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Parish of St Jude and St John Ogilvie, 159 Pendeen Road, Barlanark,
Glasgow, G33 4SH Tel: 0141 771 5004

 

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The Catholic Church in Scotland promotes the safety and well being of each individual and seeks to safeguard the welfare of people of all ages who are involved in whatever capacity with the Church and its organisations.

As a Church community, we accept that it is the responsibility of all of us, ordained, professed, paid and voluntary members to work together to prevent the physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse or neglect of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
 

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17th Sunday of Ordinary Time  25 July 2010
This Week in the parish

There is no weekly newsletter this week.

Prayer To St. Jude

Almighty God, Father of mercies and giver of all good gifts, we come before you to honour you in your saints and ask their help in our many needs.

You promised that those who ask, would receive, that those who seek, would find, that those who knock, would have doors opened to them.

Hear the prayers of your church, grant our requests, and pardon our sins.

Amen.
 

Prayer For Spiritual Help

Glorious apostle, martyr, and servant of Jesus, St. Jude Thaddeus, you spread the true faith among the most barbarous and distant nations, and won to the obedience of Jesus Christ many tribes and peoples by the power of His holy word.

Grant, we beg you, that from this day we may renounce every sinful habit, that we may always obtain your assistance, particularly in danger and difficulty, and that we may reach the heavenly country, with you to adore the Most Holy Trinity, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever.

Amen.
 

Prayer For A Spiritual Favour

Most holy apostle, Saint Jude Thaddeus, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor has caused you to be forgotten by many, but the Church honours and invokes you universally as the patron of hopeless cases and things despaired of. Pray for me, who am so miserable; make use I implore you, of that particular privilege accorded to you, to bring visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great hour of need that I may receive the consolation and succour of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations and sufferings, particularly (here make your request), and that I may bless God with you and all the elect. Amen

I promise you O blessed St Jude Thaddeus, to be ever mindful of this great favour and I will never cease to honour you as my special and powerful patron and to do all in my power to encourage devotion to you. Amen.

Blessed Apostle, with confidence I invoke you! (3 times)
 

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Video Links

We have set up links to a few videos on YouTube with content of interest to those who visit our website. We’ll be adding more over the next few weeks.

St. John Ogilvie:
    St. John Ogilvie Mar 11

St. Jude:
     Lent: Devotion to St. Jude and the Lenten Journey
     Part 1: Devotions and Prayers to St. Jude

Catholics Come Home” series:
     Epic          Testimonials          Movie

Scott Hahn’s Journey to Catholicism:
     1/6,      2/6,     3/6,     4/6,     5/6,     6/6,

Bread of Life:
      Bread of Life

Prayers of St. Francis:
     Simple Prayer of St. Francis      Prayer of St. Francis (by Sarah MacLachlan).

Mass:
     
There Is More To Sunday Mass Than You Ever Thought

Angelinasings
      "The Deer's Cry", or 'St. Patrick's Breastplate', sung by Angelina (EWTN).

The Vatican Channel includes links to many other pages of interest:
      The Vatican Channel

 

3rd Sunday of Lent – St Jude’s and St John Ogilvie’s

In five years time we will be celebrating the fourth centenary of the martyrdom of St John Ogilvie, now, along with St Jude, patron of this parish.

I am delighted at the way your Parish Priest and you as parishioners are keeping alive and promoting devotion to this Scottish Martyr of the Reformation period.  This year fellow Christians will be celebrating the 450th anniversary of the Scottish Reformation Parliament which established what the Holy Father described as the “great rupture with Scotland’s Catholic past”. 

After a thousand years of Catholicism in Scotland during which the nation was formed, a parliament of nobles and representatives of the higher class, largely in the absence of the higher clergy who made up the second of the “Three Estates”, met in Edinburgh and banned the practice of the Mass, recourse to the Holy See and imposed a new profession of faith remodelled to incorporate the teachings of the protestant reformers.

The Archbishop of Glasgow, James Beaton, remembering the brutal murder of Cardinal Beaton took himself off to Paris where he remained until his death in 1603 – one of his colleagues Archbishop Hamilton of St Andrews was hanged at Stirling in his Mass vestments in 1571 as were several other priests in Glasgow; others were publicly vilified and abused – churches were sacked, cathedrals and monasteries abandoned – their picturesque ruins are among the sites of Scotland. 

