BULLETIN
24
SEPTEMBER 2006
TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
|
Saturday
23 September | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
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Sunday
24 September | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
25 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Charlotte and Victor Mitchell |
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Tuesday
26 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Mary and Bridget McLellan |
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Wednesday
27 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Sister Mary of Saint Joseph |
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Thursday
28 September | Mass at 7.00 pm for David Mason |
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Friday
29 September | Mass at 10.00 am for a special intention |
| Saturday
30 September | Mass at 10.00 am for Elizabeth and Leo Walsh |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
24 September | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
|
Monday
25 September | 8.00
pm 9.00 to 11.00 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 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
26 September |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
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Wednesday
27 September |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Kindergarten Nursery Nursery Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
|
Thursday
28 September | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.00 to 12.00 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 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 Quarrier's Homes Training Kindergarten Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation Brownies Girl Guides |
| Friday
29 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:
David McLaughlin who died recently;
Mary
McGraa 2002, Sister
Mary of Saint Joseph 1975, John Mackay 2002,
Brian Ghosh
2002, Maureen Johnson 2003, Peggy McKay 1992,
John Brodie
2001, Robert Leo Walsh 1968 and Mary Barr
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Zara Brotherston and Connor
Shanks who was baptised recently;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £679.19
- 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 Retired Priests amounted to £316.75
- 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
VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
The
Saint Vincent de Paul Society acknowledges the gilt of £450 from the
guests at Cathie and Jim Carroll's Golden Wedding.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY
Parent
volunteers are needed to help with the Children's Liturgy on Sunday mornings at
10.00 am Mass. If you would like to volunteer let Father
Matt know or phone Kate on 464063. The more people who volunteer the fewer
times your name will be on the rota.
CLOSURE
OF SAINT MICHAEL'S ACADEMY, KILWINNING
A committee has been formed in Saint
Michael's Academy to organise commemorative events to mark the closure of the
school which has served the communities of North Ayrshire and beyond since 1921.
A photographic display is planned, the aim of which is to record the history of
Saint Michael's from 1921 to 2007. Photographs of the building, pupils, staff
and events, both curricular and extra-curricular, are required. A commemorative
magazine will also be produced and some photographs will be used for this purpose.
Anyone who has such photographs and is prepared to lend them for display purposes
should send them to Mr Paul Carmichael, Saint Michael's Academy, Winton Place,
Kilwinning, KA13 6LJ. Please label the back of all photographs with the name and
address of the owner so that they can be returned safely. Alternatively photographs
can be handed in to the School Office. Please ensure that they are marked for
the attention of Mr Paul Carmichael.
THURSDAY
CLUB
The Thursday
Club, formed twenty-three years ago, has decided to meet on Tuesdays and will
now be known as the Tuesday Club. This means there will be no Country Dance Class.
The name change
was later rescinded and the title Thursday
Club remains.
COFFEE MORNING
The Thursday
Club is having its annual coffee morning on Saturday 21 October at 10.30 am
in the Parish Centre. There will be the usual stalls, bric-a-brac, books, fancy
goods, toys, home baking and so on. Donations would be very much appreciated.
Tickets cost £1.00.
REFURBISHING THE BLESSED
SACRAMENT CHAPEL
A family donation of £100 for the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel has been received with thanks.
50-50 CLUB
Thanks
to the parents of the Brownies who made the 50-50 Club draw in the Parish Centre
on 18 September. The winners are:
August
131
Celia Andrew £25, 92 Helen Brown £25, 216 Ben Madine £25, 188
Esther Coulter £25
September
243
Ann Henry £25, 147 Morag Farro £25, 172 Sheila Coulter £25,
195 William Forsyth £25
Bonus
3
Michael Sammons £100
Thank you for your continued support of the 50-50
Club. If you would like to join, please contact the promoter, Mrs Myraime Sammons.
| The
true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. |
| In life, the higher you want to go, the deeper you must dig your foundation. |
| You
must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something
for others - |
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
Wisdom
2:12.17-20
The
godless say to themselves, "Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man, since
he annoys us and opposes our way of life, reproaches us for our breaches of the
law and accuses us of playing false to our upbringing. Let us see if what he says
is true, let us observe what kind of end he himself will have. If the virtuous
man is Gods son, God will take his part and rescue him from the clutches of his
enemies. Let us test him with cruelty and with torture, and thus explore this
gentleness of his and put his endurance to the proof. Let us condemn him to a
shameful death since he will be looked after - we have his word for it.".
Second
Reading
James
3:16 - 4:3
Wherever you find jealousy and ambition, you find disharmony, and
wicked things of every kind being done; whereas the wisdom that comes down from
above is essentially something pure; it also makes for peace, and is kindly and
considerate; it is full of compassion and shows itself by doing good; nor is there
any trace of partiality or hypocrisy in it. Peacemakers, when they work for peace,
sow the seeds which will bear fruit in holiness. Where do these wars and battles
between yourselves first start? Isn't it precisely in the desires fighting inside
your own selves? You want something and you haven't got it; so you are prepared
to kill. You have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so you fight to get your
way by force. Why you don't have what you want is because you don't pray for it;
when you do pray and don't get it, it is because you have not prayed properly,
you have prayed for something to indulge your own desires.
Gospel
Mark
9:30-37
After leaving the mountain Jesus and his disciples made their way through
Galilee; and he did not want anyone to know, because he was instructing his disciples;
he was telling them, "The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of
men; they will put him to death; and three days after he has been put to death
he will rise again." But they did not understand what he said and were afraid
to ask him. They came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them,
"What were you arguing about on the road?" They said nothing because
they had been arguing which of them was the greatest. So he sat down, called the
Twelve to him and said, "If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself
last of all and servant of all." He then took a little child, set him in
front of them, put his arms round him, and said to them, "Anyone who welcomes
one of these little children in my name, welcomes me; and anyone who welcomes
me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.".