BULLETIN
28
MAY 2006
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
27 May | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Joe and Lily Peppard |
Sunday
28 May | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
29 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Margaret Johnstone |
Tuesday
30 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Brian Sudlow |
Wednesday
31 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Charley Sharkey |
Thursday
1 June | Mass at 7.00 pm for Frank and Mary Kelly |
Friday
2 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Jane McFarlane |
Saturday
3 June | Mass at 10.00 am for John and Mary McNamara |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
28 May | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
29 May | 7.00
pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Saint
Vincent de Paul Society |
Tuesday
30 May |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Key Housing Kindergarten Ignatian Prayer Group Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit Saint Peter's Parent Teacher Association |
Wednesday
31 May |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Thursday Club Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
Thursday
1 June |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Friday
2 June | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 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:
George Wilson, Michael Devine
and Sarah Kemp who died recently;
Jim Little 1945, Desmond Langan
2005, Cameron Walsh 1987,
James Kyle 1992, Kathleen Conway 1989,
Canon Nicholas Murphy 1992,
Bessie Grant (McCourt) 2002, William
McMullan 1939, Peg Brown 1991
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Natasha Holly Ina Dean
who was baptised recently
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY
COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £869.34 - 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 £383.68
- 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.
SPECIAL
COLLECTION
There will be a special collection at all Masses this weekend for
the Communications Fund.
SACRAMENTS
OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
Many thanks to all who helped prepare
the children for the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Communion. A Mass of
Thanksgiving will be celebrated for the children on Sunday 4 June at 10.00 am.
ARDROSSAN BROWNIES
Ardrossan Brownies are having
a 'Mother and Daughter' Beetle Drive on Thursday 8 June at 7.00 pm in the Parish
Centre. Tickets cost £5 and include a glass of wine for mothers and juice
and crisps for daughters.
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY 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.
DIOCESE OF GALLOWAY MUSIC MINISTRY
The Diocese of Galloway Music Ministry
will have an evening of Celtic music and community prayer led by Monsignor Gerry
Fitzpatrick on 14 June from 7.00 to 9.15 pm in Smithstone House, Kilwinning. The
cost is £5. Booking forms are available from Michael McCulloch.
TRIP TO DONEGAL
The people on the trip to Donegal would like to thank Moira and Alice for all
the hard work they put into organising what was a very enjoyable and much appreciated
break.
WORLD
COMMUNICATIONS DAY 2006
Bishop Devine of Motherwell has send the letter below
to be read at all Masses this weekend.
The
Media - A Network for Communication, Communion and Cooperation |
Love and you shall be loved. |
A friend is a gift you give yourself. |
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
1:15-17.20-26
One
day Peter stood up to speak to the brothers - there were about a hundred and twenty
persons in the congregation: Brothers, the passage of scripture had to be fulfilled
in which the Holy Spirit, speaking through David, foretells the fate of Judas,
who offered himself as a guide to the men who arrested Jesus - after having been
one of our number and actually sharing this ministry of ours. In the Book of Psalms
it says: Let someone else take his office. We must therefore choose someone who
has been with us the whole time that the Lord Jesus was travelling round with
us, someone who was with us right from the time when John was baptising until
the day when he was taken up from us - and he can act with us as a witness to
his resurrection. Having nominated two candidates, Joseph known as Barsabbas,
whose surname was Justus, and Matthias, they prayed, Lord, you can read everyone's
heart; show us therefore which of these two you have chosen to take over this
ministry and apostolate, which Judas abandoned to go to his proper place. They
then drew lots for them, and as the lot fell to Matthias, he was listed as one
of the twelve apostles.
Second
Reading
John
4:11-16
My
dear people, since God has loved us so much, we too should love one another. No
one has ever seen God; but as long as we love one another God will live in us
and his love will be complete in us. We can know that we are living in him and
he is living in us because he lets us share his Spirit. We ourselves saw and we
testify that the Father sent his Son as saviour of the world. If anyone acknowledges
that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him, and he in God. We ourselves have
known and put our faith in God's love towards ourselves. God is love and anyone
who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in him.
Gospel
John
17:11-19
Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: "Holy Father, keep those you have
given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us. While I was with
them, I kept those you had given me true to your name. I have watched over them
and not one is lost except the one who chose to be lost, and this was to fulfil
the scriptures. But now I am coming to you and while still in the world I say
these things to share my joy with them to the full. I passed your word on to them,
and the world hated them, because they belong to the world no more than I belong
to the world. I am not asking you to remove them from the world, but to protect
them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong
to the world. Consecrate them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me
into the world, I have sent them into the world, and for their sake I consecrate
myself so that they too may be consecrated in truth.".