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Saturday
10 February
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Vigil Mass at 4.30pm |
Holy Mass at 10.00am |
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Sunday
11 February
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Sunday Mass at 10.00am |
Sunday Mass at 11.30am |
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Monday
12 February
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Service at 10.00am | Holy Mass at 10.00am |
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Tuesday
13 February
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Holy Mass at 10.00am | Service at 10.00am |
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Wednesday
14 February
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Holy Mass at 9.30am and 7.00pm | Holy Mass at 11.00am |
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Thursday
15 February
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Service at 10.00am | Holy Mass at 9.30am |
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Friday
16 February
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Holy Mass at 10.00am | Service at 10.00am |
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Saturday
17 February
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Vigil Mass at 4.30pm |
Holy Mass at 10.00am |
PARISH CENTRE EVENTS |
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Sunday
11 February
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11.30am |
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Monday
12 February
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Tuesday
13 February
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7.30pm |
Ignatian Prayer Group |
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Wednesday
14 February
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Thursday
15 February
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6.00 to 7.30pm |
Brownies |
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Friday
16 February
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9.30 to 11.30am | Parents and Toddlers |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Peggy McKechan, Mae Murray and Bernadette Doyle formerly Sister Bernadette who died recently;
Jim Burns 2011, Catherine Cahill 1977, Mary Delahunt 2008, John and Margaret Fitzsimmons 1985, Father G J Giblin SCJ 2001, Allan Carrick 2011, Ann Jane Fitzsimmons, Sadie McAloon 2011, Eliza Jane McKay, Oonagh McVeigh 2011, Canon Robert McCliment 1967, John McIlhatton 1954, Chrissie Welsh 2006, Aileen Whiston 2015, Mary Hall 1989, Patricketta Maxwell 2004, Canon Tom McGread, Winnie McLaughlin 2015, Catherine Morrison 1977, John Carrick 2010, James McLaren 1964, Patrick Kelly 1989, Lucia Valenti 1972 and Rose Walker 1985 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 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 £544.12 and the Maintenance Fund collection to £238.33 - 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 Marade Griffin at 5.30pm and Alfie Agostini at 10.30am.
ALTAR SERVERS
Next weekend's altar servers are Group 1 at 5.30pm and Group 4 at 10.30am.
MUSIC MINISTRY
Next weekend's musicians are the choir at 5.30pm and Andrena Hughes at 10.30am.
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 Maria Paterson-Kidd and George Kidd for Primary 4.
SUNDAY TEAS
Tea
and coffee will be served after the 10.30am Mass next Sunday in the Parish
Centre by Sharon
McLaughlin's team. Can
you help? We are in need of some additional volunteers to form a team or would
be interested in forming a team to help with the Sunday morning teas and coffees.
If you are interested, please contact the Parish Office on 464063.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
We welcome to the Family of the Church Ava Michelle Hamilton, who was baptised
yesterday. Congratulations to her parents and Godparents.
VISITATION FROM BISHOP NOLAN
Bishop Nolan will be coming to
Saint Peter's next weekend for the annual Bishop's Visitation. We welcome
him to our Parish Family and ask God to give him all the strength and the
grace he needs for the shepherd-leadership of our Diocese.
CONFIRMATION CELEBRATION 2018
Seventy children will be confirmed this year by Bishop
Nolan at Saint Peter's on Monday 19 February at 7.00pm. Twenty-nine are
from our own Parish. Please keep the children and their families in your prayers
that they receive in abundance the gifts of the Holy Spirit and experience
a day of joy and grace.
POPE FRANCIS' INTENTION FOR JANUARY 2018
Pope Francis's intention for January
2018 is for Priests, religious and lay people - may they all work together
with generosity in the work of evangelisation.
DAY
OF PRAYER AND FASTING FOR PEACE
Pope Francis has asked the worldwide
Church to join in a day of prayer and fasting for peace in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, in South Sudan and in all the world. This day will
be observed on 23 February, the Friday of the first week of Lent. We pray
and fast "that God the Father, infinite in His mercy, might change hearts,
especially of those who hold in their hands the respective destinies of these
countries and of those others who in some way are also involved".
DON'T GIVE UP CHOCOLATE FOR LENT!
