BULLETIN
25
JUNE 2006
TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 2
CHURCH
SERVICES
Saturday
24 June | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
25 June | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
26 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Primary 7 pupils |
Tuesday
27 June | Mass at 10.00 am for James Little |
Wednesday
28 June | Mass
at 10.00 am for Sharon McKenna Vigil Mass at 7.00 pm |
Thursday
29 June | Feast
of Saints Peter and Paul Mass at 10.00 am for Helen and Joe Moran Mass at 6.00 pm for the Parish |
Friday
30 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Peter Walsh |
Saturday
1 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Samuel Bannon |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
25 June | 10.00
am 11.00 am 2.30 to 4.30 pm |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
26 June | 10.00
to 4.00 pm 1.30 to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Key Housing |
Tuesday
27 June |
10.00 to 4.00 pm |
Key Housing |
Wednesday
28 June |
5.00 to 6.00 pm | Street
Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club |
Thursday
29 June |
1.30 to 3.30 pm |
Cardiac Rehabilitation |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Mrs McGraw, Hang Heng, Ellen
Hamilton, Ellen Barclay (Australia) who died recently;
Ben Walsh
1985, John Flood 2003, Greta Murphy 1973, Elizabeth Paterson,
Joseph Sammons 1954, James Little 1979, Mary Nolan O'Hare 1995,
Anne
Convery 1997, Margaret McCann 2000, Annie McCabe 2002,
John,
Peter, Francis, Jim and Paul Breslin, William Magee 1997,
Peter
McEvoy 1967, Margaret Donnelly 1953, James Conaghan 1999,
Patrick
Burns 2000 and Hugh Brodie 1964 whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
James Hugh Campbell Henry
who was baptised recently;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY
COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £659.85 - 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 £302.48
- 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.
MONSIGNOR
PETER MAGEE
Monsignor Peter Magee, a former parishioner, celebrates his
Silver Jubilee on Sunday 2 July with Mass at 12.00 noon followed by a reception
in the Parish Centre.
FATHER
LYNCH ANNIVERSARY MASS
Mass will be celebrated for the second Anniversary
of Father Michael Lynch's death on Monday 3 July at 7.00 pm followed by tea and
coffee in the Parish Centre.
PRIMARY
7 PUPILS
Mass will be celebrated on Monday 26 June at 7.00 pm for the pupils
of Primary 7 who will be moving to Saint Andrew's Academy in August.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY
The Children's Liturgy finishes today and will reopen in
September. Many thanks to Clara Hyslop, Eucharistic Catechist, and to all the
parent helpers.
GALLOWAY
NEWSLETTER
Free copies of the Galloway Newsletter are available at the stall.
THANKS
Grateful thanks to Saint Clare and the Sacred Heart for favours granted.
SAINT
PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
Anne Hunter, Nursery Manager thanks her staff, parents,
grandparents and all who helped to make their first 'Open Day/Fundraiser' such
a great success. The Nursery closed on Friday for the summer holiday and will
reopen on Monday 21 August. Enjoy your summer break and good luck to all the children
who are starting Primary 1 in August.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
School pupils
start their holiday on Thursday 29 June. School reopens for them on Wednesday
16 August.
CHRISTIAN PEOPLES' ALLIANCE
Theres is a petition against homosexual and unmarried adoption at the back of
the Church.
SAINT
PETER'S PRESBYTERY
The presbytery will be 'officially' opened on the evening
of Thursday 29 June by His Eminence, Keith Patrick Cardinal O'Brien. This is the
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul - a Holiday of Obligation - and the evening Mass
will be at 6.00 pm that evening followed by a reception in the Parish Centre.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
As the old man walked the beach
at dawn, he noticed a youth ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them
into the sea. Finally, catching up with the youth, he asked him why he was doing
this. The answer was that the stranded starfish would die if left in the morning
sun. "But the beach goes on for miles and there are millions of starfish"
countered the old man. "How can your effort make any difference?" The
young man looked at the starfish in his hand and then threw it to the safety of
the waves. "It makes a difference to this one" he said.
The best way to impress people is by not trying to impress them but by being committed and sincere. |
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 38:1.8-11
From
the heart of the tempest the Lord gave Job his answer. He said "Who pent
up the sea behind closed doors when it leapt tumultuous out of the womb, when
I wrapped it in a robe of mist and made black clouds its swaddling bands; when
I marked the bounds it was not to cross and made it fast with a bolted gate? Come
thus far, I said, and no farther; here your proud waves shall break.".
Second
Reading 2 Corinthians
5:14-17
The
love of Christ overwhelms us when we reflect that if one man has died for all,
then all men should be dead; and the reason he died for all was so that living
men should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised
to life for them. From now onwards, therefore, we do not judge anyone by the standards
of the flesh. Even if we did once know Christ in the flesh, that is not how we
know him now. And for anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old
creation has gone, and now the new one is here.
Gospel
Mark 4:35-41
With
the coming of evening, Jesus said to his disciples, "Let us cross over to
the other side." And leaving the crowd behind they took him, just as he was,
in the boat; and there were other boats with him. Then it began to blow a gale
and the waves were breaking into the boat so that it was almost swamped. But he
was in the stern, his head on the cushion, asleep. They woke him and said to him,
"Master, do you not care? We are going down!" And he woke up and rebuked
the wind and said to the sea, "Quiet now! Be calm!" And the wind dropped,
and all was calm again. Then he said to them, "Why are you so frightened?
How is it that you have no faith?" They were filled with awe and said to
one another, "Who can this be? Even the wind and the sea obey him.".