BULLETIN
13
NOVEMBER 2016
THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY
IN ORDINARY TIME IN YEAR 3
CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
12 November
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Mass
at 10.00 am for the Holy Souls |
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Sunday
13 November
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Mass
at 10.30 am for the congregation |
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Monday
14 November
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Mass at 10.00 am for James Brogan and Jim McQuade |
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Tuesday
15 November
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Mass at 10.00 am for Ellie Graham and Barry Scott |
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Wednesday
16 November
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Mass at 10.00 am for George Kane and Roddy Monan |
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Thursday
17 November
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Mass at 7.00 pm for George Hilferty and Francis Brady |
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Friday
18 November
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Mass at 10.00 am for Alice McWhinnie |
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Saturday
19 November
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Mass
at 10.00 am for the Holy Souls |
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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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SAINT MARY'S AND SAINT JOHN'S CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
12 November
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Vigil Mass at 4.30 pm |
Mass at 10.00 am |
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Sunday
13 November
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Sunday Mass at 10.00 am |
Sunday Mass at 11.30 am |
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Monday
14 November
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Service at 10.00 am |
Requiem Mass at 10.00 am |
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Tuesday
15 November
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Mass at 10.00 am |
Mass at 7.00 pm |
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Wednesday
16 November
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Mass at 10.00 am |
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Thursday
17 November
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Service at 10.00 am |
Mass at 10.00 am |
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Friday
18 November
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Mass at 10.00 am |
Service at 10.00 am |
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Saturday
19 November
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Vigil Mass at 4.30 pm |
Mass at 10.00 am |
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Sunday
13 November
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11.30 am |
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Monday
14 November
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7.00 to 9.00 pm | |
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Tuesday
15 November
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9.00
to 11.00 am 3.00 to 6.00 pm 3.45 pm 7.30 to 8.10 pm 8.10 to 8.30 pm |
Cardiac
Rehabilitation |
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Wednesday
16 November
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3.00
to 6.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm 8.00 to 9.00 pm |
Skallywags
Aftercare |
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Thursday
17 November
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3.00
to 6.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm |
Skallywags
Aftercare |
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Friday
18 November
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9.30
to 11.30 pm 3.00 to 6.00 pm |
Parents
and Toddlers Skallywags Aftercare |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
George Kane, Jim McQuade (Burnside), John Adam and Janice Collinson (United
States) who died recently;
Bartholomew (Barney) Coby 2012, Mary Dalziel 2006, Helen Mallon 1987, Daniel
McDougall 1944, Alex Miller 1979, James Smith 1999, William Cassidy 2012,
Julie Anne MacLaren 2006, William Reilly, Rose Floyd 1992, Vivien Friel 2004,
Canon Patrick Gunning 1987, Karen Small 2015, Hugh Welsh 1986, Robert McGee
1996, Francis Brady 1943, George Hilferty 2013, Hugh Madine 1997, Letitia
Smith 2001, Setti Cavani 1997, Margaret Lee 1984, Linda Jackson 2009, Alice
McGrattan 2013, Stephen Munn 2011, Annie Boyle O'Hare 1967 and Alice Tomelty
2000 whose anniversaries occur at this time and those who are sick.
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.
HOSPITAL
CHAPLAINCY
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 is assisted by the priest on call
each week. Canon Pat Keegans is the chaplain to Ayr Hospital and the Ayrshire
Hospice.
FINANCES
Bankers Orders for the Parish and Parish Centre amount to £3500 per
month. 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. A Standing
Order would make the handling of money so much easier. Have you signed a Gift
Aid form? If you are a taxpayer the Church would get 25p added to every £1
you donate.
COLLECTIONS
Last weekend's Offertory collection amounted to £857.30 and the Maintenance
Fund collection to £305.09.
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.
PARISH RECORDS
Our parish records are covered by the Data Protection Act and are for parish
use only. We cannot give out phone numbers or addresses. Please help us to
keep our records up to date using the cards provided.
READERS
Next weekend's readers are Pauline Taylor at 5.30 pm and
Patricia Milligan at 10.30 am.
ALTAR SERVERS
Next weekend's altar servers are Group 1 at 5.30
pm and Group 2 at 10.30 am.
SUNDAY
TEAS
We
are very short of Sunday Tea teams. Is there any chance of a group of friends
forming a team? It would be a shame to lose the Sunday Teas altogether. Would
you consider making a team or joining a team that organises the teas and coffees
after Sunday 10.30 am Mass? If so, please leave your details at the Parish
Office or telephone 01294 464063.
Next Sunday's teas will be served by Maria Boyle's team.
MUSIC AT MASS
Music is an essential part of Mass. Are there any budding musicians willing
to offer their talent and service?
CHILDREN’S
LITURGY
We would more volunteers to help with the Children's Liturgy during Mass at
10.30 am on Sunday mornings. Next week's helpers are Elaine Shaw
and Michelle Stevenson for the pre-fives, Frances Gemmell and Gayle Paterson
for Primaries 1, 2 and 3 and Jacqueline Smith and Michelle Morton for Primary
4.
