• Sermon - Year A

    Corpus Christi

    Last Tuesday my friends, a married couple, with their children came to visit me. Despite the weather I’ve been trying to show them some interesting places in this part of Scotland and they’ve been very happy to see the hidden college in Scalan; they were impressed by the Ladder Hills (although the hills were mostly covered by mist); they’ve enjoyed…

  • Sermon - Year A

    The Holy Trinity

    A Scot, an Irishman and a Pole – three men of different age, life experience and from different backgrounds. Each one has been ordained by different bishops in different places, but all for the same purpose: to serve God and people in the Catholic Church. Their purpose is the same, but the range of duties and means are different. All…

  • Sermon - Year A

    7th Sunday of Easter

    Today’s gospel we’ve just heard might be difficult to understand – obviously not because of the reader – but because this text is complicated itself. Is there are a problem with the translation? Yes, there is. Let me explain this on my own. I was born and grown up in Poland, a country with its own history, culture and of…

  • Munros - Outdoors

    Eastern Glenshee

    I woke up at 2:30am and left home at 3am; two hours and 80 miles later I started climbing up the steep slopes of Creag Leachan, the first of six Munros I’d planned for the day. The sun was slowly appearing from behind the hills, the sky was spotlessly clear; only low temperature (-2 Celsius) and cold wind on the…