BULLETIN 27
NOVEMBER 2016
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
26 November
|
Mass
at 10.00 am for the Holy Souls |
Sunday
27 November
|
Mass at 10.30 am for Kenneth Donnelly |
Monday
28 November
|
Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Catherine Keogh |
Tuesday
29 November
|
Mass at 10.00 am for Maria Reid |
Wednesday
30 November
|
Saint Andrew's Day |
Thursday
1 December
|
Mass at 7.00 pm for a special intention |
Friday
2 December
|
Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Gwen McMail |
Saturday
3 December
|
Mass
at 10.00 am for Jim Prior |
The
Mass intention list is just over two weeks ahead. Please notify anniversaries
as early as you can. Thanks. |
Saturday
26 November
|
Vigil Mass at 4.30 pm |
Mass at 10.00 am |
Sunday
27 November
|
Sunday Mass at 10.00 am |
Sunday Mass at 11.30 am |
Monday
28 November
|
Service at 10.00 am |
Mass at 10.00 am |
Tuesday
29 November
|
Requiem Mass at 10.00 am |
Mass at 10.00 am |
Wednesday
30 November
|
Mass at 10.00 am |
|
Thursday
1 December
|
Service at 10.00 am |
Mass at 10.00 am |
Friday
2 December
|
Mass at 10.00 am |
Service at 10.00 am |
Saturday
3 December
|
Vigil Mass at 4.30 pm |
Mass at 10.00 am |
|
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
27 November
|
11.30
am |
Tea
and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
28 November
|
9.30
to 11.30 pm 3.00 to 6.00 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm |
Parents
and Toddlers |
Tuesday
29 November
|
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 |
Wednesday
30 November
|
3.00
to 6.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm 8.00 to 9.00 pm |
Skallywags
Aftercare |
Thursday
1 December
|
3.00
to 6.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm |
Skallywags
Aftercare |
Friday
2 December
|
9.30
to 11.30 pm 3.00 to 6.00 pm 6.30 pm |
Parents
and Toddlers Skallywags Aftercare HCPT Lourdes Group 376 Bingo |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Catherine Keogh of our parish and Jim Kelly (Saltcoats) who died recently;
James Brodie 2011, Kenneth Donnelly 2008, Hannah Kirk 1989, John Maxwell 2002,
Sarah McNamara 1980, Shannon Elizabeth Byrne 2000, Sarah Heaney 1955, Jemima
McAuliffe 2001, Eddie McNamara 2014, Lilian Paterson 2011, Maria Reid 2013,
Peggy Dorian Smith 1991, Martin Vernon 2011, James Allen 2003, Molly Ball
neé Cahill 2011, Ann Hackett 1998, Andy Stevens 1995, Gribben family,
Janie McGonigle 2012, Mary Bridget Timmons, Jack Collins 1970, Margaret Hamilton
1992, Collette McKibben 2003, John McNamara 1997, Elizabeth
Theresa Walsh 1970, Jim Wallace 2014, Brian O'Hare 2009 and Tom Reid 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 £609.74 and the Maintenance
Fund collection to £285.81.
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 Margaret Munn at 5.30 pm and Margaret
Brawley at 10.30 am.
ALTAR SERVERS
Next weekend's altar servers are Group 1 at 5.30
pm and Group 5 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 Sadie Gilmour's team.
MUSIC AT MASS
Music is an essential part of Mass. Are there any budding musicians willing
to offer their talent and service?
OUR
LADY OF FATIMA'S REQUEST
In accordance with Our Lady of Fatima's request, we will begin the five first
Saturday devotions of Holy Mass, Rosary and Fatima prayers here after Holy
Mass on the first Saturday of each month beginning on Saturday 3 December.
All are welcome. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
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 Jacqueline Waugh
and Emma Paterson for the pre-fives, Andrena Hughes and Teresa Louden for
Primaries 1, 2 and 3 and Maria Paterson-Kidd and George Kidd 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 sends thanks for the £452 raised from the sale of raffle tickets
last weekend.
THANKS
I would like to thank everyone who came to my coffee morning and to everyone
who gave me donations towards my year volunteering in South Africa. It is
all very much appreciated. Thanks again. Ailis
Tracy
SAINT MATTHEW'S ACADEMY CHRISTMAS FAYRE
Saint Matthew's
Academy's Christmas Fayre will be on Saturday 3 December from 10.00 am
to 2.00 pm.
GALLOWAY LOURDES HOSPITALITÉ MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTIONS
At all Masses this weekend, you will be offered an envelope for joining or
renewing annual membership at a cost of only £2. Please complete your
details and sign the Gift Aid declaration, if you are able to do so. Your
subscription or /donation assists with fares for sick pilgrims who will travel
to Lourdes on our Diocesan Pilgrimage on 3 to 10 July 2017. We will collect
completed envelopes the following weekend. We appreciate your continued support
and generosity over the years. For information on the Pilgrimage, please contact
Harry Sammons on 469006.
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?
HCPT LOURDES GROUP 376 BINGO
The HCPT Lourdes Group 376 is holding a Prize Bingo in the Parish Centre on
Friday 2 December with eyes down at 7.30 pm. We are intending to take nine
local adults with additional support needs to Lourdes at Easter 2017 to join
the HCPT pilgrimage. Thank you for your support. If you wish to donate in
any way, please contact Esther Coulter on 464692 or Josephine Coulter on 602179.
MARY'S MEALS
Recently we sent a further 160 backpacks to children aged five to twelve in
Malawi. This makes a running total of 1788 since we started approximately
seven years ago. Each backpack contained the following items - tee-shirt and
shorts, skirt or summer dress, flip flops, pencil case, lead pencils, coloured
pencils, pens, rubber, ruler, sharpener, tennis ball, dessert spoon, towel,
soap, tooth brush and toothpaste. Thank you for all donations.
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
A Christmas Concert by Variations Largs Choral Group with special guests,
the Barrhead Burgh Band, will be held on Friday 16 December 2016 at 7.30 pm
in Barrfields Pavilion Theatre, Largs. Booking forms for tickets costing £10
are available from the Parish Office. All are welcome.
ADVENT PENANCE TUESDAY
On Tuesday 13 December, there will be Advent Penance Services and Masss in
Saint
John’s Church, Stevenston at 10.00 am, in Saint
Mary's Church, Saltcoats at 2.00 pm and in here in Saint Peter's
at 7.00 pm.
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 and light refreshments
afterwards. 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 are appealing for toys and gifts
for needy children aged between birth and sixteen years. There is a greater
need for gifts for teenagers. The toys and gifts will be distributed by the
Social Work Department. They should be unwrapped and will be wrapped centrally.
The toys and gifts should be brought to the Church on Sunday 11 December for
distribution in time for Christmas. 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.