BULLETIN
20 NOVEMBER 2005
FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
19 November | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
20 November | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
21 November | Mass at 10.00 am for Margaret Cadd |
Tuesday
22 November | Mass at 10.00 am for Alec Bryan |
Wednesday
23 November | Mass at 10.00 am for Maggie Gibson |
Thursday
24 November | No
Mass in Saint Peter's Mass at 7 30 pm in The Good Shepherd Cathedral, Ayr for the Diocesan dead |
Friday
25 November | Mass at 10.00 am for the Holy Souls |
Saturday
26 November | Mass at 10.00 am for Father James McCarroll |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
20 November | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Sacramental Preparation Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
21 November | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.00 to 5.00 pm 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 1.30 to 3.30 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 Nursery Key Housing Training Patents and Toddlers Kindergarten Cardiac Rehabilitation Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
22 November |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit |
Wednesday
23 November | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 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 Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
Thursday
24 November | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 1.00 to 3.00 pm 1.30 to 3.30 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 Kindergarten Thursday Club Cardiac Rehabilitation Rainbows Brownies Girl Guides |
Friday
25 November |
8.00 to 5.30 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Saturday
26 November | 8.00 pm | Private Party |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Margaret Lee 1984, Annie
Boyle O'Hare 1967, Alice Tomelty 2000,
Father Frank Kiernan
1989, Canon George McCafferty 2000, Patrick Burns 2003,
Karen
Sharon Byrne 2003, Elizabeth McDougall 1948, Monsignor Frank Duffy 2000,
Mary McNally 2004, Mary Higgins 1992 whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Luke Currie and Becky McCallum
who were baptised recently
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY
COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £646.60 - 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 £311.35
- 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.
ANNUAL DIOCESAN
MASS FOR THE DEAD
The Annual Diocesan Mass for the Dead will be celebrated
in the Good Shepherd Cathedral on Thursday 24 November at 7.30 pm.
ADVENT
Next Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent. The Advent Extra will available at
the stall. A donation of 50 pence per copy would be much appreciated.
PRISONERS'
WEEK
Prisoners' Week is from 20 to 26 November. Please remember all who are
affected by crime and imprisonment, prisoners and their families, victims of crime
and those who work within the criminal justice system. Leaflets are available
at the stall.
COMFORT
FOR THOSE WHO MOURN
The great and sad mistake of many people is the belief that those whom death has
taken leave us. They remain! Where are they? In darkness? Oh, no! It is we who
are in darkness. We do not see them but they see us. Their eyes radiant with glory
are fixed upon our eyes full of tears. Oh, infinite consolation! Though invisible
to us, our dead are not absent. I have often reflected upon the surest comfort
for those who mourn. It is this: a firm faith in the real and continual presence
of our loved ones; it is a clear and penetrating conviction that death has not
destroyed them, nor carried them away. They are not even absent but live near
to us, transfigured having lost in their glorious change no delicacy of their
souls, no tenderness of their hearts, nor especial preference in their affection;
on the contrary, they have in depth and fervour of devotion grown larger a hundredfold.
Death is for the good a translation into light, into power, into love. Those who
on earth were only ordinary Christians, become perfect; those who were beautiful
become good; those who were good become sublime.
A CHILD'S COMFORTING
A little girl comes home from a neighbour's house where her little friend had
died. Her father asked her gently why she had gone. The child replied "I
went to make my friend's mummy feel better.". "And what could you do
to make her feel better?" asked the father. The girl replied "I climbed
onto her knee and cried with her.".
You can accomplish with kindness what you cannot do by force. |
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. |
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten and he who is not forgotten is not dead. |
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. |
Second
Reading
Corinthians
15:20-26.28
Christ
has been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep.
Death came through one man and in the same way the resurrection of the dead has
come through one man. Just as all men die in Adam, so all men will be brought
to life in Christ; but all of them in their proper order: Christ as the first-fruits
and then, after the coming of Christ, those who belong to him. After that will
come the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, having done away
with every sovereignty, authority and power. For he must be king until he has
put all his enemies under his feet and the last of the enemies to be destroyed
is death. And when everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself will be
subject in his turn to the One who subjected all things to him, so that God may
be all in all.
Gospel
Matthew
25:31-46
Jesus
said to his disciples: "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, escorted
by all the angels, then he will take his seat on his throne of glory. All the
nations will be assembled before him and he will separate men one from another
as the shepherd separates sheep from goats. He will place the sheep on his right
hand and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right hand,
'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared
for you since the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food;
I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you made me welcome;
naked and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see
me.'Then the virtuous will say to him in reply, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry
and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and
make you welcome; naked and clothe you; sick or in prison and go to see you?'And
the King will answer, 'I tell you solemnly, in so far as you did this to one of
the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.'Next he will say to those
on his left hand, 'Go away from me, with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire
prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you never gave me
food; I was thirsty and you never gave me anything to drink; I was a stranger
and you never made me welcome, naked and you never clothed me, sick and in prison
and you never visited me.'Then it will be their turn to ask, 'Lord, when did we
see you hungry or thirsty, a stranger or naked, sick or in prison, and did not
come to your help?'Then he will answer, 'I tell you solemnly, in so far as you
neglected to do this to one of the least of these, you neglected to do it to me.'And
they will go away to eternal punishment, and the virtuous to eternal life.".