wBULLETIN                           30 APRIL 2006

THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR 2


CHURCH SERVICES

Saturday 29 April
Confession on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm
Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Tommy Morgan
Sunday 30 April
Sunday Mass at 10.00 am
Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon
Monday 1 May
Mass at 10.00 am for Francis and Sarah Coulter
Tuesday 2 May
Mass at 10.00 am for a special intention - SD
Wednesday 3 May
Mass at 10.00 am for Tina McLaughlin
Thursday 4 May
Mass at 7.00 pm for Elizabeth Murray
Friday 5 May
Mass at 10.00 am for Anne Hamilton
Saturday 6 May
Mass at 10.00 am for John and Margaret Murphy


PARISH CENTRE EVENTS

Sunday 23 April
10.00 am
10.00 am
11.00 am
Children's Liturgy
Primary Four Pupils' Preparation
Tea and Coffee after Mass
Monday 1 May
5.30 to 6.30 pm
6.30 to 8 00 pm
7.00 pm
7.00 to 7.30 pm

Rainbows
Brownies

Saint Vincent de Paul Society
Weight Watchers

Tuesday 2 May

8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am
12.30 to 2.30 pm
1.30 pm
7.00 pm
7.30 pm
7.30 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten
Country Dancing
Saint Anne's Guild
Keep Fit
Pre-Five Committee
Wednesday 3 May

8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 am
9.00 to 11.30 am

12.30 to 2.30 pm
5.00 to 6.00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
7.00 pm
7.30 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Site Meeting
Nursery
Kindergarten
Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds
Burakudo Karate Club
Special Religious Development (SPRED)  
Ignatian Prayer Group
Thursday 4 May

8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am

12.30 to 2.30 pm
1.00 to 3 00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
6.00 to 7.30 pm
7.30 to 9.00 pm
7.30 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten
Thursday Club Coffee Afternoon
Rainbows
Brownies
Girl Guides
Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA)

Friday 5 May

8.00 to 5.30 am
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.30 am
12.30 to 2.30 pm

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

PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
   Patrick Earlie who died recently;
   Aldo Agostini 1974, Kathleen Walsh 1955, Annie Mathieson Dorian 1974,
   Simon Cawley 2004, Mary Crossan 1981, Elizabeth Hendry 1998,
   Jean Nesbit 1999, Joe Arkison 2005, Ian Clarke 2005, Agnes Grogan 1954,
   Bobby MacNamara, James Timmons 1982, Harry Hissey 1976,
   Robert Hunter 1956, Robert Stewart 2002, Patricia McPadden 2004,
   Helen McGhee and James McEvoy 1964
whose anniversaries occur at this time;
   Logan Gilchrist who was baptised recently;
   and those who are sick.

SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £686.37 - 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 £331.75 - 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.

SCOTTISH CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL AID FUND (SCIAF)
So far the Lenten Alms boxes for SCIAF have raised £736.00. If you still have a box at home please hand it in.

CHILD PROTECTION TRAINING
There will be a Child Protection training night on Thursday 11 May in the Parish Centre from 7.30 to 9.30 pm. All volunteers and Eucharistic Ministers are invited to attend. Mrs Ann McAllister, Child Protection Adviser will deliver the training. Please add your name to the list in the foyer of the Parish Centre.

SCOTUS COLLEGE OPEN DAY
There will be an open day at Scotus College, Glasgow on Vocations Sunday, 7 May. Mass will be celebrated at 2.00 pm followed by a light buffet and tour of the College. Evening Prayer will be said at 5.00 pm. All are welcome.

THURSDAY CLUB COFFEE AFTERNOON
The Thursday Club is having a Coffee Afternoon on Thursday 4 May at 1.00 pm in the Parish Centre. There will be the usual staff including home baking, and bric-a-brac. Tickets cost £1.00. All are welcome.

SACRAMENTS OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
Next Sunday, 7 May is the first of three Sundays when the children of Primary 4 will celebrate the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Communion at 10.00 am Mass . Please pray for them and their families.

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL LENTEN APPEAL FOR TOILETRIES
Saint Peter's Conference of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVDP) wishes to thank everyone who so kindly donated toiletries for the Ozanam Centre in Glasgow. These have now been taken to the Centre to be distributed to the many homeless men and women who attend there. As in previous years, there was a most generous response to this Appeal which is greatly appreciated. Thank you most sincerely for your help.

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL COFFEE MORNING
Saint Peter's Conference of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVDP) is planning a Coffee Morning for Saturday, 10 June. There will be various stalls as well as a prize raffle. Donations for any of the stalls, for example, baking, books, and bric a brac as well as prizes for the raffle will be most welcome and can be notified to any member of the Conference. Recently this Conference committed itself to funding a self-help project to provide twelve flour grinding machines to a very poor parish in India at a cost of £900. It is intended that the proceeds of this year's Coffee Morning go towards this project and assist our other three twin conferences in India and South Africa to whom we provide regular support. As always, we ask for your generous support for this event and hopefully as a result, we can bring real practical assistance and Christian love and solidarity to the poor communities in these places.



Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.


To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.


Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.




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           Acts 3:13-15.17-19
Peter said to the people: You are Israelites, and it is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, who has glorified his servant Jesus, the same Jesus you handed over and then disowned in the presence of Pilate, after Pilate had decided to release him. It was you who accused the Holy One, the Just One, you who demanded the reprieve of a murderer while you killed the prince of life. God, however, raised him from the dead, and to that fact we are the witnesses. Now I know, brothers, that neither you nor your leaders had any idea what you were really doing; this was the way God carried out what he had foretold, when he said through all his prophets that his Christ would suffer. Now you must repent and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out.

Second Reading           John 2:1-5
I am writing this, my children, to stop you sinning; but if anyone should sin, we have our advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, who is just; he is the sacrifice that takes our sins away, and not only ours, but the whole world's. We can be sure that we know God only by keeping his commandments. Anyone who says, 'I know him', and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, refusing to admit the truth. But when anyone does obey what he has said, God's love comes to perfection in him.

Gospel           Luke 24:35-48
The disciples told their story of what had happened on the road and how they had recognised Jesus at the breaking of bread. They were still talking about all this when Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!" In a state of alarm and fright, they thought they were seeing a ghost. But he said, "Why are you so agitated, and why are these doubts rising in your hearts? Look at my hands and feet; yes, it is I indeed. Touch me and see for yourselves; a ghost has no flesh and bones as you can see I have." And as he said this he showed them his hands and feet. Their joy was so great that they could not believe it, and they stood dumbfounded; so he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?" And they offered him a piece of grilled fish, which he took and ate before their eyes. Then he told them, "This is what I meant when I said, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets and in the Psalms, has to be fulfilled." He then opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, "So you see how it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that, in his name, repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be preached to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses to this.".