BULLETIN 13
APRIL 2008
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
12 April | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
13 April | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
14 April | Mass at 10.00 am for Tom McKay |
Tuesday
15 April | Mass at 10.00 am for Francis Smith |
Wednesday
16 April | Mass at 10.00 am for Charles Kelly |
Thursday
17 April | Mass at 7.00 pm for Rena Scullion |
Friday
18 April | Mass at 10.00 am for Hugh Henry |
Saturday
19 April | Mass at 10.00 am for John Dolan |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
13 April | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's
Liturgy |
Monday
14 April | 7.00
pm 7.00 to 8 00 pm |
Saint
Vincent de Paul Society |
Tuesday
15 April | 11.00
am 1.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 pm | Legion
of Mary Thursday Club Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit |
Wednesday
16 April | 7.00
pm 7.30 pm | Burakudo
Karate Club Ignatian Prayer Group |
Thursday
17 April | 2.00 to 3.00 pm | Cardiac Rehabilitation |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Alistair Campbell (Kibirnie),
Thomas McLaughlin (Saltcoats), Charles Kelly
and Monsignor
John O'Farrell who died recently and
Pope John Paul II 2004,
David Walsh 1962, James McKibben 2002, Ann McEvoy 1980,
Francis
Joseph Smith 1999, Jean Taylor 2006, Cliff Atkey 2000, Mary Ann Walsh 1955,
Francis
Coulter 1976, Marie McCarroll 1982, Robert Tracy 1940, Jane Tumilty 1983
and
William Main 2007 whose anniversaries occur at this time.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £907.11.
We are grateful for your generous support of the Parish. Banker's Orders amount
to an average of £4300 per month.
BANKER'S
ORDERS, GIFT AID AND WILLS
Have you thought of using a Bankers Order? It assists
us with the safe handling of cash. Have you signed a Gift Aid Form? If you pay
tax, then every £1 you give to the Parish is worth £1.28 to us. Would
you consider remembering Saint Peter's in your will?
PARISH
CENTRE COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for the Parish Centre amounted
to £567.68 - many thanks.
VOCATIONS
The
Fourth Sunday of Easter, Good Shepherd Sunday, is the World Day of Prayer for
Vocations to the Priesthood. There is a Letter from Bishop Cuningham on our need
for priests. Please pray for vocations to the priesthood and Religious Life.
LENT
SCIAF BOXES
Please return Boxes
for the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) to the stall.
SCHOOL HOLIDAY
Schools are on holiday. Teachers return on Monday 22 April
and pupils on Tuesday 23 April.
INSTALLATION
OF CANON
McMANUS
The Installation
of New Canons takes place on Thursday 24 April in Saint Margaret's Cathedral,
Ayr during 7.30 pm Mass. A bus will leave here at 6.00 pm. The bus list is at
the stall. A suggested donation to help with cost is £5.
'CANONISATION'
PARTY
There will be a 'Canonisation' Party in the Parish Centre on Friday 25
April at 7 pm for 7.15 pm. There will be a musical welcome from Saint Matthew's
Academy pupils followed by a meal at 8.00 pm. Tickets are now on sale at £10.
Numbers are limited.
'CANONISATION' PARTY CONTINUED
The Party will continue
on Sunday 27 April in the Parish Centre after the 12 noon Mass till 4.00 pm. Soup,
rolls and snacks will be available. This is a chance to meet and chat.
THANKS
Canon
Matt offers the
thanks of the Parish to Greta McGreevy who has managed the Parish Centre bookings
so faithfully for years and years. The bookings are now
being handled by Michael and Fiona.
LEGACY
Saint
Peter's Parish, the
Saint Vincent de Paul Society
and the Handicapped Children's Pilgrimage Trust have been included in the will
of the late Tom McKay.
SAINT
VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY COFFEE MORNING
TheSaint Peter's Conference
of the Saint Vincent de Paul
Society is holding a Coffee Morning on Saturday 17 May. There will be various
stalls on the day as well as a prize raffle. Donations for any of the stalls -
baking, books, bric à brac - as well as prizes for the raffle will be most
welcome and can be notified to any member of the Conference.
