Monday 17th August 2026. Please read on for a selection of items from this week’s parish newsletters in the Diocese of Dunkeld, offering a snapshot of life around our diocese.
Diocesan Vocations
Vocations Evening: for men over 18, to be held on Sunday 30th August at 7.00pm in St. Andrew’s Cathedral Church Hall, Dundee.
Annual Vocations Mass: Thursday 17th September at 6pm in St Andrew’s Cathedral, Dundee. The Mass will be led by staff and pupils of St Paul’s Academy, Dundee. Please come along and pray for vocations. Fr. Jim Walls (Vocations Director).
Dunkeld Pilgrimage Reunion
After a wonderful pilgrimage, we are holding our reunion service (please note that this will not be a Mass) at 3pm on Sunday 20th of September in St Leonard & St Fergus Church, Dundee. There will be refreshments in the hall afterwards and all are very welcome.
Our Lady of Lourdes, Perth & St Mary Magdalene, Perth
Alpha – thank you and what’s next: A heartfelt thank you to everyone who took part in, supported, or helped with our recent Alpha Course at Our Lady of Lourdes. It has been a real blessing and a wonderful experience of faith, friendship, hospitality and open conversation. We hope to build on this momentum by continuing Alpha in the future and developing a stronger culture of welcome, personal invitation and reaching out beyond our parish community. A short de brief will take place after Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes on Tuesday 25 August, when we will reflect on what went well, what we can improve, and consider future Alpha courses at both Our Lady of Lourdes and St Mary Magdalene’s.
St Mungo, Alloa
WDR Country Music Evening: It’s time for the annual country music picnic evening with the WDR Band. Come and join us on Friday 21st August in the church hall. Saloon doors open at 7pm so bring your drinks and snacks and enjoy an evening of good old toe tapping country music. Tickets are £5, available at the back of the church after Mass, there will be a raffle with all proceeds going to church funds. Any donations for the raffle will be most welcome and can be left at the back of the church. Lookin’ forward to seeing y’all!
St John the Baptist, Perth
Mass for the Sick: There will be Mass for the sick and anointing on Thursday 20th August at the 10am Mass. Let us come and pray for our people.
St Mary, Lochee & St Clement, Charleston
Birthday thanks: Thanks to all those who organised a surprise birthday celebration after Mass. The cake, your singing, the gifts, but most especially your love, are all very much appreciated. May God bless you and keep you, Fr Jim. Also, thanks also to those who have taken an interest in caring for the Church Grounds.
St Fergus, Forfar & St Anthony, Kirriemuir
PPC Feedback: At the PPC Meeting on Tuesday, some discussion took place on a suggestion that we consider a joint entertainment type of event towards the end of the year. Further discussion will be taken up at the next meeting, from which it is hoped a way forward will be found and further information and suggestions forthcoming.
SS Leonard & Fergus, Dundee & St Columba, Kirkton
SVDP: VDP: The SVDP group are going to temporarily suspend their normal collections in order to raise funds for SCIAF’s appeal for those suffering because of the Venezuelan earthquake. All donations welcome.
St Bride, Monifieth & St Anne, Carnoustie
Common Priesthood of the Baptised: At Holy Mass we are called to unite our own hearts and lives to the offering made by the ordained priest. We should see in the offering of the bread and wine, our own cares and concerns. Whatever is going on in our own lives, whatever purification we might need, whatever struggles we might be having, we bring all of this and spiritually unite it not just with the priest’s offering, but with the offering of all the baptised in the Church. And this “Church” extends not just to the people in the pews, but to the universal Church. All our offerings, of our lives, are caught up together, as the common priesthood of all the baptised, join with the ordained priests in this great act of worship. All the Baptised need a deeper awareness of the fact that you too are called to join in the offering of the Eucharist. This is one of the great truths of the Second Vatican Council that needs more emphasis.