“The Church in your country” remarked the Holy Father to the Bishops of Scotland last month, “like many in Northern Europe, has suffered the tragedy of division” and he added “I give thanks to God for the progress that has been made in healing the wounds that were a legacy of that period, especially the sectarianism that has continued to rear its head even in recent times.”

The Holy Father mentioned in particular our participation in Action of Churches Together in Scotland.  He said: “See that the work of rebuilding unity among the followers of Christ is carried forward with constancy and commitment” and added, “while resisting any pressure to dilute the Christian message, set your sights on the goal of full, visible unity, for nothing less can respond to the will of Christ.”

The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council considered prayer as a priority in this regard, calling it the “soul of the ecumenical movement.”

I believe St John Ogilvie would be among the first to make intercession for this course, for which in a real sense he laid down his life.

Though at Glasgow Cross in 1615 he was hanged – they said – for denying the King’s claim to headship of the Church, he was arrested for saying Mass.

“You were an over-insolent fellow to say your Masses in a reformed city” Archbishop Spottiswood, the protestant occupant of St Mungo’s See said to him, striking him as he said so.

“You do not act like a Bishop, but like an executioner” Ogilvie retorted.

I am reminded of Jesus’ words when he was struck in the presence of the High Priest:  “If I have spoken wrongly, bear witness to the wrong: but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”

It is difficult for us today to understand why St John Ogilvie and so many others, laity as well as priests, had to suffer from saying Mass or attending it.  Was it the devil’s hatred showing through misguided reformers?  Or was it their devilishly clever conclusion that if the Mass were banned the Church would collapse – which is what happened.

St John within a year or two of his ordination as a priest requested that he be sent to the Scottish Mission that he might celebrate Mass for his own countrymen who had been deprived of it.  When God sent Moses to the people of Israel he said “I have seen the miserable state of my people. I have heard their appeal.”  God’s love for his people echoed in the heart of St John.

Our Holy Father noted that it was 400 years since St John’s ordination to the priesthood “a happy coincidence” (when) the whole Church is currently celebrating the Year for Priests.

“The witness of priests who are genuinely committed to prayer and are joyful in their ministry bears fruit not only in the spiritual lives of the faithful, but also in new vocations” so said Pope Benedict to us.  You can rejoice that that is the example you have here, so pray for vocations to the priesthood, and in your turn demonstrate the compassion of Christ for his scattered flock.

And above all love the Mass and frequent it, and in celebrating it, recall God’s instruction to Moses to have reverence for His presence: “take off your shoes, for the place on which you stand is Holy Ground.  I am the God of your fathers – the God who is: I am who I am”.

Dear Brothers and Sisters you stand on Holy Ground, stand firm!

 

 

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Mission Statement

"We the worshipping community of St Jude’s and St John Ogilvie’s, Barlanark, accept the challenge of the Gospel to know, love and serve God and each other by upholding the traditions of our Faith and by building up the body of Christ universal"
 

 

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History of
St. Jude and
St John Ogilvie Parish
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The parish of St Jude in Barlanark was founded in 1954 with Fr Martin Doherty as Parish Priest. The church was opened in 1956. Fr Doherty retired in 1982 and was replaced as Parish Priest by Fr Gus Hurley.
 “Wee” Fr Hurley was replaced as Parish Priest by “Big” Fr Tom Hurley in 1989. Fr Allan Cameron, the current parish priest, was appointed in 2000.

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The parish of Blessed John Ogilvie in Wellhouse was founded in 1957, with Fr Jeremiah Healy as Parish Priest. Fr Healy died before the final completion of the church in 1960. He was succeeded in 1960 by Rev Thomas Reilly, who remained until 1978.
Fr Reilly was heavily involved in the cause for the canonisation of John Ogilvie which took place in 1976. The miraculous cure of a parishioner, John Fagan, was the final miracle that led from Blessed John Ogilvie to Saint John Ogilvie, as the parish was then renamed.
Fr Reilly was replaced as parish priest by Fr Patrick Tobin, from 1978 until 1989. Fr Eamon Friel, served only two years (1989-1991) before Fr Peter Sweeney was appointed. Fr Sweeney served the parish for 10 years (1991-2001) before his untimely death. 
Fr Joseph McNulty took over the parish after Fr Sweeney’s death and served as parish priest until the parish was amalgamated with St Jude’s to become the Parish of St Jude and St John Ogilvie (2 March 2008).
 

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