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Saturday
9 November
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Feast of The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica |
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Sunday
10 November
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Thirty-Second
Sunday of the Year |
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Monday
11 November
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Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours |
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Tuesday
12 November
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Memorial of Saint Josephat |
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Wednesday
13 November
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Requiem Mass at 10.00am for Isobel Morrison |
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Thursday
14 November
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No Mass today |
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Friday
15 November
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Holy Mass at 10.00am for Mary McMillan SI and Oswald Schaeffer RD |
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Saturday
16 November
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Feast of Saint Margaret |
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Abbreviations - A anniversary, MM month's mind, RD recently deceased, SI special intention |
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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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Saturday
9 November
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Vigil
Mass at 4.30pm
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Sunday
10 November
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Sunday Mass at 10.00am |
Sunday Mass at 11.30am |
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Monday
11 November
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Holy Mass at 10.00am | Service of the Word at 10.00am |
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Tuesday
12 November
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Service of the Word at 10.00am | Requiem Mass at 10.00am |
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Wednesday
13 November
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Holy Mass at 10.00am | |
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Thursday
14 November
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Service of the Word at 10.00am | Service of the Word at 10.00am |
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Friday
15 November
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Service of the Word at 10.00am | Requiem Mass at 10.00am |
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Saturday
16 November
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Vigil Mass at 4.30pm | Holy Mass at 10.00am |
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Sunday
10 November
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11.30am |
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Monday
11 November
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9.30
to 11.30am |
Parents
and Toddlers |
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Tuesday
12 November
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9.00
to 11.00am 7.30pm |
Cardiac
Rehabilitation |
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Wednesday
13 November
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9.30
to 11.30am |
Parents
and Toddlers |
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Thursday
14 November
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Friday
15 November
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9.30
to 11.30am 11.00am |
Parents
and Toddlers Tea, coffee and chat in the Snug after Benediction |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Margaret Curran, Peter Kelly, Michael Spencer, Isobel Morrison, Sister Rosa
Lima Flongdusit, William Armstrong and Oswald Schaeffer who died recently;
Father Cornelius Burke 1972, James Cummings 2005, Father Paul Felix 2016,
Anne Ward 2018, Vivien Goldie 1998, Helen Gurney 2004, David Kelley, Henry
Mons McIlroy 1966, Alec Murphy 1998, Annie Tracey 2000, Thomas
Walsh 2002, James Cox, Canon John Donnelly 2003, Mary McCabe 1998, Peter
McCourt 2009, James McGrath 2010, Daniel Murray 2006, Moira Shaw 1995, Bartholomew
(Barney) Coby 2012, Mary Dalziel 2006, Helen Mallon 1987, Daniel McDougall
1944, Margaret McIntee 2017, Alex Miller 1979, James Smith 1999, William Cassidy
2012, Julie Anne MacLaren 2006, William Reilly, Rose Floyd 1992, Vivien Friel
2004, Canon Patrick Gunning 1987, Mary Harrigan 2016, Karen Small 2015, Hugh
Welsh 1986, Robert McGee 1996, Margaret Ogilvie 2016, Francis Brady 1943,
George Hilferty 2013, Hugh Madine 1997 and Letitia Smith 2001 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. If members
of your family or friends are in need of our prayers, please tell Father
Duncan or the parish office.
If they are in hospital, Reverend Bill Corbett on 01292 521208 - assisted
each week by the priest on call - is the chaplain to Crosshouse Hospital and
can be contacted through the ward. Ayr Hospital and the Ayrshire Hospice have
an on-call chaplaincy.
SUNDAY MASS TIMES
Sunday Mass times
in Saint Peter's are 5.30pm Vigil and 10.30am. Sunday
Mass times in other local parishes can be
seen here.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
The Sacrament of Forgiveness is celebrated on Saturdays between 4.45 and 5.15
pm and at other times on request.
READERS
Next weekend's readers are Marade Griffin at 5.30pm and Margaret
Harvey at 10.30am.
