At the invitation of Mgr. Basil O’Sullivan, the Diocesan Administrator, the Rev. Professor Gilfredo Marengo of the John Paul Institute, Rome provided a day conference on Marriage and Family. The day was hosted by the St Ninian Institute.
New St Joseph’s opens in Dundee
The official opening of the new St Joseph’s RC Primary School took place on Thursday 16th May 2013. The primary School is now part of the West End Campus, Glenagnes Road, Dundee, which also includes Balgay Hill Nursery, and Park Place Primary School. The opening ceremony was performed by Mrs Liz Fordyce and Mr Jim Collins.
Fr Leszek Więcaszek’s Silver Jubilee
Fr Leszek Więcaszek SAC, parish priest of St Joseph’s Dundee and Chaplain to the Polish Community in the Diocese of Dunkeld, celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his Ordination to the Priesthood on Tuesday 7th May 2013. A number of diocesan priests and members of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallotine Fathers) concelebrated the Mass with him. Bishop Vincent Logan, …
UCM 22nd Triennial Rally
Over 300 members of the Union of Catholic Mothers were welcomed to the City of Dundee and St. Andrew’s Cathedral on the afternoon of Sunday 28th April by the City’s Lord Provost, Bob Duncan and his wife Brenda. The U.C.M. gathered in the Cathedral to mark their 22nd Triennial National Rally. The speakers at the Rally were Bishop John Mone, …
Little Sisters 150th Anniversary
Lord Provost Bob Duncan hosted a Civic Reception in the City Chambers in Dundee to mark the 150th Anniversary of the arrival of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Dundee. In the winter of 1839, Jeanne Jugan, the daughter of a fisherman, from Cancale in Brittany visited an elderly, blind, paralysed lady, who was abandoned, cold and hungry. Jeanne …
Ss Leonard & Fergus Hall re-opens
The opening of the Refurbished Hall at Ss Leonard & St Fergus Church, Dundee took place on Sunday 3rd March 2013. A large proportion of the cost of the refurbishment was met by a grant of £10,000 from Dundee Partnership through the Strathmartine Community Regeneration forum and a grant of £10,000 from the Awards for All, Big Lottery Fund.
Inaugural Lecture of St Ninian Institute
Bishop Hugh Gilbert of Aberdeen was the guest speaker at the inaugural lecture of the St Ninian Institute, Dundee. The Institute is based in the Lawside Campus of the Diocese of Dunkeld and was established to provide a new distance learning/part-time study college. The event also involved an open discussion with those present, chaired by Dr Harry Schnitker, Senior Research …
Sister Aloysius – a founder of the Lawside Romanian Fund
Sister Aloysius, the Sister of Mercy who co-founded the Dundee-based Lawside Romania Fund, has died at the age 89. She was still visiting the sick children of Bucharest’s Budimex Hospital on Sunday, the day before her death. Born Gertrude Philomena Kiernan, into a farming family in County Cavan, Ireland, she was one of 12 children, three of whom died in …
World Day for the Sick
The Diocesan celebration to mark “World Day of Prayer for the Sick” took place on the evening of Monday 11th February, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, in St Mary’s Lochee, Dundee. The principal celebrant of the Mass was Canon Aldo Angelosanto, parish priest of St Mary’s Lochee.