BULLETIN
18
FEBRUARY 2007
SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 3
CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
17 February | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
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Sunday
18 February | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
19 February | Mass at 10.00 am for a special intention |
| Tuesday
20 February |
Mass at 10.00 am by Father Gabriel for Martin Foy |
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Wednesday
21 February | Ash
Wednesday Mass at 10.00 am for Con McNulty Mass at 7.00 pm for James McLaren |
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Thursday
22 February | Feast
of the Chair of Saint Peter Mass at 7.00 pm for Rita Brown |
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Friday
23 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Monica MacDonald |
| Saturday
24 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Chrissie Welsh |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
18 February | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
|
Monday
19 February | 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 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
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Tuesday
20 February |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
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Wednesday
21 February |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
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Thursday
22 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 2.00 to 3.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
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Friday
23 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:
Mina McGleave whose Requiem Mass
will be in Saint
John's Church, Stevenston
on Monday at 10.00 am, Peter
Bird whose Requiem Mass will be in Saint
John's
Church,
Stevenston on Tuesday at 10.00 am and Mario Salotti who died recently;
Ellen
Reilly 1954, Nathan Murray-Collier 2005, George Monaghan 2004,
Patsy
McDonald 1993, Justine McAllister 2000, Guilia Marchetti 1998,
Brian
O'Reilly 1993, Mary McCluskey 1980 and Margaret Mary Adamson 2005
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
SUNDAY
COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £606.80 - many thanks.
Banker's Orders amount to an average of £4300 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 £292.02
- 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.
ASH
WEDNESDAY
Masses on Ash Wednesday are at 10.00 am and 7.00 pm. Ashes will be
distributed at both services. Ashes will also be distributed in Saint Peter's
Primary School at 11.00 am and 11.30 am. This is a day of Fast and Abstinence
for those aged between 18 and 65. This means no meat, one main meal and two light
snacks.
LENT EXTRA
Copies of Lent Extra are available at the stall.
A donation of 50 pence would be appreciated.
LENT SCIAF BOXES
Lent collection
boxes for the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) are available at
the stall. Please take one home with you and return it at the end of Lent.
CHURCH
STUDENTS' FUND COLLECTION
A collection will be taken at all Masses on the weekend
of 24 and 25 February. I would be grateful if those of you who are tax-payers
would use the yellow Gift Aid envelopes available at the stall. By doing so, you
will enable the Diocese to reclaim from the Inland Revenue 28p for every £1
you place within the envelope. Please take one home with you this weekend in preparation
for the collection.
FUND RAISING SUPPER
A Mexican Supper will take place
in the Presbytery on Friday 23 February. Tickets, costing £25 each, are
available from the Parish Office. All money raised will go towards the refurbishing
of the Blessed Sacrament
Chapel.
REFURBISHING THE BLESSED
SACRAMENT CHAPEL
A donation of £100 from a parishioner brings the
total collected for the refurbishment of the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel to £3925. Thanks very much.
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.
ENROLMENT
SUNDAY
Enrolment will be celebrated next Sunday 25 February during 10 o'clock
Mass for children who are preparing to celebrate the Sacraments of Confirmation
and First Communion in May and June. Please pray for them and their families.
There will be a Parents Meeting in the Parish Centre on Wednesday at 7.30 pm.
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.
SAINT
ANDREW'S ACADEMY 1971-2007
A warm invitation is extended to all those who have
been connected with Saint Andrew's Academy, Saltcoats at any time over the past
thirty-six years to a Buffet Dance in the Brisbane Suite of Seamill Hydro on Friday
11 May 2007. Tickets, priced £20 including welcome drink and finger buffet
supper, are available from the school office. It is anticipated that many members
of the school community, past and present, will wish to come together to mark
the closure of Saint Andrew's Academy by attending the dance. Since demand for
tickets is likely to be high anyone wishing to attend should contact the school
as soon as possible.
SAINT
PATRICK'S NIGHT SOCIAL
The Saint Patrick's Night Social will take place in
the Parish Centre on Saturday 17 March at 8.00 pm There will be dancing, musical
entertainment, a quiz, raffle and light supper. Tickets cost £4 from Donna
or Kate.
SAINT
PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
Anne Hunter would like to thank all who helped and
supported the recent Race Night for Saint Peter's Children's Centre. It was a
great success and the amount raised was £1745.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY
ADULT HELPERS
18
February
Pre-Fives: Frances and Maria
Primary
1 to 3: Elaine, Julie and Anne
Primary
4: Sharon and Karen
25 February
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Maria
Primary 1 to 3: Andrena
and Theresa
Primary 4: Julie and Gayle
| To
the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. |
| There
is a difference between happiness and wisdom. He that thinks himself the happiest man really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. |
| No
one ever collapsed under the burdens of a single day. It is when the burdens of tomorrow are added to it that it becomes unbearable. Live one day at a time - it's all we have that is a certainty, anyway. |
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 Samuel 26:2.7-9.12-13.22-23
Saul
set off and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand
men chosen from Israel to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph. So in the
dark David and Abishai made their way towards the force, where they found Saul
asleep inside the camp, his spear stuck in the ground beside his head, with Abner
and the troops lying round him. Then Abishai said to David, Today God has put
your enemy in your power; so now let me pin him to the ground with his own spear.
Just one stroke! I will not need to strike him twice. David answered Abishai,
Do not kill him, for who can lift his hand against the Lords anointed and be without
guilt? David took the spear and the pitcher of water from beside Sauls head, and
they made off. No one saw, no one knew, no one woke up; they were all asleep,
for a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them. David crossed to the other
side and halted on the top of the mountain a long way off; there was a wide space
between them. David then called out, Here is the kings spear. Let one of the soldiers
come across and take it. The Lord repays everyone for his uprightness and loyalty.
Today the Lord put you in my power, but I would not raise my hand against the
Lords anointed.
Second
Reading Corinthians
15:45-49
The
first man, Adam, as scripture says, became a living soul; but the last Adam has
become a life-giving spirit. That is, first the one with the soul, not the spirit,
and after that, the one with the spirit. The first man, being from the earth,
is earthly by nature; the second man is from heaven. As this earthly man was,
so are we on earth; and as the heavenly man is, so are we in heaven. And we, who
have been modelled on the earthly man, will be modelled on the heavenly man.
Gospel
Luke 6:27-38
Jesus
said to his disciples: "I say this to you who are listening: Love your enemies,
do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat
you badly. To the man who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek too;
to the man who takes your cloak from you, do not refuse your tunic. Give to everyone
who asks you, and do not ask for your property back from the man who robs you.
Treat others as you would like them to treat you. If you love those who love you,
what thanks can you expect? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you
do good to those who do good to you, what thanks can you expect? For even sinners
do that much. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what thanks
can you expect? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back the same amount. Instead,
love your enemies and do good, and lend without any hope of return. You will have
a great reward, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he himself is kind
to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate.
Do not judge, and you will not be judged yourselves; do not condemn, and you will
not be condemned yourselves; grant pardon, and you will be pardoned. Give, and
there will be gifts for you: a full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and
running over, will be poured into your lap; because the amount you measure out
is the amount you will be given back.".