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
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 4.00 pm
12.30 to 2.30 pm
1.30 pm
7.00 pm
7.30 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
9.00 am
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 4.00 pm
12.30 to 2.30 pm
5.00 to 6.00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
7.00 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
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 4.00 pm
10.30 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
Key Housing Training
Estates Manager Meeting
Kindergarten
Thursday Club
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Rainbows
Brownies
Girl Guides

Friday 10 February

8.00 to 5.30 am
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 4.00 pm
12.30 to 2.30 pm
5.00 to 7.00 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Parents and Toddlers
Key Housing Training
Kindergarten
Birthday Party

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
the one who plants kindness gathers love.



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.