St Thomas the Apostle, RC Church

Today is “VocationsSunday”. This is the day when the whole Church focusses on the need to encourage and pray for women and men to offer themselves for service in the Religious Life or Priesthood. We are experiencing an acute shortage of priests and religious in Scotland at the present time, and there is a real need to foster the notion of priestly service in our families and our young people. Today’s gospel presents the image of The Good Shepherd, and we pray that more “good shepherds” will be sent to the Church in Scotland.