VOLUNTEERS
If you are able to help with Sunday Teas, Music or the Children's
Liturgy, please speak to Canon
Matt or contact the Parish Office on 464063. Thank you.
MONTH
OF THE HOLY SOULS
During November, Mass will be offered for all our dead. There are November
Lists available. Fill in the names of all family members and put it in an
envelope. There is a basket by the altar. A Mass offering is traditional,
but not necessary.
DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES
The Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will be from 3 to 10 July 2017. Full details
are available from the parish office
PILGRIMAGE TO FATIMA
The Diocese of Paisley is looking at the possibility of organising a Pilgrimage
to Fatima in the one hundredth anniversary year of the Apparitions of our
Blessed Lady. The proposed dates are 8 to 15 June 2017. You can express interest
by calling Ann Marie Cairns on 01698 262941 or emailling amcalba@yahoo.co.uk.
SPECIAL RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT (SPRED) CHRISTMAS DRAW
SPRED supports our parishioners, children and adults who have special needs.
the draw takes place at our Christmas celebration in Troon on 11 December.
The Diocesan SPRED Centre needs to locate from Queen Margaret Academy, Ayr.
Please support us as we try to identify alternative accommodation. All funds
raised will go to any necessary refurbishment. Members of SPRED will be selling
tickets next weekend. Your help is greatly appreciated and necessary. Sister
Kathleen, SPRED Director
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE FOODBANK
The Foodbank at the Church of the Nazarene in Glasgow Street is desperately
short of tinned meat, juice, ultra-heat treatment (UHT) milk and tinned fruit.
Can you help, please?
CHERNOBYL CHILDREN'S LIFELINE
Can you help with the Chernobyl Children's Lifeline? Could you open your home
to children from Ukraine for two to four weeks in the summer and help us to
continue to make a difference in their young lives? We are hoping to invite
another group of twelve children aged from 9 to eleven to Ayrshire next summer
but can only do it if we have at least another three volunteer families to
help host them. The children will be in Ayrshire from about middle of June
to middle of July and as they go on trips most days they will only be with
you in the evenings and weekends. The children are accompanied by an English-speaking
leader who is reachable twenty-four hours a day during their stay. The committee
is also there to support you and we can work around your work and family life
so you will never be on your own or left struggling. Please have a look at
our website.
ANNUAL MASS FOR TEACHERS AND PARENT COUNCIL MEMBERS
Bishop William will celebrate the
Annual Teachers' Mass in Saint
John’s Church, Stevenston on Tuesday 15 November at 7.00 pm
CEMETERY
MASS
We hope to celebrate the annual Cemetery Mass on Sunday 20 November at 1.30
pm.
EMBRACING
CHANGE - CLOSING OF THE HOLY YEAR OF MERCY
As part of the Embracing Change process, there will be a joint service for
all the parishes of Saint Mary's North Ayrshire Deanery in Saint
Brigid's Church, 30 Newton Street, Kilbirnie, KA25 6HW on Sunday 20 November
at 3.00 pm. Please note the change of date. The
Service will give us a chance to focus and reflect on the key events of this
Year of Mercy and to pray that we may build upon what has been done and become
ever more authentically a reflection of God's mercy in our world. The service
will last under one hour and will be follow by tea, coffee and home baking.
All are very welcome.
COFFEE
MORNING
On Saturday 19 November, Ailsa Tracy will be holding a coffee morning in the
Parish Centre from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm to help raise funds for her volunteer
year to South Africa next August. Tickets cost £2.50 and can be bought
at the door. Anyone interested in hiring a stall, please call Ailsa Tracy
on 01294 604589.
AN EVENING WITH OCTAVE
There will be a cabaret evening with Octave - voted the best mixed-voice choir
at Glasgow Music Festival in 2013 - in the Parish Centre on Sunday 20 November
at 7.00 pm. Tickets cost £7 from the Parish Office on 464063. Proceeds
are for our new doors. You may Bring Your Own Bottle and nibbles.
KIRKGATE PARISH CHURCH
There will a concert in the Kirkgate
Parish Church, Saltcoats, by the Aeolian Male Voice Choir on Tuesday 15
November at 7.30 pm. Tickets cost £3 at the door.
LIGHT UP A LIFE SERVICE
The annual Light Up A Life service, organised by the Ardrossan and Saltcoats
Churches Group will be held in Saint Peter's on Monday 5 December at 2.30
pm. There will be a collection for the Ayrshire Hospice. The service is to
remember all those of any denomination or none who died in the past year and
to give thanks for all those who cared for them at home, hospital, care home
or in the Hospice.
BURNS SUPPER 2017
The Parish Burns
Supper will be on Saturday 28 January
2017.
HOMELESSNESS IN NORTH AYRSHIRE
The inter-church group who are concerned with homelessness around us would
like to appeal for donations of household cleaning materials to help people
get started when they are housed. They also need new socks, gloves and pyjamas
for those who are housed in the Homeless Hostels. A full list of requirements
is on the box at the back of the Church. We will also be collecting toys for
needy children for Christmas. More details will be given later. Thank you.
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 Church maintenance.
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.