BULLETIN
29
OCTOBER 2017
THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
28 October
|
Feast of Saint Simon and Saint Jude |
Sunday
29 October
|
Sunday Mass at 10.30 am for the congregation |
Monday
30 October
|
Holy Mass at 9.00 am for Bridie Crawford |
Tuesday
31 October
|
Mass at 10.00 am for Anna Baesso |
Wednesday
1 November
|
Solemnity of All Saints - holy day of obligation |
Thursday
2 November
|
All Souls |
Friday
3 November
|
Requiem Mass at 10.30 am for Stephen Austin |
Saturday
4 November
|
Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo |
The
Holy Mass intention list is just over two weeks ahead. Please notify anniversaries
as early as you can. Thanks. |
Saturday
28 October
|
Vigil Mass at 4.30 pm |
Holy Mass at 10.00 am |
Sunday
29 October
|
Sunday Mass at 10.00 am |
Sunday Mass at 11.30 am |
Monday
30 October
|
Service at 10.00 am | Mass at 10.00 am |
Tuesday
31 October
|
Holy Mass at 10.00 am | Service
at 10.00 am Holy Mass at 7.00 pm |
Wednesday
1 November
|
Holy Mass at 7.00 pm | Mass at 11.00 am |
Thursday
2 November
|
Holy Mass at 11.00 am | Holy
Mass at 10.00 am Holy Mass at 7.00 pm |
Friday
3 November
|
Service
at 10.00 am Nuptial Mass at 1.00 pm |
Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Christopher Lawson |
Saturday
4 November
|
Vigil Mass at 4.30 pm |
Mass at 10.00 am |
Sunday
29 October
|
11.30 am |
|
Monday
30 October
|
9.30
to 11.30 am 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.30 pm |
Parents
and Toddlers |
Tuesday
31 October
|
9.00
to 11.00 am 3.45 pm |
Cardiac
Rehabilitation |
Wednesday
1 November
|
3.45
pm 7.30 pm |
Irish
Dancing Ignatian Prayer Group |
Thursday
2 November
|
6.00
to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm |
Brownies |
Friday
3 November
|
9.30 to 11.30 am |
Parents and Toddlers |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Jennifer McMahon, Catherine Andrew neé White (Australia), Stephen Austin,
Rene Messer, Jim Kennedy (Kilwinning), Mary Smith, David McGarrity (Largs)
and Margaret Finnie who died recently;
Mary Brodie 1997, Ellie Graham 2016, Mary Haran 1995, Daniel Mathieson 1962,
Joseph McGoogan 2008, Catherine Ramsay 2012, Gloria Rosendale 2014, William
Delahunt 1986, Bill Moore 1989, The Christians martyred in the Cathedral of
our Lady of Deliverance in Baghdad 2010, Sadie Clegg 2011, John Martin 1979,
Daniel Brown 1988, Peter Hanratty 2013, Josephine Lundie 2007, baby Lily Heron
2016, Thomas Kilbane 1983, Hugh McKay 1982, Eileen Taylor 2005, May Cusick
2009, Teresa Kelly 1978, Sarah Sammons 1970, Elizabeth Anne Tait 2004, Mary
Timmons 2011, Sanny Ballantyne 1991 and Ian McNamara 1979 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 MASS TIMES
Sunday 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 £573.32 and the Maintenance
Fund collection to £265.20 - thanks. Next weekend, there will be the
annual special collection for Missio.
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 Patricia
Milligan at 10.30 am.
ALTAR SERVERS
Next weekend's altar servers are Group 1 at 5.30
pm and Group 3 at 10.30 am.
MUSIC MINISTRY
Next weekend's musicians are George McGrattan at 5.30 pm and Saint
Peter's Primary School Choir at 10.30 am.
CHILDREN’S LITURGY
Next week's Children's Liturgy helpers are Geraldine
Butcher for the pre-fives, Frances Gemmell and Gayle Paterson for Primaries
1, 2 and 3 and Maria Paterson-Kidd and George Kidd for Primary 4.
SUNDAY TEAS
Next
Sunday's teas will be served by Loretta McLardy's team.
REQUIEM MASS
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Stephen Austin, aged 77 years, who
died recently. The date for Stephen's Requiem Mass is Friday 3 November at
10.30 am. This will be followed by cremation at Holmsford Bridge Crematorium.
