BULLETIN
10
JULY 2005
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
9 July | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
10 July | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
11 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Andy McVeigh |
Tuesday
12 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Jeanie Brown |
Wednesday
13 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Francis and Mary Ellen Breslin |
Thursday
14 July | Mass at 7.00 pm for Robert Macrae |
Friday
15 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Thomas Dorby |
Saturday
16 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Kathleen Croser |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
10 July | 11.00 am | Tea and Coffee after mass |
Monday
11 July |
7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Saint
Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
12 July | 7.30
pm 7.30 pm |
Keep Fit Ignation Prayer Group |
Wednesday
13 July | 5.00
to 6.00 pm 6.30 to 8.30 pm | Street
Dance for 13 to 18 year olds The Best of Health |
Thursday
14 July | ||
Friday
15 July | ||
Saturday
16 July |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Ian Moran 1975, Peter McEvoy
1967, Donald Newall 1998, Catherine Teggart 1998,
Alexander
Quigg 1999, Andrew McVeigh 2000, Mr and Mrs Francis Brown 1976,
Margaret
McAteer 1992, Father Donal Burke, Annie O'Kane 2001, Agnes Conaghan 2002,
Robert Macrae 1986 and Sally Walsh 1957 whose anniversaries
occur at this time;
Leo
Thomas Gallagher who was baptised recently
and those who
are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to
£669.23 - many thanks.
Banker's Orders amount to an average of £4000
per month. Each month £4000 is repaid to the Diocese for the building loan
and levy.
PARISH
CENTRE COLLECTION
Last
weekend's collection for the Parish Centre amounted to £251.09
- many thanks.
BANKER'S
ORDERS:
Paying your collection by monthly or quarterly banker's order makes
money handling much safer. Banker's Order forms are available in the porch.
50-50
CLUB
Congratulations to the following 50-50 Club prizewinners:
May: 206
Ella Cavani £25, 75 Anne Kennedy £25, 102 Mrs W Boyle £25, 193
Jean Smith £25
June: 58 Maureen Kelly £25, 136 Elizabeth Petrie
£25, 137 Kathleen Moran £25, 48 Cecilia Morman £25
Bonus:
122 Robert Kelly £100
FATHER MICHAEL LYNCH ANNIVERSARY MASS
Many thanks to all who helped with the liturgy and to the ladies for the lovely
buffet in the Parish Centre. It was a very fitting tribute. Father Lynch's brother,
Noel, his wife Theresa and their daughter Katie also express their thanks to the
community of Saint Peter's for their hospitality and friendship. It was very much
appreciated.
SEA
SUNDAY
Today is Sea Sunday. Please pray for seafarers and their families.
Donation envelopes are available at the stall and can be returned next Sunday.
You
don't get rid of your temper when you lose it. |
You
are writing a gospel - a chapter each day By deeds that you do, by words that you say Men read what you write,whether faithless or true Say, what is the gospel according to you? |
Lord,
I shall be very busy this day. I may forget You but do not You forget me. |
If
you want to hurt people, just be too busy to take any notice of them; don't take time to hear what they want to say - more especially if life for them at that particular time is pretty tough. |
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.
First
Reading Isaiah 55:10-11
Thus
says the Lord: As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not
return without watering the earth, making it yield and giving growth to provide
seed for the sower and bread for the eating, so the word that goes from my mouth
does not return to me empty, without carrying out my will and succeeding in what
it was sent to do.
Second
Reading Romans 8:18-23
I
think that what we suffer in this life can never be compared to the glory, as
yet unrevealed, which is waiting for us. The whole creation is eagerly waiting
for God to reveal his sons. It was not for any fault on the part of creation that
it was made unable to attain its purpose, it was made so by God; but creation
still retains the hope of being freed, like us, from its slavery to decadence,
to enjoy the same freedom and glory as the children of God. From the beginning
till now the entire creation, as we know, has been groaning in one great act of
giving birth; and not only creation, but all of us who possess the first-fruits
of the Spirit, we too groan inwardly as we wait for our bodies to be set free.
Gospel
Matthew 13:1-23
Jesus
left the house and sat by the lakeside, but such crowds gathered round him that
he got into a boat and sat there. The people all stood on the beach, and he told
them many things in parables. He said, "Imagine a sower going out to sow.
As he sowed, some seeds fell on the edge of the path, and the birds came and ate
them up. Others fell on patches of rock where they found little soil and sprang
up straight away, because there was no depth of earth; but as soon as the sun
came up they were scorched and, not having any roots, they withered away. Others
fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Others fell on rich
soil and produced their crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Listen,
anyone who has ears!" Then the disciples went up to him and asked, "Why
do you talk to them in parables?" "Because" he replied "the
mysteries of the kingdom of heaven are revealed to you, but they are not revealed
to them. For anyone who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough;
but from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away. The reason I
talk to them in parables is that they look without seeing and listen without hearing
or understanding. So in their case this prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled:
You will listen and listen again, but not understand, see and see again, but not
perceive. For the heart of this nation has grown coarse, their ears are dull of
hearing, and they have shut their eyes, for fear they should see with their eyes,
hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and be converted and be healed
by me. But happy are your eyes because they see, your ears because they hear!
I tell you solemnly, many prophets and holy men longed to see what you see, and
never saw it; to hear what you hear, and never heard it. You, therefore, are to
hear the parable of the sower. When anyone hears the word of the kingdom without
understanding, the evil one comes and carries off what was sown in his heart:
this is the man who received the seed on the edge of the path. The one who received
it on patches of rock is the man who hears the word and welcomes it at once with
joy. But he has no root in him, he does not last; let some trial come, or some
persecution on account of the word, and he falls away at once. The one who received
the seed in thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this world
and the lure of riches choke the word and so he produces nothing. And the one
who received the seed in rich soil is the man who hears the word and understands
it; he is the one who yields a harvest and produces now a hundredfold, now sixty,
now thirty."