Glasgow: Mass to mark founding of Celtic FC

There will be a Mass to mark the anniversary of the founding of Celtic Football Club at St Mary's, Calton, on Friday 6 November 2015 at 7pm.

Following the Mass, congregation members will be invited back to Celtic Park to enjoy a simple meal in the Jock Stein Lounge where donations will be requested for Celtic FC Foundation's Christmas Appeal 2015.

The appeal is an annual initiative which aims to provide a proper Christmas meal to families who would otherwise go without and to support various charities who look after people who lead chaotic lives across the city.

The Mass recalls the meeting of Sunday, November 6, 1887 when a group of local businessmen gathered in the church hall of St Mary´s parish, Calton, to discuss the setting up of a new football club in the East End of Glasgow. Led by an Irish Marist, Brother Walfrid, Celtic Football Club was formed for the maintenance of dinner tables for the children and the unemployed.

Fr Tom White, Parish Priest of St Mary's said: "November is the month when we remember our dead, it's known in the Church as the month of the Holy Souls. It is right and fitting that in this month of November and in this the hundredth anniversary year of Brother Walfrid's death that those associated with Celtic and St Mary's should remember and pray for Brother Walfrid."

Source: Archdiocese of Glasgow