THIS
IS THE SEVEN HUNDREDTH BULLETIN ON SAINT PETER'S WEBSITE.
BULLETIN 15
OCTOBER 2017
TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
14 October
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Our Lady's Day |
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Sunday
15 October
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Sunday Holy Mass at 10.30 am for the congregation |
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Monday
16 October
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Requiem Mass at 12.30 am for Colin Boyle followed by his burial at West Kilbride Cemetery at 2.00 pm |
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Tuesday
17 October
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Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch |
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Wednesday
18 October
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Feast of Saint Luke |
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Thursday
19 October
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Memorial of Saint John de Brébeuf and companions |
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Friday
20 October
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Requiem Mass at 11.30 am for Greta Brennan followed by her burial at Dreghorn Cemetery at 1.30 pm |
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Saturday
21 October
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Memorial of Saint John Paul II |
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The
Holy 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
14 October
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Vigil Holy Mass at 4.30 pm |
Holy Mass at 10.00 am |
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Sunday
15 October
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Sunday Holy Mass at 10.00 am |
Sunday Holy Mass at 11.30 am |
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Monday
16 October
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Service at 10.00 am | Service at 10.00 am |
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Tuesday
17 October
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Service at 10.00 am | Mass at 10.00 am |
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Wednesday
18 October
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Service at 10.00 am | |
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Thursday
19 October
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Mass at 10.00 am | Service at 10.00 am |
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Friday
20 October
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Service at 10.00 am | Service at 10.00 am |
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Saturday
21 October
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Vigil Holy Mass at 4.30 pm |
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Sunday
15 October
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11.30 am |
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Monday
16 October
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Tuesday
17 October
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9.00 to 11.00 am |
Cardiac Rehabilitation |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Greta Brennan and Martha Ann Breen both of our parish, Bill Andrew and Colin
Boyle (Largs) who died recently;
James McKay 1992, Bernard Aspinwall 2013, John McGowan 2002, John McPolin
1944, Hannah Burns 2002, Dan Donnelly 1941, Andrew Howieson, Jim Sullivan
2005, Alistair Aitken 1995, Agnes Anderson 2001, Mary McAtee 2006, Margaret
McHugh 2002, Michael McManus 1961, Michael Monaghan 1936, John Dorian 2009,
Cameron McCallum 2010, David McHugh 1967, Patrick McQuade 1998, Lawrence Brennan
1981, Andrew Conaghan 2002, Michael Doherty 2005, Margaret Monaghan 1969 and
Hugh O'Boyle 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 Father
Duncan, the parish office
or contact WebsiteAuthor@SaintPeterinChains.net.
SUNDAY HOLY MASS TIMES
Sunday Holy Mass
times in Saint Peter's are 5.30 pm Vigil and 10.30 am. Sunday
Holy Mass times in other local parishes
can be seen here.
SACRAMENT OF FORGIVENESS
The Sacrament of Forgiveness is celebrated on Saturdays between 4.45 and 5.15
pm and at other times on request.
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.
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 £638.49 and the Maintenance
Fund collection to £309.60 - 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.
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 Katrina Pollock at 5.30 pm and Peter Brawley
at 10.30 am.
ALTAR SERVERS
Next weekend's altar servers are Group 1 at 5.30
pm and Group 4 at 10.30 am.
MUSIC MINISTRY
Next weekend's musicians are George McGrattan at 5.30 pm and Andrena Hughes
at 10.30 am.
CHILDREN’S LITURGY
Next week's Children's Liturgy helpers are Emily
Tarbet for the pre-fives, Claire Sweenie and Linda Martin for Primaries 1,
2 and 3 and Geraldine Butcher and Teresa Louden for Primary 4.
SUNDAY TEAS
Next Sunday's
teas will be served by Frances's and Mary's team. We are looking for
some new volunteers to go on the rota for refreshments after Mass on Sundays.
If you can, please stay a while after Mass and have a chat and share some community
spirit. Please consider becoming a volunteer and doing a great service to the
Parish Family. Thanks!
REQUIEM MASSES
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Colin Boyle, aged 38 years, who died
recently. The date for Colin's Requiem Mass is Monday 16 October at 12.30 pm,
followed by burial at West Kilbride Cemetery at 2.00 pm. May he rest in peace
and rise in glory! Please pray also for the repose of the soul of Greta Brennan,
aged 94 years, who died recently. The date for Greta's Requiem Mass is Friday
20 October at 11.30 pm, followed by burial at Dreghorn Cemetery at 1.30 pm.
May she rest in peace and rise in glory!
