BULLETIN
1
MAY 2005
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
30 April | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
1 May | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
2 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Annie and Andrew Murray |
Tuesday
3 May |
Feast of Saints
Philip and James Mass at 10.00 am for John and Margaret Murphy |
Wednesday
4 May | Mass
at 10.00 am for Christine Allan Vigil Mass at 7.00 pm for Harry Hissey (1897-1976) |
Thursday
5 May | Feast
of the Ascension Mass at 10.00 am with pupils coming from Saint Peter's Primary School Mass at 7.00 pm for Father Michael Lynch |
Friday
6 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Joseph and Jessie |
Saturday
7 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Johnny Kelly |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
1 May | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy Sacramental Preparation Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
2 May |
5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm | Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
3 May | 9.00
to 11.30 am 11.45 to 2.15 pm 2.30 to 4.30 pm 1.30 pm 7.00 pm 7.30 pm 7.30 pm |
Pre 5 Children Pre 5 Children Kindergarten Country Dancing Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit Saint Peter's Parent Teacher Association |
Wednesday
4 May | 9.00
to 11.30 am 11.45 to 2.15 pm 2.30 to 4.00 pm 5.00 to 6.00 pm 6.30 to 9.00 pm 7.30 pm 7.30 pm |
Pre 5 Children Pre 5 Children Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Special Religious Development (SPRED) Ignatian Prayer Group Keeping Children Safe |
Thursday
5 May | 9.00
to 11.30 am 11.45 to 2.15 pm 2.30 to 4.00 pm 1.00 to 3.00 pm 6.00 to 7.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm 7.30 pm |
Pre 5 Children |
Friday
6 May | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.00 to 11.45 am 11.45 to 2.15 pm 7.30 pm | Parents
and Toddlers Pre 5 Children Pre 5 Children Saint Anne's Guild Bingo |
Saturday
7 May | 7.30 pm | Private Engagement Party |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Patrick Doherty who died
recently;
Agnes McCann 1970, Josephine Cunningham 2000,
Mary Crossan 1981,
Jean Nesbit 1999, Bobby McNamara, Harry
Hissey 1976,
Robert Hunter 1956, Robert Stewart 2002, Patricia
McPadden 2004,
Helen McGee, Margaret Long 1999, Simon Cawley
2004,
Jean Agostini 1978 and Simon Smyth 2001
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Caitlin Dunlop and Patrick,
Kaitlyn and Sarah Smith who were baptised recently;
and those
who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £686.79 - many
thanks.
Banker's Orders amount to an average of £4000 per month. Forms
are available in the Church porch. Each month £4000 is repaid to the Diocese
for the building loan and levy.
SAINT
PATRICK'S MISSIONS COLLECTION
Last
weekend's collection for Saint Patrick's Missions amounted to £733.00
- many thanks.
50/50
CLUB
The 50/50 Club supports the parish financially. If you are not a member,
please consider it and contact Myriame Sammons.
SACRAMENTS OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
The
children of Primary Four who have been preparing for the Sacraments will celebrate
them on Sundays 8 May and 15 May at 10.00 am Mass. Please pray for them and their
families. A rehearsal will take place for the first Sunday on Friday 6 May at
6.00 pm in the Church. Margaret Cambridge, photographer, will be available after
both celebrations to photograph the children individually.
DIOCESE
OF GALLOWAY MASS FOR VOCATIONS
A Mass for Vocations to the Priesthood and
Religious Life will be celebrated on Friday 6 May at 7.00pm in Saint
Winin's Church, Kilwinning. The principal Celebrant will be Bishop John Cunningham.
All are welcome.
BINGO
Saint Anne's Guild is having a Bingo in the Parish Centre on Friday 6 May at 7.30
pm. The cost, including tea, is £1 for adults and 50p for children.
COFFEE
AFTERNOON
The Thursday
Club is having a Coffee Afternoon on Thursday 5 May in the Parish Centre at
1.00 pm. There will be the usual stalls with home baking, bric-a-brac and so on.
Tickets cost £1.00. All are welcome.
KEEPING
CHILDREN SAFE
A training evening on Keeping Children Safe has been arranged
for Parish volunteers. Present and future volunteers who are or would wish to
be involved with the Children's Liturgy, Sacramental Programme, supervision of
children after 10.00 am Sunday Mass and all those in any of our Parish Ministries
are cordially invited to attend in the Parish Centre on Wednesday 4 May from 7.30
- 9.30pm. Trainer will be F McCann of the Diocesan Child Protection Team. Tea
and coffee will be provided. This invitation has been extended to all the Parishes
in the Deanery. A good representation from Saint Peter's groups would be appreciated.
Please put your name on the lists in the porch or Parish Centre or give it to
Anne Watt or Kate by Sunday 1 May.
MARATHON
RUN
Karen O'Reilly Pirie has generously agreed that all proceeds from her
fundraising Marathon Run
in Prague on Sunday 22 May will be given to Saint Peter's parish. If you would
like to support her and the parish, sponsor sheets are available at the stall.
NEW SCHOOL NAME
After much deliberation, the Interim School Board of
the new school has come up with five names. A letter with a voting form attached
is available at the stall allowing you to record your vote.
DONEGAL
TRIP
Those who went on this trip would like to say thank you for a wonderful
trip, especially to Alice and look forward very much to the next one.
There
is not enough darkness in the world to extinguish the light of one small candle. |
The
easiest way to save face is to keep the bottom half shut. |
Children
need love especially when they do not deserve it. |
READINGS
The readings for this weekend's Masses are
shown below in English. They are available in eleven other languages
including French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish by clicking on this
link.
A
Reading from the Acts of the Apostles
Philip
went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to them. The people united
in welcoming the message Philip preached, either because they had heard of the
miracles he worked or because they saw them for themselves. There were, for example,
unclean spirits that came shrieking out of many who were possessed, and several
paralytics and cripples were cured. As a result there was great rejoicing in that
town. When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word
of God, they sent Peter and John to them, and they went down there, and prayed
for the Samaritans to receive the Holy Spirit, for as yet he had not come down
on any of them: they had only been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then
they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Second Reading
from the First Letter of Saint Peter
Reverence
the Lord Christ in your hearts, and always have your answer ready for people who
ask you the reason for the hope that you all have. But give it with courtesy and
respect and with a clear conscience, so that those who slander you when you are
living a good life in Christ may be proved wrong in the accusations that they
bring. And if it is the will of God that you should suffer, it is better to suffer
for doing right than for doing wrong. Why, Christ himself, innocent though he
was, had died once for sins, died for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body
he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life.
A
Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John
Jesus
said to his disciples: "If you love me you will keep my commandments. I shall
ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you for ever,
that Spirit of truth whom the world can never receive since it neither sees nor
knows him; but you know him, because he is with you, he is in you. I will not
leave you orphans; I will come back to you. In a short time the world will no
longer see me; but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that
day you will understand that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you. Anybody
who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me; and anybody
who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and show myself
to him.".