BULLETIN 10
FEBRUARY 2008
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
9 February | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
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Sunday
10 February | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
11 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Frances Kelly |
| Tuesday
12 February | Mass at 10.00 am for John Asken |
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Wednesday
13 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Jackie Moore |
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Thursday
14 February | Mass at 7.00 pm for Patsy Keyes |
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Friday
15 February | Mass at 10.00 pm for Bernard and Margaret McLaughlan |
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Saturday
16 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Hugh Henry |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
10 February | 10.00
am 10.00 am 1.00 to 4.00 pm |
Children's
Liturgy |
| Monday
11 February | 9.00
to 4.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8 00 pm |
Seafield School |
| Tuesday
12 February | 11.00
am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 1.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.30 pm | Legion
of Mary Nursery Thursday Club Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit Ignatian Prayer Group |
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Wednesday
13 February | 9.00
to 3.00 am 6.00 to 7.00 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm 7.30 pm | Nursery
In-Service Training Barakuda Karate Special Religious Education (SPRED) Ignatian Prayer Group |
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Thursday
14 February | 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 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation Fund Raising Bingo |
| Friday
15 February | 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 and
James Kean and John
Henry Fellowes (East Kilbride) who died recently and
Mary
Hall 1989, Rose Walker 1985, Margaret Mitchell 2004,
Peter Mitchell
1973, Eliza Jane McKay, Father G J Giblin SCJ 2001,
Catherine
Cahill 1977, Ann Jane Fitzsimmons, John McIlhatton 1954,
Chrissie
Welsh 2006, Patricketta Maxwell 2004 and James McLaren 1964
whose
anniversaries occur at this time.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £696.38
- many thanks. Banker's Orders amount to an average of £4300 per month.
Each month £4200 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.
MEDICAL
MISSIONARIES OF MARY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for the Medical
Missionaries of Mary amounted to £1437.42 - many thanks.
CHURCH
STUDENTS SPECIAL COLLECTION
There will be a special collection at all Masses
next weekend for Church Students. Gift Aid envelopes are available at the stall.
Please take one home and return it next week.
LENT EXTRA
Copies of
Lent Extra are available at the stall. A donation of £1 would be appreciated.
LENT SCIAF BOXES
Boxes for the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund
(SCIAF) Lenten appeal are available at the stall. Please take one home with you
and return it at the end of Lent.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Stations
of the Cross will be said during Lent each Friday at 9.40 am.
SAINT MATTHEW'S
ACADEMY
Mass will be celebrated in
Saint. Matthew's Academy every
Friday at 12.50 pm.
PRIZE
BINGO
There will be fundraising bingo in the Parish Centre on Thursday 14
February at 7pm. Tickets, costing £2 for Adults and £1 for Children
include tea, coffee and baking, and are available from Cecilia or Myriame. All
are welcome. Many thanks for your support.
RACE NIGHT
The annual
Race Night in memory of Larry Kernahan will take place in the Parish Centre on
Friday 29 February at 8.00 pm. Tickets are available from Esther, cost £2.50
and include light supper. All money raised goes to the Pilgrimage Trust Group
207. Donations of money, bottles and raffle prizes would be very much appreciated
by Esther. Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
GALLOWAY
LOURDES HOSPITALITÉ
The Annual General Meeting of Galloway Lourdes
Hospitalité will be preceded by Mass with Anointing of the Sick in Saint
John's Church, Stevenston on Sunday 17 February at 3.30 pm. Tea and coffee
will be served after Mass. All are welcome.
MUSIC
MINISTRY MEETING
The Music Ministry meeting scheduled for the 14 February
will take place on the 21 February.
CHILD
PROTECTION TRAINING DAY
All those who have not received up to date child protection
training are invited to attend a session in the Parish Centre on Sunday 9 March
from 2.30 to 4.00 pm.
50-50
CLUB
There are sixteen new members of the 50-50 Club. Membership forms are
available in the porch.
