BULLETIN
20
AUGUST 2006
TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
19 August | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
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Sunday
20 August | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon for Willie Kelly |
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Monday
21 August | Mass at 10.00 am for Sarah Fairlie |
| Tuesday
22 August | Mass at 10.00 am for Tommy McCann senior |
| Wednesday
23 August | Mass at 10.00 am for Ella Cairns |
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Thursday
24 August | Mass at 7.00 pm for Catherine Fitzsimmons |
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Friday
25 August |
Mass at 10.00 am for Andrew McCarroll |
| Saturday
26 August | Mass at 10.00 am for the Finnegan family |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
20 August | 11.00
am |
Tea and Coffee after Mass |
|
Monday
21 August | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
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Tuesday
22 August |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
| Wednesday
23 August |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club |
| Thursday
24 August | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation |
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Friday
25 August | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Parents and Toddlers Nursery |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Agnes Long, Michael O'Donald and Rosaleen
Emrich who died recently;
Maria McEvoy 2002, Matthew McCabe 2002,
Ella Cairns, Jim McManus 1997,
Catherine Fitzsimmons 2004 and
Catherine Boyle 2004
whose anniversaries occur at this time;
Rachael Sarah Martin who was baptised recently;
and
those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted
to £778.83 - 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 £355.00
- 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.
FATHER
JOHN MAENDELEO
Father John Maendeleo is back in Tanzania. His appointment to the Holy Ghost Mission
in Turin, Italy has been delayed for several months because of visa problems.
His Provincial Superior is unable to appoint him elsewhere until the matter is
resolved so he has written to ask if Father John would be welcome here until he
can move to Italy. I have agreed that he can stay here - his keep, his fare and
so on will be met by the parish - our Mission contribution. If you can help by
adding a little to your collection or standing order, I would be very grateful.
Other parishes in the deanery have asked for Father John's help and will help
offset the costs.
BLESSED
SACRAMENT CHAPEL
According to all Liturgical norms, the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel is in exactly the right place. However, it is very poorly
decorated and we could do much better. I intend to make the necessary improvements
during the next few months. I am open to suggestions. The Chapel needs to be bright,
welcoming and decorated with symbols of the Holy Eucharist. Watch the space!
FUNDRAISERS
There is a suggestion for Fundraising Suppers for the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel in the Presbytery. Numbers will be limited to twenty or so
at a time, food will be themed and the tickets will be all inclusive. Are there
any comments? A series of fundraising evenings in the Parish Centre will also
be required, for example, bingo, race night, quiz night and so on, if we are to
do justice to the project. Other ideas are welcome.
MEETING ROOM AND
LIBRARY
The meeting room and the library are available to let for small, quiet
meetings for parish or non-parish events. The meeting room can hold about 25 and
the Library can take about 12. Tea making facilities are available. Enquiries
should be made to Kate on 464063. Bookings for the Parish
Centre and meeting rooms continue in the usual way.
SCOTTISH
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
Katrina (Brown) Pollock and Averill Cunningham will
be running the Glasgow 10K on Sunday 3 September for Scottish
International Relief. Sponsor Forms are available at the stall for those wishing
to sponsor them.
ANNUAL GALLOWAY MUSIC FESTIVAL MASS
To celebrate
the gift of music and bring musicians together to share and celebrate their ministry,
a Mass will be held in the grounds of Smithstone House, Kilwinning at 2.30 pm
on Sunday 20 August. All musicians and singers are invited to take part and everyone
is welcome whether musical or not. For those wanting to join in the music, there
will be a rehearsal from 1.00 pm. Bring your family and friends and a picnic for
after. For further details, contact Michael McCulloch.
WHITHORN
PILGRIMAGE
The Annual Pilgrimage to Saint Ninian's Cave on Whithorn shore
takes place on Sunday 27 August. Mass is celebrated at 4.00pm. There is also Mass
in the Church for those who cannot make the walk to the cave. This year, the liturgy
is organised by our deanery and the sermon
will be preached by Father
Matt.
RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS (RCIA)
A group for
those who are interested in knowing more about the Church and perhaps becoming
Catholic at Easter will begin in the Presbytery at the beginning of September.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY TRAINING
All involved in taking Children's Liturgy are invited to
a Training Day in Smithstone House, Kilwinning on Saturday 16 September from 10.30
am to 3.30 pm. Further details and a list for names is available in the porch.
LOURDES
GROUP
The Lourdes Group meets in the Parish Centre on Monday 21 August at
7.00 pm.
THANKS
Grateful thanks to Saint Clare for favours granted. DJ
| A
wise man should have money in his head but not in his heart. |
| I
am a confirmed believer in blessings in disguise. I prefer them undisguised when
I |
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
Proverbs
9:1-6
Wisdom
has built herself a house, she has erected her seven pillars, she has slaughtered
her beasts, prepared her wine, she has laid her table. She has despatched her
maidservants and proclaimed from the city's heights: Who is ignorant? Let him
step this way. To the fool she says, come and eat my bread, drink the wine I have
prepared! Leave your folly and you will live, walk in the ways of perception.
Second
Reading
Ephesians
5:15-20
Be
very careful about the sort of lives you lead, like intelligent and not like senseless
people. This may be a wicked age, but your lives should redeem it. And do not
be thoughtless but recognise what is the will of the Lord. Do not drug yourselves
with wine, this is simply dissipation; be filled with the Spirit. Sing the words
and tunes of the psalms and hymns when you are together, and go on singing and
chanting to the Lord in your hearts, so that always and everywhere you are giving
thanks to God who is our Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Gospel
John
6:51-58
Jesus said to the crowd: "I am the living bread which has come
down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread
that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world." Then the Jews
started arguing with one another: "How can this man give us his flesh to
eat?"' they said. Jesus replied: "I tell you most solemnly, if you do
not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life
in you. Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and
I shall raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is
real drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in
him. As I, who am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me will draw life from me. This is the bread come down from heaven;
not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are dead, but anyone who eats this
bread will live for ever.".