MUSIC
MINISTRY
Next weekend's musicians are George McGrattan at 5.30pm and Catherine Kerr
and Catherine Boyd at 10.30am.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY
Next week's helpers are Jacqueline Waugh for the pre-fives, Linda Martin for
Primaries 1, 2 and 3 and Andrena Hughes and Frances Gemmell for Primary 4.
REQUIEM MASS FOR ISOBEL MORRISON
Please pray for the Repose of the Soul of Isobel Morrison, who died on Sunday
3 November 2019. She will be received into Church on Tuesday 12 November at
6.00pm. Her Requiem Mass on Wednesday 13 November at 10.00am will be followed
by her interment at Ardrossan Cemetery. May she rest in peace and rise in
glory.
WE
REMEMBER THEM
He was very old now but could still hold himself stiffly at attention before
the monument. His war, the one to end all wars, was now just a fading part
of history. Very few could remember, first-hand, the savageness of the ordeal
that had sent millions of young men to their deaths - cannon fodder, they'd
called them, sent before the guns to be mown down, blown apart by chunks of
metal which had decimated their frail bodies. The cream of a generation was
almost wiped out. He was haunted by the faces of the boys he'd had to order
into battle, the ones who'd never come back. Yet one nameless ghost was able
to bring a measure of comfort to his tormented mind. At the sound of the gun
signalling the eleventh hour, he was mentally transported back to the fields
of Flanders. The battle had raged for over two hours with neither side gaining
any advantage. Wave after wave of soldiers had been dispatched from the muddy
trenches and sent over the top. So many had died already that day that he
decided he could not afford to lose any more men before reinforcements arrived.
Perhaps they'd give the remnants a few more days of life. There came a slight
lull in the battle due to the sheer exhaustion of the men on both sides. During
this interval, a young soldier came up to him requesting that he be allowed
to go over the top. He looked at the boy who couldn't have been more than
nineteen. Was this extreme bravery in the face of the enemy or was the soldier
so scared he just needed to get it over with? "Why would you want to
throw your life away soldier? It's almost certain death to go out there."
"My best friend went out over an hour ago, Captain, and he hasn't come
back. I know my friend must be hurt and calling for me. I must go to him,
sir, I must." There were tears in the boy's eyes. It was as if this were
the most important thing in the world to him." "Soldier, I'm sorry,
but your friend is probably dead. What purpose would it serve to let you sacrifice
your life too?" "At least I'd know I'd tried, sir, he'd do the same
thing in my shoes. I know he would." He was about to order the boy back
to the ranks but the impact of his words softened his heart. He remembered
the awful pain he'd felt himself when his brother had died. He'd never had
the chance to say goodbye. "All right soldier, you can go." Despite
the horror all around them, he saw a radiant smile on the boy's face as if
a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders. "God bless you, sir,"
said the soldier. It was a long time before the guns fell silent for the last
time and each side was allowed to gather their dead and wounded. The captain
remembered the young soldier. He looked through the many piles of bodies of
young men - so many as to give an unreal quality to the scene before him.
When he came to the makeshift hospital, he looked carefully through the casualties.
He soon found himself before the prone body of the soldier, alive, but severely
wounded. He knelt down beside the young man and gently laid a hand on his
shoulder. "I'm so sorry, son. I knew I was wrong to let you go."
"Oh no, sir. I'm glad you did and I'm glad you're here now so I can thank
you. You see sir, I found my friend. He was badly wounded, but I was able
to comfort him at the end. As I held him dying in my arms, he looked me in
the eyes and said: "I knew you'd come." The young soldier faded
between consciousness and oblivion for some time before he finally slipped
away. The captain stayed by his side until the end, tears streaming quietly
down his cheeks. Only in war could the happy endings be so terribly sad. As
the bugle sounded The Last Post, the old captain envisioned once again the
young soldier's face. Looking up, he could almost hear the stone monument
calling out to him "I knew you'd come."
JUST FOR A LAUGH …
After a morning Mass, a mother with a fidgety seven-year-old boy told her
Parish Priest how she finally got her son to sit still and be quiet. About
halfway through the sermon, she leaned over and whispered 'If you don't be
quiet, the priest is going to lose his place and will have to start his sermon
all over again!' It worked!
