BULLETIN                                                      3 SEPTEMBER 2006

TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 2


CHURCH SERVICES

Saturday 2 September
Confession on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm
Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm Jimmy McGrattan
Sunday 3 September
Sunday Mass at 10.00 am
Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon
Monday 4 September
Mass at 10.00 am for Agnes Long
Tuesday 5 September
Mass at 10.00 am for Mr P Hand
Wednesday 6 September
Mass at 10.00 am for Bernard O'Donnell
Thursday 7 September
Mass at 7.00 pm for Rosaleen Emrich
Friday 8 September
Mass at 10.00 am for Michael McGinnis
Saturday 9 September
Mass at 10.00 am for Nancy Erskine


PARISH CENTRE EVENTS

Sunday 3 September
11.00 am

Tea and Coffee after Mass

Monday 4 September
8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.30 am
12.30 to 3.00 pm
5.30 to 6.30 pm
6.30 to 8.00 pm
7.00
7.00 to 8.00 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Parents and Toddlers
Nursery
Rainbows
Brownies
Saint Vincent de Paul Society
Weight Watchers

Tuesday 5 September

8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.00 am
12.30 to 3.00 pm
7.00 pm
7.00 pm
7.30 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten
Nursery
Saint Anne's Guild
Saint Peter's Parent Teacher Association
Keep Fit

Wednesday 6 September

8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.00 am
12.30 to 3.00 pm
5.00 to 6.00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
7.00 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten
Nursery
Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds 
Burakudo Karate Club
Primary 4 Parents
Thursday 7 September
8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.00 am
12.30 to 3.00 pm
1.00 to 3.00 pm
2.00 to 3.00 pm
6.30 to 7.30 pm
7.30 to 9.00 pm
Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten
Nursery
Thursday Club
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Brownies
Girl Guides
Friday 8 September
8.00 to 5.30 pm
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.00 am
12.30 to 3.00 pm
Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Parents and Toddlers
Nursery

PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
   Ella Kirk 1996, Canon Myles Moriarty 1989, Michael Brown 1958,
   Jimmy Mulhern 1992, Margaret Brodie 1964, Rona McNamara 2005,
   Marie White (McManus) 1997, Catherine Campbell 2003,
   James Duffin 1960, Florence Slavin 1998 and James Moore 1998
   w
hose anniversaries occur at this time;
   and those who are sick.

SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £795.74 - 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.

PARISH CENTRE COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for the Parish Centre amounted to £339.60 - 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.

SAINT PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
A few places are available for the afternoon session of the Nursery Class from 12.30 to 3.00pm for three to five year olds. For more information contact Anne Hunter of Saint Peter's Children's Centre on 473030.

BLESSED SACRAMENT CHAPEL
The Lighthouse Glass Company who created the Stained Glass window for the Presbytery is looking at a way to portray the Last Supper on to glass for the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.

TU ES PETRUS ET SUPER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM
The words 'Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam' have been restored to the Church. They mean 'You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church'. The cost has been met by a parishioner in memory of his parents. The graphics are by Nick Monir of Zebra Signs.

MUSIC MINISTRY MEETING
The Music Ministry meeting planned for Thursday 7 September will now take place on Thursday 21 September.

SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION
Parents of Primary 4 children who wish to volunteer to help with the Children's preparation for the Sacraments during 10.00 am Mass are invited to the Parish Centre on Wednesday 6 September where they can complete Disclosure Scotland Forms with the help of Annie Watt who is the Child Care Coordinator. A Presentation Service will take place at 10.00 am Mass on Sunday 10 September and the children's preparation at Mass begins on Sunday 17 September.

SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
Katrina (Brown) Pollock and Averill Cunningham will be running the Glasgow 10K on Sunday 3 September for Scottish International Relief. Sponsor Forms are available at the stall for those wishing to sponsor them.

CHILDREN'S LITURGY TRAINING
All involved in taking Children's Liturgy are invited to a Training Day in Smithstone House, Kilwinning on Saturday 16 September from 10.30 am to 3.30 pm. Further details and a list for names is available in the porch.

