St Andrew's RC Church Bearsden
Follow us!
  • Home
    • Services
  • Latest
  • Bulletin
  • Piety Stall
    • Easter
    • Mothers Day
    • Mass Cards
    • First Holy Communion
    • Confirmation
    • Sympathy
    • Thinking of You
    • Christmas
  • Youth Ministry
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Gallery
  • Meditation Corner
  • Contact
  • Online Services
  • General Info
    • Church Halls
    • Links
    • Reachout
    • Video
    • Justice and Peace Scotland
    • Groups
    • St Andrew's Primary
    • Fabric & Finance
    • Parish Register
    • PPC
    • Safeguarding

Easter Monday 13th April 2020

13/4/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
A few words......

Hope you’re all doing okay and had a lovely peaceful Easter Sunday.

A bank holiday used to feel like a bank holiday - so did a weekend - every day seems the same in lockdown life.

Anyway, this is us in the octave of Easter - the greatest week of the church year. We celebrate the solemnity of Easter every day this week. If you don’t manage to catch Mass each day online this week, if you get a chance say the Gloria each day - (or you could do a Ned Flanders and sing it in your kitchen!!!) . The Gloria is part of the Mass each day this week.

If you get a moment, it’s worth getting a read through the short gospel for today’s Mass. In it the risen Christ greets the women who came away from the empty tomb. He tells them not to be afraid, and then says to them go and tell my brothers that they must leave for Galilee. He tells them that they will see him there. 

Three little words to think of. “Go and tell”  Important words in the gospel.

Christ chose his faithful women disciples to inform the apostles. Go and tell he told them. Go and tell has implications for faithful disciples of all ages.

Parents, grandparents, teachers and catechists - within family, in the classroom, in the parish they go and tell children, young people the good news of Jesus. 

Bishops, priests, deacons and religious in their ministry and mission work go and tell the Good News of Jesus.

I’m thinking in these limiting circumstances in which we live how we find ways to Go and Tell. 

Social media in these times is being used more than ever before, not least and especially at this time of Easter people using it to go and tell the good news. 

My phone has never pinged as much in all it’s life. And that’s good. All the Easter messages and the wee videos of the Good News that many have been sharing - that’s Go and Tell

And the efforts that we’re making to Go and Tell loved ones, whose presence unfortunately we can’t be in, that they are loved and we miss them - maybe it’s over the phone, on FaceTime, Skype or sending texts and emails, or maybe it’s a drive by and a wave in.

Go and Tell.

Hope you have a peaceful and fruitful Easter Octave.

Take care

Fr Mackle 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Subscribe below for updates

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner

    Daily Masses Online
    Picture
    Safeguarding

    Archives

    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    June 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013

    Categories

    All
    Coronavirus
    Turnbull Times

    Subscribe in a reader
Donate with PayPal
St Andrew's Bearsden Live Streamed Masses on this link.
Online Services
Latest
Bulletin
Groups
Search
Contact
Safeguarding
Picture
St Andrew's RC Church
29 Roman Road
Bearsden
Glasgow
G61 2SN
Telephone : 0141 942 4635
Email : standrew@rcag.org.uk
A Parish of the Archdiocese of Glasgow a Registered Scottish Charity No SC018140
Web design by St Andrews Online
(web@standrewsbearsden.co.uk for website related matters)