June Edition
George Mackay Brown/Eucharistic Friendship/Portrait of a Scottish Priest/Language of the Bible - this and more in this months St Moluag's Coracle.
As we enter the month of June we are called to reflect and meditate on the Sacred Heart of Jesus - that Divine Love which has granted us so much grace and consolation. This weekend in particular is important as it is the Feast of Corpus Christi - a good time to ground ourselves in the deep truths of the Eucharist and all that means. More on that below.
Eucharistic Friendship
The image of a pelican is commonplace in sacristies around the world. The self-sacrificial love of the pelican as she feeds her young is clearly symbolic of the self-sacrificial love of Christ as he feeds his Church through the gift of the Eucharist. As the pelican sustains her young with her own blood, so too does Christ.
Fishermen with Ploughs: A Return to Reality in a Poetic Cycle by George Mackay Brown
Rackwick Bay, one of the most important and recurring places in George Mackay Brown’s work, is a splendid valley located in the north-western part of Hoy, the second largest island of the Orkney. Brown visited it for the first time with some friends in the summer of 1946, during a particularly bleak period in his life, marked by semi-debilitating tuberc…
Portrait of a Scottish Priest
Scottish Catholicism is at its heart reflected in the lives of those who make it incarnate, the “living stones” of the Scottish Church. As a Church with Apostolic origins, we are never short of inspirational examples of what it means to be Catholic in Scotland. The Coracle has published on the Saints associated with this land, who often lived many centu…
A Catechesis on Corpus Christi
Bishop Hugh Gilbert gave a video talk on this important feast. Please click the link here to have a listen.
Scotland’s Saints for June
In this month we have 2 of Scotland’s most consequential - St Columba (9th June) and St Moluag (25th June). We also have St Ternan and St Baithen, both significant in their own way and worth a read on our Calendar page.
We all have our favourite and chosen Saints we ask for intercession from - but do not forget our own Saints who are just as lively and active as your st Pio of Pietrelcina or st Therese of Lisieux. We have an extensive list on this website which we invite you to explore.