All Souls Day Mass at Mount Vernon The Archbishop will say Mass at Mt Vernon Cemetery at 10am on Saturday 2nd November, in the Cemetery Chapel. All are very welcome.

It is a beautiful Catholic tradition to pray for our deceased family members and friends during the month of November. If you would like to have a Mass offered for the repose of their souls, Mass Intention envelopes are available at the back of the church. We will also have a special ‘Book of Remembrance’ which will be placed before the altar. If you’d like your loved ones to be remembered in this way, write down their names on the purple sheets available at the back and hand them in to the sacristy or the parish office.

Father Andrew Garden will lead a study day at Gillis on the Gospel according to St Matthew on the 16th November (11am-3.30pm). Margaret Mill will also give guidance on how to improve your public reading at Mass. Register at Eventbrite or call 0131 623 8900.

If your child will be five years of age before 28th February 2021, he or she is due to start school in August 2020. Parents who wish to enroll their child in St Mary’s RC Primary are asked to attend (if possible) the drop-in enrolment sessions at 9.45am-10.30am on Wednesday the 6th November and Thursday the 7th November. You will need to bring your child’s birth certificate, baptismal certificate, council tax letter/book, a utility bill (gas, electricity, passport) and your passport/work permit/visa if you are not from the EEC. For questions or concerns, please contact the Head Teacher Mrs Nicola Kehoe on 0131 556 7128.

For some time, we have been in need of new volunteers to read at Mass and to assist in the distribution of Holy Communion. It is also too long since training and formation have been offered for those who have generously volunteered in this way for many years. So, there will be a meeting for all those who are involved (or who would like to be involved) in these ministries on Monday 4^thNovember (Communion Ministers) and Monday 11th November (Readers), both at 7.30pm in the parish rooms. Following this training, new Readers and Communion Ministers will be formally commissioned at Mass on Sunday 17^thNovember. 

Our annual BIG Clean of the Church and the Parish Rooms is due on Sat 16th November between 10am & 5pm. Please make every effort to come along and join the fun – just sign up stating a time slot that suits you. Sign-up sheets are at the rear of the church. Thank you!

We are very happy to welcome Fr Martins Enegumba from Nigeria who will be staying with us in the parish for a few months. I know you will make him feel welcome.

Please remember that we on Friday will celebrate the Solemnity of All Saints, which is a Holy Day of Obligation – which means that all Catholics are obliged to come to Mass on Friday. There will be Mass in the Cathedral at 8am, 10am, 12.45pm, 6pm (Polish) and 7.30pm and here in Ravelston at 9.30am and 6.15pm (Extraordinary Form)

If you are unable to take your turn, please swap with another team member. Extraordinary Ministers: we need only the 1^stand 2^ndnamed, if 2 priests concelebrate the Mass.