BULLETIN
21
MAY 2006
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
20 May | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Nicky McIntee |
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Sunday
21 May | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
22 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Joan Baird |
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Tuesday
23 May | Mass
at 9.00 am for Nicandro Picozzi Father Matt will attend the Council of Priests. |
| Wednesday
24 May | Mass
at 10.00 am for Brian Sudlow Vigil Mass at 7.00 pm for the Feast of the Ascension for Jim Ogilvey |
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Thursday
25 May | Feast
of the Ascension Mass at 10.00 am by Father Sharkey with pupils coming from Saint Peter's Primary School Mass at 7.00 pm for David McLaren |
| Friday
26 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Joe and Lily Peppard |
| Saturday
27 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Nancy Clark |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
21 May | 10.00
am 11.00 am 12.30 pm |
Children's Liturgy |
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Monday
22 May | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 1.30 to 3 00 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8 00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
|
Tuesday
23 May |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit |
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Wednesday
24 May |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club SPRED |
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Thursday
25 May |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Jim Gallacher who died recently;
Brian Cairns 2004, Angus Donnelly 2003, William McCafferty 1920,
Mary Kelly 2002, Meta McCulloch, Patrick O'Hare 1973,
Margaret McAuley 1953, Lily Peppard 2004, Joe Peppard 1993,
Mary Lynn Beattie 1998, Bernard Little 1999, Sarah Ramsay 2000
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Charmaine McMahon, Martin Hamilton,
Nicola Kelly,
Marie Friel, Jasmine Devine, Claire Kelly, Megan
McNeillie.
Adam Graham, Chloe Coldwell, Hugh Taylor
who
who will receive the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Communion today
as well as a Bible from the Thursday
Club;
Kyle Marcus Burford who was baptised recently
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection
amounted to £860.24 - 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.
PARISH
CENTRE COLLECTION
Last
weekend's collection for the Parish Centre amounted to £353.05
- 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.
SPECIAL
COLLECTION
There will be a special collection at all next weekend for the
Communications Fund.
THE ROSARY
The Thursday
Club will lead the Rosary each morning before the weekday Mass during the
month of May.
SACRAMENTS
OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
This Sunday, 14 May is the second of three
Sundays when the children of Primary 4 will celebrate the Sacraments of Confirmation
and First Communion at 10.00 am Mass . Please pray for them and their families.
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL COFFEE MORNING
Saint
Peter's Conference of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVDP) is planning
a Coffee Morning for Saturday,
10 June. There will be various stalls as well as a prize raffle. Donations for
any of the stalls, for example, baking, books, and bric a brac as well as prizes
for the raffle will be most welcome and can be notified to any member of the Conference.
SAINT PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
Will be
closed on Friday 26 and Monday 29 May. There will be no Parents and Toddlers on
those days.
THURSDAY
CLUB'S ANNUAL SUMMER OUTING
The bus for the Thursday
Club's trip to Musselburgh on Wednesday 24 June will leave Stanley School
at 10.00 am and follow the usual route.
MUSIC
MINISTRY
The meeting of the Music Ministry arranged for Thursday 25 May
has been postponed. Members of the Ministry will be informed of the new date.
DIOCESE OF GALLOWAY MUSIC MINISTRY
The Diocese of Galloway Music Ministry
will have an evening of Celtic music and community prayer led by Monsignor Gerry
Fitzpatrick on 14 June from 7.00 to 9.15 pm in Smithstone House, Kilwinning. The
cost is £5. Booking forms are available from Michael McCulloch.
THE
CRACKED POT
An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the
ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack
in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.
At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived
only half full. For a full two years this went on daily with the woman bringing
home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of
its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection
and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. After
two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one
day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side
causes water to leak out all the way back to your house." The old woman smiled,
"Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path but not on
the other pot's side?" "That's because I have always known about your
flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path and every day while we
walk back, you water them." "For two years I have been able to pick
these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way
you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house." Each of us has
our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our
lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each
person for what they are and look for the good in them.
| You
don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. |
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 Acts 10:25-26.34-35.44-48
As
Peter reached the house Cornelius went out to meet him, knelt at his feet and
prostrated himself. But Peter helped him up. Stand up, he said, I am only a man
after all! Then Peter addressed them: The truth I have now come to realise, he
said, is that God does not have favourites, but that anybody of any nationality
who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to him. While Peter was still
speaking the Holy Spirit came down on all the listeners. Jewish believers who
had accompanied Peter were all astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit should
be poured out on the pagans too, since they could hear them speaking strange languages
and proclaiming the greatness of God. Peter himself then said, Could anyone refuse
the water of baptism to these people, now they have received the Holy Spirit just
as much as we have? He then gave orders for them to be baptised in the name of
Jesus Christ. Afterwards they begged him to stay on for some days.
Second
Reading 1 John 4:7-10
My
dear people, let us love one another since love comes from God and everyone who
loves is begotten by God and knows God. Anyone who fails to love can never have
known God, because God is love. God's love for us was revealed when God sent into
the world his only Son so that we could have life through him; this is the love
I mean: not our love for God, but God's love for us when he sent his Son to be
the sacrifice that takes our sins away.
Gospel
John 15:9-17
Jesus
said to his disciples: "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just
as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love. I have told you
this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete. This is my commandment:
love one another, as I have loved you. A man can have no greater love than to
lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do what I command
you. I shall not call you servants any more, because a servant does not know his
master's business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything
I have learnt from my Father. You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned
you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; and then the Father will
give you anything you ask him in my name. What I command you is to love one another.".