BULLETIN
28
JANUARY 2007
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 3
HOMELESSNESS
SUNDAY
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
27 January | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
28 January | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
29 January | Mass at 10.00 am for John and Mary Jane McKay and family |
Tuesday
30 January | Mass at 10.00 am for May Wilson |
Wednesday
31 January | Feast
of Saint John Bosco Mass at 10.00 am for Bill and Isa Brown |
Thursday
1 February | Mass at 7.00 pm for Mary Kelly |
Friday
2 February | Mass at 10.00 am for May Rollie |
Saturday
3 February | Feast
of Saint Blaise Mass at 10.00 am for Tony Tourish |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
28 January | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am 11.30 am 2.00 pm |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
29 January | 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 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
30 January |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Wednesday
31 January |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Key Housing Nursery Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club |
Thursday
1 February | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 1.00 to 2.30 pm 6.00 to 7.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
Friday
2 February | 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:
John Scoular, Rita Brown and Monica
MacDonald who died recently;
Susanna Brodie 1963, John McKay,
James McDermid 2005, Jessie Flynn,
Canon Shaun Crowley 2001,
Marie Matthews 2004, Joseph Foran,
Mary Kelly 2006, Janet
Cunningham 1999, Father Joe Davie 2002,
Tony Tourish 1993
and Mary C McManus 1973
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Jane Feeney and Spencer
Hughes who were married recently;
Ethan Thomas Murney who
was baptised recently;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY
COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £691.48 - 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 £329.60
- 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.
CATHOLIC
EDUCATION COLLECTION
There will be a special collection at all Masses next
weekend for Catholic Education.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
28
January
Pre-Fives: Julie and Frances
Primary
1 to 3: Andrena, Theresa and Anne
Primary
4: Sharon and Karen
4 February
Pre-Fives:
Maria and Frances
Primary 1 to 3: Elaine,
Eileen and Anne
Primary 4: Julie and Gayle
50-50
CLUB
The annual subscription to the 50-50 Club is now due. New members can
sign up and existing members can renew their subscription in the foyer after all
Masses next weekend.
REFURBISHING THE BLESSED
SACRAMENT CHAPEL
Donations of £50 and £100 from parishioners
and £100 from the film producer bring the total collected for the refurbishment
of the Blessed Sacrament
Chapel to £3725. Thanks.
CATHOLIC
EDUCATION WEEK - 4 TO 10 FEBRUARY
To celebrate Catholic Education Week, the
annual Education Mass will be offered in Saint
John's Church, Stevenston on Thursday 8 February at 7.00 pm. Everyone - especially
teachers, pupils, parents, school board members, school staff members - is welcome.
Tea and coffee will be served after Mass.
DIOCESE
OF GALLOWAY HOSPITALITÉ DE NOTRE DAME DE LOURDES
There will be Mass
for World Day of Sick with the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick and the annual
general meeting of the Hospitalité de Notre Dame de Lourdes in Saint Quivox's
Church, Prestwick on Sunday 18 February at 3.00 pm. Tea and coffee will be served
after Mass.
MUSIC
MINISTRY EVENING
A Music Ministry event will be held on Wednesday 7 February
at Smithstone House, Kilwinning from 6.45 pm for a 7.00 pm start to 9.30 pm. The
main part of the evening will consist of music ideas for Lent and Holy Week and
will be led by Les Hendron of Bourtreehill. The first part will consist of a short
talk and discussion on 'What is Lent?' led by Father
Stephen Motroni. The cost, including refreshments, is £5 and will be
collected on the evening. For further information contact Michael McCulloch.
HCPT
THE PILGRIMAGE TRUST
To help raise money for your local HCPT, recycle your
unwanted mobile phone. HCPT will receive from 50p to £50 for every phone
depending on age and condition. Please remove your sim card and leave your phone
in the box provided in the Church porch.
CHRISTIAN
AID
A light-hearted quiz with participants from all the local churches with
question master Reverend Johnston McKay will take place on Thursday 15 February
at 7.30 pm in Barony Saint John's Church Hall. Come along and support your team
member. Tickets cost £2.00 and all proceeds will go to Christian Aid.
SAINT
PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
A Fund Raising Race Night has been arranged by Saint
Peter's Children's Centre for Friday 9 February at 7.30 pm with tickets at £5.
Donations of bottles and raffle prizes would be much appreciated. Raffle tickets
are available at the stall.
PRESBYTERY
DRIVEWAY
Can I please ask again that you do not block the driveway? Father
Sharkey has to get to Mass in Dalry and he and I have to be available for calls
to the hospital and we cannot get out while Mass is on. Thanks.