This year, the Conference plans to donate the proceeds of the Coffee Morning to
the Ozanam Centre for the Homeless in Glasgow. The Centre is named after Blessed
Frederic Ozanam who founded the Society and is supported by Our Lady of the Wayside
Special Works Conference in Glasgow. As always, we ask for your generous support
for this event and we hope with your help to bring real practical assistance and
Christian love and solidarity to the many men and women in need who use the Centre.
SAINT
PETER'S PARISH CENTRE
To
book the Centre please contact Michael or Fiona. Because of licensing laws the
Centre is not available for eighteenth or twenty-first birthday parties. The fees
for 2008 are:
Evening function including use of kitchen -
£100
Drinks licence fee - £25
Daytime
functions, parties and so on - £15 per hour
Groups
- as arranged with organiser
Parish Groups - a donation is
welcome
Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, our best funders - fund-raising
events as at present
Funeral catering - as arranged and booked
by the funeral director
MÄNNERENSEMBLE
UNERHÖRT
Männerensemble
Unerhört, a choir from Osterspai in Germany, will sing at the 5.30 pm
Vigil Mass on Saturday 3 May then join local artistes in an evening of Scottish
and German music and song in the Parish Centre. There will be a bar. Tickets cost
£2.50 and are available from Janette McMurdo or the
stall.
3TFM
3TFM local radio station will begin full time broadcasting
from Monday to Friday on April 19 on 103.1 FM. Please support our local radio
station. If you would like to be involved or to know more, please phone Lewis
on 604612 for information. Saint Peter's will have a slot on 'Thought for the
Day' from time to time.
THE
INNOCENTS
A box is available in the porch for donations of baby goods, talcum
powder, shampoo and so on. For more information, please contact Josephine.
SCOTTISH
CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL AID FUND (SCIAF) BOXES
Please continue to use SCIAF
boxes throughout the year or make a box of your own. Please hand in any donations
for forwarding to SCIAF for our poorest brothers and sisters.
THE BULLETIN
Please accept apologies for the loss of some usual features. Normal service will
be resumed as soon as possible.
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.
A
Reading from the Acts of the Apostles
On the day of Pentecost Peter stood up
with the Eleven and addressed the crowd with a loud voice: The whole House of
Israel can be certain that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord
and Christ. Hearing this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the
apostles, What must we do, brothers? You must repent, Peter answered and every
one of you must be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of
your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise that
was made is for you and your children, and for all those who are far away, for
all those whom the Lord our God will call to himself. He spoke to them for a long
time using many arguments, and he urged them, Save yourselves from this perverse
generation. They were convinced by his arguments, and they accepted what he said
and were baptised. That very day about three thousand were added to their number.
A
Reading from the First Letter of Saint Peter
The merit, in the sight of God,
is in bearing punishment patiently when you are punished after doing your duty.
This, in fact, is what you were called to do, because Christ suffered for you
and left an example for you to follow the way he took. He had not done anything
wrong, and there had been no perjury in his mouth. He was insulted and did not
retaliate with insults; when he was tortured he made no threats but he put his
trust in the righteous judge. He was bearing our faults in his own body on the
cross, so that we might die to our faults and live for holiness; through his wounds
you have been healed. You had gone astray like sheep but now you have come back
to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
A
Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John
Jesus said: "I tell you
most solemnly, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but gets
in some other way is a thief and a brigand. The one who enters through the gate
is the shepherd of the flock; the gatekeeper lets him in, the sheep hear his voice,
one by one he calls his own sheep and leads them out. When he has brought out
his flock, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow because they know his voice.
They never follow a stranger but run away from him: they do not recognise the
voice of strangers." Jesus told them this parable but they failed to understand
what he meant by telling it to them. So Jesus spoke to them again: "I tell
you most solemnly, I am the gate of the sheepfold. All others who have come are
thieves and brigands; but the sheep took no notice of them. I am the gate. Anyone
who enters through me will be safe: he will go freely in and out and be sure of
finding pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come
so that they may have life and have it to the full.".