BULLETIN
10
SEPTEMBER 2006
TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
|
Saturday
9 September | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Joe Boyle |
|
Sunday
10 September | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
11 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Alice Shepherd |
| Tuesday
12 September | no Mass |
|
Wednesday
13 September | Mass at 10.00 am for James Mulhern |
| Thursday
14 September | Mass at 7.00 pm for Thomas Feeney |
|
Friday
15 September | Mass at 10.00 am for John Hughes |
|
Saturday
16 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Nancy Erskine |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
10 September | 11.00
am |
Tea and Coffee after Mass |
|
Monday
11 September | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
|
Tuesday
12 September |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
| Wednesday
13 September |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Quarriers School Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club |
| Thursday
14 September | 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 6.30 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation Brownies Girl Guides |
|
Friday
15 September | 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:
Catherine Mitchell who died recently;
Father
Martin McCluskey 1996, Mary Mitchell 2004, Mr and Mrs Daniel Brown,
Bridget
McLaughlin 1997, Jane McKechan 1998, Mary Crossan 1981,
Sam
Cambridge 2005, John Hazelton 1974, John Burns 1997,
Partick
Joseph O'Hare 1955, Elizabeth Cawley 1997, John Marshall 2000,
James
Lawson 1992 and Walter Jones 1985
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £750.38
- 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 Retired Priests amounted to £340.45
- 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.
SAINT
PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
A few places are available for the afternoon session
of the Nursery Class from 12.30 to 3.00pm for three to five year olds. For more
information contact Anne Hunter of Saint Peter's Children's Centre on 473030.
SACRAMENTAL
PREPARATION
A Sacramental Presentation Service will take place at 10.00 am
Mass this Sunday and the children's preparation at Mass begins next Sunday.
SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL
RELIEF
Katrina (Brown) Pollock and Averill Cunningham raised £500
to send to Scottish International
Relief from their sponsored run. They are absolutely delighted with this and
thank everyone for their support.
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.
DIOCESE
OF GALLOWAY LOURDES HOSPITALITÉ
CONCERT
Saint Sophia's Concert Party will perform on 6 and 7 October at 7.30pm
in Saint Sophia's Church Hall, Galston to raise funds for Lourdes Hospitalité.
Tickets cost £3.50 with concessions at £3.00.
IN YOUR TWENTIES?
The TwentySomething is a group for Catholics in their twenties in the West of
Scotland. In the next few months, it is organising ceilidhs, walks, Masses, talks,
and visits to London, Millport, Smithstone House Kilwinning and Bethlehem for
Christmas if peace holds. Everyone is welcome. You come to what interests you
when you are free. To receive our programme of events, contact
hugh@project2030.fsnet.co.uk
or visit www.project2030.org.uk.
THANKS
Many
thanks for all the prayers offered for Kenneth Donnelly. He is now well and no
longer requires treatment.
THANKS
Grateful
thanks to Saints Anthony and Peregrine for prayers answered. MD.
WOULD
LIKE TO JOIN THE CHURCH?
Perhaps you have been thinking about joining the Church,
perhaps it has been talked about, perhaps now is the time to do something about
it. A Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) course for the parishes in
the Three Towns will take place fortnightly in Saint
Brendan's Hall, Corrie Crescent, Saltcoats starting on Tuesday 12 September
at 7.30 pm. It will be led by George Gallagher, Father
Matt, Father Jim, Father Mark and Father Martin. If you are interested, please
pick up an introductory pack from Father
Matt or from the office. Booklets and so on will be supplied as the course
continues. A Three Towns Baptismal Preparation Course of one session will be offered
at Saint John's
Hall, Stevenston and a Marriage Preparation Course will be offered in Ardrossan.
Details will be given later.
VOLUNTEER
SLIPS
Volunteer Slips are available at the stall for those who wish to help
out with the various Ministries.
THURSDAY
CLUB
The Thursday Club, formed twenty-three years ago, has decided to
meet on Tuesdays and will now be known as the Tuesday Club. The
name change was later rescinded and the title Thursday
Club remains.
| Nothing
but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. |
| God will either give you what you ask, or something far better. |
| This
morning, when I wakened and saw the sun above |
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
Isaiah
35:4-7
Say to all faint hearts, "Courage! Do not be afraid. Look, your
God is coming, vengeance is coming, the retribution of God; he is coming to save
you." Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, the ears of the deaf unsealed,
then the lame shall leap like a deer and the tongues of thedumb sing for joy;
for water gushes in the desert, streams in the wasteland, the scorched earth becomes
a lake, the parched land springs of water.
Second Reading
James
2:1-5
My brothers and sisters, do not try to combine faith in Jesus Christ,
our glorified Lord, with the making of distinctions between classes of people.
Now suppose a man comes into your synagogue, beautifully dressed and with a gold
ring on, and at the same time a poor man comes in, in shabby clothes, and you
take notice of the well-dressed man, and say, "Come this way to the best
seats"; then you tell the poor man, "Stand over there" or "You
can sit on the floor by my foot-rest." Can't you see that you have used two
different standards in your mind, and turned yourselves into judges, and corrupt
judges at that? Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: it was those who are poor
according to the world that God chose, to be rich in faith and to be the heirs
to the kingdom which he promised to those who love him.
Gospel
Mark
7:31-37
Returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards
the Sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region. And they brought him a
deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay his hand
on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, put his fingers into
the man's ears and touched his tongue with spittle. Then looking up to heaven
he sighed; and he said to him, "Ephphatha", that is, "Be opened."
And his ears were opened, and the ligament of his tongue was loosened and he spoke
clearly. And Jesus ordered them to tell no one about it, but the more he insisted,
the more widely they published it. Their admiration was unbounded. "He has
done all things well," they said "he makes the deaf hear and the dumb
speak.".