POLISH
COMMUNITY IN THE DIOCESE OF GALLOWAY
There will be a Mass in Polish in Saint
Margaret's Church, Ayr on Sunday 28 January at 3.00 pm. Thereafter Mass in Polish
will be celebrated on the third Sunday of each month.
SAINT
ANDREW'S ACADEMY S5/6 PARENTS' EVENING
Saint Andrew's Academy will be holding
an S5/6 parents' evening on Tuesday 30 January from 7.00 until 9.00 pm. The evening
is a good opportunity for all parents, guardians and carers of our senior pupils
to have a chat with the teaching staff regarding individual students' progress.
BURNS
SUPPER
The organisers of the recent Burns Supper thank all guests, patrons
and helpers for making the event a success. Photographs of the Supper are on Saint
Peter's website. We look forward to next year's.
SAINT
ANNE'S GUILD
Saint Anne's
Guild reopens on Tuesday 30 January at 7.00 pm. New members are welcome.
NURSERY
REGISTRATION WEEK
Nursery Registratiion Week is from 29 January to 2 February
for pre-school and ante-pre school children with dates of birth between 1 March
2003 and 28 February 2005. Parents wishing to register their children for nursery
education should apply directly to the nursery of their choice. Birth certificates
should be produced at the time of registration.
Registration times at Saint
Peter's Children's Centre Nursery are:
Monday 29 January:
9.30 to 11.00 am and 1.00 to 2.30 pm
Tuesday 30 January:
6.30 to 7.30 pm
Registration times at Saint Peter's Primary School Nursery
are:
Monday 29 January: 9.15 to 10.30 am
Tuesday
30 January: 12.50 to 2.00 pm
Wednesday 31 January: 10.45
to 11.30 am
FATHER
JOHN
Father John will be in Italy for a few weeks in February. He asks
that you remember him in your prayers. He looks forward to seeing you all on his
return.
He
who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. |
The
true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. |
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 Jeremiah 1:4-5.17-19
In
the days of Josiah, the word of the Lord was addressed to me, saying, Before I
formed you in the womb I knew you; before you came to birth I consecrated you;
I have appointed you as prophet to the nations. So now brace yourself for action.
Stand up and tell them all I command you. Do not be dismayed at their presence,
or in their presence I will make you dismayed. I, for my part, today will make
you into a fortified city, a pillar of iron, and a wall of bronze to confront
all this land: the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests and the country people.
They will fight against you but shall not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver
you - it is the Lord who speaks.
Second
Reading
Corinthians
12:31 - 13:13
Be ambitious for the higher gifts. And I am going to show you
a way that is better than any of them. If I have all the eloquence of men or of
angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing.
If I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all the mysteries there are, and
knowing everything, and if I have faith in all its fullness, to move mountains,
but without love, then I am nothing at all. If I give away all that I possess,
piece by piece, and if I even let them take my body to burn it, but am without
love, it will do me no good whatever. Love is always patient and kind; it is never
jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it
does not take offence, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's
sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope,
and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end. But if there are gifts
of prophecy, the time will come when they must fail; or the gift of languages,
it will not continue for ever; and knowledge - for this, too, the time will come
when it must fail. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophesying is imperfect;
but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will disappear. When I was a child,
I used to talk like a child, and think like a child, and argue like a child, but
now I am a man, all childish ways are put behind me. Now we are seeing a dim reflection
in a mirror; but then we shall be seeing face to face. The knowledge that I have
now is imperfect; but then I shall know as fully as I am known. In short, there
are three things that last: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is
love.
Gospel
Luke
4:21-30
Jesus began to speak in the synagogue, "This text is being fulfilled
today even as you listen." And he won the approval of all, and they were
astonished by the gracious words that came from his lips. They said, "This
is Joseph's son, surely?" But he replied, "No doubt you will quote me
the saying, 'Physician, heal yourself" and tell me, 'We have heard all that
happened in Capernaum, do the same here in your own countryside.'"' And he
went on, "I tell you solemnly, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country.
There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah's day, when heaven
remained shut for three years and six months and a great famine raged throughout
the land, but Elijah was not sent to any one of these: he was sent to a widow
at Zarephath, a Sidonian town. And in the prophet Elisha's time there were many
lepers in Israel, but none of these was cured, except the Syrian, Naaman."
When they heard this everyone in the synagogue was enraged. They sprang to their
feet and hustled him out of the town; and they took him up to the brow of the
hill their town was built on, intending to throw him down the cliff, but he slipped
through the crowd and walked away.