BULLETIN 5
OCTOBER 2014
TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN
ORDINARY TIME IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
4 October
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Saint Francis of Assisi |
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Sunday
5 October
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Sunday Mass at 10.30 am for the congregation |
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Monday 6 October
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Mass at 10.00 am for Dolores Fairhurst and Johnny Thompson |
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Tuesday
7 October
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Our
Lady of the Rosary |
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Wednesday
8 October
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Mass at 10.00 am for Jim Vernon and Corrine Noble |
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Thursday
9 October
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Mass at 7.00 pm for Betty Wright and Raymond McLaren |
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Friday
10 October
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Mass at 10.00 am for Christine McAteer and Cecily Grant |
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Saturday
11 October
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Mass at 10.00 am for Brian Loy |
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The
Mass intention list is just over two weeks ahead. Please notify anniversaries
as early as you can. Thanks. |
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PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
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Sunday
5 October
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11.30 am |
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Monday 6 October
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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
7 October
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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 |
Cardiac
Rehabilition |
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Wednesday
8 October
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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
9 October
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4.00
pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm |
Dancing |
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Friday
10 October
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9.30
to 11.30 am 7.30 pm |
Parents
and Toddlers Lourdes Group Bingo |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Bob Harriman (Southport), Betty Wright (Kilwinning) and Brownlie Smyth of
our parish who died recently;
Gerry McGinn 2008, Robert Paterson 2004, Hugh O'Hare 2004, Charlie Scullion
2010, Kirsty Bell 2012, Elizabeth McKay 2005, Terence O'Neill 2002, Karen
Marie Boulcott 2007, William Cambridge 1990, John Goan 2012, James Martin
1997, Russ Otto 2012, Eunice Ward 2001, Peter Martean 1969, Catherine McHugh
1977, Joe Brady senior 1963, Vincenzo Carrino 1980, Alex Jamieson 2006, Bill
Henderson, Mary Colvin 2000, Jane Coulter 1998, Dan Donnelly 1941 and Chrissie
Ferguson 2006 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 £753.61 - many thanks.
RETIRED
PRIESTS' FUND COLLECTION
Last weekend's Retired Priests Fund collection amounted to £850.03 -
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 Ronnie Cairns at 5.30
pm and Robert Cooper at 10.30 am.
ALTAR SERVERS
Next weekend's altar servers are Aidan and Calum at 5.30
pm and Group 2 at 10.30 am.
SUNDAY
TEAS
Next Sunday's teas will be served by Annie Thompson’s team.
CHILDREN’S LITURGY
The
Children's Liturgy is celebrated during the 10.30 am Mass each Sunday. All
children are welcome. Next week's helpers are Elaine Shaw and Emma Paterson
for the pre-fives, Maria Paterson and Kimberley Boyd for primaries 1 and 2,
Andrena Hughes and Michelle Morton for primary 3 and Michelle Noble and Denise
Gilmour for primary 4.
50/50 CLUB
Anyone wishing to join the 50/50 Club please contact the Promoter on 469006.
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.
REPAIRS
The double hinges on the set of doors between the porch and the Church need
to be replaced. The springs are unreliable and the doors swing back with some
force or are too stiff. The cost is about £900. I bet they cost about
a fiver when the Church was built!
PARISH LOURDES GROUP BINGO
The Parish Lourdes Group are holding a Family Bingo Night on Friday 10 October
in the Parish Centre at 7.30 pm. Tea Tickets cost £1. See the notice
in the Porch. The proceeds will go towards the cost of a Sick Pilgrim's fare
to Lourdes with our Diocesan Pilgrimage from 6 to 13 July 2015. Further information
on the forthcoming Pilgrimage 2015 will be available shortly. All are welcome.
MARTIN AELRED CONCERT - MUSIC OF THE MOVIES
The Martin Aelred Concert in aid of Let The Children Live will take place
on Sunday 2 November 2014 at 7.30 pm in Saint Peter’s. Tickets, costing £5,
are available from the Stall or the Parish Office on 464963. All are welcome.
ANNUAL DIOCESAN TEACHERS' MASS
The Annual Diocesan Teachers' Mass will be held in Saint Joseph’s Church,
Kilmarnock on Monday 6 October at 7.00 pm. All teachers from the diocese are
warmly welcomed. After Mass, there will be a light buffet and a chance to
socialise.
YOUTH FOR LOURDES (YfL).
This diocesan group is now recruiting young people in the current fourth year
of secondary school to 23 years of age to join it. The YfL Group assists sick
and frail participants on the diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes with their mobility,
helping them to take part as fully as they can in the week long pilgrimage.
The dates are 5 to 15 July 2015. The full cost is £630 which includes
all food, travel, accommodation and insurance. The first meeting will take
place in Saint John's Hall, Glaisnock Street, Cumnock, KA18 1JU on Sunday
5 October from 3.00 pm till 6.00 pm. Application forms are available in the
Church porch or through the YfL office on 01387 252603, teamyfl@yahoo.co.uk
or Facebook Youth for Lourdes (Galloway).
HCPT DREAMTEAM GROUP 376
HCPT Dreamteam Group 376 has a few numbers left for our 100 Club. It cost
£5 a month with the chance of winning £250 per month. If you are
interested in supporting this group which takes handicapped children to Lourdes
then please contact Esther Coulter on 464692 or Liz Petrie on 467296.
HCPT FUNDRAISER
Plundering Sons are playing in Saint Mary’s Church Hall, Saltcoats on Friday,
24 October in aid of HCPT. Tickets cost £5 from Caroline on 07825 553243
or Clare on 07896 584820.
THOUGHTS OF POPE FRANCIS
As we prepare for the Synod on the Family, Pope Francis says “Today, how can
we tell people who are perhaps wounded and disillusioned that love between
a man and a woman is a good thing? How can we help children know that they
are a most precious gift? How can we warm the hearts of people, especially
those who are wounded and disappointed, and help them rediscover the beauty
of love? How can we show that the family is the privileged place where we
experience the beauty of life, the joy and the gift of love, the consola-tion
of forgiveness offered and received, and the encounter with the other? Today
the Church must learn again how to show that the family is a great gift, something
good and beautiful. The Church is called to show more vividly that the gift
of love, which the bride and groom offer each other, draws all people to God.
It is an exciting task because it moves people to look at the true reality
of the human person, and it opens the doors to the future, to life”.
EMBRACING THE FUTURE
The Deanery Priests have had a meeting to consider the outcomes of the 14
September Meeting in Saint Matthew's Academy and a report is being prepared
to share with you. Some interesting ideas emerge. Some to them are things
we can do nothing about at local level - married priests, women priests, bringing
priests from elsewhere and so on - but some of them are things we could do.
The proposal is to bring together those who were able to attend the meeting,
invite others, share ideas at a parish level then hold a different kind of
meeting in Saint Matthew’s before Christmas with a view to looking at all
practical ideas and seeing how to take them forward. The report on the 14
September meeting will be published on the website shortly and copies will
be available for those who want them.
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.