I'd like to invite you to join in the Best Lent Ever, a free email programme
from Dynamic Catholic. Lent comes every year. It's meant to be a time when
we invite God to help us become the best version of ourselves. But for many
of us, Lent isn't a transformative experience. It's just a time when we give
up chocolate or something else we enjoy, then go back to it at Easter. This
year, you can change that with Best Lent Ever. You'll receive daily emails
with short inspirational videos, practical tips for your everyday life and
real-life stories to encourage you in your journey. All you have to do is
sign up at DynamicCatholic.com/BestLent. It's free and it's a wonderful resource!
Cards with details are available after Mass or from Father
Duncan.
LENTEN RETREAT 2018
The Season of Lent is a great opportunity to do a simple Sunday Retreat at
the short homilies at Mass. This year the theme will be Troubled Hearts -
Peace for our Souls and this will lead us on our sacred journey to Easter.
TALKS AT SAINT MARY'S CHURCH DURING LENT
The Option for the Poor Group has invited Bishop
Nolan to speak about his recent trips to Calais and Palestine. We have
also Joe Cullinane to talk about poverty in North Ayrshire. These will take
place on Saint
Mary's Church, Saltcoats on 21 February and 14 March, both at
7.30pm.
EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
At the last meeting of the Parish Eucharistic Ministers, the suggestion came
up to have a Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament followed by a simple Benediction.
This would be every Friday after Mass for twenty minutes. The Holy Hour would
be complete by 11am. Could this not be a really good Lenten Resolution?
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Pope Benedict wrote about the Stations of the Cross - 'The Way of the Cross
is not only a great testimony to an inner depth and maturity, but it is in
fact a school for interiority and consolation. It is also a school for the
examination of conscience, for conversion, for inner transformation and compassion
- not as sentimentality, as a mere feeling, but as a disturbing experience
that knocks on the door or my heart, that obliges me to know myself and to
become a better person.' The Stations of the Cross at Saint Peter's will be
every Tuesday in Lent at 9.30am and will be followed by Holy Mass as usual.
Another great suggestion for a Lenten Resolution?
PRAYER BOOKLETS FOR LENT AND EASTER
Prayer and Meditation Booklets for Lent and Easter Sunday are available in
Betty's Shop this weekend. They cost only £1 each. Please get your copy
today as there is only a limited supply. Thanks!
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
There will be a World Day of Prayer service on Friday 2 March at 2.00pm in
the Park Church, Ardrossan. All are welcome.
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? Leaflets are available in the confessional
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…
THINKING ABOUT THE PRIESTHOOD?
Are you thinking about Diocesan Priesthood in 2018? For more information,
please contact your Diocesan Vocations Director, Father Willie Boyd, Saint
Mary's Church, Irvine on 01294 279130 or WH.Boyd@btinternet.com. Alternatively,
you can email the Priests for Scotland Office on office@pfs.org.uk.
WORLD DAY OF THE SICK MASS
The Diocesan World Day of the Sick Mass will be held on Sunday 11 February
at 4.00pm in Saint Margaret's Cathedral, Ayr. Galloway Lourdes Hospitalité
looks forward to welcoming you, if you wish to be anointed, please make yourself
known to a member of the Hospitalité team on the day. Mass will be
followed by refreshments in the hall and the Hospitalité annual general
meeting.
EUCHARISTIC MEETING IN JUNE
Embracing Change in our Deanery is planning a Deanery Meeting of all our Eucharistic
Ministers and anyone who takes Holy Communion to a relative near the Feast
of Corpus Christi in June 2018. The meeting will comprise revisiting the Eucharistic
Ministry in our parishes and end with Holy Mass and Commission. The suggested
date is Saturday 2 June from 1.00 to 4.00pm in Saint Peter's. Please put this
in your diaries. Thanks!
IF
YOU LOVE HER ENOUGH
My
friend John always has something to tell me. He knows so much that young
men have to have older and more worldly-wise men to tell them. For instance,
who to trust, how to care for others, and how to live life to the fullest.
Recently, John lost his wife Janet. For eight years she fought against
cancer but in the end her sickness had the last word. One day John took
out a folded piece of paper from his wallet. He had found it, so he told
me, when he tidied up some drawers at home. It was a small love letter
Janet had written. The note could look like a school girl's scrawls about
her dream guy. All that was missing was a drawing of a heart with the
names John and Janet written in it. But the small letter was written by
a woman who had had seven children, a woman who fought for her life and
who probably only had a few months left to live. It was also a beautiful
recipe for how to keep a marriage together. Janet's description of her
husband begins thus - "Loved me. Took care of me. Worried about me."
