BULLETIN
5
NOVEMBER 2017
THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
4 November
|
Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo |
Sunday
5 November
|
Sunday Mass at 10.30 am for the congregation |
Monday
6 November
|
Holy Mass at 10.00 am for Rene Messer |
Tuesday
7 November
|
Mass at 10.00 am for Sarah Sammons |
Wednesday
8 November
|
Memorial of Blessed John Duns Scotus |
Thursday
9 November
|
Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
|
Friday
10 November
|
Memorial of Saint Leo the Great |
Saturday
11 November
|
Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours |
The
Holy Mass intention list is just over two weeks ahead. Please notify anniversaries
as early as you can. Thanks. |
Saturday
4 November
|
Vigil Mass at 4.30 pm |
Holy Mass at 10.00 am |
Sunday
5 November
|
Sunday Mass at 10.00 am |
Sunday Mass at 11.30 am |
Monday
6 November
|
Service at 10.00 am | Holy Mass at 10.00 am |
Tuesday
7 November
|
Requiem Mass at 10.00 am | Service at 10.00 am |
Wednesday
8 November
|
Holy Mass at 10.00 am | |
Thursday
9 November
|
Service at 10.00 am | Holy Mass at 10.00 am |
Friday
10 November
|
Holy Mass at 10.00 am | Service at 10.00 am |
Saturday
11 November
|
Vigil Mass at 4.30 pm |
Holy Mass at 10.00 am |
Sunday
5 November
|
11.30 am |
|
Monday
6 November
|
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
7 November
|
9.00
to 11.00 am 3.45 pm 7.30 pm |
Cardiac
Rehabilitation |
Wednesday
8 November
|
3.45 pm | Irish Dancing |
Thursday
9 November
|
6.00
to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm |
Brownies |
Friday
10 November
|
9.30 to 11.30 am |
Parents and Toddlers |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Stephen Austin who died recently;
Paddy
Crozier, Anna Lizanec 2008, Margaret Martin 1962, Father James McCarroll 1952,
Catherine McMullan 1963, Father Paul
O'Brien 1999, Robert Reid 2006, John Whyte 1975, James McCabe, Jean Murray
2006, Julie Holland Newmann, Michael Reilly 1946, Steven Walker 1999, Mary
McDonald 2004, Lena McGhee 2000, John McGinness 2014, Liam Newall 2004, Sandra
White 2010, Helene Adams 2016, Monica Fagan, Jim McLaren 2005, John Craig
2012, Michael Dougan 2016, Joseph McAuliffe 2001, Jean McGowan 2010, Annie
McNamara, Alice McWhinnie 2009, Elizabeth Mary Moultrie 2000, Lyndsey Thomas
née McLardy 2014, Father Cornelius Burke 1972, James Cummings 2005,
Father Paul Felix 2016, Vivien Goldie 1998, Helen Gurney 2004, David Kelley,
Henry Mons McIlroy 1966, Alec Murphy 1998, Annie Tracey 2000 and Thomas
Walsh 2002 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 £618.84 and the Maintenance
Fund collection to £247.26 - thanks. This 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 Robert Cooper
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 the choir at 5.30 pm and Andrena Hughes at 10.30
am.
CHILDREN’S LITURGY
Next week's Children's Liturgy helpers are Jacqueline
Waugh for the pre-fives, Claire Sweenie and Linda Martin for Primaries 1,
2 and 3 and Emma Paterson and Emily Tarbet for Primary 4.
SUNDAY TEAS
Next
Sunday's teas will be served by Sadie's, Marie's and Phyllis's team.
PLANNING MEETINGS
There will be meetings of the
- Embracing Change Steering Group on 7 November
- Parents whose children are preparing for the Sacrament
of Confirmation on Thursday 9 November
- Music Ministry on Wednesday 22 November
- Readers on Tuesday 28 November
- Eucharistic Ministers on Wednesday 29 November
Each meeting will start at 7.00 pm and be held in the Presbytery Conference
Room except the Confirmation meeting which will be held in the Church.
BANNS OF MARRIAGE
We are delighted to announce the Banns of Marriage for Ross Lundie and Carla
Buckley who will be married at Saint Peter's on Sunday 5 November at 1.00
pm. We wish them a love for a lifetime!
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 …
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.
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 …
THE CARPENTER
Once upon a time, two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict.
It was the first serious rift in forty years of farming side-by-side. The long
collaboration fell apart. It began with a small misunderstanding and it grew
into a major difference and finally, it exploded into an exchange of bitter
words followed by weeks of silence. One morning there was a knock on John's
door. He opened it to find a man with a carpenter's toolbox. "I'm looking
for a few days' work," he said. "Perhaps you would have a few small
jobs here and there I could help with? Could I help you?" "Yes,"
said the older brother"I do have a job for you. Look across the river at
that farm. That's my neighbour. In fact, it's my younger brother! Last week
there was a meadow between us. He recently took his bulldozer to the river dam
and now there is a whole river between us running through the meadow. Well,
he may have done this to spite me but I'll do him one better. See that pile
of wood by the barn? I want you to build me a fence - an eight-foot fence so
I won't need to see his place or his face anymore." The carpenter said"I
think I understand the situation. Show me the nails and the post-hole digger
and I'll be able to do a job that pleases you." The older brother had to
go to town so he helped the carpenter get the materials ready and then he was
off for the day. The carpenter worked hard all that day - measuring, sawing
and nailing. About sunset when the farmer returned, the carpenter had just finished
his job. The farmer's eyes opened wide and his jaw dropped. There was no fence
there at all. It was a bridge - a bridge that stretched from one side of the
river to the other! A fine piece of work with handrails and all! And the neighbour,
his younger brother, was coming toward them, his hand outstretched. "You
are quite a fellow to build this bridge after all I've said and done."
The two brothers stood at each end of the bridge and then they met in middle,
taking each other's hand and embracing each other. They turned to see the carpenter
hoist his toolbox onto his shoulder. "No, wait! Stay a few days. I've a
lot of other projects for you." said the older brother. "I'd love
to stay on" the carpenter said "but I have many more bridges to build."
Do we both work hard and devotedly?
We cannot avoid being challenged by the devotion, protection and love given
to the followers of Jesus by Saint Paul and his companions. Can we say with
equal certainty that in living our vows and commitments, we work as hard and
devotedly? Yet this is what we married couples are called to strive for in our
relationship with each other. Mal
1:14 - 2:2, 8-10 1 Thess 2:7-9, 13 Matt 23:1-12
AND JUST FOR A LAUGH
The 98-year-old Mother Superior from Ireland was dying. The nuns gathered around
her bed trying to make her last journey comfortable. They gave her some warm
milk to drink but she refused. Then one of the nuns took the glass back to the
kitchen. Remembering a bottle of whisky received as a gift the previous Christmas,
she opened and poured a generous amount into the warm milk. Back at Mother Superior's
bed, she held the glass to her lips. Mother drank a little, then a little more
and before they knew it, she had drunk the whole glass down to the last drop.
"Mother," the nuns asked with earnest, "please give us some wisdom
before you die." She raised herself up in bed and with a pious look on
her face said, "Don't sell that cow."
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.
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL FOUR HUNDREDTH YEAR CELEBRATION
A short commemorative Deanery Saint
Vincent de Paul Society celebration will take place on Saturday
11 November at 5.00 pm at Saint
Bride's Church, West Kilbride, followed by Vigil Mass at 6.00 pm and a celebratory
cheese and wine event thereafter. All current and previous members of Saint
Vincent de Paul Society Deanery Conferences are invited as well
as interested others.
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!
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.
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.