SUGGESTION
I am beginning to realise that when you've got to go, you've got to go especially if you are quite young. My suggestion to parents is what about going the long way round - out the front door and round to the Parish Centre toilets that way? It would help us to have a few less distractions during the sacred parts of the Mass.

MUSIC MINISTRY
The Music Ministry meeting planned for Thursday 7 September will now take place on Thursday 21 September.

AYRSHIRE BUILDINGS OPEN DOORS
Saint Peter's is again taking part in this Ayrshire Building Open Doors event on Sunday 3 September from 1.00 to 4.00 pm. The Church and the downstairs part of the presbytery will be open to visitors with a short guided tour if required. Everyone is welcome. It might be possible to have a cup of tea!

SAINT ANNE'S GUILD
Saint Anne's Guild reopens on Tuesday 5 September at 7.00 pm.

THURSDAY CLUB
The Thursday Club reopens on Thursday 7 September at 1.00 pm.

AN EVENING OF FUN AND SCOTTISH FOLK MUSIC
To celebrate Saint Andrew's Day, there will be An Evening of Fun and Scottish Folk Music on Saturday 25 November in the Parish Centre. The main entertainer will be Ardrossan-born Stephen Quigg who, as well as being a member of one of Scotland's foremost folk groups, The McCalmans, is an accomplished and popular solo singer. There will also be a quiz, time for blethering and a bar. Further details will be announced nearer the time.

CHURCH LIGHTING
Health and Safety legislation no longer allows anyone to change the Church lights by means of a ladder. It requires scaffolding so we must find a way of lighting the sanctuary with accessible and long-lasting lights. It is being looked at and you should see the effects in a few weeks.

HUMILITY AND GRATITUDE
A frog, living in a forest in New Jersey, persuaded two geese to fly him to Florida for the winter. He tied the ends of a long cord to each goose. He held the centre of the cord in his mouth and off they went to Florida. The journey was going well until someone on the ground noticed the strange sight passing by overhead. "Hey, look at that!", he shouted, "That's fantastic. Whose idea was that, I wonder?". In his anxiety to get the credit for being so clever, the proud frog opened his mouth, and shouted "Mine!".
Humility and profound gratitude is the only fitting response to the love offered by God. Jack McArdle SS.CC



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           Deuteronomy 4:1-2.6-8
Moses said to the people: Now, Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life and may enter and take possession of the land that the Lord the God of your fathers is giving you. You must add nothing to what I command you, and take nothing from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God just as I lay them down for you. Keep them, observe them, and they will demonstrate to the peoples your wisdom and understanding. When they come to know of all these laws they will exclaim, No other people is as wise and prudent as this great nation. And indeed, what great nation is there that has its gods so near as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him? And what great nation is there that has laws and customs to match this whole Law that I put before you today?

Second Reading           James 1:17-18.21-22.27
It is all that is good, everything that is perfect, which is given us from above; it comes down from the Father of all light; with him there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow of a change. By his own choice he made us his children by the message of the truth so that we should be a sort of first-fruits of all that he had created. Accept and submit to the word which has been planted in you and can save your souls. But you must do what the word tells you, and not just listen to it and deceive yourselves. Pure, unspoilt religion, in the eyes of God our Father is this: coming to the help of orphans and widows when they need it, and keeping oneself uncontaminated by the world.

Gospel           Mark 7:1-8.14-15.21-23
The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered round Jesus, and they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them. For the Pharisees, and the Jews in general, follow the tradition of the elders and never eat without washing their arms as far as the elbow; and on returning from the market place they never eat without first sprinkling themselves. There are also many other observances which have been handed down to them concerning the washing of cups and pots and bronze dishes. So these Pharisees and scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not respect the tradition of the elders but eat their food with unclean hands?" He answered, "It was of you hypocrites that Isaiah so rightly prophesied in this passage of scripture: This people honours me only with lip-service, while their hearts are far from me. The worship they offer me is worthless, the doctrines they teach are only human regulations. You put aside the commandment of God to cling to human traditions." He called the people to him again and said, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that goes into a man from outside can make him unclean; it is the things that come out of a man that make him unclean. For it is from within, from men's hearts, that evil intentions emerge: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within and make a man unclean.".