Even though John always had a ready answer, he never joked about cancer
apparently. Sometimes he came home in the evening to find Janet in the
middle of one of those depressions cancer patients so often get. In no
time, he got her into the car and drove her to her favourite restaurant.
He showed consideration for her and she knew it. You cannot hide something
for someone who knows better. "Helped me when I was ill" the
next line reads. Perhaps Janet wrote this while the cancer was in one
of the horrible and wonderful lulls. Where everything is - almost - as
it used to be, before the sickness broke out and where it doesn't hurt
to hope that everything is over, maybe forever. "Forgave me a lot"
"Stood by my side" And a piece of good advice for everyone who
looks on giving constructive criticism as a kind of sacred duty - "Always
praising. Made sure I had everything I needed." she goes on to write.
After that, she has turned over the paper and added - "Warmth. Humour.
Kindness. Thoughtfulness." And then she writes about the husband
she has lived with and loved the most of her life - "Always there
for me when I needed you" The last words she wrote sum up all the
others. I can see her for me when she adds thoughtfully - "Good friend".
I stand beside John now and cannot even pretend to know how it feels to
lose someone who is as close to me as Janet was to him. I need to hear
what he has to say much more than he needs to talk. "John" I
ask, "How do you stick together with someone through thirty-eight
years - not to mention the sickness? How do I know if I can bear to stand
by my wife's side if she becomes sick one day?" "You can"
he says quietly, "If you love her enough, you can."
MARRIAGE MATTERS
Keeping our love alive - sometimes we have a sense of being at odds and
separated from each other. The question, often unasked, is 'do you love
me?' The answer is the same as Jesus gave to the outcast leper 'of course
I do!' From being apart, we can be one again. How often do we say to each
other 'I love you'?
INCREDIBLE IPAD OFFER - DON'T MISS OUT!
If you are interested in getting an iPad this year, I can get hold of
them through a contact. The numbers are limited and he has ten iPads going
for less than half price. It's first come first served. He's already sold
one. A picture is attached so you can see what you are getting. They are
from a cancelled NHS contract due to the cutbacks. Get back to me as quickly
as you can if you want one.
BURNS SUPPER
Sincere thanks to all the team who prepared the Burns
Supper last week, to all the singers and musicians, cooks, servers
and speakers. It was a wonderful evening and gave the Parish a chance
to come together and socialise. Thanks for all the hard work and a big
thank you to those who came along and supported it. If anyone has any
ideas for some social events as a Parish, please have a word with Father
Duncan. Photos of the event can be seen below and via the Pictures
link on this website. Thank you!
50-50
CLUB
Congratulations to January's prizewinners - 56 George Paterson, 119 Rosemary
Smith, 51 Kathleen Collins, 45 Christine Edmunds and the Early Bird draw
winner, 93 John Clarke. Thank you for your continued support. If you would
like to join the 50-50 Club, please contact Mrs Myriame Sammons on 469006.
SAFEGUARDING MODULE 1 TRAINING
Many thanks to those who managed to attend the training in Saint Peter's
Parish Centre. Please collect your certificate from the Parish Office
or your Parish Safeguarding Coordinators (PSC). Our next Deanery Training,
for those who were unable to be there due to bad weather, will be held
in Saint Winin's Hall, Kilwinning on Sunday 4 February from 2.00 to 3.30pm
where our Deanery trainer, Mari Biondi, looks forward to welcoming you
on the day. The next training might be further afield. Please let us know
for catering purposes if you are able to attend by phoning the parish
office on 464063 or Myriame Sammons on 469006.
Thank you - Myriame Sammons and George Poole PSCs
BUILDING AND REPAIR WORK AT SAINT PETER'S
Thank you everyone for the support and generosity in our second Collection
during Mass for the Building Fund. We will have a few serious repairs
to do in the next weeks - one at the very top of the Church which will
cost just under £3000 and another for the Hall which will be close
to £4000. Your weekly support is a tremendous help and makes this
necessary repair and maintenance work possible. Thank you again and please
be as generous as you can in the collection so that we can build up the
funds needed to maintain well God's House in Ardrossan. God bless!
SPRED SING ALONG
A sing-along, led by George McGrattan and Michael McCulloch, shown below,
in aid of the Special Religious Education Group (SPRED) will be held on
Tuesday 20 February from 1.00 to 2.45pm in the Civic Centre, Ardrossan.
Tickets cost £3 with tea or coffee and are available at the stall.
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.