BULLETIN 7
SEPTEMBER 2014
TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN
ORDINARY TIME IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
6 September
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Mass at 10.00 am for Annie McCormick |
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Sunday
7 September
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Sunday
Mass at 10.30 am for the congregation |
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Monday 8 September
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No Mass in Saint Peter's |
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Tuesday
9 September
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No Mass in Saint Peter's |
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Wednesday
10 September
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Mass at 10.00 am for whom it will be announced |
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Thursday
11 September
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No Mass in Saint Peter's |
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Friday
12 September
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No Mass in Saint Peter's |
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Saturday
13 September
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No 10.00 Mass in Saint Peter's |
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Canon
Matt will offer Holy Mass elsewhere for intentions
received. |
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PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
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Sunday
7 September
|
11.30 am |
|
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Monday 8 September
|
9.30
to 11.30 pm 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 to 9.00 pm |
Parents
and Toddlers |
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Tuesday
9 September
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9.00
to 11.00 am 11.00 am 5.00 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.30 pm 7.30 pm |
Cardiac
Rehabilition |
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Wednesday
10 September
|
6.00
to 8.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm 8.00 to 9.00 pm |
Irish
Dancing Class |
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Thursday
11 September
|
4.00
pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm |
Dancing |
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Friday
12 September
|
9.30 to 11.30 am | Parents and Toddlers |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Tony Fraser (Saltcoats and Skye), Ellen Trewin (Saltcoats) and Bernard Devine
(West Kilbride) who died recently;
Rona McNamara 2005, Marie White née McManus 1997, Ellen Vance 2012,
Catherine Campbell 2003, James Duffin 1960, Margaret Logan 2013, William Loudon
1977, Joan McKnight 1976, Harry Kaye 2000, Susannah Kemp 1948, James Moore
1998, Florence Slavin 1998, Father Martin McCluskey 1996, Cathie Hilferty
2009, Mary Mitchell 2004, Gladys Moore 2006, Mary Otto 2008, Mr and Mrs Daniel
Brown, Samuel Cambridge 2005, Mary Crossan 1981, John Hazelton 1974, Jane
McKechan 1998, Bridget McLaughlin 1997, John Burns 1997, Alberto Carrino 2009,
Thomas Fernes 2011, James Hughes 2010 and Anne McCabe 1995 whose anniversaries
occur at this time and those who are sick.
If a member of your family or a friend is sick, please let us know and
give us the details. Deacon Bill Corbett (01292 521208, 07904 248948, Rev.BillCorbett@btinternet.com)
is the chaplain to Crosshouse Hospital and Canon Keegans (01292 263488) is
the chaplain to Ayr Hospital. The priest on call can be contacted through
the ward. If deceased members of your family are not on our anniversary
list, please tell Canon
Matt, the parish office or
contact WebsiteAuthor@SaintPeterinChains.net.
SUNDAY MASS TIMES
Sunday Mass times
in Saint Peter's are 5.30 pm Vigil and 10.30 am. Sunday
Mass times in other local parishes can be
seen here.
SACRAMENT OF FORGIVENESS
The Sacrament of Forgiveness is available at any suitable time as well as
from 4.30 pm before the Vigil Mass on Saturday evenings.
FINANCES
Bankers Orders for the parish and Parish Centre amount to £3800 per
month. Every month, we pay a levy of £1450 to the Diocese. We are grateful
for your generous support in collections. If you can manage a little more
from time to time, it would be a great help. Have you thought of using a Bankers
Order? It assists us with the safe handling of cash. Banker's Orders for the
Parish and Centre amount to an average of £3800 per month. Forms are
available. Would you consider remembering Saint Peter's in your will?
OFFERTORY COLLECTION
Last weekend's Offertory collection amounted to £792.00 - many thanks.
BUILDING
FUND COLLECTION
Last weekend's Building Fund collection amounted to £301.39 - many thanks.
GIFT AID
The Inland Revenue now requires us to use a new style of Gift
Aid form. These are available at the back of the Church and on the parish
website. If you pay tax, please complete the new form and return it to the
box provided. This allows us to provide the additional information required
on the Gift Aid claim. Gift Aid is a vital source of income. All that is needed
is that you pay tax. You simply declare that you give funds to the Church.
