BULLETIN
4
FEBRUARY 2007
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 3
CHURCH SERVICES
|
Saturday
3 February | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
|
Sunday
4 February | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
5 February | Feast
of Saint Agatha Mass at 10.00 am for Bessie Delahunt (1934-2006) |
| Tuesday
6 February | Feast
of Saint Paul Miki and Companions Mass at 10.00 am for Peggy McLaughlan |
| Wednesday
7 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Celia Ralston |
|
Thursday
8 February | No
Mass Annual Education Mass at 7.00 pm in Saint John's Church, Stevenston |
| Friday
9 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Leda Biagioni |
| Saturday
10 February | Feast
of Saint Scholastica Mass at 10.00 am for John and Catherine Cahill |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
4 February | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
|
Monday
5 February | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 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 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
|
Tuesday
6 February |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
|
Wednesday
7 February |
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 Ignatian Prayer Group |
|
Thursday
8 February | 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
9 February | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 7.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Parents and Toddlers Kindergarten Race Night |
Saturday
10 February | 7.30 pm | Private Function |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Mrs E Kennedy and Robert Potts
who died recently;
Michael Barrett 1984, Joseph Brodie 1961,
Eileen Busbridge,
Patrick McGinn 1999, Pamela McIntosh 1999
and Cesare Scott 2002
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Michael James McLaughlin
who was baptised recently;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £801.94 - 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 £316.94
- 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.
CATHOLIC
EDUCATION COLLECTION
There will be a special collection at all Masses this
weekend for Catholic Education.
CHURCH STUDENTS' FUND COLLECTION
A collection
will be taken at all Masses on the weekend of 24 and 25 February. I would be grateful
if those of you who are tax-payers would use the yellow Gift Aid envelopes available
at the stall. By doing so, you will enable the Diocese to reclaim from the Inland
Revenue 28p for every £1 you place within the envelope. Please take one
home with you this weekend in preparation for the collection.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
4 February
Pre-Fives:
Maria and Frances
Primary 1 to 3: Elaine,
Eileen and Anne
Primary 4: Julie and Gayle
11
February
Pre-Fives: Frances and Sharon
Primary
1 to 3: Andrena and Theresa
Primary 4:
Frank and Catherine
PARISH FOCUS ON SAINT PETER'S
Saint Peter's is
featured in this week's Scottish Catholic Observer. Copies are available at the
stall.
FUND RAISING SUPPER
A Mexican Supper will take place in the Presbytery
on Friday 23 February. Tickets, costing £25 each, are available from the
Parish Office. All money raised will go towards the refurbishing of the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel.
REFURBISHING THE BLESSED
SACRAMENT CHAPEL
A donation of £100 from a parishioner brings the
total collected for the refurbishment of the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel to £3825. Thanks very much.
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.
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.
THANKS
TO SAINT CLARE
Grateful thanks to Saint Clare for favours received - SM.
A
frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate
that her name is Patricia Whack. "Miss Whack, I'd like to get a £30000
loan to take a holiday." Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his
name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger and that
it's okay, he knows the bank manager. Patty explains that he will need to secure
the loan with some collateral. The frog says, "Sure. I have this" and
produces a tiny porcelain elephant about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly
formed. Very confused, Patty explains that she'll have to consult with the bank
manager and disappears into a back office. She finds the manager and says, "There's
a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow
£30000, and he wants to use this as collateral." She holds up the tiny
pink elephant. "I mean, what in the world is this?" The bank manager
looks back at her and says "It's a knick-knack, Patty Whack. Give the frog
a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."
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
Isaiah
6:1-8
In the year of King Uzziahs death I saw the Lord seated on a high throne;
his train filled the sanctuary; above him stood seraphs, each one with six wings.
And they cried out one to another in this way, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of
hosts. His glory fills the whole earth. The foundations of the threshold shook
with the voice of the one who cried out, and the Temple was filled with smoke.
I said: What a wretched state I am in! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips
and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have looked at the King,
the Lord of hosts. Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding in his hand a live
coal which he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. With this he touched
my mouth and said: See now, this has touched your lips, your sin is taken away,
your iniquity is purged. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: Whom shall
I send? Who will be our messenger? I answered, Here I am, send me.
Second
Reading Corinthians
15:1-11
Brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, the
gospel that you received and in which you are firmly established; because the
gospel will save you only if you keep believing exactly what I preached to you
- believing anything else will not lead to anything. Well then, in the first place,
I taught you what I had been taught myself, namely that Christ died for our sins,
in accordance with the scriptures; that he was buried; and that he was raised
to life on the third day, in accordance with the scriptures; that he appeared
first to Cephas and secondly to the Twelve. Next he appeared to more than five
hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still alive, though
some have died; then he appeared to James, and then to all the apostles; and last
of all he appeared to me too; it was as though I was born when no one expected
it. I am the least of the apostles; in fact, since I persecuted the Church of
God, I hardly deserve the name apostle; but by God's grace that is what I am,
and the grace that he gave me has not been fruitless. On the contrary, I, or rather
the grace of God that is with me, have worked harder than any of the others; but
what matters is that I preach what they preach, and this is what you all believed.
Gospel
Luke 5:1-11
Jesus
was standing one day by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the crowd pressing round
him listening to the word of God, when he caught sight of two boats close to the
bank. The fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into
one of the boats - it was Simon's - and asked him to put out a little from the
shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. When he had finished
speaking he said to Simon, "Put out into deep water and pay out your nets
for a catch." "Master," Simon replied, "we worked hard all
night long and caught nothing, but if you say so, I will pay out the nets."
And when they had done this they netted such a huge number of fish that their
nets began to tear, so they signalled to their companions in the other boats to
come and help them; when these came, they filled the two boats to sinking point.
When Simon Peter saw this he fell at the knees of Jesus saying, "Leave me,
Lord; I am a sinful man." For he and all his companions were completely overcome
by the catch they had made; so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who
were Simon's partners. But Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; from now
on it is men you will catch." Then, bringing their boats back to land, they
left everything and followed him.