BULLETIN
17 DECEMBER 2006
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT IN YEAR 3
CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
16 December | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
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Sunday
17 December | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
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Monday
18 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Bessie O'Rourke |
| Tuesday
19 December | Mass at 10.00 am for John Maher |
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Wednesday
20 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Susan Jones |
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Thursday
21 December | Mass at 7.00 pm for Mary Dalziel |
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Friday
22 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Jenny Cannon |
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Saturday
23 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Jack Gartland |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
17 December | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
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Monday
18 December | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
|
Tuesday
19 December |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
| Wednesday
20 December |
5.00 to 6.00 pm | Street
Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club |
| Thursday
21 December | 2.00
to 3.00 pm 6.00 to 8.00 pm | Cardiac
Rehabilitation |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Theresa Dorrans, Margaret McGowan,
Margaret Hughes,
Thomas Connor and Father Ken McLaughlin
(Germany)
who died recently;
James
Kernahan 1998, Roseanne Kirkwood 1991, Susan Jones 1996,
Mary
Wishart 2002, Kilbane Family, John Campbell 1997, Margaret Bennie,
Annie
Farmer 1984, Annie Boyle, George Poole 1991, William Martin 1974,
Father
Peter Sweeney 2001, Alice Grogan 2003, Sister Hilda CP 2000,
Josephine
McGeachy 2003, Jenny McAtee 2003, Tom Braniff 2003,
Ellen
Barrett 1984, Patrick McLaughlin 1998 and Peggy Hamilton
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £619.79
- 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 £335.33
- 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.
CHRISTMAS
MASSES
Christmas Masses will be held in the following Churches at the given
times.
Sunday 24 December
Saint Peter's,
Ardrossan - 5.30 pm, 8.30 pm
Saint
Mary's, Saltcoats - 9.00 pm
Monday 25 December
Saint
Peter's, Ardrossan -
11.00 am
Saint
Mary's, Saltcoats - 10.00 pm
Saint
Brendan's, Saltcoats - 10.30 pm
PIOUS
OBJECT STALL
Raffle tickets costing 50p each are on sale at the pious object
stall for a porcelain Nativity Set. The draw will take place at the Sunday Teas
on 17 December.
SCOTTISH CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL AID FUND
The total amount
sent to the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund in 2006 from parishioners
was £2203.00.
SAINT
VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
The members of the Saint
Vincent de Paul Society would welcome any gifts of non-perishable, in-date
foodstuffs to supplement our stock for food parcels. A box has been placed in
the porch for such donations.
CHRISTMAS VIGIL MASS
There is a rehearsal
on Tuesday at 7.00 pm for the Christmas Vigil Mass.
SAINT PETER'S PRIMARY
SCHOOL
After 10.00am Mass this Sunday there will be a selection of Christmas
Craft for sale in the Parish Centre. The items on sale have been made by the children
of P7x, P7/6 and P6/5 of Saint Peter's Primary School as part of their Enterprise
Project. Please come along and support their efforts. All profits will go to charities
chosen by the children.
ARDROSSAN CHURCHES GROUP
The Ardrossan Churches
Group Carol Service will be held in the Civic Centre on Sunday 17 December at
6.00 pm.
ADVENT
EXTRA
Advent Extras are available at the stall at a cost of 50 pence.
CATHOLIC
DIARIES 2007
This is the first year you have been asked to pay for your diary
as the publishers were unable to attract any local advertising resulting in no
free copies. The cost is £1.
BURNS
SUPPER
The
Burns Supper will be held in the Parish Centre on Saturday, 20 January 2007. Tickets
costing £10 each are available from Kate and Gerry. Patrons are asked to
be seated by 7.20 pm for a prompt start at 7.30 pm. The speakers and musicians
are George McGrattan, Father Matt McManus, David Munn, Margaret Munn, Len Murray,
Robin Reid, Ciaran Sinclair, Margaret Swiercz, Aimee Taylor and Monica Taylor.
Len Murray is a retired Glasgow solicitor who has spoken at over 300 Burns Suppers
on four continents. Further details of this and previous Burns
Suppers are on Saint Peter's website.
DIOCESAN
CAROL SERVICE
The
annual Diocesan Carol Service will be held in the Good Shepherd Cathedral, Ayr
on Wednesday, 20 December at 7.30pm led by Bishop John Cunningham. Tea, coffee
and mince pies will be served in the hall afterwards.
REFURBISHING
THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
CHAPEL
The second Fund Raising Supper, which has a Polish theme, will take
place in the Presbytery on Friday 29 December. Numbers are limited to twenty persons
and the cost is £25 per head. A few tickets are available from the Parish
Office. Donations of £1000 from a parishioner and £500 from the 50/50
Club were gratefully received. The total is now £3025.
THANKS TO
PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS
Matt and Moira Donnelly would like to thank all who
donated and supported the Sponsored Walk for their grandson, Neil's, wheelchair.
Special thanks to the Thursday
Club for their generous £500 donation. It was very much appreciated.
The total so far is £1390.
THANKS
TO SAINT CLARE
Grateful thanks to Saint Clare for favours received - MM
| Oh
for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. |
| Wouldn't
life be worth the living Wouldn't dreams be coming true If we kept the Christmas spirit All the whole year through? |
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 Zephaniah
3:14-18
Shout
for joy, daughter of Zion, Israel, shout aloud! Rejoice, exult with all your heart,
daughter of Jerusalem! The Lord has repealed your sentence; he has driven your
enemies away. The Lord, the king of Israel, is in your midst; you have no more
evil to fear. When that day comes, word will come to Jerusalem; Zion, have no
fear, do not let your hands fall limp. The Lord your God is in your midst, a victorious
warrior. He will exult with joy over you, he will renew you by his love; he will
dance with shouts of joy for you as on a day of festival.
Second
Reading Philippians
4:4-7
I
want you to be happy, always happy in the Lord; I repeat, what I want is your
happiness. Let your tolerance be evident to everyone: the Lord is very near. There
is no need to worry; but if there is anything you need, pray for it, asking God
for it with prayer and thanksgiving, and that peace of God, which is so much greater
than we can understand, will guard your hearts and your thoughts, in Christ Jesus.
Gospel
Luke 3:10-18
When
all the people asked John, "What must we do?", he answered, "If
anyone has two tunics he must share with the man who has none, and the one with
something to eat must do the same." There were tax collectors too who came
for baptism, and these said to him, "Master, what must we do?" He said
to them, "Exact no more than your rate." Some soldiers asked him in
their turn, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "No
intimidation! No extortion! Be content with your pay!" A feeling of expectancy
had grown among the people, who were beginning to think that John might be the
Christ, so John declared before them all, "I baptise you with water, but
someone is coming, someone who is more powerful than I am, and I am not fit to
undo the strap of his sandals; he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
His winnowing-fan is in his hand to clear his threshing-floor and to gather the
wheat into his barn; but the chaff he will burn in a fire that will never go out."
As well as this, there were many other things he said to exhort the people and
to announce the Good News to them.