BULLETIN
12
MARCH 2006
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT IN YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
11 March | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Jessie Brown |
Sunday
12 March | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
13 March | Mass at 7.00 pm for the victims of Dunblane and for children of this area who have died and their families. |
Tuesday
14 March | Mass at 10.00 am for the sick people of the parish |
Wednesday
15 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Victor Donald |
Thursday
16 March | Mass at 7.00 pm for Chrissie Welsh |
Friday
17 March | Stations
of the Cross at 9.40 am Mass at 10.00 am for John Carrol |
Saturday
18 March | Mass at 10.00 am for James Mulhern |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
12 March | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Sacramental Preparation Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
13 March | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 1.30 to 3.00 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 Parents and Toddlers Kindergarten Cardiac Rehabilitation Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
14 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Country Dancing Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit Ignatian Prayer Group |
Wednesday
15 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten National Health Service (NHS) Group Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
Thursday
16 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Friday
17 March |
8.00 to 5.30 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Saturday
18 March | 8.00 pm | Birthday Party |
PRAYERS
Please remember
in your prayers:
Hessie Hyslop 1998, Lilia Agostini 1969, Jean
Walker 2001,
James Mulhern 1982, Catherine Stewart 2004, Grace
Jamieson 2005,
Canon Charles Matthews 1996, Victor Donald 1985,
Susan Heaney 1956,
John Gurney 2004, Odina Carrino, 1987 and
Menotti Carrino 1953
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Aiden Stewart Morton and Megan
Elizabeth Cummings
who were baptised recently
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection
amounted to £888.34 - 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 £357.19
- 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.
NURSERY
MANAGER
A vacancy has arisen for a Nursery Manager in Saint Peter's Children's
Centre. The applicant must have the relevant experience. A full job description
can be obtained from the Children's Centre.
RETREAT
There will be a Sacred Heart Retreat Day on Saturday, 8 April from
10.00 am to 4.00 pm. There will also be three Monday evenings Lenten Series meetings
from 7.00 to 9.00 pm on 13, 20 and 27 March. Further details for both events are
on the notice board.
COLLECTION OF TOILETRIES
The Ozanam Centre in
Glasgow is run by the Saint Vincent de Paul Society to assist homeless men and
women. We have again been asked to assist in the collection of toiletries during
Lent so these might be distributed as a very practical way of assisting those
who use the Centre. Saint Peter's parishioners have donated generously to this
appeal in previous yeas and it is hoped that you will do so once again. The Conference
thanks you in anticipation of your kind assistance. A box to receive donations
of all kinds of toiletries will be available in the Church porch.
COACH
TRIP TO DONEGAL
There will be a coach trip to Donegal from Monday 15 to Friday
19 May, staying at the McNamara Hotel, Moville, Donegal. The cost is £219
for bed, breakfast and evening meal and three tours. There are two places available.
For more information phone Moira or Alice.
LENT
SCOTTISH CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL AID FUND (SCIAF) BOXES
Lent SCIAF boxes are
available from the stall. Please take one home with you and return it at the end
of Lent.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Stations of the Cross will be said
each Friday in Lent at 9.40 am.
SAINT ANDREW'S ACADEMY MASS
There
will be Mass each Wednesday in Lent in Saint Andrew's Academy at 8.30 am.
SAINT
PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL TENTH ANNIVERSARY
Parents, Guardians, Grandparents,
Aunts, Uncles, Friends …. this year Saint Peter's Primary School is celebrating
the tenth anniversary of opening at its present premises. To mark this special
occasion, the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) is planning to hold a Family Fun
Day on a Sunday in June The date is still to be confirmed. The committee is looking
for ideas for stalls, games and so on that we can use to help make this event
a fun-filled success. An open meeting has been arranged for Tuesday 21 March at
7.30 pm in the school. If anyone can assist, but is unable to make the meeting,
please leave details with the school and a committee member will contact you.
Please come along and offer support, because without you we would be unable to
organise events like this.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. |
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
Genesis
22:1-2.9-13.15-18
God put Abraham to the test. Abraham, Abraham he called.
Here I am he replied. Take your son, God said your only child Isaac, whom you
love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him as a burnt offering,
on a mountain I will point out to you. When they arrived at the place God had
pointed out to him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood. Then he
stretched out his hand and seized the knife to kill his son. But the angel of
the Lord called to him from heaven. Abraham, Abraham he said. I am here he replied.
Do not raise your hand against the boy the angel said. Do not harm him, for now
I know you fear God. You have not refused me your son, your only son. Then looking
up, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush. Abraham took the ram and
offered it as a burnt-offering in place of his son. The angel of the Lord called
Abraham a second time from heaven. I swear by my own self - it is the Lord who
speaks - because you have done this, because you have not refused me your son,
your only son, I will shower blessings on you, I will make your descendants as
many as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants
shall gain possession of the gates of their enemies. All the nations of the earth
shall bless themselves by your descendants, as a reward for your obedience.
Second
Reading
Romans
8:31-34
With God on our side who can be against us? Since God did not spare
his own Son, but gave him up to benefit us all, we may be certain, after such
a gift, that he will not refuse anything he can give. Could anyone accuse those
that God has chosen? When God acquits, could anyone condemn? Could Christ Jesus?
No! He not only died for us - he rose from the dead, and there at God's right
hand he stands and pleads for us.
Gospel
Mark
9:2-10
Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high
mountain where they could be alone by themselves. There in their presence he was
transfigured: his clothes became dazzlingly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher
could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking with
Jesus. Then Peter spoke to Jesus. 'Rabbi,' he said 'it is wonderful for us to
be here; so let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.'
He did not know what to say; they were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering
them in shadow; and there came a voice from the cloud, "This is my Son, the
Beloved. Listen to him.". Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw
no one with them any more but only Jesus. As they came down from the mountain
he warned them to tell no one what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had
risen from the dead. They observed the warning faithfully, though among themselves
they discussed what 'rising from the dead' could mean.