BULLETIN 6
JANUARY 2008
THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
5 January | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
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Sunday
6 January | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
7 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Agnes Burns |
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Tuesday
8 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Mary Houston |
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Wednesday
9 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Sammy McFarlane |
| Thursday
10 January | Mass at 7.00 pm for David Parkinson |
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Friday
11 January | Mass at 10.00 pm for Jim Pirrie |
| Saturday
12 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Harry Merrick |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
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Saturday
5 January | 7.30 pm |
Private Party |
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Sunday
6 January | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's
Liturgy |
| Monday
7 January | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 pm |
Nursery |
| Tuesday
8 January | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 10.00 to 5.00 pm 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.30 pm | Nursery
Kindergarten Key Housing Legion of Mary Nursery Keep Fit Ignatian Prayer Group |
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Wednesday
9 January | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 10.00 to 5.00 pm 12.30 to 3.00 pm 6.00 to 7.00 pm 7.30 pm | Nursery
Kindergarten Key Housing Nursery Barakuda Karate Ignatian Prayer Group |
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Thursday
10 January | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation Brownies Girl Guides |
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Friday
11 January | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm | Nursery Parents and Toddlers Nursery |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
May Conlan and Jackie Moore who died recently and
Patrick Cawley 2001, Helen McCluskey 2004, James Burns 1955,
Leda Biagioni 2007, John Cahill 1989, Bernard McLaughlan
1984,
Robert Colvin 1998, Gerard Fairhurst 2003, Derek Tomelty 2003,
Patricia Brennan 2005, Joseph Gibbons 1973, Rosina McPeake,
Joan McCallum 2001, Christine Cassidy 1998, Roy White 1993,
John Aitken 2001, Mary Donnelly 2006 and Kathleen
Tritschler 2006
whose anniversaries occur at this
time.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £703.32 - 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 £300.76 - many thanks.
NO
MORE 'FATHER MATT' - THAT'S NO WAY TO ADDRESS A CANON!
Bishop Cunningham has
invited Father Matt
to be a Canon - congratulations!
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.
SAINT MATTHEW'S ACADEMY
- CATHOLIC EDUCATION WEEK
Bishop Cunningham will celebrate Catholic Education
Week with Mass in Saint Matthew's Academy on Wednesday 30 January at 7.00 pm.
There will be Solemn Blessing of the school. The deanery parishes hope to present
new vestments and altar silver to the school. Some guests will be invited but
there is an open invitation to all parishioners.
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.
MAKING
FRIENDS
The
better part of every life is spent in making friends
The years leave many broken
things that only kindness mends
The slender chain of gold that links two hearts
can hold its own
A burden shared is lighter than the one we bear alone
Somehow
the road grows shorter walking hand and hand
Seeing tenderness in eyes that
truly understand
And thus it is until life ends we spend the best years making
friends
| There
are two significant characteristics of every great life. The first is the capacity to make a good beginning and the second is courage to push on to a good ending. A life of triumph hinges on a firm faith for rugged times. |
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
Isaiah
60:1-6
Arise,
shine out, Jerusalem, for your light has come, the glory of the Lord is rising
on you, though night still covers the earth and darkness the peoples. Above you
the Lord now rises and above you his glory appears. The nations come to your light
and kings to your dawning brightness. Lift up your eyes and look round: all are
assembling and coming towards you, your sons from far away and your daughters
being tenderly carried. At this sight you will grow radiant, your heart throbbing
and full; since the riches of the sea will flow to you, the wealth of the nations
come to you; camels in throngs will cover you, and dromedaries of Midian and Ephah;
everyone in Sheba will come, bringing gold and incense and singing the praise
of the Lord.
Second
Reading
Ephesians
3:2-3.5-6
You
have probably heard how I have been entrusted by God with the grace he meant for
you, and that it was by a revelation that I was given the knowledge of the mystery.
This mystery that has now been revealed through the Spirit to his holy apostles
and prophets was unknown to any men in past generations; it means that pagans
now share the same inheritance, that they are parts of the same body, and that
the same promise has been made to them, in Christ Jesus, through the gospel.
The
Gospel
Matthew
2:1-12
After
Jesus had been born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod, some
wise men came to Jerusalem from the east. "Where is the infant king of the
Jews?" they asked. "We saw his star as it rose and have come to do him
homage." When King Herod heard this he was perturbed, and so was the whole
of Jerusalem. He called together all the chief priests and the scribes of the
people, and enquired of them where the Christ was to be born. "At Bethlehem
in Judaea," they told him, "for this is what the prophet wrote: And
you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, you are by no means least among the leaders
of Judah, for out of you will come a leader who will shepherd my people Israel."
Then Herod summoned the wise men to see him privately. He asked them the exact
date on which the star had appeared, and sent them on to Bethlehem. "Go and
find out all about the child," he said "and when you have found him,
let me know, so that I too may go and do him homage." Having listened to
what the king had to say, they set out. And there in front of them was the star
they had seen rising; it went forward and halted over the place where the child
was. The sight of the star filled them with delight, and going into the house
they saw the child with his mother Mary, and falling to their knees they did him
homage. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense
and myrrh. But they were warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, and returned
to their own country by a different way.