BULLETIN
16
JULY 2006
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
|
Saturday
15 July | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
|
Sunday
16 July | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
17 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Elizabeth Walsh |
| Tuesday
18 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Robert Macrae |
| Wednesday
19 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Ryan Fleming |
|
Thursday
20 July | Mass at 7.00 pm for Charlie Gribben |
| Friday
21 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Greta and Felix Murphy |
| Saturday
22 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Rebecca and James Murray |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
16 July | 11.00
am |
Tea and Coffee after Mass |
|
Monday
17 July | 7.00
pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Saint
Vincent de Paul Society |
| Tuesday
18 July |
7.30 pm |
Keep Fit |
| Wednesday
19 July |
5.00 to 6.00 pm | Street
Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club |
IF
YOU ARE HERE ON HOLIDAY, YOU ARE VERY WELCOME; IF
YOU ARE GOING ON HOLIDAY, ENJOY YOUR BREAK.
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Sally Walsh 1957, Patrick Carry
1976, Annie McGrath 2002,
Brian Narducci 2000, Cardinal Gordon
Gray 1993, Monsignor John Barry 2003,
John McKay 1993, Agnes
McCourt 2000, Charlie Gribben 2002,
Elizabeth Nicholson 2003,
Julia Grogan 1971, Joseph Mulgrew 2002,
Mary McPolin 1987, Margaret
Donnelly 1953 and Rebecca Murray 2004
whose anniversaries occur at this time;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection total will be in next week's
bulletin.
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 total will be in next week's bulletin.
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.
FATHER
JOHN MANDELEO,
SSP
Father John Maendeleo is returning to Tanzania on Monday. We thank him
for his time here. Haste ye back.
PIOUS
OBJECT STALL
Father
John has left rosary beads, medals and so on for sale at the Pious Objects
Stall.
CHARITY CEILIDH
There will be a charity ceilidh in the Seamill
Hydro on Saturday 2 September with special guest appearance from Father Martin
Chambers. Proceeds will go to projects in Neuva Prosperina, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Further details are on the poster in the porch.
SCOTTISH
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF - PLEASE CAN YOU HELP?
Scottish International Relief
(SIR) works with some of the poorest people in the third world countries such
as Malawi, Liberia, Peru, Ecuador, India and Uganda, amongst others. SIR offers
help by collecting unwanted clothes, bedding, bric-a-brac and tools. They then
send the goods donated as aid or raise funds through shops for overseas projects.
SIR will be visiting Saint Peter's on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 August. They will
be at all Masses and sell raffle tickets for the special project Mary's Meals
at £1 per ticket or a book for £5. Goods can be left in the Parish
Centre but only from Tuesday 1 August. Photographs of last year's visit
by Scottish International
Relief are on the Pictures
page.
FORTHCOMING
ATTRACTION - AN EVENING OF FUN
AND SCOTTISH FOLK MUSIC
To celebrate Saint Andrew's Day, there will be
An Evening of Fun and Scottish
Folk Music on Saturday 25 November in the Parish Centre. There will be musical
entertainment, singing, a quiz, time for blethering and a bar. Further details
will be announced nearer the time.
SAINT
PETER'S WEBSITE - RECORDING OUR HISTORY TODAY
Saint Peter's website was launched
a year ago on 13 July 2005. It contains over 400 pages, 350 photographs and some
audio clips of the choir among many articles on past and present spiritual and
community
life in Saint Peter's. The website has attracted over 10000 visits, far exceeding
expectation. Father
Matt and the website author are very grateful to those who have accessed the
site, lent photographs, passed on stories, identified errors, made suggestions
and expressed compliments. The aims of the site are to make parishioners aware
of current events and record our history. If you can help with this project, please
contact WebsiteAuthor@SaintPeterinChains.net.
| God has not called us to see through each other but to see each other through. |
| Each
Day Brings A Chance To Do Better |
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 Amos 7:12-15
Amaziah,
the priest of Bethel, said to Amos: Go away, seer; get back to the land of Judah;
earn your bread there, do your prophesying there. We want no more prophesying
in Bethel; this is the royal sanctuary, the national temple. I was no prophet,
neither did I belong to any of the brotherhoods of prophets, Amos replied to Amaziah.
I was a shepherd, and looked after sycamores: but it was the Lord who took me
from herding the flock, and the Lord who said, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.
Second
Reading Ephesians
1:3-14
Blessed
be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all the spiritual
blessings of heaven in Christ. Before the world was made, he chose us, chose us
in Christ, to be holy and spotless, and to live through love in his presence,
determining that we should become his adopted sons, through Jesus Christ, for
his own kind purposes, to make us praise the glory of his grace, his free gift
to us in the Beloved, in whom, through his blood, we gain our freedom, the forgiveness
of our sins. Such is the richness of the grace which he has showered on us in
all wisdom and insight. He has let us know the mystery of his purpose, the hidden
plan he so kindly made in Christ from the beginning to act upon when the times
had run their course to the end: that he would bring everything together under
Christ, as head, everything in the heavens and everything on earth. and it is
in him that we were claimed as God's own, chosen from the beginning, under the
predetermined plan of the one who guides all things as he decides by his own will;
chosen to be, for his greater glory, the people who would put their hopes in Christ
before he came. Now you too, in him, have heard the message of the truth and the
good news of your salvation, and have believed it: and you too have been stamped
with the seal of the Holy Spirit of the Promise, the pledge of our inheritance
which brings freedom for those whom God has taken for his own, to make his glory
praised.
Gospel
Mark 6:7-13
Jesus
summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs giving them authority
over the unclean spirits. And he instructed them to take nothing for the journey
except a staff - no bread, no haversack, no coppers for their purses. They were
to wear sandals but, he added, "Do not take a spare tunic." And he said
to them, "If you enter a house anywhere, stay there until you leave the district.
And if any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, as you
walk away shake off the dust from under your feet as a sign to them.". So
they set off to preach repentance; and they cast out many devils, and anointed
many sick people with oil and cured them.