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NOTICES
for SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2025

Church Closure
The church will be closed Monday to Friday this week to allow progress with installation of the new heating system.  As the weather becomes more autumnal, we need to finish this work as quickly as possible.  Daily Mass at 8am and 12.30pm will be in the Small Hall (access from Lauriston Street via the Lauriston Hall entrance).  No Confessions.  Mass and Confessions on Saturday and Sunday are in the church at the usual times.  Inevitably these arrangements cause some inconvenience but the new heating, flooring and pews constitute a very big piece of work and some disruption is inevitable.  Thank you for your patience.

Music at 10.30am Mass Today
Before Mass: Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) Praeludium
Offertory: Giovanni Palestrina (?1524-96) Sicut cervus
Mass setting: Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Deutsche Messe
Communion: 1. Plainsong, Memento verbi tui servo tuo 2. Dobrinka Tabakova (b.1980) Sanctus orbis factor
Recessional: Camille Saint Saens (1835-1921) Fantaisie

Visiting Choir
Next Sunday, 5 October, we welcome the Schola Bonifatiuschurch from Rijswijk in the Netherlands to sing at the 10.30am Mass.

Weekday Missal
Copies of the new CTS Weekday Missal have, at long last, arrived.  This missal contains all the readings in the new translation plus the Mass prayers for all the weekdays and feast days (Monday to Saturday) of the year.  Price £55.  Sunday Missals are still available (£19.95).  While the bookshop is closed due to works, missals can be bought from the sacristy after Mass.  Contactless payment is available.

RCIA Sponsors Meeting
Thank you to everyone who has responded to our appeal for sponsors for our catechumens who shortly begin the RCIA programme – the journey of formation and prayer by which people are baptized or received into the Catholic Church at Easter.  37 people are currently signed up for the programme and we have 26 sponsors.  There will be an important meeting for sponsors this Wednesday at 7pm in the Small Hall.  Please make every effort to attend.

Taizé Prayer
Taizé Prayer continues this Tuesday, and every Tuesday during the Jubilee Year, at 7pm in the new Manresa Room (off the Ogilvie Room – accessed through the church).  This weekly time of prayer in the style of the Taizé community with scripture, music, prayer, silence and reflection, is something we are doing for the Jubilee Year 2025.  All welcome.

First Sunday Circle
Our monthly speaker and discussion series of faith-formation events for young adults resumes next Sunday, 5 October. In an informal social setting after the Seven (the Sunday Mass for young adults), a speaker presents on a topic concerning Catholic faith and life, followed by discussion and listening to each other.  The first session of the Autumn series, Introducing St Ignatius – his story and legacy is led by Fr David Stewart sj: St Ignatius the Pilgrim – from Loyola to Rome.

Retreat in Daily Life
Our next Guided Ignatian retreat-in-daily-life is Approaching Advent and runs from Sunday 26 October to Sunday 30 November.  You need to be able to attend the 5.30pm opening and closing sessions, to set aside about 30 minutes each day for prayer and to meet your prayer-guide once each week. Email ejcretreats@jesuit.org.uk or use the QR code on the narthex posters for more information.

Gift Aid and Standing Orders
We rely on the generous financial support of those who worship in this church to be able to keep the building and our mission in Edinburgh afloat.  The most helpful way of giving is by Standing Order, either monthly or weekly, as this allows us to predict income and plan well.  If you are a UK taxpayer, please also sign a Gift Aid form – this enables us to claim from the Government an additional 25p for every £1 you donate at no extra expense to yourself.  Standing Order and Gift Aid forms are available in the narthex.  As ever, thank you for your generosity.

Bookshop
Our bookshop is open after Sunday Masses.  We stock a wide variety of books on the Catholic faith and Christian life as well as CTS booklets, greeting cards, medals, crucifixes, rosaries, etc.  We have the new Sunday Missal (£19.95), Weekday Missal (£55) and ESV Bible (£20).  Please drop in and see what is on offer.  We can accept contactless payments.

Voluntary Choir
Our voluntary choir is an ad hoc group which sings at Christmas and Easter and other occasions during the year.  We welcome everyone who is interesting in singing in a choir – whatever you experience or expertise.  There is plenty of support and help along the way.  The voluntary choir will next sing at the annual Mass of Remembrance on Sunday 9 November at 10.30am.  There will be rehearsals on the two preceding Thursdays, 30 October and 6 November, from 7pm to 8.30pm.  All welcome.

Volunteering
As we return to our normal schedule of activities after the summer, we invite everyone who regularly worships here to consider offering to help in one of the many ministries and volunteering roles which keep the church and its mission running.  We can often tailor a role to your availability. We need welcomers, readers, eucharistic ministers, cleaners, launderers of church linen, help in the bookshop, collection cash counters, help with hospitality after Sunday Mass, help with the archives and music library, and anything else you can think of. Please get in touch (ejc@jesuit.org.uk) or speak to one of the priests.

Organ Recital
On Monday 3 November, our organist Nicky Fraser is giving a recital at Ayr Town Hall as part of their The Organist Entertains series.  The programme includes original organ music and transcriptions.  The recital begins at 12pm and lasts an hour.  All welcome.

St Pier Giorgio Frassati
A book tour to celebrate the recent canonisation and the publication of 15 Days of Prayer with St Pier Giorgio Frassati visits St Albert’s Chaplaincy, 24 George Square, Edinburgh on Friday 17 October at 5.15pm. Free event.  All welcome.

Catholic Conversations for Women  
Women who are recent converts, those considering Catholicism, and those who are desirous of faith-focused discussion are welcome to this event on Saturday, 25 October, 3.45pm-4.45pm in the St Andrew’s Parish rooms (77 Belford Rd EH4 3DS) for Adoration and chanted Vespers from 5.10pm in the convent with the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma. Register edinburgh@almamercy.org 

Venerable Margaret Sinclair Event
Commemorate the centenary of the death of Venerable Margaret Sinclair on Saturday 22 November by meeting at her former grave in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Edinburgh, at 9am to pray the Rosary. This will be followed by a walk to her tomb at St Patrick's in The Cowgate. Benediction at 12.15pm followed by Mass at 12.30pm. A Centenary Mass will be offered at the Sacred Heart Altar in St Patrick's on Monday 24 November at 5.45pm.

National Family Conference
The inaugural National Family Conference takes place on Saturday 25 October 2025 from 10am to 5pm at St Bride’s Hall, Coursington Rd, Motherwell.  With keynote speaker Chris Stefanick (live from the USA), this event celebrates marriage and family life with talks, prayer, and community. Register at VEmarriage@staned.org.uk indicating your parish.

Please remember in your prayers all those of our parish who are sick or housebound including Mary Cherry, Patrick Conboy, Sandra Fleming, Benedicte Gasparde, John McManus, Phyllis Reid, Betty Saria and Anthony Strachan.

Edinburgh Jesuit Centre Mailing List
Each Friday afternoon, we send out a short email reminder of concerts, talks, retreats and other events at Sacred Heart Church.  Join the mailing list by emailing ejcpastoral@jesuit.org.uk  You can unsubscribe at any time.

Events in the Archdiocese
Click here for a full list of forthcoming events in the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh.