THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland
under the patronage of Saint John Henry Newman

Ordinariate Scotland Events

The Ordinariate in the North of Scotland
Homecoming Festival of
St Brendan the Navigator
to Birnie Kirk
Saturday 5th July 2025 at 12 noon

Now, thanks to the Ordinariate, Birnie Kirk, continues to echo to the sound to regular Christian worship: Evening Prayer every Wednesday and Holy Mass on the first Saturday of each month. The response from the Birnie folk has been most encouraging.

The links between the Ordinariate in the north of Scotland and Birnie Kirk started in December 2023 when the Church of Scotland announced its closure and we were asked if we could help maintain almost 900 years of unbroken Christian worship.

Last year we celebrated the first Saint Brendan the Navigator Homecoming Festival who brought the Gospel to Birnie in the 6th century at the end of his epic voyage when this carving by Philip Chatfield was carried in solemn procession into the Church for Holy Mass.

On Saturday 5th July at 12 noon a Procession led by some monks frpm Pluscarden Abbey will process from the halll to Birnie Kirk for Holy Mass, the ancient church, built no later than 1140 and where Christian worship has continued uninterrupted for almost 900 years. After Mass we will return to the hall for a Barbecue to complete our celebrations of the Homecoming of St Brendan the Navigator to Birnie Kirk.

All are welcome to join us.