BULLETIN
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OCTOBER 2006
TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
30 September | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
1 October | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
2 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Geoff Kelly |
Tuesday
3 October | Mass at 10.00 am for John Paterson |
Wednesday
4 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Helen O'Boyle |
Thursday
5 October | Mass at 7.00 pm for Desmond McEvoy |
Friday
6 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Elizabeth McKay |
Saturday
7 October | Mass at 10.00 am for James Hughes |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
1 October | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
2 October | 8.00
pm 9.00 to 11.00 am 9.30 to 11.30 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
3 October |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Wednesday
4 October |
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) Ignatian Prayer Group |
Thursday
5 October | 8.00
to 5.30 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 6.00 to 8.00 pm 6.30 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Kindergarten Nursery Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation Italian Class Brownies Girl Guides |
Friday
6 October | 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:
William Stalker and Agnes Canavan who
died recently;
Charles Coulter 1992, John Connor 1983, Canon
Lawrence Fischer 1980,
Hannah Burns 2002, John Paterson
2005, Robert Paterson 2004,
Hugh O'Hare 2004, Terence O'Neill
2002, Elizabeth McKay 2005,
James Martin 1997 and Eunice
Ward 2001
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Levi Phillips who was baptised
recently;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £792.89 - 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.
RETIRED
PRIESTS COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection
for Retired Priests amounted to £388.38 - 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.
FATHER
MATT HOLIDAY
Father
Matt will be on holiday from 9 to 25 October.
PARISH
CENTRE
For almost a year now there has been a difficulty in arranging a
drinks licence when using the Parish
Centre for social functions. That clause has been altered and now allows for
various functions to take place, for example, engagements, weddings, birthdays,
family events, socials and so on. The Management will however reserve the right
to make a decision on any eighteenth and twenty-first birthday parties. To book
the Centre, telephone 606442.
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
More
details about commemorating the closure of Saint Michael's Academy, Kilwinning
are on the noticeboard in the porch.
GORDON STEVENSON
By now, many
of you will have heard that Gordon Stevenson, our Director of Music is moving
to America to take up a similar post to the one he has held here for over three
years. We wish him well and thank him for all that he has done for Saint Peter's.
Over these last few years, Gordon has helped to build up a good musical tradition
where we are able to boast that we have music at every Mass on Sundays and feast
days. It is important that we keep this going. A letter is going out to all in
the Music Ministry - singers,
cantors and instrumentalists asking them to indicate their availability and preferences.
There has to be a number of our parishioners who can add to our skill base and
would love to sing or play an instrument. Watch the bulletin for details of a
Music Ministry meeting
in November - and come along ready to be a choir member, a cantor or an instrumentalist.
Gordon is here till mid-October. After that we wish him bon voyage and God's blessing
on his new endeavours in Arizona.
THE ROSARY
During the month of October,
before morning Mass, the Rosary will be led by the Thursday
Club.
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.
BRIAN WARD
Brian Ward, a former parishioner
of Saint Peter's is entering the Benedictine Order of Monks in Saint Aloysius
Abbey, Ramsgate on Saturday 30 September. Brian is the son of the late Hugh and
Agnes (McFarlane) Ward. Please pray for him.
YOUTH
EVENINGS
There will be Youth Evenings in Saint
Mary's Church, Saltcoats on Sunday 1 October and Sunday 5 November. Further
details are on noticeboard in the porch.
REFURBISHING THE BLESSED
SACRAMENT CHAPEL
The first Fund Raising Supper for the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel will take place in the Presbytery on Friday 27 October. There
will be an Italian Theme. The numbers are limited to twenty persons and the cost
is £25 per head. Tickets are available from the Parish Office. A donation
of £100, in memory of Jim, has been received with thanks.
GALLOWAY
LOURDES HOSPITALITÉ
The Fiftieth Anniversary Ceilidh of Galloway Lourdes
Hospitalité will take place on Friday 3 November at 7.30 pm in the Park
Hotel, Kilmarnock. Tickets cost £10 and include a buffet..
SACRED
HEART FATHERS
The Sacred Heart Fathers invite you to a series of four bible
study evenings starting on Wednesday 4 October. Further details are on the noticeboard
in the porch.
Give
love away and you'll get love back for the measure you give will be the measure you get back. |
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. |
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 Numbers 11:25-29
The
Lord came down in the Cloud. He spoke with Moses, but took some of the spirit
that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the spirit came on them
they prophesied, but not again. Two men had stayed back in the camp; one was called
Eldad and the other Medad. The spirit came down on them; though they had not gone
to the Tent, their names were enrolled among the rest. These began to prophesy
in the camp. The young man ran to tell this to Moses, Look, he said, Eldad and
Medad are prophesying in the camp. Then said Joshua the son of Nun, who had served
Moses from his youth, My Lord Moses, stop them! Moses answered him, Are you jealous
on my account? If only the whole people of the Lord were prophets, and the Lord
gave his Spirit to them all!
Second
Reading James 5:1-6
An
answer for the rich. Start crying, weep for the miseries that are coming to you.
Your wealth is all rotting, your clothes are all eaten up by moths. All your gold
and your silver are corroding away, and the same corrosion will be your own sentence,
and eat into your body. It was a burning fire that you stored up as your treasure
for the last days. Labourers mowed your fields, and you cheated them - listen
to the wages that you kept back, calling out; realise that the cries of the reapers
have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. On earth you have had a life of comfort
and luxury; in the time of slaughter you went on eating to your heart's content.
It was you who condemned the innocent and killed them; they offered you no resistance.
Gospel
Mark 9:38-43.45.47-48
John
said to Jesus, "Master, we saw a man who is not one of us casting out devils
in your name; and because he was not one of us we tried to stop him." But
Jesus said, "You must not stop him: no one who works a miracle in my name
is likely to speak evil of me. Anyone who is not against us is for us. If anyone
gives you a cup of water to drink just because you belong to Christ, then I tell
you solemnly, he will most certainly not lose his reward. But anyone who is an
obstacle to bring down one of these little ones who have faith, would be better
thrown into the sea with a great millstone round his neck. And if your hand should
cause you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life crippled,
than to have two hands and go to hell, into the fire that cannot be put out. And
if your foot should cause you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter
into life lame, than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. And if your eye
should cause you to sin, tear it out; it is better for you to enter into the kingdom
of God with one eye, than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell where their
worm does not die nor their fire go out.".