MONTH OF THE HOLY SOULS
C S Lewis thought that purgatory and praying for the dead were sensible doctrines.
"I believe in purgatory" Lewis states in one of his letters in which
he also notes "Of course, I pray for the dead. The action is so spontaneous,
so all but inevitable, that only the most compulsive theological case against
it would deter me. And I hardly know how the rest of my prayers would survive
if those for the dead were forbidden. At our age the majority of those we
love best are dead. What sort of intercourse with God could I have if what
I love best were unmentionable to Him?" Lewis notes that purgatory is
a way to prepare our own souls - and anyone who truly loves God ought to desire
for the sake of that love such a time for preparation. "Our souls demand
Purgatory, don't they?" Lewis asks. "Would it not break the heart
if God said to us 'It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags
drip with mud and slime but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid
you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into the joy?" Should
we not reply "With submission, Sir, and if there is no objection, I'd
rather be cleaned first." "It may hurt, you know". "Even
so, Sir."
SAINT MATTHEW'S ACADEMY PRIMARY SEVEN PARENTS' INFORMATION EVENING
On Monday 11 November, all parents of primary seven pupils are invited to
visit our local Catholic Secondary School. The evening will run from 7.00
to 9.00pm. The meeting will consist of visits to departments and the opportunity
to speak with class teachers and members of Senior Management. Saint
Matthew's Academy has recently been evaluated as Very Good by Education
Scotland and exam results in 2019 were among the highest the school has achieved
since opening in 2007. This is an excellent opportunity to visit our Catholic
Secondary School and experience first hand the high quality Catholic ethos
which benefits all young people in our community.
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
This Sunday, 10 November is the celebration of Remembrance Sunday. There will
be a special Remembrance Day Service at the Evangelical Union Church in Glasgow
Street at 1.00pm, followed by special prayers led by Father
Duncan
at the Garden of Remembrance
PARISH STEWARDSHIP
Last weekend's Offertory collection amounted to £641.25 and the Maintenance
Fund collection to £243.49 - thanks very much. The Organ Fund stands
at £7241.13 - many thanks for all your support and generosity!
CHURCHES' HOMELESS ACTION NORTH AYRSHIRE (CHANA)
CHANA would like to provide Christmas presents for those in the hostels and
supported accommodation this year. We are appealing for gift sets of toiletries,
new pyjamas, hats and gloves, mostly for men. Please use the CHANA box provided
or hand them in to the Ardrossan Hostel in Princes Street. Thanks once again
for your continued generosity.
FOOD BANK COLLECTION
Can you help by giving two hours of your time for a collection at Tesco in
Saltcoats or Irvine on Thursday, Friday or Saturday 21 to 23 November? If
you can, please phone Danny on 07979 542319. Thank you!
SPECIAL RELIGIOUS EDUCATION GROUP (SPRED) GALLOWAY
SPRED Galloway invites you to its Saint Andrew's Night Ceilidh and Disco in
Saint Paul's Church Hall, Ayr on Saturday 30 November from 7.30 to 11.00pm.
A light supper will be provided and please bring your own bottle. Tickets
cost £10.00 and family tickets also available. Please see the poster
at the back of the Church. SPRED contacts are 01292 738068 and info@spredgalloway.org.uk.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CO-ORDINATOR
If you have excellent communication and facilitation skills and experience
of working and communicating with young people between the ages of seven and
twenty-five, we would love to hear from you. You will be responsible for the
promotion, development, support for and co-ordination of the Society of Saint
Vincent de Paul Scotland's youth work. The salary for a thirty hour week is
£21840 to £24960 depending on experience. For further information
about the Society and its work and to view the job description and personal
specification, please visit www.ssvpscotland.com.
To apply, email your curriculum vitae and cover letter with examples how your
skills and experiences fit the person specification for this role to officemanager@ssvpscotland.com.
The closing date is 17 November. Interviews will be held on Monday 2 December
2019.
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 haplain to Crosshouse Hospital and is assisted by the priest on call
each week.
SUNDAY
TEAS
Tea and coffee will be served after the 10.30am Mass next Sunday in the Parish
Centre by Maria's team.
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 10.30am 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.