June Edition
What you might have missed this month.
The Little Flower and Scotland
When people think of Saints associated with Scotland, names like St. Andrew, St. Columba & St. Ninian come to mind. Or, more aptly, given that you’re reading this publication, you’ll think of St. Moluag. However, St. Therese of Lisieux has a meaningful connection with the country.
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…
