Before becoming Bishop of Argyll and the Isles I spent the previous nine years in the Royal Scots College in Salamanca in Spain, and in its cloister there is a painting of St John Ogilvie, which also hung for many years in the previous college location in Valladolid. 

In preparation for tonight’s anniversary Mass I looked out the account of the opening of St. Mary’s Arisaig on 19th August 1849 in the Scottish Catholic Directory.....

".....What does this holy lady, whom we are so proud to claim as our own, say to us today as Catholics here in Lochaber and the Highlands of Scotland? By living our faith well and by allowing the Word, the presence, the goodness of Christ in all its richness to find a home in us, we can proclaim the values of the Gospel by the example of our lives and by doing all that we can to bring his love and goodness to other people in our own situation, following our vocation, using the talents and opportunities God gives us each day to be witnesses to the Lord Jesus."