St Peter's Roman Catholic Church Edinburgh

23/08/2026

Today we had a BBQ at St Peter’s RC Parish Church to spend some time together with Fr Kenneth and Fr Daniel and all the parishioners who stopped for something to eat and drink. Great occasion to catch up with each other after Holy Mass.
🙏❤️ 🍖 🍸

22/08/2026

Birthdays are wonderful moments to celebrate parish life.
This time it was our wonderful Fr Daniel‘s 30th birthday. Many congratulations and may God pour on you, Fr Daniel, abundant graces today and in the years to come.
Happy birthday! 🙏❤️

21/06/2026

A very beautiful and touching ceremony of consecration and dedication of our new Sanctuary and Altar last night (20th June 2026) at St Peter's RC Parish Church, Morningside.
Archbishop Leo Cushley blessed us all, the sanctuary and the altar with holy water. The the stonemason sealed relics of St Ignatius of Antioch and St Sebastian in the altar top. Following that the archbishop anointed the altar with Chrism oil and used sacred fire and incense and recited the consecration prayers. All was embedded within Holy Mass presided by the archbishop.
The whole ceremony was accompanied by readings by Canon Rushton and Fr Bennett of the Christ Church (Morningside) Parish and a beautiful choir of voices from our parishioners and the parishioners of Christ Church, led by wonderful Sophie Bennett.
Once in a life time ceremony that we might not be so lucky to live through and pray for together again.
A real down pouring of the Holy Spirit on all of us!

15/06/2026

Our new ‚nearly completed!’ Altar and Sanctuary are being consecrated this coming Saturday at St Peter’s RC Parish Church in Morningside… that will be taking place during the 5:30pm vigil Holy Mass.
The cerimony will be lead by Archbishop L. Cushley, followed by refreshments in the parish room afterwards.
All welcome!!

03/06/2026

About Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, His first encyclical on Social doctrine in our times and his concerns about AI.

The Bishops of Scotland warmly welcome Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, as a timely and insightful contribution to one of the defining questions of our age. As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes human life, this important document calls us to place the dignity of the human person at the heart of every technological advance.

We encourage the faithful, our schools and parish communities to read, study and pray with this landmark text.

To support this, the Office of Communications and Evangelisation will soon publish a parish study guide and other resources for small groups and parish use, helping communities to reflect more deeply on the opportunities and challenges of new technologies and their impact on human life.

Bishop John Keenan
President of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland

Full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

24/05/2026

Today on Pentecost Sunday at the Children’s Liturgy we celebrated the coming of the Holy Spirit 🔥 and the effusion of His gifts onto the Church!
Each child chose a gift to hold in their hearts so as to bear good fruit! 🙏🙏

08/05/2026

God bless Pope Leo XIV ongoing work as Christ’s vicar on earth! 🙏🙏❤️❤️

As of today, Pope Leo has been the head of our Church for one year.

With calm authority, he has spoken out with great moral clarity on issues of migration, climate change, extreme poverty and the pursuit of world peace.

In all that he has done and said, the Pope has cemented himself as the conscience of the world.

Photo credit: Vatican News

07/05/2026

42 children were confirmed last night at St Peter’s RC Parish Church - we congratulate them and thank Bishop Cushley for his continuing work.

26/04/2026

Outreach Justice and Peace Group
Many thanks to all those who supported our raffle of a hamper of delicious things to eat. The lucky winner was Pushpa Thiruchelvm. The raffle made £247.40 which will go too SCIAF’s Water is Life Project.

15/04/2026

It’s 10 Days to our “Edinburgh Festival of Life” including SPUC’s Pro-Life Chain on Saturday, 25th April

The Chain is the best way to witness to THOUSANDS of local people and an opportunity to pray, and celebrate the goodness of life.

We’ll start at 10am in Sacred Heart Church, Lauriston, EH3 9DJ with a rosary led by Archbishop Cushley. Prayer is a vital part of this work, particularly as the Election looms in May. We’ll also give thanks for the success of our campaign to oppose assisted su***de in Scotland.

At 11am we’ll be at Lothian Road (by Sheraton Hotel) with our “Proud to be Pro-Life” message. And then refreshments (and a pint..) afterwards…

Do come for some, part or even all of the day. It’s a great gathering of the Pro-Life Clan in Scotland!