BULLETIN
21
JANUARY 2007
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 3
CHURCH
SERVICES
Saturday
20 January | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
21 January | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
22 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Ellen Echlin |
Tuesday
23 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Rose Loughrey |
Wednesday
24 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Cathy Robertson |
Thursday
25 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Christian Unity |
Friday
26 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Bernard and Susan Burns |
Saturday
27 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Ian Falsay |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
21 January | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
22 January | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 10.00 to 4.00 pm 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
23 January |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Wednesday
24 January |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club |
Thursday
25 January | 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 2.30 pm 6.00 to 7.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
Friday
26 January | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Parents and Toddlers Kindergarten |
Saturday
27 January | 7.30 pm | Park Church Gardening Club Burns Supper |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Barbara Taylor who died recently;
Margaret
Jane Brennan 1964, Annie Monan 1998, James McCormack 1999,
Catherine
Welsh 2005, Michael Lynn 2005, Bernard Burns 1963,
Annie
Carson 1995, Brookelyn Angel Donnachy 2006, John McKay Senior 1957,
Patricia
Murphy 1988, Ian Falsay 2004 and Annie Boyle O'Hare 1967
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Ava Milligan who was baptised
recently;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY
COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £660.57 - 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 £355.97
- 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.
REFURBISHING
THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
CHAPEL
The final estimates are in from Lighthouse Glass for the Last Supper
window in the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel. The cost, includin joiner and electrical work is £6991.
There is a little more needed if we choose to carpet the floor and pad the step
for kneeling. We have raised £3475 from personal donations and fund-raising.
We shall continue to raise funds and the work is due to start this month.
50-50
CLUB
The annual subscription to the 50-50 Club is now due. New members can
sign up and existing members can renew their subscription in the foyer after all
Masses next weekend.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations
to parishioner George McGrattan on becoming a Member of the Order of the British
Empire (MBE) for services to education in the new year honours list.
PRESBYTERY
DRIVEWAY
Can I please ask again that you do not block the driveway? Father
Sharkey has to get to Mass in Dalry and he and I have to be available for calls
to the hospital and we cannot get out while Mass is on. Thanks.
SAINT
PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
A Fund Raising Race Night has been arranged by Saint
Peter's Children's Centre for Friday 9 February at 7.30 pm with tickets at £5.
Donations of bottles and raffle prizes would be much appreciated. Raffle tickets
are available at the stall.
WEEK
OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY
Masses on Sunday 21 January are offered for Christian
Unity. The intention is an important one for your prayer during the week. On Thursday
25 January, there will me a Service for Unity in New Trinity Church, Saltcoats
at 7.00 pm. Everyone is welcome. Mass here will be at 10.00 am.
CATHOLIC
EDUCATION WEEK - 4 to 10 FEBRUARY
To celebrate Catholic Education Week, the
annual Education Mass will be offered in Saint
John's Church, Stevenston on Thursday 8 February, at 7.00 pm. Everyone - especially
teachers, pupils, parents, school board members, school staff members - is welcome.
Tea and coffee will be served after Mass.
DIOCESE
OF GALLOWAY HOSPITALITÉ DE NOTRE DAME DE LOURDES
There will be Mass
for World Day of Sick with the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick and the annual
general meeting of the Hospitalité de Notre Dame de Lourdes in Saint Quivox's
Church, Prestwick on Sunday 18 February at 3.00 pm. Tea and coffee will be served
after Mass.
MUSIC
MINISTRY EVENING
A Music Ministry event will be held on Wednesday 7 February
at Smithstone House, Kilwinning from 6.45 pm for a 7.00 pm start to 9.30 pm. The
main part of the evening will consist of music ideas for Lent and Holy Week and
will be led by Les Hendron of Bourtreehill. The first part will consist of a short
talk and discussion on 'What is Lent?' led by Father
Stephen Motroni. The cost, including refreshments, is £5 and will be
collected on the evening. For further information contact Michael McCulloch.
CHRISTIAN
AID
A light-hearted quiz with participants from all the local churches with
question master Reverend Johnston McKay will take place on Thursday 15 February
at 7.30 pm in Barony Saint John's Church Hall. Come along and support your team
member. Tickets cost £2.00 and all proceeds will go to Christian Aid.
