Special occasion for the New Abbey community and its historic St Mary’s RC Church
A celebratory Mass to commemorate 200 years since the foundation of St Mary’s RC Church in New Abbey – five years before the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 – proved “a joyous and uplifting occasion” and was attended by Christians from different churches including a Church of Scotland minister.
It was all the more special for the congregation as, since 2013, there has not been a regular Sunday service there but, periodically, priests come to stay in the house and say Mass for everyone. On show, too, was an article printed on August 27, 1924, in the Dumfries and Galloway Standard for St Mary’s centenary telling of how it had been opened in 1824 by the Reverend Father Bagnall and explains how important this would have been for the region’s Catholics at the time.
And from a long sermon, it is interesting to note just how special St Mary’s was to the Catholics when it first opened after a dark time in Scotland’s religious history, “To be a Catholic, at all events, a fervent Catholic, meant many disabilities for those in every position of life.
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