

  • Munros - Outdoors

    The Cairnwell, Carn a’Gheoidh & Carn Aosda

    I’ve checked the forecast and found out that my usual day off would be rainy while Tuesday sunny, dry and calm. So I decided to switch the two days and went to Glenshee. The route had looked relatively short and easy. And it was. The weather was as had forecast but inverted. Fortunately there some spells of sunshine and I…

  • Sermon - Year A

    25th Sunday in Ordinary time

    Once I bought a computer program. I’d been dreaming about it for ages, but it had similarly long been unaffordable. So when I saw the program available for half price on a well-established and renowned website I squeezed my savings, bought the program and started using it. Some time later, when I bought an upgrade, it turned out the software…