BULLETIN 30
DECEMBER 2007
THE FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
29 December | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
30 December | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
31 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Father James McCarroll |
Tuesday
1 January | Solemnity
of Mary, Mother of God Mass at 10.00 am |
Wednesday
2 January | Feast
of Saint Basil and Saint Gregory Nazianzen Mass at 10.00 am for Roseann McDonald |
Thursday
3 January | Feast
of Saint John Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Andrew McMillan Vigil for the Deceased at 6.00 pm for Tom McKay |
Friday
4 January | Feast
of The Holy Innocents Requiem Mass at 10.00 pm for Tom McKay Requiem Mass at 1.00 pm for May Conlan |
Saturday
5 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Cathie (Bridie) Jardine |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
30 December | 11.00
am 1.30 pm |
Tea and
Coffee after Mass |
Saturday
5 January | 1.30 pm | Private Party |
THANKS
Many thanks to Michael, Fiona, Ashley and Rachel Brown
who have been looking
after the Parish Centre.
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Andrew McMillan, Eddie Keogh and Tom McKay who died recently
and
Father
Joseph Glendinning 1993, Alfonso Agostini 1955, James Murphy 1997,
Father
Andrew Karwemera 2002, Lizzie Macnamara, Susan Burns 1986,
Hugh
Brown 1980, May Rollie 2007, Sister Imelda CP 2000,
Sister
Marie Celeste CP 2000, Charles Retzbach 2000, Patrick Braniff 1991,
Isabella
Keenan 1939 and Celia Ralston 2007 whose anniversaries occur
at this time.
DECEASED PARISHIONERS
Please remember to pray for our parishioners who died in 2007.
Mary
Rollie
Celia Ralston
Leda Biagioni
Kelly Smith
William Main
Margaret
Stevens
Susan Little
Nora Ramsay
William McNeil
Janet Smyth
Frank
Tracy
Elizabeth Sloan
Jessie Hazelton
Gavin Finnegan
Mara Cheshire
Sadie
Hamilton
Margaret McLeod
Francis Campbell
Thomas Connelly
James McVeigh
Margaret
Nicol
George Hall
Mary McKernon
James McLaughlin
Josephine Lundie
Michael Swanson
Tom Davidson
Agnes
Martin
John
Dolan
Those we hold most dear never truly leave us. They live on in the
kindness they showed, the comfort they shared and the love they brought into our
lives.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £650.63
- 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.
CHRISTMAS
COLLECTION
The Christmas collection amounted to £1344.50 - many thanks.
PARISH CENTRE COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for the Parish Centre
amounted to £302.77 - many thanks.
THANKS
FROM FATHER
MATT AND FATHER
JOHN
Many
thanks for all the Christmas cards and gifts. They were very much appreciated.
SUNDAY
TEAS
The amount raised from the Sunday teas in 2007 was £2502.22. Thanks
to all the teams who give their time on a Sunday morning.
SCOTTISH
CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL RELIEF FUND (SCIAF)
In 2007, a total of £1536
was sent to SCIAF in your name. Many thanks.
MINISTRIES
Many
thanks to all who, throughout the year, help in any way with the various ministries
of the Church. It is very much appreciated.
SAINT
ANNE'S GUILD
The
bus for Saint
Anne's Guild members
will leave Chapelhill Mount at 4 pm on Tuesday 8 January via the usual route for
the Jack in the Beanstalk pantomime in the Gaiety Theatre, Ayr.
A
SCOTTISH FAREWELL TO FATHER JOHN
Father John returns to Africa at the
beginning of February. We plan to 'roll-up' our usual Saint Andrew's Night Social
and Burns Supper into A
Scottish Farewell to Father John on two dates. On Friday 25 January, there
will be a meal and Scottish entertainment at 7.20 pm for 7.30 pm to 11.00 pm in
the Parish Centre. Tickets cost £10 and will be on sale from the Parish
Office from Monday 7 January. Call in and collect or book by phone on 464063.
They will be issued on a first come, first served basis. Please wear something
tartan, if only a ribbon. On Sunday 27 January form 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm, there
will be an 'open house' event in the Parish Centre with Scottish snacks - roll
and sausage, hot pies, lentil soup and so on. Come anytime and spend an hour or
so chatting. Envelopes for anything you wish Father
John to use in Tanzania will be available in January.
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 Ecclesiasticus
3:2-6.12-14
The Lord honours the father in his children, and upholds the rights
of a mother over her sons. Whoever respects his father is atoning for his sins,
he who honours his mother is like someone amassing a fortune. Whoever respects
his father will be happy with children of his own,he shall be heard on the day
when he prays. Long life comes to him who honours his father, he who sets his
mother at ease is showing obedience to the Lord. My son, support your father in
his old age, do not grieve him during his life. Even if his mind should fail,
show him sympathy, do not despise him in your health and strength; for kindness
to a father shall not be forgotten but will serve as reparation for your sins.
Second
Reading
Colossians
3:12-21
You are God's chosen race, his saints; he loves you and you should
be clothed in sincere compassion, in kindness and humility, gentleness and patience.
Bear with one another; forgive each other as soon as a quarrel begins. The Lord
has forgiven you; now you must do the same. Over all these clothes, to keep them
together and complete them, put on love. And may the peace of Christ reign in
your hearts, because it is for this that you were called together as parts of
one body. Always be thankful. Let the message of Christ, in all its richness,
find a home with you. Teach each other, and advise each other, in all wisdom.
With gratitude in your hearts sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs to God;
and never say or do anything except in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
to God the Father through him. Wives, give way to your husbands, as you should
in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and treat them with gentleness. Children,
be obedient to your parents always, because that is what will please the Lord.
Parents, never drive your children to resentment or you will make them feel frustrated.
Gospel
Matthew
2:13-15.19-23
After the wise men had left, the angel of the Lord appeared to
Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother with you,
and escape into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, because Herod intends
to search for the child and do away with him." So Joseph got up and, taking
the child and his mother with him, left that night for Egypt, where he stayed
until Herod was dead. This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken through the
prophet: I called my son out of Egypt. After Herod's death, the angel of the Lord
appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, "Get up, take the child
and his mother with you and go back to the land of Israel, for those who wanted
to kill the child are dead." So Joseph got up and, taking the child and his
mother with him, went back to the land of Israel. But when he learnt that Archelaus
had succeeded his father Herod as ruler of Judaea he was afraid to go there, and
being warned in a dream he left for the region of Galilee. There he settled in
a town called Nazareth. In this way the words spoken through the prophets were
to be fulfilled: He will be called a Nazarene.