BULLETIN                   4 JUNE 2006

PENTECOST SUNDAY IN YEAR 2


CHURCH SERVICES

Saturday 3 June
Confession on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm
Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Carol Hattison
Sunday 4 June
Sunday Mass at 10.00 am
Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon
Monday 5 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Patrick Earlie
Tuesday 6 June
no Mass
Wednesday 7 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Martin Cunningham
Thursday 8 June
Mass at 7.00 pm for John Maher
Friday 9 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Martin Brown
Saturday 10 June
Mass at 10.00 am for James Gallacher


PARISH CENTRE EVENTS

Sunday 4 June
10.00 am
11.00 am
1.00 pm

Children's Liturgy
Tea and Coffee after Mass
Christening Party

Monday 5 June
8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 1.30 pm
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
Nursery
Parents and Toddlers
Key Housing
Kindergarten
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Rainbows
Brownies
Saint Vincent de Paul Society
Weight Watchers

Tuesday 6 June

8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am
12.30 to 2.30 pm
4.00 to 5.00 pm
7.30 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten
Karate
Keep Fit
Wednesday 7 June

8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am

12.30 to 2.30 pm
1.00 to 3.00 pm
5.00 to 6.00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
7.00 pm
7.30 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten
Primary 4 Party with the Thursday Club
Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds
Burakudo Karate Club
Special Religious Development (SPRED)
Ignatian Prayer Group
Thursday 8 June

8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am

12.30 to 2.30 pm
1.30 to 3.30 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
6.00 to 7.30 pm
7.30 to 9.00 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Rainbows
Brownies
Girl Guides

Friday 9 June
8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am

9.30 to 11.30 am
12.30 to 2.30 pm
4.00 to 7.00 pm
Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Parents and Toddlers
Kindergarten
Children's Party
Saturday 10 June
10.30 am Saint Vincent de Paul Society Coffee Morning

PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
   Joseph Higgins, Grace Flanagan and William Stuart who died recently;
   Susan Boylan, Jim Glass, Denis Long 2005, Father Michael Masterson 1997,
   James Conaghan 1999, Mary Walsh 1954, Alison Dunn 1994,
   George West 1997, Patrick Clark 2002, Martin Brown 1998,
   Elizabeth Dailly, John Spencer 2002 and Hilda Reid
   whose anniversaries occur at this time;
   Bernadette Coulter and Steven Francis Govan who were married recently;
   Chloe Kelly who was baptised recently
   and those who are sick.

SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £761.31 - 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.

COMMUNICATIONS FUND COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for the Communications Fund amounted to £671.80 - 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.

FRANCISCAN MISSIONARY APPEAL
There will be a Franciscan missionary appeal at all Masses next weekend.

SACRAMENTS OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
A Mass of Thanksgiving will be celebrated on Sunday 4 June at 10.00 am when all children will receive their certificates. This will be followed by tea, coffee and other refreshments in the Parish Centre.

THURSDAY CLUB
A party for the Primary 4 children, whose prayer partners are the members of the
Thursday Club, will take place on Wednesday 7 June in the Parish Centre.

ARDROSSAN BROWNIES
Ardrossan Brownies are having a 'Mother and Daughter' Beetle Drive on Thursday 8 June at 7.00 pm in the Parish Centre. Tickets cost £5 and include a glass of wine for mothers and juice and crisps for daughters.

SPECIAL RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT (SPRED) SPONSORED WALK
Thanks to all who took part or sponsored someone in the SPRED sponsored walk. It took place on Palm Sunday and has raised £1870.00.

THANKS
Thanks to Saint Anne's Guild for their donation of £150 for the use of the Parish Centre.

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY 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.

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.


SACRED HEART FATHERS
The Sacred Heart Fathers will hold their Summer Fayre on Sunday 4 June from 2.00 - 4.00pm at Smithstone House, Kilwinning. All are welcome - please come along.

SAINT ANNE'S GUILD OUTING TO EDINBURGH
The bus for Saint Anne's Guild annual outing to Edinburgh will leave Chapelhill Mount at 9.30 am on Tuesday 6 June and follow the usual route.

SAINT PETER'S PRESBYTERY
Come and have a look around the new presbytery and offices on Sunday 11 June from 1.00 pm till 4.00 pm. Enter by the front door, have a short tour round the house and exit by the rear door into the Parish Centre where there will be a strawberry tea in aid of the Scottish International Aid Fund.
The house will be 'officially' opened on the evening of Thursday 29 June by His Eminence, Keith Patrick Cardinal O'Brien. This is the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul and the evening Mass will be at 6.00 pm that evening followed by a reception in the Parish Centre.


  Criticising a person with harsh words is as effective as  
  trying to fix a computer by battering it with a hammer.
 


The one who sows courtesy reaps friendship
  and the one who plants kindness gathers love.
 


  We need old friends to help us grow and new friends to keep us young.  



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 2:1-11
When Pentecost day came round, the apostles had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and something appeared to them that seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech. Now there were devout men living in Jerusalem from every nation under heaven, and at this sound they all assembled, each one bewildered to hear these men speaking his own language. They were amazed and astonished. "Surely," they said, "all these men speaking are Galileans? How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language? Parthians, Medes and Elamites; people from Mesopotamia, Judaea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya around Cyrene; as well as visitors from Rome - Jews and proselytes alike - Cretans and Arabs; we hear them preaching in our own language about the marvels of God?".

Second Reading           Corinthians 12:3-7.12-13
No one can say, "Jesus is Lord" unless he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit. There is a variety of gifts but always the same Spirit; there are all sorts of service to be done, but always to the same Lord; working in all sorts of different ways in different people, it is the same God who is working in all of them. The particular way in which the Spirit is given to each person is for a good purpose. Just as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is a single unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it is with Christ. In the one Spirit we were all baptised, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all to drink.

Gospel           John 15:26-27; 16:12-15
In the evening of the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, "Peace be with you", and showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Lord, and he said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so am I sending you." After saying this he breathed on them and said: 'Receive the Holy Spirit. For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven: for those whose sins you retain, they are retained.".