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 |
Tuesday
5 September |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Wednesday
6 September |
8.00 to 5.30 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
whose
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.".