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
9.00 to 11.30 am
12.30 to 2.30 pm
7.00 pm
7.30 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
9.00 to 11.30 am
12.30 to 2.30 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten

Saturday 26 November
8.00 pmPrivate 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.




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 34:11-12.15-17
The Lord says this: I am going to look after my flock myself and keep all of it in view. As a shepherd keeps all his flock in view when he stands up in the middle of his scattered sheep, so shall I keep my sheep in view. I shall rescue them from wherever they have been scattered during the mist and darkness. I myself will pasture my sheep, I myself will show them where to rest - it is the Lord who speaks. I shall look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage the wounded and make the weak strong. I shall watch over the fat and healthy. I shall be a true shepherd to them. As for you, my sheep, the Lord says this: I will judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and he-goats.

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.".