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Mary's Well
May 29, 20226 min read
A Catholic Response to Assisted Dying
”Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and...
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Mary's Well
Jul 3, 20214 min read
Evangelising Secular Culture through Accompaniment and Dialogue
As a viewer of Michael Matt’s Remnant, a sometimes reader of the blog 1 Peter 5, and a student of such works as Taylor Marshall’s...
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Mary's Well
May 28, 20213 min read
Catholicism in Scotland: Through the lens of George Square
Written by James Bundy Growing up in Scotland, I have been used to anti-Catholic comments being made regularly without any consequences....
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Mary's Well
May 21, 20213 min read
Profile: The Carmelite and The Scapular
Pondering over the Scapular One of the foundational devotions that the Carmelites are known for is the brown scapular. Many things have...
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Mary's Well
Apr 14, 202113 min read
Fathers and Sons: Dante's 700th Anniversary
“Like Father.. Like Son?” Family relationships in Dante’s Divine Comedy “In these verses the divine Poet points to the definitive goal of...
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Mary's Well
Apr 2, 20216 min read
Clothed In His Five Wounds - Easter with GMB
"Harrowing of Hell" by paukrus is marked with CC PDM 1.0 Tuesday 13 April this year will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the death of...
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Mary's Well
Apr 2, 20214 min read
Hope Is Found Not on the Horizon
One of the most prominent paradoxes of the last year has been that the silence of the streets has been accompanied by a chaotic cacophony...
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Mary's Well
Mar 5, 20214 min read
The Stone, the Cup and the Lamb of God
Perthshire might be known to many for a stone which has not sat in the region for many years. The imminent return to Perthshire of the...
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Mary's Well
Mar 5, 20214 min read
The Ordinariate in Scotland
January saw the 10th Anniversary of the Erection of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, the first of the three Personal...
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Mary's Well
Feb 26, 20214 min read
The Necessity of Anonymous Prayer
‘In a time which demands visibility, invisible prayer is something oft-forgotten.’ It is a cinematic paradox that the character who...
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Mary's Well
Jan 28, 20214 min read
The Net Widens: Youth Ministry in Scotland
“Let Charity Move You to Reply” -St. Columbanus Over Christmas break, I finally sat down and watched the highly appraised series, The...
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Mary's Well
Jan 14, 20214 min read
Joy in the Silence of God
By Eric Hanna I have done my best to mention as little as possible in this newsletter, ‘the C-Word’. You know what C-word I am talking...
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Mary's Well
Jan 14, 20214 min read
The Idiot Part I Chapter 4 (The Story of Marie)
Little Seeds of Charity By the Fr Nicholas Blackwell (The Frank Friar) Over the last few years, I have made it a point to read one book...
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Mary's Well
Jan 8, 20213 min read
The Profile: The Apostolic Sisters of St John
In this edition of The Profile we look at the work of the Apostolic Sisters of St John - recent arrivals in Aberdeen. In the footsteps of...
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Mary's Well
Dec 11, 20204 min read
Reclaiming Highland Catholic Literature
Auntie Robbo and Aboard the Bulger were initially published in the 1940s. Auntie Robbo was deemed ‘too Scottish’ for London publishers...
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Mary's Well
Nov 20, 20204 min read
Fratelli Tutti: A reflection by the Chair of the Justice and Peace Commission for BCO Scotland
It’s been over a month now, since Pope Francis signed his encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, and released his powerful words for all of us to...
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Mary's Well
Nov 12, 20203 min read
Spreading the Word in Caithness
The article on St Fergus mentioned that ‘popish rites’ continued well after the Reformation in Caithness. However this was very much a...
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Mary's Well
Nov 12, 20204 min read
Castration, Fashion Advice and the Proper use of an Ass
I am listening to the audio book of Robert Alters award winning translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. Alter is an American Professor of...
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Mary's Well
Nov 12, 20205 min read
A Teachers Pilgrimage by Eileen Campbell
The idea of creating a prayer journal for Catholic teachers, came from my delight at how successful the pilgrimage of the relics of St...
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Mary's Well
Nov 6, 20203 min read
Belong to Thy Self
‘When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts. Nothing wounds God so...
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