Feast Day Mass

2018 marks not only the 100th Anniversary of the establishment of Catholic state funded schools in Scotland, but also the 50th Anniversary of the opening of Our Lady’s High School.

We were delighted to welcome His Grace Archbishop Tartaglia to the school on Friday 7th September as the Principal Celebrant of our Feast Day Mass in honour of Our Lady. His Grace was joined by local clergy Fr John Campbell and Fr Kenny Campbell and Deacon Kenny McGeachie from Sacred Heart, together with a number of priests who had an association with the school.

We were delighted to welcome Mgr Peter Smith, Mgr David Wallace, Fr Stephen Reilly and Fr Liam O’ Connor who are all former pupils of the school. We also welcomed back former chaplains Fr Neil Donnachie and Fr John McGuire, who was our first Chaplain.

From North Lanarkshire we were delighted to welcome Derek Brown, Head of Education (North), together with a number of Head Teachers from local primary and secondary schools, and several of our local councillors. Former Head Teachers Dan Sweeney, Michael McGrath and Michael Currie also joined us, as did Barbara Couper from SCES and Natalie Finnigan from the Archdiocese of Glasgow.

Our Mass was a beautiful and fitting celebration of our 50th Anniversary and we look forward to continuing to mark this over the coming year.