HCPT
- THE PILGRIMAGE TRUST
To help raise money for your local HCPT, recycle your
unwanted mobile phone. HCPT will receive from 50p to £50 for every phone
depending on age and condition. Please remove your sim card and leave your phone
in the box provided in the Church porch.
How
poor are those who have no patience? |
How
things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. |
May
the roof over your head never fall in and your friends never fall out. |
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 Nehemiah 8:2-6.8-10
Ezra
the priest brought the Law before the assembly, consisting of men, women, and
children old enough to understand. This was the first day of the seventh month.
On the square before the Water Gate, in the presence of the men and women, and
children old enough to understand, he read from the book from early morning till
noon; all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law. Ezra the scribe
stood on a wooden dais erected for the purpose. In full view of all the people
- since he stood higher than all the people - Ezra opened the book; and when he
opened it all the people stood up. Then Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God,
and all the people raised their hands and answered Amen! Amen!; then they bowed
down and, face to the ground, prostrated themselves before the Lord. And Ezra
read from the Law of God, translating and giving the sense, so that the people
understood what was read. Then Nehemiah - His Excellency - and Ezra, priest and
scribe (and the Levites who were instructing the people) said to all the people,
This day is sacred to the Lord your God. Do not be mournful, do not weep. For
the people were all in tears as they listened to the words of the Law. He then
said, Go, eat the fat, drink the sweet wine, and send a portion to the man who
has nothing prepared ready. For this day is sacred to our Lord. Do not be sad:
the joy of the Lord is your stronghold.
Second
Reading Corinthians
12:12-30
Just as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is a single
unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it is with Christ.
In the one Spirit we were all baptised, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well
as citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all to drink. Nor is the body to be
identified with any one of its many parts. If the foot were to say, "I am
not a hand and so I do not belong to the body", would that mean that it stopped
being part of the body? If the ear were to say, "I am not an eye, and so
I do not belong to the body," would that mean that it was not a part of the
body? If your whole body was just one eye, how would you hear anything? If it
was just one ear, how would you smell anything? Instead of that, God put all the
separate parts into the body on purpose. If all the parts were the same, how could
it be a body? As it is, the parts are many but the body is one. The eye cannot
say to the hand, "I do not need you," nor can the head say to the feet,
"I do not need you." What is more, it is precisely the parts of the
body that seem to be the weakest which are the indispensable ones; and it is the
least honourable parts of the body that we clothe with the greatest care. So our
more improper parts get decorated in a way that our more proper parts do not need.
God has arranged the body so that more dignity is given to the parts which are
without it, and so that there may not be disagreements inside the body, but that
each part may be equally concerned for all the others. If one part is hurt, all
parts are hurt with it. If one part is given special honour, all parts enjoy it.
Now you together are Christ's body; but each of you is a different part of it.
In the Church, God has given the first place to apostles, the second to prophets,
the third to teachers; after them, miracles, and after them the gift of healing;
helpers, good leaders, those with many languages. Are all of them apostles, or
all of them prophets, or all of them teachers? Do they all have the gift of miracles,
or all have the gift of healing? Do all speak strange languages, and all interpret
them?
Gospel
Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21
Seeing
that many others have undertaken to draw up accounts of the events that have taken
place among us, exactly as these were handed down to us by those who from the
outset were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word, I in my turn, after carefully
going over the whole story from the beginning, have decided to write an ordered
account for you, Theophilus, so that your Excellency may learn how well founded
the teaching is that you have received. Jesus, with the power of the Spirit in
him, returned to Galilee; and his reputation spread throughout the countryside.
He taught in their synagogues and everyone praised him. He came to Nazara, where
he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day as he usually
did. He stood up to read, and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah.
Unrolling the scroll he found the place where it is written: The spirit of the
Lord has been given to me, for he has anointed me. He has sent me to bring the
good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and to the blind new sight,
to set the downtrodden free, to proclaim the Lord's year of favour. He then rolled
up the scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the
synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to speak to them, "This text is
being fulfilled today even as you listen.".