No public celebration of Liturgy.
Welcome to St Brigid's Roman Catholic Parish in the Diocese of Motherwell, Scotland.
St Brigid's is a thriving parish of some 1,600 people, with a proud history in Newmains that stretches back to 1871.
Indeed the chapel/school established here in 1871 is still standing - though it is now a Parish Centre serving the social needs of the whole community.
We became a Parish in 1896 and our present Church was built in 1933. Now we gladly carry the Gospel of Christ into the third millenia.
Visit the heritage section of the website to find out more about the history of St Brigid's.
I have just watched Mass streamed from Knock Shrine. Like ourselves here in Scotland they are bearing the restrictions imposed on our lives to counter the spread of the Covid-19 virus, but also like us trying to accept the present cross and also placing their prayers before the Lord and Our Lady for an end to our present sorrowAs Christians we know Our Lord threw down a challenge to us if we want to answer his call "to come follow Him". That challenge we remember from the Gospel "If you want to follow me, then daily you must deny yourself, take up the Cross and then follow me." This week-end we enter the Fifth Week of Lent. The emphasis changes from the personal efforts of prayer, fasting and almsgiving to a deeper reflection on the last days of Our Lord's Mission on earth. He follows the Apostles as they leave Galilee to go to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Passover, to pray and rejoice in the delivery of the children of Israel from their slavery in Egypt, to remember how God was with their leader Moses in what humanly speaking was an impossible dream. They were not excited about this particular journey, they knew there was growing opposition to Jesus from their own religious leaders. Jerusalem was now a dangerous place for all of them. But Jerusalem was the place where Jesus' mission would be accomplished. It was here that the humanity of Jesus would meet the power of the Scribes and Pharisees and the anger of the High Priests. He would discover how the message first given to Abraham, taught by Moses and the Prophets could be hi-jacked. The blindness, the hard heartedness, the deafness that Jesus speaks of as He proclaims His gospel reaches its peak. The last two weeks of Lent remind us how Jesus suffered internally and externally. This was something He had to accomplish. He took upon His shoulders the Cross of our sins. He died under the weight of sin but this darkness was not the end. It was only the beginning, He rose in order that we might rise to a glory, to an abundance of life, to something greater than we can imagine.