BULLETIN                                                      1 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
Sacramental Preparation
Tea and Coffee after Mass

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
Kindergarten
Nursery
Parents and Toddlers
Nursery
Cardiac Rehabilition
Rainbows
Brownies
Saint Vincent de Paul Society
Weight Watchers

Tuesday 3 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
1.00 to 3.00 pm
2.00 pm
7.00 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Kindergarten
Nursery
Nursery
Thursday Club
Saint Anne's Guild
Keep Fit

Wednesday 4 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
5.00 to 6.00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
7.00 pm
7.30 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
   w
hose 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.".