BULLETIN
5
FEBRUARY 2006
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
4 February | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
5 February | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
6 February | Mass
at 10.00 am for Bernard and Susan Burns Reception of the body of Mary Kelly at 6.00 pm |
Tuesday
7 February | Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Mary Kelly |
Wednesday
8 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Gordon Thorne |
Thursday
9 February | No
Mass in Saint Peter's Mass at 7.00 pm in Saint Winin's Church, Kilwinning at 7.00 pm as part of Catholic Education Week |
Friday
10 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Joseph Retzbach |
Saturday
11 February | Mass at 10.00 am for James Timmons |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
5 February | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Sacramental Preparation Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
6 February | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.00 to 4.00 pm 9.30 to 11.30 12.30 to 2.30 pm 1.30 to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Key Housing Training Parents and Toddlers Kindergarten Cardiac Rehabilitation Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
7 February |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Key Housing Training Kindergarten Country Dancing Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit |
Wednesday
8 February |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Site Meeting Nursery Key Housing Training Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
Thursday
9 February |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Friday
10 February |
8.00 to 5.30 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Mary Kelly who died recently;
Michael Barrett 1972, Joseph Brodie 1961, Eileen Busbridge,
Patrick McGlinn 1999, Pamela McIntosh 1999, Cesare Scott
2002,
and Father G J Giblin 2001 whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £744.17
- 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 £322.25
- 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.
SAINT PATRICK'S
PARISH SOCIAL
On Saturday, 11 March at 8.00 pm, there will be a Parish Social
to recognise Saint Patrick's Day.
There will be music from Jim on the keyboard, a quiz, a raffle, stand-up bingo
and pie and peas. Tickets costing £4 each are available from Kate 464063
and Donna.
CATHOLIC EDUCATION WEEK
Prayer cards for Catholic Education Week are available
at the stall. Please take one. A special collection will be taken at all Masses
this weekend for the work of Catholic Education.
DEANERY
MASS
A Deanery Mass will be held in Saint
Winin's Church, Kilwinning on Thursday 9 February at 7.00 pm. The Principal
Celebrant will be Father Martin Poland, assisted by priests of the Deanery. The
homily will be delivered by Father Willie Boyd. All schools will contribute to
the liturgy and all associated with education are invited to attend.
JUST
A THOUGHT
If you are seated at the sides of the Church, what about not cutting
through the seats to get to Holy Communion? It could disturb those saying their
prayers. Coming round the front or the back might be easier.
CAR PARKING
Please use the car park with consideration for other drivers by parking between
the lines and not parking behind cars thus blocking them in.
MASS
FOR WORLD DAY OF THE SICK
There will be a Mass for World Day of the Sick with
the Sacrament of Anointing in Saint Andrew's Church, Dumfries on Sunday 12 February
at 3.00pm. It will be followed immediately by Galloway Lourdes Hospitalité
Annual General Meeting. Tea and coffee will be served. A bus will leave Saint
Peter's at 12.00 noon picking up at Saltcoats, Stevenston and Kilwinning. The
cost is £7.50 per person. If you would like to go, please contact Myriame
Sammons.
RAINBOWS
- MONDAY NIGHT GROUP
There will be an outing to Basebowl, Saltcoats on Monday
6 February. Rainbows are asked to meet at Basebowl at 5.15 pm and not Saint Peter's
Parish Centre. Please remember Monday 13 February is a Holiday. We return on 20
February.
BROWNIES - MONDAY NIGHT GROUP
There will be an outing
to Basebowl, Saltcoats on Monday 6 February. Brownies are asked to meet at Basebowl
at 5.45 pm and not Saint Peter's Parish Centre. Please remember Monday 13 February
is a Holiday. We return on 20 February.
SAINT
ANDREW'S ACADEMY NEWSLETTER
Saint Andrew's Academy newsletter is available
at the stall.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. |
The
one who sows courtesy reaps friendship and |
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 Job 7:1-4.6-7
Job
began to speak: Is not man's life on earth nothing more than pressed service,
his time no better than hired drudgery? Like the slave, sighing for the shade,
or the workman with no thought but his wages, months of delusion I have assigned
to me, nothing for my own but nights of grief. Lying in bed I wonder, When will
it be day? Risen I think, how slowly evening comes! Restlessly I fret till twilight
falls. Swifter than a weavers shuttle my days have passed, and vanished, leaving
no hope behind. Remember that my life is but a breath, and that my eyes will never
again see joy.
Second
Reading Corinthians
9:16-19.22-23
I
do not boast of preaching the gospel, since it is a duty which has been laid on
me; I should be punished if I did not preach it! If I had chosen this work myself,
I might have been paid for it, but as I have not, it is a responsibility which
has been put into my hands. Do you know what my reward is? It is this: in my preaching,
to be able to offer the Good News free, and not insist on the rights which the
gospel gives me. So though I am not a slave of any man I have made myself the
slave of everyone so as to win as many as I could. For the weak I made myself
weak. I made myself all things to all men in order to save some at any cost; and
I still do this, for the sake of the gospel, to have a share in its blessings.
Gospel
Mark 1:29-39
On
leaving the synagogue, Jesus went with James and John straight to the house of
Simon and Andrew. Now Simon's mother-in-law had gone to bed with fever, and they
told him about her straightaway. He went to her, took her by the hand and helped
her up. And the fever left her and she began to wait on them. That evening, after
sunset, they brought to him all who were sick and those who were possessed by
devils. The whole town came crowding round the door, and he cured many who were
suffering from diseases of one kind or another; he also cast out many devils,
but he would not allow them to speak, because they knew who he was. In the morning,
long before dawn, he got up and left the house, and went off to a lonely place
and prayed there. Simon and his companions set out in search of him, and when
they found him they said, "Everybody is looking for you." He answered,
"Let us go elsewhere, to the neighbouring country towns, so that I can preach
there too, because that is why I came." And he went all through Galilee,
preaching in their synagogues and casting out devils.