We do the rest. Why not sign a form today? We get back an extra 25p for every
£1 you give the Church in your weekly collection or by way of a donation.
There is no need to cancel or renew it. We simply claim in the income we receive.
COLLECTION ENVELOPES
New collection envelopes are now available at the stall. Please let us know
if you wish to switch to a standing order. Forms are available.
READERS
Next weekend's readers are Katrina Pollock at 5.30
pm and Angela Body at 10.30 am.
ALTAR SERVERS
Next weekend's altar servers are Aidan and Calum at 5.30
pm and Group 3 at 10.30 am.
SUNDAY
TEAS
Next Sunday's teas will be served by Fiona Brown's team.
We have some new teams, but we don’t have the consumers. It is true that we
had to cancel a few times over the summer but we are back in business. We
should give it another couple of months to see if custom picks up. Please
support those who make such a big effort at their own expense each week.
CHILDREN’S LITURGY
The
Children's Liturgy is celebrated during the 10.30 am Mass each Sunday. We
have groups for three to five years, primary 1 and 2 and primary 3 which restarts
today, Sunday 7 September. There is a Sacramental Preparation group for primary
4 children which will start in October. All children are welcome. Next week's
helpers are Elaine Shaw and Emma Paterson for the pre-fives, Michelle Noble
and Yvette Thorpe for primaries 1 and 2 and Michelle Morton and Marie O’Brien
for primary 3.
CANON MATT HOLIDAY
Canon
Matt will be on holiday
from 8 to 26 September. Canon Poland (463225) and Father Bell (463461)
are available. Father Kinsler will cover the weekend Masses. Father Kinsler
will also offer Mass on a Wednesday morning at 10.00 am. There should be morning
Mass in the neighbouring parishes. Please check with them. The Parish Office
is open during office hours.
WORDS OF POPE FRANCIS
Thanks solely to our encounter with God’s love, which blossoms into an enriching
friendship, we are liberated from our narrowness and self-absorption. We become
fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond
ourselves in order to attain the fullest truth of our being. Here we find
the source and inspiration of all our efforts at evangelization. For if we
have received the love which restores meaning to our lives, how can we fail
to share that love with others? Pope Francis
PROTECTING VULNERABLE GROUPS UPDATE
All volunteers who still require the Protecting Vulnerable Groups Certificate
are invited to the Parish Centre on Sunday 21 September at 2.00 pm or Saint
John’s Parish Hall on Monday 29 September at 7.00 pm.
KEEPING IN TOUCH
If you are happy for me to have your email address, would you send us an email
to Office@SaintPeterInChains.net? Just say hello and who you are. Postal address
and phone would be useful as well. All our data is protected by the Data Protection
Act and will not be divulged to anyone else.
THE VATICAN CONSULTATION ON THE FAMILY
The responses you made to the Vatican
Consultation on the Family have been incorporated into a response. The
report is available in Church and on the parish website at www.SaintPeterInChains.net.
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY COFFEE MORNING
The Saint Vincent de Paul Society
is holding a Coffee Morning and Table Tops on Saturday 4 October 2014 from
10.30 am to 12.30 pm in the Parish Centre to aid the purchase of school uniforms
for South African children in need. Tickets are available at the door costing
£1 for adults and 50p for children. All donations of baking, books,
bric-a-brac, bottles and raffle prizes would be gratefully received. The Parish
Centre will be open on the evening of Friday 3 October for donations. All
are welcome.
SAINT PETER’S CHILDREN’S CENTRE
Spaces are available for the new afternoon class for children who are two
to three years old. Hours are Monday to Thursday from 1.00 to 3.00 pm. Cost
is £5 per session. Contact Josephine Coulter on 473030 for details.
EMBRACING CHANGE
There will be a meeting in Saint
Matthew’s Academy, Saltcoats on the afternoon of Sunday 14 September.
