BULLETIN
11
NOVEMBER 2007
THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN YEAR 3
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
10 November | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
11 November | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
12 November | Mass at 10.00 am for the Holy Souls |
Tuesday
13 November | Mass at 10.00 am for Mary Dalziel |
Wednesday
14 November | Mass at 10.00 am for the Holy Souls |
Thursday
14 November | Mass at 7.00 pm for Jim McLaren |
Friday
16 November | Mass at 10.00 am for the Holy Souls |
Saturday
17 November | Mass at 10.00 am for the Brady Family |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
11 November | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's
Liturgy |
Monday
12 November | 5.30
to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Rainbows |
Tuesday
13 November | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 1.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.30 pm | Nursery
Kindergarten Legion of Mary Nursery Thursday Club Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit Ignatian Prayer Group |
Wednesday
14 November | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 6.00 to 7.00 pm 7.00 to 9.00 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Barakuda Karate Special Religious Education (SPRED) |
Thursday
15 November | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 am 2.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation Brownies Guides |
Friday
16 November | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm | Nursery Parents and Toddlers Nursery |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Michael Swanson, Gerard
Ritchie and Terry Britnall who died recently;
Alec Murphy
1998, Annie Tracy 2000, Thomas Walsh 2002
Helen Gurney 2004,
David Kelley, Henry McIlroy 1966,
Mary McCabe 1998, Moira
Shaw 1995, Canon John Donnelly 2003,
Daniel Murray 2006,
Alex Miller 1979, Daniel McDougall 1944,
Mary Dalziel 2006,
James Smith 1999, Rose Floyd 1992,
Julie Anne MacLaren 2006,
Hugh Welsh 1986, Robert McGee 1996,
Hugh Madine 1997 and
Letitia Smith 2001
whose anniversaries
occur at this time;
Ryan Adam Haggarty and Aiden James Haggarty
who were baptised recently and
Mhairi
McKay and David Smith and Pauline McCann and Martin Shields
who
were married recently.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £804.85 - 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.
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.
PARISH
CENTRE COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for the Parish Centre amounted
to £417.73 - many thanks.
SAINT PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE PRIZE
BINGO
A Fund Raising Bingo for Saint Peter's Children's Centre will take place
on Friday 23 November at 7.00 pm in the Parish Centre. Tickets cost £1.00
and include tea. They are available from are available from the Children's Centre,
Kathleen or Gayle.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to
Josephine Coulter and Lynda Kimm who received their Higher National Certificate
in Child Education and Care at a Graduation Ceremony in Kilwinning Abbey.
NOVEMBER
LISTS
November Lists are available at the stall. Please take one.
BOOK
OF THE DEAD
During the month of November, the Book of the Dead will be available
in front of the
Blessed Sacrament Chapel for
you to write the names of deceased family and friends.
CEMETERY
MASS
The annual Mass for the deceased will be celebrated in Ardrossan Cemetery next
Sunday at 2.00 pm.
ANNUAL
MASS FOR THE BEREAVED
The annual Mass for the bereaved will be celebrated
on Tuesday 20 November at 7.00 pm. Saint
Anne's Guild
will provide tea in the Parish Centre after Mass.
CHILD PROTECTION TRAINING
Many
thanks to all who turned out for the excellent training afternoon which was much
appreciated by Annie Watt and Anne McAllister. Those who have been approved by
Disclosure Scotland must attend the ongoing compulsory training to ensure good
practice and must be trained in the new National Pack. An evening training session
has been arranged for Thursday 22 November in Saint Mary's Church Hall, Saltcoats
at 7.00 pm.
SCOTTISH
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF - PLEASE CAN YOU HELP?
Scottish International Relief
(SIR) works with some of the poorest people in the third world countries such
as Malawi, Liberia, Peru, Ecuador, India and Uganda, amongst others. The SIR team
of volunteers will be at the 10.00 am and 12.00 noon Masses on 18 November to
promote its Annual Draw for their Special Project, Mary's Meal's. Tickets cost
£1 each or a book for £5. Photographs of last year's visit
by Scottish International
Relief are on the Pictures
page.
