BULLETIN
18
SEPTEMBER 2005
TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
17 September | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
18 September | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
19 September | Eucharistic
Service at 10.00 am Requiem Mass for Nora Cairns in Saint Mary's Church, Saltcoats by Father Matt at 10.00 am |
Tuesday
20 September | Mass
at 10.00 am for Michael Mallon Requiem Mass for David Dunbar in Saint Mary's Church, Saltcoats by Father Matt at 12.00 noon |
Wednesday
21 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Hughie O'Hare |
Thursday
22 September | Mass at 7.00 pm for Grant Middlemiss |
Friday
23 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Pat, Ina and Patrick McClure |
Saturday
24 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Walter Jones |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
18 September | 11.00 am | Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
19 September | 8.00
to 6.00 pm 9.00 to 2.30 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds In-service Training Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
20 September |
8.00 to 9.00 am |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds Country Dancing Management Committee Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit |
Wednesday
21 September | 8.00
to 9.00 am 9.00 to 11.30 am 11.30 to 6.00 pm 5.00 to 6.00 pm 6.30 to 8.30 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds 2 B Slim Special Religious Development (SPRED) Primary Four Parent Meeting |
Thursday
22 September | 8.00
to 9.00 am 9.00 to 11.30 am 11.30 to 6.00 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 |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds Thursday Club Rainbows Brownies Girl Guides |
Friday
23 September |
8.00 to 9.00 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Saturday
24 September | 6.30 to 11.00 pm | Father Matt's Presentation and Party |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Jimmy Cassidy, Kevin O'Carroll,
Sammy Cambridge,
David Dunbar and Nora Cairns who died recently;
Patrick McKay 1989, Sister Pauline CP 1999, Greta Foran,
Catherine McLaughlin 2002, Rita Michelini 2002, Margaret Donnelly 1997,
William McNamara 2001 and May McGraa 2002
whose anniversaries occur at this time;
James Gorman
who was baptised recently;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £684.44 - 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 £338.04 - 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.
CAR BOOT SALE
The total raised at the car boot sale on 27 August was
£75 - many thanks.
50-50 CLUB
Congratulations to the following
50-50 Club winners who each win £25:
10 T Atkins, 53 K Brodie,
12 J Atkins and 110 J Hazelton
If you would like to win then consider joining
the 50-50 Club. There are four prizes of £25 every month with bonus prizes
of £100 every fourth month. It only costs £15 annually or £5
every fourth month in January, May and September. The next draw will be at the
end of September. Please contact the promoter to join or pay dues. Many thanks
for your continued support.
THANKS
We discovered that the heating
pump had burned out. It is now replaced. I am thankful to the anonymous donor
who paid the hefty bill.
FATHER MATT SIXTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY AND FORTY YEARS
OF PRIESTHOOD
Father
Matt has come to Ardrossan to be our Parish Priest. This year he is celebrating
forty years in the priesthood and this month his sixty-fifth birthday. This is
more than sufficient reason to have a party. Please join us on Saturday 24 September
for a Celebration Mass at 5.30 pm and afterwards at a party in the Parish Centre.
There will be a bar, some music and a few surprise items. There will be a toast
and a few words at about 7.00 pm. A light buffet will be available until 9.00
pm. You are welcome to stay for a while or just pop in for some food and a chat.
The Centre will be open until 11.00 pm. Envelopes are available at the stall if
you wish to make a donation to Father's presentation.
SOCIETY
OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL ANNUAL MASS
The Annual Mass for the Sick will be
celebrated by Bishop John Cunningham in the Good Shepherd Cathedral, Ayr on Wednesday
21 September at 7.30 pm. Tea will be available after Mass in the Cathedral Hall.
Parishioner wishing to attend will be made most welcome. If transport is required,
please contact a member of our Conference as soon as possible.
SACRAMENTAL
PREPARATION
Parents of Primary 4 pupils are invited to a meeting in the Parish
Centre on Wednesday 21 September at 7.00 pm.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY HELPERS
All those who are interested and willing to help with the
Children's Liturgy are invited to a meeting in the Parish Centre on Monday 19
September at 7.00 pm to complete the necessary forms required by the Diocese for
'Safe From Harm', the Catholic Church's policy for keeping children safe.
THANKS
Tom and Greta McGreevy thank all those who gave them Mass Bouquet Cards, Congratulation
Cards, gifts and offered their best wishes on the occasion of their Golden Wedding.
They were all very much appreciated.
SMITHSTONE
HOUSE
Details of forthcoming events at Smithstone House are on the noticeboard.
SAINT
JOHN'S CHURCH, STEVENSTON
As part of their centenary celebrations there
will be an exhibition of the history of Saint
John's Parish in the Church Hall on Sunday 18 September from 1.00 to 3.00
pm. On Friday, 7 October there will be a performance by local students and musicians
from the Royal Academy of Music. Tickets cost £4 and £3 concession.
GLASGOW
PHOENIX CHOIR CONCERT
There will be a concert by Glasgow Phoenix Choir in
Saint Mirin's Cathedral, Paisley on Friday 30 September at 7.30 pm. Further details
are on the notice board.
SAINT
ANNE'S GUILD
Saint
Anne's Guild reopens on Tuesday 20 September at 7.00 pm in the parish Centre.
New members are very welcome.
Every
day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. |
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
55:6-9
Seek the Lord while he is still to be found, call to him while he is
still near. Let the wicked man abandon his way, the evil man his thoughts. Let
him turn back to the Lord who will take pity on him, to our God who is rich in
forgiving; for my thoughts are not your thoughts, my ways not your ways - it is
the Lord who speaks. Yes, the heavens are as high above earth as my ways are above
your ways, my thoughts above your thoughts.
Second
Reading
Philippians
1:20-24.27
Christ
will be glorified in my body, whether by my life or by my death. Life to me, of
course, is Christ, but then death would bring me something more; but then again,
if living in this body means doing work which is having good results - I do not
know what I should choose. I am caught in this dilemma: I want to be gone and
be with Christ, which would be very much the better, but for me to stay alive
in this body is a more urgent need for your sake. Avoid anything in your everyday
lives that would be unworthy of the gospel of Christ.
Gospel
Matthew
20:1-16
Jesus
said to his disciples: "The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner going out
at daybreak to hire workers for his vineyard. He made an agreement with the workers
for one denarius a day, and sent them to his vineyard. Going out at about the
third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place and said to them "You
go to my vineyard too and I will give you a fair wage." So they went. At
about the sixth hour and again at about the ninth hour, he went out and did the
same. Then at about the eleventh hour he went out and found more men standing
round, and he said to them "Why have you been standing here idle all day?"
"Because no one has hired us" they answered. He said to them, "You
go into my vineyard too." In the evening, the owner of the vineyard said
to his bailiff, "Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with
the last arrivals and ending with the first." So those who were hired at
about the eleventh hour came forward and received one denarius each. When the
first came, they expected to get more, but they too received one denarius each.
They took it, but grumbled at the landowner. "The men who came last"
they said "have done only one hour, and you have treated them the same as
us though we have done a heavy day's work in all the heat." He answered one
of them and said, "My friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree
on one denarius? Take your earnings and go. I choose to pay the last-comer as
much as I pay you. Have I no right to do what I like with my own? Why be envious
because I am generous?" Thus the last will be first, and the first last.".