BULLETIN
7
MAY 2006
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
6 May | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Harry Hissey (1897-1976) |
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Sunday
7 May | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
8 May | Mass at 9.00 am for John Paterson |
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Tuesday
9 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Kevin O'Donnell |
| Wednesday
10 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Willie and Mary Kelly |
| Thursday
11 May | Mass at 7.00 pm for John McCabe |
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Friday
12 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Betty Burns |
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Saturday
13 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Jean Murray |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
7 May | 10.00
am 11.00 am 2 30 pm |
Children's Liturgy |
| Monday
8 May | 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 |
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Tuesday
9 May |
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 Saint Peter's Parent Teacher Association Ignatian Prayer Group |
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Wednesday
10 May |
8.00 to 5.30 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) |
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Thursday
11 May |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
| Friday
12 May |
8.00 to 5.30 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Martin Cunningham and baby Angel
Doyle who died recently;
Margaret Long 1999, Josephine Cunningham
2000, Jean Agostini 1978,
Simon Smyth 2001, Frank Nils Matthews
2003, Francis Moran 1999,
Nicholas McIntee 2004, Robert Ferguson
2005 and
John, Irene and Patrick McKelvey whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Edith Boyle and Ailsa Tracy
who were baptised recently;
Ben Madine, Katie Finnigan, David
Benson, Krista Ward,
Alexander Gillen, Dylan Champion, Ross
Chapman, Harris Beech,
Shannon Taylor and Stephen McIvor who
will receive the
Sacraments of Confirmation and First Communion
today as well as a Bible
from the Thursday
Club;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £810.32 - 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 £349.27
- 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.
VOCATIONS
SUNDAY
Today is Vocations Sunday. Please pray for vocations to the Priesthood
and Religious Life.
THE ROSARY
The Thursday
Club will lead the Rosary each morning before the weekday Mass during the
month of May.
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. It
is important that all volunteers and Eucharistic Ministers attend. A Police Officer
from Child Protection will be in attendance and Mrs Ann McAllister, Child Protection
Adviser will deliver the training. Please add your name to the list in the foyer
of the Parish Centre.
SACRAMENTS
OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
This 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 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.
MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
AND THE G8 - JUDGE FOR YOURSELF
The G8 Summit held in Scotland last sumemr
made promises to cancel some of the debts of the world's most impoverished countries.
Jubilee Scotland would like to know what YOU think about what is happening. Do
you think the G8 Debt Deal is something to celebrate? You can go to its website
at www.jubileescotland.org.uk,
look for the picture of the elephant and send in your comments. Don't forget,
please! If you want to know more, phone Jubilee
Scotland on 0131 225 4321.
ONE PLUS PRIZE
BINGO
One Plus is holding a Bingo in the Parish Centre on Friday 12 May. Doors
open at 7.00 pm with eyes down at 7.30 pm. Tickets cost £1.00 and include
tea and biscuits. All are welcome.
50-50
CLUB
Congratulations to the following 50-50 Club prizewinners:
244
Sarah Guthrie £25, 12 Josephine Atkins £25, 35 Mae Cavani £25,
232 Lisa Murphy £25
| If
someone were to pay you ten pence for every kind word you ever spoke |
Second
Reading John 3:1-2
Think
of the love that the Father has lavished on us, by letting us be called God's
children; and that is what we are. Because the world refused to acknowledge him,
therefore it does not acknowledge us. My dear people, we are already the children
of God but what we are to be in the future has not yet been revealed; all we know
is, that when it is revealed we shall be like him because we shall see him as
he really is.
Gospel
John 10:11-18
Jesus
said: "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd is one who lays down his
life for his sheep. The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and the sheep
do not belong to him, abandons the sheep and runs away as soon as he sees a wolf
coming, and then the wolf attacks and scatters the sheep; this is because he is
only a hired man and has no concern for the sheep. I am the good shepherd; I know
my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for my sheep. And there are other sheep I have that are
not of this fold, and these I have to lead as well. They too will listen to my
voice, and there will be only one flock, and one shepherd. The Father loves me,
because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from
me; I lay it down of my own free will, and as it is in my power to lay it down,
so it is in my power to take it up again; and this is the command I have been
given by my Father.".