SAINT
PETER'S CHURCH KEYRINGS AND FRIDGE MAGNETS
Over the next few weekends, the
Saint Vincent de Paul Society
will be selling keyrings at £1.00 and fridge magnets at £1.50. They
hold photographs of Saint Peter's Church.
SAINT PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL
As part of Primary 7's enterprise work, a company
has been set up. It is called Christmas Stockings Cooperation. For the fast few
months, pupils have been making lots of Christmas goods. On Sunday, 25 November
after the 10 o'clock Mass, we will have a stall where we will be selling our handmade
presents. There is a huge range of products for sale, for example,bookmarks, keyrings,
stockings, magnets, calendars and much, much more! So do yourself a favour! Come
to the Christmas Stockings Cooperation early Christmas sale, and buy your cheap
but quality handmade Christmas gifts!
GALLOWAY
LOURDES HOSPITALITÉ
The annual Ceilidh
for Galloway Lourdes Hospitalité will take place on Friday 16 November
at 7.30 pm in the Volunteer Rooms, Irvine with the Oran Mor Ceilidh Band. Tickets
costing £7.50 and including a light supper are available from Maureen or
Anne.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY ADULT
HELPERS
11
November
3 to 5 Year Olds: Elaine
and Karen
Primary 1 to 3: Marko
and Marie-Anne
Primary
4: Catherine
Anne and Carol Anne
18
November
3 to 5 Year Olds: Ann and Gayle
Primary 1 to 3: Andrena
and Theresa
Primary 4: Wendy and Christine
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between
the crosses, row on row
That mark our place
And in the sky the larks
Still
bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below
We are the dead. Short
days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Loved and were loved, and
now we lie
In
Flanders' fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing
hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with
us who die
We shall not sleep though poppies grow
in Flanders' fields.
Count
your blessings and resolve to be grateful for what you have rather than be disgruntled by what you don't have. Then take steps to use what you have to the best of your ability. |
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
Maccabees
7:1-2.9-14
There
were seven brothers who were arrested with their mother. The king tried to force
them to taste pigs flesh, which the Law forbids, by torturing them with whips
and scourges. One of them, acting as spokesman for the others, said, What are
you trying to find out from us? We are prepared to die rather than break the Law
of our ancestors. With his last breath the second brother exclaimed, Inhuman fiend,
you may discharge us from this present life, but the King of the world will raise
us up, since it is for his laws that we die, to live again for ever. After him,
they amused themselves with the third, who on being asked for his tongue promptly
thrust it out and boldly held out his hands, with these honourable words, It was
heaven that gave me these limbs; for the sake of his laws I disdain them; from
him I hope to receive them again. The king and his attendants were astounded at
the young mans courage and his utter indifference to suffering. When this one
was dead they subjected the fourth to the same savage torture. When he neared
his end he cried, Ours is the better choice, to meet death at mens hands, yet
relying on Gods promise that we shall be raised up by him; whereas for you there
can be no resurrection, no new life.
Second
Reading
Thessalonians
2:16 - 3:5
May
our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who has given us his love and,
through his grace, such inexhaustible comfort and such sure hope, comfort you
and strengthen you in everything good that you do or say. Finally, brothers, pray
for us; pray that the Lord's message may spread quickly, and be received with
honour as it was among you; and pray that we may be preserved from the interference
of bigoted and evil people, for faith is not given to everyone. But the Lord is
faithful, and he will give you strength and guard you from the evil one, and we,
in the Lord, have every confidence that you are doing and will go on doing all
that we tell you. May the Lord turn your hearts towards the love of God and the
fortitude of Christ.
Gospel
Luke
20:27-38
Some
Sadducees - those who say that there is no resurrection - approached Jesus and
they put this question to him, "Master, we have it from Moses in writing,
that if a man's married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to
raise up children for his brother. Well, then, there were seven brothers. The
first, having married a wife, died childless. The second and then the third married
the widow. And the same with all seven, they died leaving no children. Finally
the woman herself died. Now, at the resurrection, to which of them will she be
wife since she had been married to all seven?" Jesus replied, "The children
of this world take wives and husbands, but those who are judged worthy of a place
in the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry because
they can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being children
of the resurrection they are sons of God. And Moses himself implies that the dead
rise again, in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is God, not of the dead, but of
the living; for to him all men are in fact alive.".