BULLETIN
3
JULY 2005
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
2 July | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Monica Murphy |
Sunday
3 July | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
4 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Des Langan |
Tuesday
5 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Ella Cairns |
Wednesday
6 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Carol Stewart |
Thursday
7 July | Mass at 7.00 pm for Patrick McDonald |
Friday
8 July | Mass at 10.00 am in thanksgiving |
Saturday
9 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Margaret Boyd |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
3 July | 11.00 am | Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
4 July |
7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Saint
Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
5 July | 7.30 pm | Keep Fit |
Wednesday
6 July | 5.00
to 6.00 pm 6.30 to 8.30 pm | Street
Dance for 13 to 18 year olds The Best of Health |
Thursday
7 July | ||
Friday
8 July | ||
Saturday
9 July | 12.00 noon | Car Boot Sale in car park |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Sister Jane Frances CP
who died recently;
Thomas Magee 1995, Rosetta McKay 1994, Ryan
Fleming 2002, Joseph Armstrong 1998,
Father Harry Farrell 1998
and Patrick Tourish 1986 whose anniversaries occur at this time and
Natasha
Alicia Coulter and Iona Bobbie Martin who were baptised recently
and
those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection
amounted to £610.68 - many thanks.
Banker's Orders amount to an average
of £4000 per month. Each month £4000 is repaid to the Diocese for
the building loan and levy.
PETER'S
PENCE COLLECTION
Last
weekend's collection for Peter's Pence amounted to £345.00
- many thanks.
BANKER'S
ORDERS:
Paying your collection by monthly or quarterly banker's order makes
money handling much safer. Banker's Order forms are available in the porch.
50-50
CLUB
Congratulations to the following 50-50 Club prizewinners:
May: 206
Ella Cavani £25, 75 Anne Kennedy £25, 102 Mrs W Boyle £25, 193
Jean Smith £25
June: 58 Maureen Kelly £25, 136 Elizabeth Petrie
£25, 137 Kathleen Moran £25,
48 Cecilia Morman £25
Bonus: 122 Robert Kelly £100
FATHER
LYNCH CITIZENSHIP AWARD
Saint Peter's School Board members have donated
a Friendship Quaich to the school as a memorial to Father
Lynch. The Quaich will be engraved each year with the name of the pupil who
will receive the award. The award will be on display in the church this weekend.
This year's winner is Sianhan McEvoy. Well done Sianhan.
DIOCESAN
CHANGES
Bishop Cunningham has appointed Father Patrick Lawson from Saint Palladius,
Dalry to Saint Sophia's, Galston and Saint Paul's, Hurlford. Father Kinsler from
Saint Sophia's, Galston will go to Saint Palladius, Dalry.
SEA
SUNDAY:
Next Sunday is Sea Sunday. Please pray for seafarers and their families.
Donation envelopes are available at the stall and can be returned next Sunday.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
There will be a Mass of Thanksgiving to celebrate
Father McManus's
forty years as a priest, followed by a buffet in the Parish Centre on 24 September.
Dates are to be arranged for a Sportsman's Dinner, Race Night and Coffee Morning.
Don't
judge a person by
the clothes he wears; God made the person; the tailor made the clothes. ... his family relations; Cain belonged to a good family. the company he keeps; Jesus can still transform lives by His Presence. his speech; A parrot can talk and the tongue is only an instrument of the mind. his failures in life; Many are too honest to succeed. |
Keep
your face toward the sun and God will take care of the shadows. |
Men
do not reject the Bible because they find faults in it, but because it finds faults
in them. |
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.
First Reading
Zechariah 9:9-10
The
Lord says this: Rejoice heart and soul, daughter of Zion! Shout with gladness,
daughter of Jerusalem! See now, your king comes to you; he is victorious, he is
triumphant, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. He
will banish chariots from Ephraim and horses from Jerusalem; the bow of war will
be banished. He will proclaim peace for the nations. His empire shall stretch
from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
Second Reading Romans
8:9.11-13
Your
interests are not in the unspiritual, but in the spiritual, since the Spirit of
God has made his home in you. In fact, unless you possessed the Spirit of Christ
you would not belong to him, and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the
dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to
your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you. So then, my brothers,
there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual
lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit
you put an end to the misdeeds of the body you will live.
Gospel Matthew 11:25-30
Jesus
exclaimed, 'I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these
things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes,
Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to
me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows
the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 'Come
to me, all you who labour and are overburdened and I will give you rest. Shoulder
my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find
rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.'