This Vocations website has been developed by the Diocesan Vocations Commission.

In the Spring of 2002, Bishop John invited several members of the diocese to come together and form a Diocesan Vocations Commission along with the newly appointed Director of Vocations, Fr Stephen Baillie. And so the commission was formed and since our first meeting on the 26th of May, 2002, we have been working together to try and highlight the theme of vocation throughout the diocese. Click to read the article written about the commision in the Scottish Catholic Observer

And so to an introduction to the commision.....

First of all to our convenor, Fr Stephen Baillie ,who is Parish Priest of John's, Barrhead

Next, our chairman is Paul McWatt. Paul is an R.E. teacher in Clydebank

Sr Marie Grogan, of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood (FMDM), is a Spiritual Director and Vocations Minister.

Anne McNellis is a teacher in Paisley

Linda O'Kane is a Counsellor from Bishopton

Sr Breda Byrne is a Salesian Sister in Paisley

Bernadette Ramsay is a nurse from Paisley

Lawrence Deveney is a student from Greenock

Chris Hammell is a student from Erskine

Joe Harkins is a College Lecturer in Greenock

Together we make up the Vocations Commission for the Diocese of Paisley. Here is our mission statement:

“Our Aim is to promote the awareness of the call of every Christian to service in the community to make Christ alive in our world by word and example and especially to promote the call to serve God in the Priesthood and Religious life”