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
We welcome to the Family of the Church Charlie McLaughlin who will be baptised
next Sunday. Congratulations to Charlie's parents and Godparents.
THE MUSICAL PRODIGY
At
the prodding of my friends, I am writing this story. My name is Mildred Honor
and I am a former elementary school music teacher from Des Moines, Iowa. I have
always supplemented my income by teaching piano lessons - something I have done
for over thirty years. During those years, I found that children have many levels
of musical ability and even though I have never had the pleasure of having a
prodigy, I have taught some very talented students. However, I have also had
my share of what I call 'musically challenged' pupils - one such pupil being
Robby. Robby was eleven years old when his mother, a single mum, dropped him
off for his first piano lesson. I prefer that students begin at an earlier age,
which I explained to Robby but Robby said that it had always been his mother's
dream to hear him play the piano so I took him as a student. Well, Robby began
his piano lessons and from the beginning I thought it was a hopeless endeavour.
As much as Robby tried, he lacked the sense of tone and basic rhythm needed
to excel. But he dutifully reviewed his scales and some elementary piano pieces
that I require all my students to learn. Over the months he tried and tried
while I listened and cringed and tried to encourage him. At the end of each
weekly lesson he would always say "My mum's going to hear me play someday".
But to me, it seemed hopeless. He just did not have any inborn ability. I only
knew his mother from a distance as she dropped Robby off or waited in her aged
car to pick him up. Several weeks later, I mailed a flyer recital to the student's
homes. To my surprise, Robby, who had received a flyer, asked me if he could
be in the recital. I told him that the recital was for current pupils and that
because he had dropped out, he really did not qualify. He told me that his mother
had been sick and unable to take him to his piano lessons, but that he had been
practicing. "Please Miss Honor, I've just got to play" he insisted.
I don't know what led me to allow him to play in the recital - perhaps it was
his insistence or maybe something inside of me saying that it would be all right.
The night of the recital came and the high school gymnasium was packed with
parents, relatives and friends. I put Robby last in the program, just before
I was to come up and thank all the students and play a finishing piece. I thought
that any damage he might do would come at the end of the program and I could
always salvage his poor performance through my 'curtain closer'. Well, the recital
went off without a hitch. The students had been practicing and it showed. Then
Robby came up on the stage. His clothes were wrinkled and his hair looked as
though he had run an egg beater through it. "Why wasn't he dressed up like
the other students?" I thought. "Why didn't his mother at least make
him comb his hair for this special night?" Robby pulled out the piano bench
and I was surprised when he announced that he had chosen to play Mozart's Concerto
No 21 in C Major. I was not prepared for what I heard next. His fingers were
light on the keys. They even danced nimbly on the ivories. He went from pianissimo
to fortissimo, from allegro to virtuoso. His suspended chords that Mozart demands
were magnificent! Never had I heard Mozart played so well by anyone his age.
After six and a half minutes, he ended in a grand crescendo, and everyone was
on their feet in wild applause! Overcome and in tears, I ran up onstage and
put my arms around Robby in joy. "I have never heard you play like that
Robby, how did you do it?" Through the microphone Robby explained "Well,
Miss Honor, remember I told you that my mum was sick? Well, she actually had
cancer and passed away this morning. And well … she was born deaf, so tonight
was the first time she had ever heard me play, and I wanted to make it special."
There wasn't a dry eye in the house that evening. As the people from Social
Services led Robby from the stage to be placed in to foster care, I noticed
that even their eyes were red and puffy. I thought to myself then how much richer
my life had been for taking Robby as my pupil. Robby was killed years later
in the senseless bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma
City in April, 1995.
Add another stitch
God our Father invites us all to His great wedding feast in heaven! In living
out our married life, we have been making our wedding garments! It is woven,
sewn and stitched with all the little acts of loving kindness, long forgotten,
the courtesies in every little action we show toward each other, our children,
family and friends. Isaiah 25:6-10 Phil 4:12-14
Matt 22:1-4
Here are some of the funny things that you can read in Parish Newsletters.
Everyone is excited about the upcoming wedding of Steve and Melody. They are
having a 'country style' wedding. Everyone is invited to join them as they exchange
cows in the church courtyard on 7 June.
