BULLETIN
20 MAY 2007
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR
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CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
19 May | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
20 May | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
21 May | Mass at 10.00 am for James and Mary McNamara |
Tuesday
22 May | Mass at 10.00 am for James Miller |
Wednesday
23 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Vincent Picozzi |
Thursday
24 May | Mass at 7.00 pm for Bill Main |
Friday
25 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Lily and Joe Peppard |
Saturday
26 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Joseph Higgins |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
20 May | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
21 May | 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 | Nursery |
Tuesday
22 May |
9.00 to 11.30 am |
Nursery |
Wednesday
23 May |
9.00 to 11.30 am | Nursery |
Thursday
24 May | 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 | Nursery |
Friday
25 May | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm | Nursery |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Frank McGee and Susan Little who
died recently;
Robert McKay 1942, Harry Andrew 2003, Mary
Quinn 1978, George Wilson 2006,
Brian Cairns 2004, Angus
Donnelly 2003, William McCafferty 1920, Mary Kelly 2002,
Meta
McCulloch , Patrick O'Hare 1973, Margaret McAuley 1953, Joe Peppard 1993,
Lily
Peppard 2004 and Joseph Higgins 2006 whose
anniversaries occur at this time and
Clare McQuade and Robert
Steel who were married recently.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's
collection amounted to £822.56 - 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 £361.67.
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.
SACRAMENTS OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
Jacob Adamson, Aylah Cassidy,
Laura Clabby, Ross Findlay, Aidan Grant, Sean Henry, Dara Mathieson, Lucy Mathieson
and Cameron McColl celebrate the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Communion
on Sunday. Each child will receive a Bible from the Thursday
Club.
PRAYERS
FOR MADELEINE
Prayers for Madeleine
McCann and her family will take place in Saint
Mary's Church, Saltcoats on Sunday at 7.30 pm. Please come along.
THE
ROSARY
During the month of May, the Rosary will be led by the Thursday
Club before morning Mass.
THE
INNOCENTS
The Innocents urgently require four Moses baskets and a double buggy.
If you can help, please phone Josephine to arrange uplift. A box is available
in the porch for baby goods, for example, talcum powder, lotion, shampoo and so
on.
EDUCATE
THE KIDS FUND RAISING SOCIAL
One of our cantors, Marie-Anne McGrattan is
going to Africa for four weeks in the summer to work with deprived children. To
help support her efforts, there will be a fund-raising social event in the Parish
Centre on Saturday 2 June at 8 pm. There will be singing, dancing, a quiz, food,
drink, humour, fun and good company. Tickets costing £3.50 are available
from Kate or Donna. Details of how the proceeds will be used can be seen at www.EducateTheKids.com.
SACRED
HEART FATHERS
The Smithstone House, Kilwinning Programme of Events and Booking
Forms are available in the Porch.
GOING
INTO HOSPITAL
If you are going into hospital, please let the staff know you
are a Roman Catholic in order that the Chaplain can be informed. The hospital
does not routinely inform the chaplain about Catholic patients.
USED
STAMPS
Father
Sean O'Dowd of Saint Patrick's Mission, Stirling sells used stamps for the Mission's
Catechist Fund. Last year, his used stamp project raised over £22000. A
collecting box will be available in the Porch for anyone wishing to contribute
used stamps of any designation for this very worthwhile project.
SAINT
VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
If you have a sewing machine in good working order
you no longer use please phone Sadie.
THANKS
Julia
Paterson would like to thank her friends and family for cards, Mass intentions,
flowers, gifts and the Papal Blessing she received on the occasion of her ninetieth
birthday and to all who entertained and contributed in any way to her party in
the Parish Centre. It was great night enjoyed by all but especially by Julia.
Donations to the Saint Peter's Lourdes Fund amounted to £800.
CARFIN
LOURDES GROTTO
A programme of events at the carfin Lourdes Grotto is available
on the notice board in the porch.
DAY FOR LIFE - FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF
THE ABORTION ACT - THURSDAY 31 MAY
There will be a Deanery Mass in Saint Peter's
at 7 pm on 31 May. The Scottish Bishops have asked all of us to remember the passing
of the Abortion Act and ask God's pardon for our shameful disregard of human life.
We should also ask God's blessing on all who work to protect human life from the
cradle to the grave. Leaflets are available at the stall with further information.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
20 May
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Maria
Primary 1 to 3: Andrena
and Theresa
27
May
Pre-Fives: Frances and Maria
Primary
1 to 3: Elaine, Eileen and Anne
"See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little." - Pope John
XXII |
Faith
is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. |
What worries you masters you. |
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
Acts
7:55-60
Stephen,
filled with the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus
standing at God's right hand. I can see heaven thrown open he said and the Son
of Man standing at the right hand of God. At this all the members of the council
shouted out and stopped their ears with their hands; then they all rushed at him,
sent him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses put down their clothes
at the feet of a young man called Saul. As they were stoning him, Stephen said
in invocation, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Then he knelt down and said aloud,
Lord, do not hold this sin against them; and with these words he fell asleep.
Second
Reading
Apocalypse
22:12-14.16-17.20
I, John, heard a voice speaking to me: "Very soon now,
I shall be with you again, bringing the reward to be given to every man according
to what he deserves. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the
Beginning and the End. Happy are those who will have washed their robes clean,
so that they will have the right to feed on the tree of life and can come through
the gates into the city." I, Jesus, have sent my angel to make these revelations
to you for the sake of the churches. I am of David's line, the root of David and
the bright star of the morning. The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come."
Let everyone who listens answer, "Come." Then let all who are thirsty
come; all who want it may have the water of life, and have it free. The one who
guarantees these revelations repeats his promise: I shall indeed be with you soon.
Amen; come, Lord Jesus.
Gospel
John
17:20-26
Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: "Holy Father, I pray
not only for these, but for those also who through their words will believe in
me. May they all be one. Father, may they be one in us, as you are in me and I
am in you, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me. I have given
them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one. With me in
them and you in me, may they be so completely one that the world will realise
that it was you who sent me and that I have loved them as much as you loved me.
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they
may always see the glory you have given me because you loved me before the foundation
of the world. Father, Righteous One, the world has not known you, but I have known
you, and these have known that you have sent me. I have made your name known to
them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved
me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.".