Welcome to the Catholic Church of the Visitation, Taynuilt.
Sunday Mass Time: Sunday 4pm
Confession: before Mass and on request
The church of the visitation is located in the village of Taynuilt in Argyll.
We are a small but vibrant parish and you are welcome to join us in the celebration of mass and for private prayer.
| Sunday 13 July 4:00pm | 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time |
| Sunday 20 July 4:00pm | 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time |
The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice, says the Lord, I know them and they follow me.
A warm welcome to all our visitors to The Church of the Visitation. We are glad you worship with us, may almighty God bless you. Please, join us after Mass on Wednesdays for Tea/Coffee. Our gratitude goes to our parishioners who made this possible, God bless you!
Fr. Patrick McCallion will make a Mission Appeal at the weekend on Sunday, July 20th, on behalf of St. Patrick’s missionary Society, better known as the Kiltegan Fathers.
Fr. Patrick, who has ministered in Malawi for 19 years, will invite us to mission awareness and solidarity through spiritual and material support of the Lord's missionary work. There will be a second collection to support their mission through the world.
Fr. Philip will be away for a few days. There will be no Mass on on Wednesday.
The annual fundraising stall for the parish at the Highland Games is on Saturday 19th July this year. We will need donations of home made produce like jams, chutneys, home baking, home grown plants and vegetables as well as raffle style prizes . There will be sign up sheets at the back of the church from today. Many thanks for your support.
The Papal Nuncio Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía, is making a pastoral visit to every diocese in Scotland, England and Wales. He will be visiting Argyll and the Isles from Tuesday 22nd to Friday 25th July 2025. The Nuncio will visit our deanery on the 22nd July, Mass will be in the Cathedral, Oban at 5pm. All are invited.
The Parish Council meeting on the 16th July , there is a sheet on the noticeboard at the back of the church for parishioners to add anything they would like us to discuss.
The 2025 Centenary Pilgrimage to pray for the Beatification of the Venerable Margaret Sinclair will take place on Sunday 21 September from 12.30-6pm at St Patrick's Church, Cowgate, Edinburgh, EH1 1NA. 12.30-1.30: Refreshments & sale of candles/goods; 1.30-2.30: Holy Hour; 3.00-4.00: Reflection; 4.30: Holy Mass concelebrated with Archbishop Cushley. Confessions available all day.
Standing Orders £490, Offertory £78.
This week's newsletter can be viewed here.
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Sort Code – 83 91 25
Account number - 65628113.
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Allowing herself to be guided by the example of Jesus the “Good Samaritan” (cf. Lk 10:29-37) and upheld by his strength, the Church has always been in the front line in providing charitable help: so many of her sons and daughters, especially men and women Religious, in traditional and ever new forms, have consecrated and continue to consecrate their lives to God, freely giving of themselves out of love for their neighbour, especially for the weak and needy. These deeds strengthen the bases of the “civilization of love and life”, without which the life of individuals and of society itself loses its most genuinely human quality. Even if they go unnoticed and remain hidden to most people, faith assures us that the Father “who sees in secret” (Mt 6:6) not only will reward these actions but already here and now makes them produce lasting fruit for the good of all...
A stranger is no longer a stranger for the person who must become a neighbour to someone in need, to the point of accepting responsibility for his life, as the parable of the Good Samaritan shows so clearly (cf. Lk 10:25-37). Even an enemy ceases to be an enemy for the person who is obliged to love him (cf. Mt 5:38-48; Lk 6:27-35), to “do good” to him (cf. Lk 6:27, 33, 35) and to respond to his immediate needs promptly and with no expectation of repayment (cf. Lk 6:34-35). The height of this love is to pray for one’s enemy. By so doing we achieve harmony with the providential love of God: “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Mt 5:44-45; cf. Lk 6:28, 35).
St John Paul II