Join us as Scottish Laity Network enters a new chapter. 

As you know our Gathering on Saturday 7th November will be framed around the Emmaus Story and during the weeks of October we have invited you to, like those early disciples, 'remember' how Jesus, through the power of the Spirit, has been walking with us.
 
To help us in our 'remembering' of our journey we have shared with you messages from some of our companions who have accompanied us since May 2020 and we really value your insights on their messages.
 
For our gathering to be authentically synodal it requires the listening and participation of all our members. Even if you are not able to participate in the Gathering, either in person or online, your 'promptings of the Spirit' as you listen to the messages are part of what the Spirit is saying to all of us.
 
No one's feedback will cover all that the Spirit is saying to us, but every word, sentence or paragraph is part of the communal message and will provide the foundation for our discernment.
 
The messages are all on our YouTube channel and there is also a Feedback Form for the relevant week that we warmly invite you to complete.
 
If, however, you do not have the time to complete the Weekly Feedback Forms we invite you to give us feedback using the SLN Promptings of the Spirit 2020 - 2026 Feedback Form. 

See all the links below.
 
We really hope you will participate, in some way, in our Gathering.

Prayers and solidarity.
On behalf of SLN Core Group

Messages from our Companions

Week 4

Messages from: Fr Jim Martin; Cardinal Mario Grech; Bishop Brian McGee

YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/3tdINiueCYQ

Week 4 Feedback Form: https://forms.gle/fFd4Uzg8azx4hYUh7

Week 3

Messages from: Ben Wilson - SCIAF; Marian Pallister - Pax Christi Scotland; Gerard Swan - QUEST; Mary Varley - Root & Branch.

YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/5E-xxzrYWg0

Week 3 Feedback Form: https://forms.gle/j1dRh3ehY1QBi68N6

Week 2

Messages from: Massimo Faggioli, Diarmuid O'Murchu, Phyllis Zagano, Tom O'Loughlin, Rafael Luciani and Tina Beattie.

YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/2JmiZBk21d8

Week 2 Feedback Form: https://forms.gle/RbSQJ7Q4F6Hw2Wyq6

Week 1

Messages from: Omar Haramy, Alison Phipps, Hyab Yohannes and Khawla Badwan.

YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/3VSTofmNtaI

Week 1 Feedback Form: https://forms.gle/ejyNJtzzmaAKB3xi6

SLN Promptings of the Spirit 2020 - 2026

Feedback Form: https://forms.gle/mDVqzb19rvFvwqXc7

SLN Gathering Registration

If you have not yet registered for OUR Gathering please do so at https://forms.gle/cwNfGMRV5UxWf7fp8. 

On the form you will see three options for participation: In Person; Online; Unable to attend either in person or online but would like to be involved in the discernment process.

Preparing for our SLN Gathering

Walking with Jesus ~ Empowered by the Spirit

For our Gathering to be as fruitful as possible we invite you to spend time during the month of October preparing for it by listening and reflecting on messages we have received from some of our companions who have accompanied us since our Journey of Discernment in 2020. The messages have been recorded and grouped together into a series of four YouTube videos.

As is our practice at the beginning of each video we invite you to be still and listen to the Adsumus Sancte Spiritus which invites the Holy Spirit to operate within us so that we may be open to her promptings. After each message there will also be a period of silence to allow you to reflect on what was shared.

During the four Sundays of October - 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th - we will send out the link to the new messages.

Central to our Gathering is the input of all our members and we would very much welcome your feedback, even if you are not able to participate in the Gathering, your 'promptings of the Spirit' as you listened the messages are part of what the Spirit is saying to us all. To help collate, anonymously, these 'promptings' there will be a link to an online Feedback Form for that week.

We will also attach a transcript of each of the messages.

Adsumus, Sancte Spiritus

Every session of the Second Vatican Council began with the prayer Adsumus Sancte Spiritus, the first word of the Latin original meaning, “We stand before You, Holy Spirit,” which has been historically used at Councils, Synods and other Church gatherings for hundreds of years, being attributed to Saint Isidore of Seville (c. 560 - 4 April 636).

This version was especially composed by the Taizé Community, for 'Together | Gathering of the people of God', the ecumenical prayer vigil that took place in St. Peter's Square, to entrust to the Spirit our Synodal Path.

We stand before You, Holy Spirit,
as we gather together in Your name.

  With You alone to guide us,
make Yourself at home in our hearts;

 Let us find in You our unity

so that we may journey together to eternal life

   Teach us the way we must go

 and not stray from the way of truth

   and how we are to pursue it.

 and what is right.

   We are weak and sinful;
do not let us promote disorder.

 All this we ask of You,
who are at work in every place and time,

   Do not let ignorance lead us down the
wrong path

 in the communion of the Father and the Son,
forever and ever.

   nor partiality influence our actions.

 Amen.