Welcome to St Mary Magdalene's Parish

Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh

Bingham Avenue, Edinburgh, EH15 3HY, Scotland

Parish Priest: Father Jock Dalrymple

Tel: 0131 669 5447

stjohnsandstmarymagdalenes@gmail.com

If you´re visiting, are new to the area, or just live here, you are most welcome in our sister parishes St Mary Magdalenes and St. John The Evengelist. We are delighted you have joined us. If you are new to the parish please make yourself known to Fr. Jock.

Over 90,000 people from all around the globe have visited our website over the last year.
If you can, please continue to visit the website but also visit our church in person.
Please pray for those innocent people trapped in war stricken areas of the world.

Pope Leo XIV

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost appears at the main central loggia balcony of the St. Peter´s Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in the Vatican, May 9, 2025.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old American, was elected pope at 6:08 p.m. on Thursday, May 8, 2025. A member of the Order of Saint Augustine and a longtime missionary in Peru, Prevost was appointed in 2023 by Pope Francis to lead the Vatican’s powerful office that oversees bishops. His election signals the cardinalsacute; clear support for a Church that is open, multicultural and missionary in spirit.

Born in the United States, Robert Prevost comes from a Franco-Italian father and a Spanish mother. His own life story, shaped by missionary service in Peru and global leadership in his religious order, reflects the multicultural church that Pope Francis has long championed. The cardinals, gathered in conclave, chose him as the 267th successor to St. Peter.

Fr Jock writes:

"When I learnt of Pope Francis’ death this morning [yesterday, 21.04.2025], perhaps understandably my mind went back to the one time I came close to him physically.

It was at a papal audience in February 2022, for which Fr Jim Walls, at that time Spiritual Director at the Scots College in Rome, had managed to get tickets.

We were a fair way from the platform on which he sat, but at the end of the audience, although already in considerable pain from a knee (from the following week, he was forced to use a wheelchair) Pope Francis spent nearly an hour meeting members of the audience, taking time with each.

Eventually, he came to a religious sister standing directly in front of us: as the video clip shows, he took enormous trouble with her, giving his full attention as she asked him if he knew when a book about ‘The Disappeared’ in Argentina (in General Pinochet’s time) would be translated into Italian, and duly responding, before finally moving on to the many others wanting to have a word with him. For me their encounter was a kind of ‘icon’, illustrating his humility, humanity, patience and kindness.

May he rest in the peace he so richly deserves."

In loving memory of Jean Douglas, whom, upon retiring from teaching, decided to give more back to the church she loved, St. Mary Magdalene´s. She learned to write code and built and maintained this website for around 25 to 30 years, constantly updating and modifying the content to include more people and bring joy to the lives of those in other countries as well as those who could not attend the church in person. This was especially vital during the COVID-19 pandemic when travel was restricted and people depended on the site for news from the church. With around 70,000 to 90,000 hits per year, she reached and brought joy to many people.

St Mary Magdalene

St Mary Magdalene is the patron saint of women and was one of the disciples of Jesus. When Jesus was crucified, she followed the soldiers to see where they burries the body of Jesus.

On Easter morning, Mary Magdalene, with two other women, went to the tomb where they planned to anoint the body of Jesus, but there they found that the tomb was empty and an angel there told the women that Jesus had risen and was on his way to heaven. The women were the first people to see the risen Lord.

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