FATHER JOHN
Father John phoned
to say he had arrived home safely. He goes with our prayers and good wishes. The
envelopes raised over £2000, most of which is earmarked for a clean water
project. Primary 6X raised over £400 for a school project in Tanzania. Personal
gifts raised the total to over £3000. I know that Father
John is very grateful and I want to thank you all for your generosity to him
while he was here and for your parting gifts. Father Shayo CSSP, Father
John's superior in the Holy Ghost Fathers, East Africa has written to ask
if we would give hospitality to another African priest who might require a break
from a difficult mission. My inclination is to say yes, but I would be grateful
to hear from you. The decision is pending. Whoever comes might not be another
Father John. Father
John's forwarding address is Father John Maendeleo, PO Box 1534, Arusha, Tanzania,
East Africa.
THE CRACKED POT
An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on
the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack
in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.
At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived
only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing
home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of
its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection,
and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. After
two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one
day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself because this crack in my side
causes water to leak out all the way back to your house." The old woman smiled
and said "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path
but not on the other pot's side? " "That's because I have always known
about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path and every
day while we walk back, you water them." "For two years I have been
able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being
just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."
Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have
that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.
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When
we feel stuck, going nowhere - even starting to slip backwards - we may actually be backing up to get a running start. |
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
Genesis
2:7-9; 3:1-7
The Lord God fashioned man of dust from the soil. Then he breathed
into his nostrils a breath of life, and thus man became a living being. The Lord
God planted a garden in Eden which is in the east, and there he put the man he
had fashioned. The Lord God caused to spring up from the soil every kind of tree,
enticing to look at and good to eat, with the tree of life and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil in the middle of the garden. The serpent was the most
subtle of all the wild beasts that the Lord God had made. It asked the woman,
Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden? The
woman answered the serpent, We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But
of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, You must not eat
it, nor touch it, under pain of death. Then the serpent said to the woman, No!
You will not die! God knows in fact that on the day you eat it your eyes will
be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil. The woman saw that
the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was desirable for
the knowledge that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She
gave some also to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of
both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed
fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.
Second
Reading
5:12-19
Sin entered the world through one man, and through sin death, and thus death
has spread through the whole human race because everyone has sinned. Sin existed
in the world long before the Law was given. There was no law and so no one could
be accused of the sin of 'law-breaking', yet death reigned over all from Adam
to Moses, even though their sin, unlike that of Adam, was not a matter of breaking
a law. Adam prefigured the One to come, but the gift itself considerably outweighed
the fall. If it is certain that through one man's fall so many died, it is even
more certain that divine grace, coming through the one man, Jesus Christ, came
to so many as an abundant free gift. The results of the gift also outweigh the
results of one man's sin: for after one single fall came judgement with a verdict
of condemnation, now after many falls comes grace with its verdict of acquittal.
> If it is certain that death reigned over everyone as the consequence of one
man's fall, it is even more certain that one man, Jesus Christ, will cause everyone
to reign in life who receives the free gift that he does not deserve, of being
made righteous. Again, as one man's fall brought condemnation on everyone, so
the good act of one man brings everyone life and makes them justified. As by one
man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will
be made righteous.
Gospel
Matthew
4:1-11
Jesus was led by the Spirit out into the wilderness to be tempted by
the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, after which he was very
hungry, and the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God,
tell these stones to turn into loaves." But he replied, "Scripture says:
Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of
God." The devil then took him to the holy city and made him stand on the
parapet of the Temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw
yourself down; for scripture says: He will put you in his angels" charge,
and they will support you on their hands in case you hurt your foot against a
stone." Jesus said to him, "Scripture also says: You must not put the
Lord your God to the test." Next, taking him to a very high mountain, the
devil showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour. "I will
give you all these", he said, "if you fall at my feet and worship me."
Then Jesus replied, "Be off, Satan! For scripture says: You must worship
the Lord your God, and serve him alone." Then the devil left him, and angels
appeared and looked after him.