Dana and Friends, Stories of Faith, Hope and Love is an evening of music and testimony with former Eurovision winner Dana
The relics of soon-to-be-saint Blessed Carlo Acutis will visit the Archdiocese from 13-15 September 2025.
Carlo Acutis
Blessed Carlo will be the first millennial saint, who is also renowned for his use of the internet to log Eucharistic miracles around the world www.miracolieucaristici.org
His canonisation is set for 7th September, meaning Edinburgh will be one of the first places to welcome the new saint’s relics.
Saturday, 13 September, 6:00pm Vigil Mass (Cathedral open until 8:00pm for veneration of the relics);
Sunday, 14 September, Noon Mass;
Monday, 15 September, 12:45pm Mass for Schools.
St. Pauls Bookshop in the Cathedral complex has a variety of books about Blessed Carlo Acutis currently in stock, as well as prayer cards, medals, icons and keychains with his image. Stop in the shop today!
In order to help all of us to come to know Jesus better through the Gospel, we are delighted that Prof. James Edwards will come from the USA to present a short course on the Gospel of Mark in October.
The “mini course” is taking place each evening of the week 23-27th October in the Cathedral from 7-9pm.
These events are open to all and are a wonderful opportunity to get to know the Scriptures better, and hopefully to get to know Jesus better. Why not book onto an evening's course, or all five!
James Edwards is a native of Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he enjoyed mountaineering and skiing, and was active in Young Life. He is a graduate of Whitworth University (1967), Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div, 1970), University of Zürich (1971), and Fuller Theological Seminary (Ph.D. 1978). He chaired the department of Religion and Philosophy at Jamestown College (1978-97), and joined the faculty at Whitworth in 1997, where he taught as Bruner-Welch Professor of Theology until 2015. He is currently Bruner-Welch Professor Emeritus of Theology. His sabbatical studies included Tübingen, Germany (1988), Tyndale House, Cambridge, England (2000), the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton (2007), and the Geheim Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin-Dahlem, Germany (2016).
Edwards served as Minister of Students at First Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs (1971-78). He has been a short-term translation consultant for Wycliffe Bible Translators in Colom¬bia, he was a translator with Berlin Fellowship for church visitations to former East Germany, and he has led study tours to Germany, Greece, Turkey, and Israel. He continues to speak in church, university, and conference settings. He has published numerous articles in scholarly and popular journals, and he has authored three New Testament commentaries for Community Bible Study. His published books include Romans (Baker Books, 1992), The Divine Intruder, NavPress, 2000; Wipf & Stock, 2017), The Gospel According to Mark (Pillar Commentary Series, Eerdmans, 2002), Is Jesus the Only Savior? (Eerdmans, 2005 [received Christianity Today’s book of the year award in 2006 for apologetics and evangelism]); and The Hebrew Gospel and the Development of the Synoptic Tradition (Eerdmans, 2009); The Gospel According to Luke (Pillar Series, Eerdmans, 2015); Between the Swastika and the Sickle. The Life, Disppearance, and Execution of Ernst Lohmeyer (Eerdmans, 2019); From Christ to Christianity. How the Jesus Movement Became the Church in Less than a Century (Baker, 2021). He is currently writing a commentary on the Book of Genesis (to be published by Eerdmans).
Jim’s wife Janie is an artist and is active in children’s and women’s ministries. They have two grown children and five grandchildren. In 2003 Jim and his son Mark climbed the Mittellegi Ridge of the Eiger in Switzerland
