St Athanasius R.C. Church - Carluke

And Fr. Magill invites to enjoy this - https://vimeo.com/243312820

From Fr. Magill to everyone!

St Athanasius’ Carluke. Mass of Friday in the Octave of Easter for the eternal rest of Bill McCluskey.

Fr. Tom reflects on the Gospel of Easter Sunday

Fr. Magill reflects on the Gospel for Easter Morning - John 20.1-9

Be not afraid, we are renewed. John 20.1-9

A beautiful video from the Archdiocese of Lima, Peru.

This is a beautiful reflection from the Archdiocese of Lima, Peru. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lszq3gu7Z YU

Our Bulletin for Easter Sunday

Through our liturgies over the coming days, we will observe the Passion, death and Resurrection of Christ. Peter Knott SJ describes how the events of Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday form a narrative which helps us to make sense of our own lives, particularly our disappointments and failings. ‘The risen Christ remains an abiding reality, ever with us even in our own Good Friday.’ Among the first words we tend to learn as children are: ‘It’s not fair.’ There is a c...
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A Dialogue with the Crucified God Many years ago, I wrote a meditation that I called “A Dialogue with the Crucified God,” to help people experience what I am so feebly trying to describe here. I suggest you wait until you have an open, quiet, and solitary slot of time, then pray it out loud so your ears can hear your own words from your own mouth. In addition, I suggest that you place yourself before a tender image of the crucified Jesus that will allow you to both give and r...
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Holy Saturday Psalms and Canticle

Why did you wash their feet? I don’t understand, it makes no sense. Why did you do something so demeaning, so distasteful, when you did not have to? Why humble yourself and wash the feet of your own disciples? You are the Messiah, it makes no sense for you, of all people, to do something that should be done by the least of all people, not by the greatest. It is not what we want our Messiahs to do. Unless... unless we have got it wrong and that, somehow this is a measure of wh...at Messiah means? Not that it is defined in greatness but that somehow, in your world the first will be last, and the greatest, least and servant of all? But if we are to follow you, does it mean that we must follow your example too? Are you suggesting that we too should make ourselves humble? That we must wash the feet of the people whom we would rather ignore, or scapegoat, or deride? Must we too become the servants of the least among us? the refugee, the disabled, the homeless, the addicted, the anti-social, the child? Was that what all of this was about? To try and put us in our rightful place, not at the centre of our own world, but at the centre of yours, where we are no longer the most important person? Is that it? Were you trying to teach us this simple truth, that other people, all other people, should matter too? Is that why you washed their feet?
A prayer of response Messiah I come, Brought to my knees by astonishing grace. In the presence of such humility From one so great What can I do but kneel and praise? Messiah I come, Challenged to bow to the King who kneels. I want to pour out mercy and bring tender healing, But I am proud, judgmental, and self-absorbed And you are the only one who can lead me to first-becoming-last greatness. I would wash and serve, wash and love, Like you do. But first Lord Jesus, Wash my feet, cleanse my heart Till I am – like you – Humble and ready on my knees.
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