May he rest in peace and rise in glory!
SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS
Please don't forget that Wednesday 1 November is the Feast of All Saints and
is a Holy Day of Obligation. Holy Mass will be celebrated at 10.00 am and
the Vigil Mass is at 7.00 pm on Tuesday.
CELEBRATION OF ALL SOULS
Thursday 2 November is the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed. Holy Mass
will be at 10.00am as usual. We will remember all our deceased friends and
relatives.
PLANNING MEETINGS
There will be a planning meeting for our
- Music Ministry on Wednesday 22 November
- Readers on Tuesday 28 November
- Eucharistic Ministers on Wednesday 29 November
Each meeting will be at 7.00 pm and held in the Presbytery. Please put the
meetings in your diary. Thanks!
CONFESSION - GIFT OF GRACE
Why don't you come and meet the Lord Jesus by confessing your sins and receive
the Lord's forgiveness and peace? Confessions at Saint Peter's are Saturdays
4.45 until 5.15 pm. Leaflets are available in the sacristy for adults and
children to help prepare and get the most out of this special sacrament. Let
us open our hearts to the love and mercy Christ so generously gives. Confession
is a gift of grace. It's up to you! He is waiting …
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR?
On Sunday 29 October - today - an event takes place in Saint
John’s Church, Stevenston to coincide with One World Week and
all Church members are invited. It starts at 3.00 pm and will be finished
by 3.45 pm with Fair Trade tea and coffee served afterwards in the Church
Hall. The event is being organised by the Outreach to the Poor Group which
is made up of representatives from Catholic Churches across North Ayrshire.
Speakers will be Dr Philippa Whitford on her work as a surgeon in Palestine.
It is hoped that some of Syrian Refugee families recently settled in the three
towns will also take part. Everyone is welcome and please bring a tin for
the Food Bank.
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ON LITURGICAL MUSIC
The National Liturgy Commission has invited Benjamin Saunders, Director of
Music for the Diocese of Leeds, to speak to Church musicians and singers on
Saturday 11 November 2017. The conference will take place at Saint Margaret
of Scotland Church, Drip Road, Stirling, beginning at 2.00 pm. After a presentation
on music in the Diocese of Leeds, a singing workshop will prepare music for
the Mass of thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time and a sung Vigil Mass will
be celebrated at 5.00 pm.
SCOTTISH CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL AID FUND (SCIAF) REMEMBRANCE MASS
The SCIAF Remembrance Mass will be on Tuesday 21 November 2017. There will
be a candlelight procession at 6.45 pm at Carfin Grotto. There will be Mass
at 7.00 pm at Saint Francis Xavier's Church, Taylor Avenue, Carfin, ML1 5AJ.
YOUTH PILGRIMAGE TO ROME
Father Stephen McGrattan will
lead a pilgrimage to Rome for young people from 4 to 9 June 2018. The cost
of £650 includes flights, half-board accommodation and excursions. For
more information or to book contact Father
Stephen before 31 October on info@StephenMcGrattan.org.uk.
CONFESSION - GIFT OF GRACE
Why
don't you come and meet the Lord Jesus by confessing your sins and receive the
Lord's forgiveness and peace? Confessions at Saint Peter's are on Saturdays
from 4.45pm until 5.15 pm. Leaflets are available in the sacristy for adults
and children to help prepare and get the most out of this special sacrament.
Let us open our hearts to the love and mercy Christ so generously gives. Confession
is a gift of grace. It's up to you! He is waiting …
HALLOWEEN - THE TRUE STORY
We've
all heard the allegations. Halloween is a pagan rite dating back to some pre-Christian
festival among the Celtic Druids that escaped Church suppression. Even today,
modern pagans and witches continue to celebrate this ancient festival. Nothing
could be further from the truth. The origins of Halloween are, in fact, very
Christian. Halloween falls on 31 October because of a pope and its observances
are the result of medieval Catholic piety. Halloween falls on the last day of
October because the Feast of All Saints or All Hallows falls on 1 November.
