Join us as Scottish Laity Network enters a new chapter. 

This gathering is a special opportunity to Eucharistically celebrate and give thanks for the fruits of our shared journey, and to discern together what comes next.

We invite you to join us on Saturday November 7, 2026, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Conforti Centre, Calder Avenue Coatbridge, ML5 4JS either in person or online via Zoom.

Please use this link  https://forms.gle/tKpWkA74Q5SxkYrJ8 to register for the day.

We recognise that it may not be possible for you to join and take part on the day but that you would wish to contribute to the discernment process; if this is the case please indicate your wish in the 'Participation' section of the registration form.

Through October as we prepare for our gathering we will share messages from some of our Companions who have accompanied us on our journey. We ask you to spend time during the month listening to and reflecting on these messages. We invite you to offer any promptings that arise from your reflection which will contribute to our time of discernment on the day.

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.