BULLETIN
25
SEPTEMBER 2005
TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
24 September | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
25 September | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
26 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Sister Mary of Saint Joseph |
Tuesday
27 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Charlie Lynch |
Wednesday
28 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Edna Hart |
Thursday
29 September | Mass at 7.00 pm for Rona McNamara |
Friday
30 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Helen Mulhearn |
Saturday
1 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Leo and Elizabeth Walsh |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
24 September | 11.00 am | Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
25 September | 8.00
to 6.00 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.00 to 11.30 am 11.30 to 6.00 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 Nursery Parents and Toddlers Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
26 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 Ignatian Prayer Group Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit |
Wednesday
27 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 |
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) |
Thursday
28 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
29 September |
8.00 to 9.00 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Margaret Shields who died
recently;
Sister Mary of St. Joseph 1975, John McKay 2002, Brian
Ghosh 2002,
Maureen Johnson 2003, Peggy McKay 1992, John Brodie
2001,
Robert Leo Walsh 1968 and Mary Barr
whose anniversaries occur at this time;
Cara Slavin who was baptised
recently;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £627.57 - 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 £310.46 - 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.
FATHER MATT
Father Matt
will be away from the parish from Monday 3 October until Saturday 15 October.
Father Gabriel
will celebrate Mass during the week
and Father McLean at the weekend.
SAINT ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
There will be a Rock Service on Sunday 2 October at 7.00 pm in Saint Andrew's
Espiscopal Church. All are welcome.
SAINT JOHN'S CHURCH, STEVENSTON
As part of the centenary celebrations of Saint
John's Church, Stevenston, there will be a performance by local students
and musicians from the Royal Academy of Music on Friday 7 October. 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.
THANKS
Bill Andrew would like to thank all those who gave him cards and gifts and
especially donations to Scottish
International Relief on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. £360
was raised - many, many thanks.
Moira and
Matt would like to thank everybody who prayed for their son, Kenneth when
he was ill. He is responding to treatment and is on the road to recovery.
Grateful thanks to Saint
Anthony for prayers answered - MD.
SAINT
PETER'S SCHOOL BOARD
Saint Peter's School Board will meet in the school on
Tuesday 27 September at 7.30 pm.
SAINT
ANDREW'S ACADEMY
Copies of Saint Andrew's Academy Newsletter are available
at the stall.
When
praying, don't give God instructions, just report for duty. |
One
who knows how to show and accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. |
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 Ezekiel
18:25-28
The
word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows: You object, What the Lord does
is unjust. Listen, you House of Israel: is what I do unjust? Is it not what you
do that is unjust? When the upright man renounces his integrity to commit sin
and dies because of this, he dies because of the evil that he himself has committed.
When the sinner renounces sin to become law-abiding and honest, he deserves to
live. He has chosen to renounce all his previous sins; he shall certainly live;
he shall not die.
Second
Reading Philippians
2:1-11
If
our life in Christ means anything to you, if love can persuade at all, or the
Spirit that we have in common, or any tenderness and sympathy, then be united
in your convictions and united in your love, with a common purpose and a common
mind. That is the one thing which would make me completely happy. There must be
no competition among you, no conceit; but everybody is to be self-effacing. Always
consider the other person to be better than yourself, so that nobody thinks of
his own interests first but everybody thinks of other people's interests instead.
In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus: His state was divine, yet
he did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself to assume the condition
of a slave, and became as men are; and being as all men are, he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death, death on a cross. But God raised him high and gave him
the name which is above all other names so that all beings in the heavens, on
earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus and that
every tongue should acclaim Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Gospel
Matthew 21:28-32
Jesus
said to the chief priests and the elders of the people, "What is your opinion?
A man had two sons. He went and said to the first, "My boy, you go and work
in the vineyard today.". He answered, "I will not go", but afterwards
thought better of it and went. The man then went and said the same thing to the
second who answered, "Certainly, sir", but did not go. Which of the
two did the father's will?" "The first" they said. Jesus said to
them, "I tell you solemnly, tax collectors and prostitutes are making their
way into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you, a pattern of true
righteousness, but you did not believe him, and yet the tax collectors and prostitutes
did. Even after seeing that, you refused to think better of it and believe in
him.".