The feast in honour of all the saints in heaven used to be celebrated on 13
May but Pope Gregory III, who died in 741, moved it to 1 November, the dedication
day of All Saints Chapel in Saint Peter's at Rome. Later, in the 840s, Pope
Gregory IV commanded that All Saints be observed everywhere and so, the holy
day spread to Ireland. The day before was the feast's evening vigil, All Hallows
Eve or Hallowe'en. In 998, Saint Odilo, the abbot of the powerful monastery
of Cluny in Southern France, added a celebration on 2 November. This was a day
of prayer for the souls of all the faithful departed. This feast, called All
Souls Day, spread from France to the rest of Europe so now the Church had feasts
for all those in heaven and all those in purgatory. What about those in the
other place? It seems Irish Catholic peasants wondered about the unfortunate
souls in hell. After all, if the souls in hell are left out when we celebrate
those in heaven and purgatory, they might be unhappy enough to cause trouble
it became customary to bang pots and pans on All Hallows Eve to let the damned
know they were not forgotten. Our traditions on this holiday centres around
dressing up in fanciful costumes. This custom arose in France during the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries. Late medieval Europe was hit by repeated outbreaks
of the bubonic plague - the Black Death - and she lost about half her population.
It is not surprising that Catholics became more concerned about the afterlife.
More Masses were said on All Souls' Day and artistic representations were devised
to remind everyone of their own mortality. We know these representations as
the "Dance of Death," which was commonly painted on the walls of cemeteries
and shows the devil leading a daisy chain of people - popes, kings, ladies,
knights, monks, peasants, lepers et ceters - into the tomb. Sometimes the dance
was presented on All Souls' Day itself as a living tableau with people dressed
up in the garb of various states of life. But what about witches? Well, they
are one of the last additions. The greeting card industry added them in the
late 1800s. Halloween was already 'ghoulish'so why not give witches a place
on greeting cards? The Halloween card failed - although it has seen a recent
resurgence in popularity - but the witches stayed. So, too, in the late 1800s,
ill-informed folklorists introduced the jack-o'-lantern. They thought that Halloween
was druidic and pagan in origin. Lamps made from turnips, not pumpkins, had
been part of ancient Celtic harvest festivals so they were translated into the
Halloween celebration. The next time someone claims that Halloween is a cruel
trick to lure your children into devil worship, why not tell them the real origin
of Halloween and invite them to discover its Christian message, along with the
two greater and more important Catholic festivals that follow it?
MARRIAGE MATTERS
How can I best love you today?
In today's gospel Jesus says love should be at the centre of our lives, so we
must ask 'How can I best love my partner today?' To know how our partner experiences
our love best, we need to explore together whether it is through compliments,
special time together, presents or acts of service or simple hugging and kissing. Exodus
22:20-26 1 Thess 1:5-10 Matt 22:34-40
AND FINALLY, SOME HUMOUR...
A man had two of the best tickets for the FA Cup Final. As he sits down, another
man comes along and asks if anyone is sitting in the seat next to him. "No"
he says, "the seat is empty." "This is incredible!" said
the man. "Who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the FA
Cup Final, the biggest sporting event of the year, and not use it?" He
says"Well, actually, the seat belongs to me. My wife was supposed to come
with me but she passed away. This is the first Cup Final we haven't been to
together since we got married." "Oh... I'm sorry to hear that. That's
terrible. I guess you couldn't find someone else - a friend or relative or even
a neighbour to take the seat?" The man shakes his head ... "No. They're
all at the funeral."
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.
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.
PARISH DIARIES
The popular Parish Diaries for next year, 2018, are now available in the Parish
Stall. There is a limited supply so get your Diary today!
BREAST CANCER COFFEE MORNING
Ami Paterson, Lucy Skene and Sophie Skene would like to thank everyone who attended,
supported and donated for this recent event. A total of £440 was raised
for Breast Cancer Research UK.
INFORMATION SHEET
A small information sheet with useful contact telephone numbers and email addresses
for the Parish is available in Church.
NOVEMBER LISTS AND ENVELOPES
Please take with you the leaflet for the November Lists so that we can pray
for our deceased family and friends during the month of November. Please place
your list in an envelope and bring it to Church next Sunday. If you can, please
include a donation for the Masses in the envelope. The Lists will be brought
forward at the Offertory and placed on the altar during the month of November.
Thank you!
Lord, welcome into your kingdom our departed relatives and friends.
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.
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.