Remember, we'll be gathering with other area churches for the singing in the
park on Sunday night. I want to remind the choir and all sinners to be at the
park by 4.30 pm for the warm-up and sound checks.
POPE
FRANCIS'S MONTHLY INTENTION FOR OCTOBER
Pope Francis's monthly intention
for October is for the workers and for the unemployed - that all workers may
receive respect and protection of their rights and that the unemployed may receive
the opportunity to contribute to the common good.
PILGRIMAGE TO OUR LADY OF SCHOENSTATT SHRINE
Next Sunday, our coach will be leaving at 1.30 pm from the car park to travel
to the Schoenstatt Shrine at Campsie Glen. There will be Prayer of the Rosary
at 3.00 pm and Holy Mass with the Crowning of Our Lady's Picture of Grace by
Bishop Mario Conti at 3.30 pm. We would then return home after Mass. You can
still put your name on the list at the back of Church today. Thank you!
IN AND AROUND THE CHURCH
There are still some serious problems with water leaks in the Church and in
the Parish Centre. We are looking at new leaks in the choir loft. Some bricks
have been removed to investigate the source of the leak. A part of the roof
in the Centre has deteriorated badly and will need a large and urgent repair.
George Poole has been a great help in clearing out some of the cupboard and
storage area in the Church Sacristy. Please be as generous as you can in the
Building Fund Collection. Thank you!
CHILDREN ENROLLING FOR THE SACRAMENTS
The children of our parish who are old enough will be confirmed by Bishop
William on Monday 19 February 2018 and will receive Holy Communion for the
first time at a Sunday Mass in May. The Primary 4 children are welcome to go
with the Children's Liturgy at the 10.30 am Mass on Sundays 8, 15 and 22 October
for their own readings and preparation then join us on Sunday 29 October for
Presentation Sunday. Their Children's Liturgy will continue at 10.30 am Mass
thereafter. We look forward to seeing all the new Primary 4s.
WEBSITE UPDATES
Please have a look at our parish website for a few new pastoral resources -
a Baptism Preparation Pack for parents coming for Baptism, a Marriage Preparation
Pack for engaged couples, a leaflet on the ten top reasons why we should want
to go to Mass on Sunday, an explanation sheet on how to pray the Rosary and
the dates and times for the Sacramental programme of the children 2017-18. Please
have a look at the new resources and make others aware of them.
INFORMATION SHEET
A small information sheet with useful contact telephone numbers and email addresses
for the Parish is available in Church.
KNITTING PLEA FOR HELP FROM THE GIRL GUIDES
We are ambitiously aiming to teach the girls to knit on Thursday 9 November
between 7.30 and 9.00 pm so that we can make hats and blankets for various charities.
We would very much appreciate your help. Our goal is to teach the girls to cast
on, plain knit stitch, garter stitch and cast off. If you think you could help
to teach one of our girls how to do this, please contact Coral on 07950 231241?
Also, if you have any spare balls of chunky or thick wool or any old needles,
size 6 plus that you would be willing to donate, please bring them to the box
at the back of the Church and we will collect. Thank you.
MAKE A WILL FORTNIGHT
Make A Will fortnight runs between 16 and 31 October 2017 when solicitors from
across Ayrshire, including Taylor and Henderson on 464341 and Jas Campbell and
Co on 464131, kindly agree to waive their fee and make your Will in return for
a donation to the hospice.
THANKS
Anne and Ian and Billy and Celia wish to thank Father
Duncan for our blessing on our fiftieth wedding
anniversaries and to thank everyone for all the cards and good wishes we received.
The family of the late William McCann wish to thank Father
McVicar and all those involved in William's Requiem
Mass as well as family, friends, colleagues and neighbours for their support,
Mass cards, sympathy cards, flowers, thoughts and prayers. The sacrifice of
the Holy Mass will be offered for your intentions.
MARY'S MEALS BACKPACK APPEAL
We recently sent a further 201 filled backpacks to Malawi, making a total of
1989 since we started eight years ago. As this is an ongoing project, we are
constantly collecting and storing the required items. At present, we need soap,
toothpaste, tennis balls, desert spoons and backpacks but will accept any of
the required items you may donate. Thank you for your many previous donations.
VISITORS
Are you visiting us for Holy Mass? Please know that you are very welcome. During
the 10.30 am Holy 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 Holy Mass, tea, coffee cakes and
buns are available in the Parish Centre. At both of our weekend Holy 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.