BULLETIN                                          18 JUNE 2006

THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST IN YEAR 2


CHURCH SERVICES

Saturday 17 June
Confession on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm
Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for David Brodie
Sunday 18 June
Sunday Mass at 10.00 am
Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon
Monday 19 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Samuel McGonigle
Tuesday 20 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Bill Stuart
Wednesday 21 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Joe Gribben
Thursday 22 June
Mass at 7.00 pm for May Dolan
Friday 23 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Joe Higgins
Saturday 24 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Michael Devine


PARISH CENTRE EVENTS

Sunday 18 June
10.00 am
11.00 am

Children's Liturgy
Tea and Coffee after Mass

Monday 19 June
8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 4.00 pm
12.30 to 2.30 pm
1.30 to 3.00 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
Saint Vincent de Paul Society
Weight Watchers

Tuesday 20 June

8.00 to 5.30 pm
7.30 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Keep Fit

Wednesday 21 June

8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am

12.30 to 2.30 pm
5.00 to 6.00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten
Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds
Burakudo Karate Club
Thursday 22 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

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten
Cardiac Rehabilitation

Friday 23 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
Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Parents and Toddlers
Kindergarten

PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
   Sharon McKenna, Betty Holmes and Alice Devine who died recently;
   Samuel McGonigle 1997, Andrew McPadden 2002, Sheila Kennedy 1996,
   Una Delahunt Rice 2005, John Malloy 2002, Billy Harvey 2004,
   Mary Bridget Magee 1988, Margaret Boyd 2005, Susan Watson 2002,
   Mary Leishman 1997, Sheila Kearney and Mamie Scotland
   whose anniversaries occur at this time;
   and those who are sick.

SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £753.74 - 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.

FRANCISCAN MISSIONARY APPEAL
Last weekend's collection for the Franciscans amounted to £990.65 - 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.

MONSIGNOR PETER MAGEE
Monsignor Peter Magee, a former parishioner, celebrates his Silver Jubilee on Sunday 2 July with Mass at 12.00 noon followed by a reception in the Parish Centre.

FATHER LYNCH ANNIVERSARY MASS
Mass will be celebrated for the second Anniversary of Father Michael Lynch's death on Monday 3 July at 7.00 pm followed by tea and coffee in the Parish
Centre.

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY COFFEE MORNING
Saint Peter's Conference of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul sincerely thank everyone who supported our coffee morning by donating baking, raffle prizes, bric a brac, books and so on; those who worked so hard by helping on the day; and, of course, to everyone who came to buy so generously. A grand total of £1119.26 was raised which will comfortably meet the cost of the flour grinding machines being provide to Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Madurai in India. Thank you once again.

OPEN HOUSE
Many thanks to all who assisted and made the 'Open House' such a happy event on Sunday. Over £400 was raised and, after expenses, the balance will be sent to the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF).

COACH PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES
There will be a pilgrimage to Lourdes from 30 June to 11 July 2007. The cost is £559 plus £19 for insurance. Further details are on the notice board
.

50-50 CLUB
Congratulations to the following 50-50 Club prizewinners:
  May - 174 Patricia Fitzsimmons £25, 108 Mary Brown £25, 96 Eoghan Hughes £25,
  May - 140 Joan O'Hare £25
  bonus - 23 Lorraine Stevenson £100
  June - 133 Laura McNeil £25, 119 Sharon McLaughlin £25, 206 Ella Cavani £25, 200 James Watt £25
Thank you for your continued support of the 50-50 Club. If you would like to join or change your address, please contact Myriame Sammons.

SAINT PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
An 'Open Day / Fundraiser' for Saint Peter's Children's Centre will be held in the car park on Tuesday from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm. There will be face painting, badge making, balloon race, bouncy castle, fire engine and various stalls. Strawberry teas will be served. Come along and join in the fun. The car park will be closed to vehicles during the event.

CHRISTIAN PEOPLES' ALLIANCE
Theresa Smith of Christian Peoples' Alliance will be in the Parish this weekend with a petition against homosexual and unmarried adoption.

SAINT PETER'S PRESBYTERY
The presbytery will be 'officially' opened on the evening o
f 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.



Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when
our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.


  A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.  



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           Exodus 24:3-8
Moses went and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. In answer, all the people said with one voice, We will observe all the commands that the Lord has decreed. Moses put all the commands of the Lord into writing, and early next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve standing-stones for the twelve tribes of Israel. Then he directed certain young Israelites to offer holocausts and to immolate bullocks to the Lord as communion sacrifices. Half of the blood Moses took up and put into basins, the other half he cast on the altar. And taking the Book of the Covenant he read it to the listening people, and they said, We will observe all that the Lord has decreed; we will obey. Then Moses took the blood and cast it towards the people. This he said is the blood of the Covenant that the Lord has made with you, containing all these rules.

Second Reading
          Hebrews 9:11-15
Now Christ has come, as the high priest of all the blessings which were to come. He has passed through the greater, the more perfect tent, which is better than one made by men's hands because it is not of this created order; and he has entered the sanctuary once and for all, taking with him not the blood of goats and bull calves, but his own blood, having won an eternal redemption for us. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer are sprinkled on those who have incurred defilement and they restore the holiness of their outward lives; how much more effectively the blood of Christ, who offered himself as the perfect sacrifice to God through the eternal Spirit, can purify our inner self from dead actions so that we do our service to the living God. He brings a new covenant, as the mediator, only so that the people who were called to an eternal inheritance may actually receive what was promised: his death took place to cancel the sins that infringed the earlier covenant.

Gospel
          Mark 14:12-16.22-26
On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was sacrificed, his disciples said to Jesus, "Where do you want us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?" So he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, "Go into the city and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him, and say to the owner of the house which he enters, "The Master says: Where is my dining room in which I can eat the Passover with my disciples?" He will show you a large upper room furnished with couches, all prepared. Make the preparations for us there." The disciples set out and went to the city and found everything as he had told them, and prepared the Passover. And as they were eating he took some bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to them. "Take it," he said "this is my body." Then he took a cup, and when he had returned thanks he gave it to them, and all drank from it, and he said to them, "This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, which is to be poured out for many. I tell you solemnly, I shall not drink any more wine until the day I drink the new wine in the kingdom of God." After psalms had been sung they left for the Mount of Olives.