BULLETIN 27
MAY 2007
PENTECOST SUNDAY
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
26 May | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
27 May | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
28 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Vincent Picozzi |
Tuesday
29 May | Mass at 10.00 am for William Hall |
Wednesday
30 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Lily and Joe Peppard |
Thursday
31 May | Mass at 7.00 pm for Day For Life |
Friday
1 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Tommy Morgan |
Saturday
2 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Christine McMenament |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
27 May | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
28 May | 2.00
to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm | Cardiac
Rehabilitation |
Tuesday
29 May |
9.00 to 11.30 am |
Nursery |
Wednesday
30 May |
9.00 to 11.30 am | Nursery |
Thursday
31 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
1 June | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm | Nursery |
Saturday
2 June | 8.00 pm | Educate The Kids Fundraising Social |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Anna Conti, Peter Murray, Sheila
Harper and Nora Ramsay who died recently;
Mary Lynn Beattie
1998, Bernard Little 1999, Sarah Ramsay 2000, Jim Little 1945,
Des
Langan 2005, Cameron Walsh 1987, James Kyle 1992, Kathleen Conway 1989,
Canon
Nicholas Murphy 1992, Bessie Grant 2002 and William McMullan 1939
whose
anniversaries occur at this time and
Eileen Webster who was
baptised recently.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted
to £778.64 - 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.
COMMUNICATIONS
FUND COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection
for the Communications
Fund amounted to £506.50 - 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.
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.
BLESSED
SACRAMENT CHAPEL
The work of adorning the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel is beginning to be seen. The glasswork is now in place. It
has to be completed, the Tabernacle suitably lit, the area carpeted and a small
area for prayer created. I slowed down on the fundraising since the progress was
slow but we should start again. The whole project will cost about £6500.
It certainly improves what was a dark area of the Church. Any ideas or donations
would be welcome. Thanks for a recent donation of £300 from a parishioner
that brings the fund total to £4425.
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.
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.
SAINT
VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
The Saint
Vincent de Paul Society is grateful for the donation of the sewing machine
which was very much appreciated.
TWENTY-THOUSANDTH
VISIT TO SAINT PETER'S WEBSITE
On 17 May, Saint Peter's website had its 20000
visit since it was launched on 13 July 2005. The site has over 700 pages, 430
photographs, 160 bulletins between 1960 and 2007, 4200 links, some audio clips
of the choir and has been viewed in at least 26 countries. It contains many articles
on past and present spiritual and community life in Saint Peter's. Father
Matt and the website
author are very grateful to those who have accessed the site, lent photographs,
passed on stories, identified errors, made suggestions and expressed compliments.
The aims of the site are to make parishioners aware of current events and record
our history. If you can help with this project, please contact WebsiteAuthor@SaintPeterinChains.net.
SMITHSTONE
HOUSE SUMMER FAYRE
There will be a Summer Fayre at Smithstoune House, Kilwinning
on Sunday 3 June from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm. Enjoy an afternoon out for all the family
at Smithstone House and grounds. Everyone is welcome.
THANK
YOU
With your help we have managed to collect 10400 tokens for Kits for Kids.
A full set of football strips, rain jackets and tracksuits will be received. Many
thanks from the staff and pupils of James Reid School.
HARMONIES
FOR HUNGARY
A
charity concert featuring local singers, Marie Claire Breen, Theresa Coulter and
Jamie Munn will be held in the Church on Friday 15 June at 7 30 pm. Enjoy an evening
of fine music to help us on our way to Hungary with the prestigious National Youth
Choir of Scotland. Tickets costing £5 and £3 concession, including
tea, are available from Theresa Coulter.
THURSDAY
CLUB
The bus for the Thursday
Club trip to Dundee will leave Stanley School on Thursday at 9.00 am and follow
the usual pickup route.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
27
May
Pre-Fives: Frances and Maria
Primary
1 to 3: Elaine, Eileen and Anne
3 June
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Maria
Primary 1 to 3: Andrena
and Theresa
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. |
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
2:1-11
When
Pentecost day came round, the apostles had all met in one room, when suddenly
they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled
the entire house in which they were sitting; and something appeared to them that
seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each
of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign
languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech. Now there were devout men
living in Jerusalem from every nation under heaven, and at this sound they all
assembled, each one bewildered to hear these men speaking his own language. They
were amazed and astonished. Surely they said all these men speaking are Galileans?
How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language? Parthians,
Medes and Elamites; people from Mesopotamia, Judaea and Cappadocia, Pontus and
Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya round Cyrene; as well
as visitors from Rome - Jews and proselytes alike - Cretans and Arabs; we hear
them preaching in our own language about the marvels of God.
Second
Reading
Saint
Paul to the Romans 8:8-17
People
who are interested only in unspiritual things can never be pleasing to God. Your
interests, however, are not in the unspiritual, but in the spiritual, since the
Spirit of God has made his home in you. In fact, unless you possessed the Spirit
of Christ you would not belong to him. Though your body may be dead it is because
of sin, but if Christ is in you then your spirit is life itself because you have
been justified; and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living
in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal
bodies through his Spirit living in you. So then, my brothers, there is no necessity
for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do
live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to
the misdeeds of the body you will live. Everyone moved by the Spirit is a son
of God. The spirit you received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into
your lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out, "Abba,
Father!". The Spirit himself and our spirit bear united witness that we are
children of God. And if we are children we are heirs as well: heirs of God and
co-heirs with Christ, sharing his sufferings so as to share his glory.
Gospel
John
14:15-16, 23-26
Jesus said to his disciples: "If you love me you will
keep my commandments. I shall ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate
to be with you for ever. If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father
will love him, and we shall come to him and make our home with him. Those who
do not love me do not keep my words. And my word is not my own; it is the word
of the one who sent me. I have said these things to you while still with you;
but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will
teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you.".