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 15 June 4:00pm | Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity |
| Wednesday 18 June 10:30am | Week 11 in Ordinary Time |
| Sunday 22 June 4:00pm | Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ |
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, the God who is and who was and who is to come.
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!
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.
Today is the Day for Life. There will be a 2nd collection taken up for the apostolate of the defence of life from conception to natural death.
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.
Justice & Peace Scotland invite you to Together for Sanctuary, a special ecumenical Christian worship service held as part of Refugee Festival Scotland. Organised in partnership with SFAR (Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees), this gathering will bring together people of all backgrounds to stand in solidarity with those who seek sanctuary for a time of prayer, worship, music and reflection and will include speakers with lived experience of seeking safety and welcome. Join us on Thurs 19th June, Immaculate Conception Church, 2049 Maryhill Road, Glasgow G20 0AA, at 7pm.
The Liturgy Works weekends will be held on September 19th to 21st at the Conforti Institute in Coatbridge. This weekend event will include workshops, spiritual talks, liturgical singing, prayer, and a chance to meet people from different parishes in Argyll and the Isles. The cost for the weekend is £180 for full board. I understand that this is more expensive than before, but it has been five years since we last met and prices have increased significantly. A deposit of £50 should be paid into the bank account of Mrs. D. Maclean, see newsletter for details.
Standing Orders £490, Offertory £65.10, Communications £26.70. The June building fund will be taken up next week.
This week's newsletter can be viewed here.
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Sort Code – 83 91 25
Account number - 65628113.
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There is a very old and much-repeated story about St. Augustine of Hippo, one of the intellectual giants of the Church. He was walking by the seashore one day, attempting to arrive at an intelligible explanation for the mystery of the Trinity. As he walked along, he saw a small boy on the beach, pouring seawater from a shell into a small hole in the sand. “What are you doing, my child?” asked Augustine. “I am emptying the sea into this hole,” the boy answered with an innocent smile. “But that is impossible, my dear child!” said Augustine. The boy stood up, looked straight into the eyes of Augustine and replied, “What you are trying to do – comprehend the immensity of God with your small head – is even more impossible.” Then he vanished. The child was an angel sent by God to teach Augustine a lesson. Later, Augustine wrote: “You see the Trinity, if you see love.” According to him, the Father is the lover, the Son is the loved one and the Holy Spirit is the personification of the very act of loving. This means that we can understand something of the Mystery of the Holy Trinity more readily with the believing heart than with our feeble mind. Evagrius of Pontus, a Greek monk of the 4th century who came from what is now Turkey in Asia and later lived out his vocation in Egypt, said: “God cannot be grasped by the mind. If God could be grasped, God would not be God.”
Fr Tony