It is a 'training' meeting for parishioners from the Deanery to take part
in the process the Priests completed earlier in the year. It is to enable
everyone to begin to look at the Church in a new way - to shape our future.
The training session will be delivered by Paul and David who led the open
meeting on 29 June. I have the necessary number of representative from our
parish but everyone who is interested will be kept informed through homilies,
website, printed copies of the notes and so on. The session will be from 2.00
to 6.00 pm with various breaks and tea and coffee provided. The programme
is called Three Horizons - the horizon we can see now, the horizon we should
be able to see and finally, the horizon we would want to see. It is a process
aiming to make us look forward. Our Church will change. Pope Francis is urging
us to rediscover what Jesus wants us to do.
NATIONAL YOUTH PILGRIMAGE TO SAINT MARGARET’S TOMB, DUNFERMLINE
There will be a day-long pilgrimage to Dunfermline for all young people on
21 September 2014. You can visit her cave, tomb, Dunfermline Abbey and join
with other Scottish young people for Mass at 4.00 pm followed by dinner together.
For information, please visit www.GallowayYouth.org.uk
or contact Father Stephen McGrattan
on info@rccumnock.org.uk.
LITURGICAL MUSIC DAY
James MacMillan and Father Guy Nichols of Birmingham Oratory will lead a music
workshop day in Saint John’s Church, Cumnock on Saturday 27 September from
11.30 am. The proper chants from the Roman Missal in English and antiphons
will be taught with a view to their being used in parishes. Music learned
on the day will be sung at the Vigil Mass. For more details and a registration
form, visit www.RCCumnock.org.uk
or contact Father Stephen McGrattan
on info@rccumnock.org.uk or 01290 421031.
NORTH AYRSHIRE COUNCIL DEMENTIA SUPPORT SERVICES
North Ayrshire Council Dementia Support Services are based at 97 Glasgow Street,
Ardrossan. The telephone number is 01294 602720. Please contact the team if
you or someone you know of someone who needs assistance.
McDONALDS
AND SUNDAY MAIL PEOPLE’S AWARD
Many of you will know that Saint
Mary's, Saltcoats parishioner Alex Tulloch is a founder
member of TASS (Towns of Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston) Thistle and
for over the thirty years is still both coach and chairman. He has recently
been awarded the Regional Award Winner for all his hard work and commitment
for TASS. He has now been nominated for the McDonalds and Sunday Mail People’s
Award and is down to the final three. Please show your support for Alex and
the incredible hard work he has put in over the years for young people and
vote for him. You can vote at www.ScottishFA.co.uk/awards.
CUNNINGHAME FLOWER CLUB
There will be a free flower arranging taster session in Saltcoats Library
on Thursday 11 September from 10 am to 12 noon. What you make you take away.
Please phone 469546 to book a place.
NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE TO CARFIN
The National Pilgrimage to Carfin in honour of Saint Margaret of Scotland
will take place on Sunday 7 September. Mass at the Grotto will be at 3.00
pm.
VISITORS
Are you visiting us for Mass? Please know that you are very welcome. During
the 10.30 am Mass outwith holidays, there is a Children’s Liturgy provided
for preschool children, children in Primaries 1 to 3 and a Sacramental Programme
for children in Primary 4. After the 10.30 am Mass, tea, coffee cakes and
buns are available in the Parish Centre. At both of our weekend Masses, we
have a second collection for our Parish Centre upkeep.
ADVERTISER SUPPORT
Our advertisers would welcome your support. We are grateful for their continuing
sponsorship. We are grateful for the support of Mr and Mrs Sohal, Nisa Stores,
Glasgow Street for the weekly donation of tea, coffee and milk for the Sunday
teas.
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS - MISSION STATEMENT
The Catholic Church in Scotland is concerned with the lives, safety, wholeness
and well-being of each individual person within God's purpose for everyone.
It seeks to safeguard the welfare of people of all ages who are involved in
whatever capacity with
the Church and its organisations. As a Church community, we accept that it
is the responsibility of all of us, ordained, professed, paid and
voluntary members, to work together to prevent the physical, sexual, emotional
abuse or neglect of children, young people and vulnerable adults.