BULLETIN                                1 MAY 2005                    

SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR 1


CHURCH SERVICES

Saturday 30 April
Confession on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm
Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm
Sunday 1 May
Sunday Mass at 10.00 am
Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon
Monday 2 May
Mass at 10.00 am for Annie and Andrew Murray
Tuesday 3 May
Feast of Saints Philip and James
Mass at 10.00 am for John and Margaret Murphy  
Wednesday 4 May
Mass at 10.00 am for Christine Allan
Vigil Mass at 7.00 pm for Harry Hissey (1897-1976)
Thursday 5 May
Feast of the Ascension
Mass at 10.00 am with pupils coming from Saint Peter's Primary School  
Mass at 7.00 pm for Father Michael Lynch
Friday 6 May
Mass at 10.00 am for Joseph and Jessie
Saturday 7 May
Mass at 10.00 am for Johnny Kelly

 

PARISH CENTRE EVENTS

Sunday 1 May
10.00 am
10.00 am
11.00 am
Children's Liturgy
Sacramental Preparation
Tea and Coffee after Mass
Monday 2 May
5.30 to 6.30 pm
6.30 to 8.00 pm
7.00 pm
7.00 to 8.00 pm
Rainbows
Brownies
Saint Vincent de Paul Society
Weight Watchers
Tuesday 3 May
9.00 to 11.30 am
11.45 to 2.15 pm
2.30 to 4.30 pm
1.30 pm
7.00 pm
7.30 pm
7.30 pm
Pre 5 Children
Pre 5 Children
Kindergarten
Country Dancing
Saint Anne's Guild
Keep Fit
Saint Peter's Parent Teacher Association  
Wednesday 4 May
9.00 to 11.30 am
11.45 to 2.15 pm
2.30 to 4.00 pm
5.00 to 6.00 pm
6.30 to 9.00 pm
7.30 pm
7.30 pm
Pre 5 Children
Pre 5 Children
Kindergarten
Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds
Special Religious Development (SPRED)
Ignatian Prayer Group
Keeping Children Safe
Thursday 5 May
9.00 to 11.30 am
11.45 to 2.15 pm
2.30 to 4.00 pm
1.00 to 3.00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
6.00 to 7.30 pm
7.30 to 9.00 pm
7.30 pm

Pre 5 Children
Pre 5 Children
Kindergarten
Thursday Club Coffee Afternoon
Rainbows
Brownies
Girl Guides
Italian Classes

Friday 6 May
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 11.45 am
11.45 to 2.15 pm
7.30 pm
Parents and Toddlers
Pre 5 Children
Pre 5 Children
Saint Anne's Guild Bingo
Saturday 7 May
7.30 pmPrivate Engagement Party

PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
   Patrick Doherty who died recently;
   Agnes McCann 1970, Josephine Cunningham 2000, Mary Crossan 1981,
   Jean Nesbit 1999, Bobby McNamara, Harry Hissey 1976,
   Robert Hunter 1956, Robert Stewart 2002, Patricia McPadden 2004,
   Helen McGee, Margaret Long 1999, Simon Cawley 2004,
   Jean Agostini 1978 and Simon Smyth 2001
   whose anniversaries occur at this time;
   Caitlin Dunlop and Patrick, Kaitlyn and Sarah Smith who were baptised recently;
   and those who are sick.

SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £686.79 - many thanks.
Banker's Orders amount to an average of £4000 per month. Forms are available in the Church porch. Each month £4000 is repaid to the Diocese for the building loan and levy.

SAINT PATRICK'S MISSIONS COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for Saint Patrick's Missions amounted to £733.00 - many thanks.

50/50 CLUB
The 50/50 Club supports the parish financially. If you are not a member, please consider it and contact Myriame Sammons.

SACRAMENTS OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
The children of Primary Four who have been preparing for the Sacraments will celebrate them on Sundays 8 May and 15 May at 10.00 am Mass. Please pray for them and their families. A rehearsal will take place for the first Sunday on Friday 6 May at 6.00 pm in the Church. Margaret Cambridge, photographer, will be available after both celebrations to photograph the children individually.

DIOCESE OF GALLOWAY MASS FOR VOCATIONS
A Mass for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life will be celebrated on Friday 6 May at 7.00pm in Saint Winin's Church, Kilwinning. The principal Celebrant will be Bishop John Cunningham. All are welcome.

BINGO
Saint Anne's Guild is having a Bingo in the Parish Centre on Friday 6 May at 7.30 pm. The cost, including tea, is £1 for adults and 50p for children.

COFFEE AFTERNOON
The Thursday Club is having a Coffee Afternoon on Thursday 5 May in the Parish Centre at 1.00 pm. There will be the usual stalls with home baking, bric-a-brac and so on. Tickets cost £1.00. All are welcome.

KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE
A training evening on Keeping Children Safe has been arranged for Parish volunteers. Present and future volunteers who are or would wish to be involved with the Children's Liturgy, Sacramental Programme, supervision of children after 10.00 am Sunday Mass and all those in any of our Parish Ministries are cordially invited to attend in the Parish Centre on Wednesday 4 May from 7.30 - 9.30pm. Trainer will be F McCann of the Diocesan Child Protection Team. Tea and coffee will be provided. This invitation has been extended to all the Parishes in the Deanery. A good representation from Saint Peter's groups would be appreciated. Please put your name on the lists in the porch or Parish Centre or give it to Anne Watt or Kate by Sunday 1 May.

MARATHON RUN
Karen O'Reilly Pirie has generously agreed that all proceeds from her fundraising Marathon Ru
n in Prague on Sunday 22 May will be given to Saint Peter's parish. If you would like to support her and the parish, sponsor sheets are available at the stall.

NEW SCHOOL NAME
After much deliberation, the Interim School Board of the new school has come up with five names. A letter with a voting form attached is available at the stall allowing you to record your vote.

DONEGAL TRIP
Those who went on this trip would like to say thank you for a wonderful trip, especially to Alice and look forward very much to the next one.


  There is not enough darkness in the world to extinguish the light of one small candle.  

  The easiest way to save face is to keep the bottom half shut.  

  Children need love especially when they do not deserve it.  



READINGS
The readings for this weekend's Masses are shown below in English. They are available in eleven other languages
including French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish by clicking on this link.


A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles
Philip went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to them. The people united in welcoming the message Philip preached, either because they had heard of the miracles he worked or because they saw them for themselves. There were, for example, unclean spirits that came shrieking out of many who were possessed, and several paralytics and cripples were cured. As a result there was great rejoicing in that town. When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, and they went down there, and prayed for the Samaritans to receive the Holy Spirit, for as yet he had not come down on any of them: they had only been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Second Reading from the First Letter of Saint Peter
Reverence the Lord Christ in your hearts, and always have your answer ready for people who ask you the reason for the hope that you all have. But give it with courtesy and respect and with a clear conscience, so that those who slander you when you are living a good life in Christ may be proved wrong in the accusations that they bring. And if it is the will of God that you should suffer, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong. Why, Christ himself, innocent though he was, had died once for sins, died for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life.

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John
Jesus said to his disciples: "If you love me you will keep my commandments. I shall ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you for ever, that Spirit of truth whom the world can never receive since it neither sees nor knows him; but you know him, because he is with you, he is in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come back to you. In a short time the world will no longer see me; but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day you will understand that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you. Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me; and anybody who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and show myself to him.".