Calendar

Friendship: the love that dare not speak its name
Celebrated: 26 Jun (Poland, Nigeria)Today the Office of Readings contains a passage from St Aelred of Rievaulx on friendship.Once upon a time, there was friendship. Once upon a time, society accepted that the love of friends could be the single most important thing in a person’s life, and they did more than just accept, they […]
Saint Luan (520 - 592)
Celebrated: 25 Jun (Argyll & the Isles)Saint Moluag, (Lua, Luan, Murlach, or Lugaidh) was the first bishop of Argyll and the Isles. He was a hugely important associate of Columba. Whilst Columba worked among the Celts, Moluag worked among the Picts. Columba settled on Iona, Moluag on Lismore.He was trained at Bangor and went on […]
St John the Baptist
Celebrated: 24 Jun (worldwide)Apart from Mary and Joseph, John the Baptist is the only saint in the General Calendar who has two feasts to himself. One, in August, celebrates his death, and one, in June, celebrates his birth. And this is as it should be, for as Christ himself said, John was the greatest of […]