BULLETIN
13
NOVEMBER 2005
THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
12 November | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
13 November | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
14 November | Mass at 10.00 am for John and Mary Hutson |
Tuesday
15 November | Mass at 10.00 am for Alex Miller |
Wednesday
16 November | Annual Mass at 7.00 pm for the Bereaved |
Thursday
17 November | Mass at 10.00 am for the Holy Souls |
Friday
18 November | Mass at 10.00 am for the Holy Souls |
Saturday
19 November | Mass at 10.00 am for Jimmy Fernand |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
13 November | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Sacramental Preparation Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
14 November | 9.00
to 5.00 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm | Key
Housing Training Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
15 November |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Key Housing Training Kindergarten Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit |
Wednesday
16 November | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.00 to 5.00 pm 12.30 to 2.30 pm 5.00 to 6.00 pm 7.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Key Housing Training Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
Thursday
17 November | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.00 to 5.00 pm 12.30 to 2.30 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 Key Housing Training Kindergarten Thursday Club Rainbows Brownies Girl Guides |
Friday
18 November |
8.00 to 5.30 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Saturday
19 November | 8.00 pm | Parish Social |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Jean Murray and Annie McCrindle
who died recently;
Steven Walker 1999, Lena McGhee 2000,
Liam Newall 2004,
Mary McDonald 2004, Monica Fagan, Jim
Mathieson 1999,
Elizabeth Moultrie 2000, Joseph McAuliffe
2001, Father Cornelius Burke 1972,
Catherine McGrattan
1969, Alec Murphy 1998, Annie Tracy 2000,
Thomas Walsh
2002, Helen Gurney 2004, David Kelley, Henry McIlroy 1966,
Mary
and James McCabe, Canon John Donnelly 2003, Moira Shaw,
Alex
Miller 1979, Daniel McDougall 1944, Hugh Welsh 1986, Rose Floyd 1992,
Robert
McGee 1996, Hugh Madine 1997, Letitia Smith 2001 and Eileen Taylor
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £744.13
- 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 £356.50
- 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.
CEMETERY
MASS
Many thanks to all who helped with the celebration of the Cemetery
Mass and to all those who attended.
ANNUAL
MASS FOR THE BEREAVED
The annual Mass for the bereaved will be celebrated
on Wednesday 16 November at 7.00 pm. Refreshments will be served in the Parish
Centre after Mass.
NOVEMBER
LISTS
November Lists are available at the stall. Please take one.
BOOK
OF THE DEAD
During the month of November, the Book of the Dead be available
in front of the Blessed Sacrament Altar for you to write the names
of family and friends.
3RD ARDROSSAN RAINBOWS
The 3rd Ardrossan Brownies are have a Fund Raising Candle Party on Thursday
17 November in the Parish Centre from 6.00 - 7.00 pm with all proceeds going
to the Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS). Candles and holders
by Party Light will be on sale. For further details, phone Christine.
PARISH
SOCIAL
The next Parish Social will take place on Saturday 19 November at 8.00
pm in the Parish Centre. There will be music, a quiz, a light supper, raffle and
so on. Tickets, costing £2.50, are available from Kate or Donna.
HOW DID WE SURVIVE?
In
the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s, many children were born to mothers who smoked
and/or drank while they carried them and nobody worried about it. They took aspirin,
ate cheese dressings and didn't test for diabetes. There were no child-proof lids
on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets. When children rode on bikes, there were
no helmets and often no brakes. In the cars there were no seat belts or air bags.
Water was often drunk from a garden hose or a public tap - certainly not from
a water bottle! Ginger - lemonade - was drunk from a bottle passed from child
to child. Children ate sweets whenever they could but were not overweight because
they were active - outside playing. In fact, during school holiday, they often
were away from home from morning till it got dark. They built bogies - go-carts
- out of scrap wood and old pram wheels and rode them downhill with no brakes
and when it snowed they slid down hills on tea trays thus coming to terms with
the law of gravity. There were no Playstations, Nintendos, Xboxes, no video games,
no 99 channels on cable, no video or DVD movies, no surround sound, no mobile
phones, no personal computers, no Internet … but children had friends with whom
they played outside. They fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth but
there were no lawsuits for these accidents. Games were invented with sticks and
tennis balls, old tin cans and the like. Children walked to school without supervision
or children wardens to see them across the street. They could go to a friend's
house and knock on the door or even just walk in. When it came to organised games
like football, not everyone got picked to play, but they just had to deal with
that. And when they got into trouble at school or whatever, parents sided with
the authorities. That generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem
solvers and inventors ever because they had freedom, failure and success. They
took responsibility for themselves and they learned how to deal with it.
Thank God for the last minute - otherwise nothing would get done! |
WHEN
A LOVED ONE'S GONE |
Second
Reading
1
Thessalonians 5:1-6
You
will not be expecting us to write anything to you, brothers, about 'times and
seasons', since you know very well that the Day of the Lord is going to come like
a thief in the night. It is when people are saying, 'How quiet and peaceful it
is' that the worst suddenly happens, as suddenly as labour pains come on a pregnant
woman; and there will be no way for anybody to evade it. But it is not as if you
live in the dark, my brothers, for that Day to overtake you like a thief. No,
you are all sons of light and sons of the day: we do not belong to the night or
to darkness, so we should not go on sleeping, as everyone else does, but stay
wide awake and sober.
Gospel
Matthew
25:14-30
Jesus
spoke this parable to his disciples: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man
on his way abroad who summoned his servants and entrusted his property to them.
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to a third one; each in proportion
to his ability. Then he set out. "The man who had received the five talents
promptly went and traded with them and made five more. The man who had received
two made two more in the same way. But the man who had received one went off and
dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money. "Now a long time after,
the master of those servants came back and went through his accounts with them.
The man who had received the five talents came forward bringing five more. "Sir",
he said "you entrusted me with five talents; here are five more that I have
made." His master said to him, "Well done, good and faithful servant;
you have shown you can be faithful in small things, I will trust you with greater;
come and join in your master's happiness." Next the man with the two talents
came forward. "Sir," he said "you entrusted me with two talents;
here are two more that I have made." His master said to him, "Well done,
good and faithful servant; you have shown you can be faithful in small things,
I will trust you with greater; come and join in your master's happiness."
Last came forward the man who had the one talent. "Sir," said he "I
had heard you were a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where
you have not scattered; so I was afraid, and I went off and hid your talent in
the ground. Here it is; it was yours, you have it back." But his master answered
him, "You wicked and lazy servant! So you knew that I reap where I have not
sown and gather where I have not scattered? Well then, you should have deposited
my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have recovered my capital
with interest. So now, take the talent from him and give it to the man who has
the five talents. For to everyone who has will be given more, and he will have
more than enough; but from the man who has not, even what he has will be taken
away. As for this good-for-nothing servant, throw him out into the dark, where
there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.".