Month: October 2025

Blessed Peter O’Higgins OP by Fr Henry Flanagan OP

October 25th 2025

“Blessed Peter O’Higgins OP”, Fr Henry Flanagan OP, 1985, Newbridge  College,  Co. Kildare, Ireland.  This statue of Blessed Peter O’Higgins OP (1602? -1642) stands outside the Dominican Priory of St Eustace at Newbridge,  County Kildare, in Ireland.  When Fr Peter

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folio 114r Book of Kells

October 18th 2025

“folio 114r, Book of Kells”,  Trinity College Dublin.   (revised from October 2019) This page illustrates Matthew 26:30: “And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.”   The scene has been interpreted as

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VAN GOGH’S GOOD SAMARTIAN

October 11th 2025

“The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix) ”, 1890, Vincent van Gogh, Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands.    The Parable of the Good Samaritan is one of the best known parables in Luke’s Gospel.  Van Gogh has left us about 900 and

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MARIANUM

October 4th 2025

“Marianum”, c.1500, Petrus Banden Kerk, Vanray, Netherlands.   This sculpture of Our Lady, standing on the crescent moon with the child Jesus in her arms was known in the Low Countries as a Marianum. It is based on Revelation 12:1,

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ANNUAL SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT

October 3rd 2025

Our annual statement is read out around the time of the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels which falls on the 2nd of October. In echoing this spirit of guardianship, we would like to remind you of our obligation to

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Edinburgh Catholic Chaplaincy

The Catholic Chaplaincy serves the students and staff of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University and Queen Margaret University.

The Catholic Chaplaincy is also a parish of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh (the Parish of St Albert the Great) and all Catholic students and staff are automatically members of this parish.

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