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Diocesan Choir Carol Services
The Diocesan Choir will present its annual carol service in three churches across the diocese. This year's service, entitled SILENT...
Dec 4, 2024


Letter from Bishop Toal on the New Lectionary
Dear Brothers and Sisters. On the First Sunday of Advent all parishes in Scotland will begin using our new translation of the Lectionary,...
Dec 1, 2024


Assisted Dying: Exploring the concerns and constructing a moral response
📣 Assisted Dying: Exploring the concerns and constructing a moral response 📍Meetings in Carfin and Coatbridge Come along to one of our...
Nov 2, 2024


World Mission Sunday 2024
Dear brothers and sisters, There are many people we may never hear of but we should hear of: the ones who look after others, who give...
Oct 19, 2024

Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2025
With Mary, Pilgrims of Hope Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes for the Holy Year 2025 Motherwell Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will depart...
Oct 11, 2024

Annual Safeguarding Statement
The Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels fell on 2nd October, and the Scottish Dioceses have chosen to make the Annual Safeguarding...
Oct 6, 2024


50 years of St Vincent de Paul’s East Kilbride
Congratulations to St Vincent de Paul’s Parish in East Kilbride who celebrated their 50th anniversary this evening with a Mass of...
Sep 30, 2024


Diocesan Lourdes Hospitality Mass
Bishop Toal will celebrate the annual Motherwell Diocesan Lourdes Hospitality Mass in St Francis Xavier’s, Carfin, on Sunday 6th October...
Sep 30, 2024

Mgr Henry Docherty RIP
It is with deep regret that we have to advise you of the death of Monsignor Henry Docherty, who passed away this morning in Summerlee...
Sep 22, 2024


Vatican announcement on Medjugorie
Bishop Toal commends the full and uplifting note in which the Church’s “nihil obstat” is given for the faithful to value and participate...
Sep 22, 2024
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