BULLETIN
11
FEBRUARY 2007
SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 3
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
10 February | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
11 February | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
12 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Tom Adamson |
Tuesday
13 February |
Mass at 10.00 am by Father Gabriel for John Scoular |
Wednesday
14 February |
Feast
of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius Mass at 10.00 am by Father Gabriel for Theresa McDermott |
Thursday
15 February | Mass
at 6.30 pm for Michael McManus Christian Aid event in Barony Saint John's Church at 7.30 pm |
Friday
16 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Barbara Taylor |
Saturday
17 February | Mass
at 10.00 am for John and Mary McNamara Mass at 12.00 noon in Saint John's Church, Stevenston for Father Poland's Silver Jubilee |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
11 February | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
12 February | 5.30
to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Rainbows |
Tuesday
13 February |
1.00 to 3.00 pm |
Thursday
Club |
Wednesday
14 February |
| In-Service
Training for Children's Centre Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club |
Thursday
15 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 2.00 to 3.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
Friday
16 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 | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Parents and Toddlers Kindergarten |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Philomena Aitchison, John McLeod,
Kathleen Fraser, May Whitehall who died recently;
Ann Jane
Fitzsimmons, John McIlhatton 1954, Patricketta Maxwell 2004,
Chrissie
Welsh 2006, Mary Hall 1989, Father G J Giblin 2001, Rose Walker 1985
Catherine
Morrison 1977, James McLaren 1964 and Patrick Kelly 1989
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Matthew Edward Guthrie
who was baptised recently;
Jennifer Brogan and Graham Kelshaw
were married recently;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY
COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £789.05 - many thanks.
Banker's Orders amount to an average of £4300 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 £443.23
- 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.
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.
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.
50-50 CLUB
If you have not already paid your annual subscription
to the 50/50 Club, please do so as soon as possible. The January and February
draws are being held up.
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.
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. Tickets cost £2.00 and all proceeds will go
to Christian Aid. Come along and support Fiona Lyon and Father
Matt.
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.
SAINT
ANDREW'S ACADEMY 1971-2007
A warm invitation is extended to all those who have
been connected with Saint Andrew's Academy, Saltcoats at any time over the past
thirty-six years to a Buffet Dance in the Brisbane Suite of Seamill Hydro on Friday
11 May 2007. Tickets, priced £20 including welcome drink and finger buffet
supper, are available from the school office. It is anticipated that many members
of the school community, past and present, will wish to come together to mark
the closure of Saint Andrew's Academy by attending the dance. Since demand for
tickets is likely to be high anyone wishing to attend should contact the school
as soon as possible.
THANKS
Greta
McGreevy would like to thank all who sent cards and flowers, offered prayers and
asked after her following her recent illness. They were all very much appreciated
and she is now feeling much better.
SAINT
PATRICK'S NIGHT SOCIAL
The Saint Patrick's Night Social will take place in
the Parish Centre on Saturday 17 March at 8.00 pm There will be dancing, musical
entertainment, a quiz, raffle and light supper. Tickets cost £4 from Donna
or Kate.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
11
February
Pre-Fives: Frances and Sharon
Primary
1 to 3: Andrena and Theresa
Primary 4:
Frank and Catherine
18 February
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Maria
Primary 1 to 3: Elaine,
Julie and Anne
Primary 4: Sharon and Karen
Ten
Things God Won't Ask You On The Last Day
1 God won't ask what kind
of car you drove.
He'll ask how many people you drove who didn't have transportation.
2
God won't ask the square footage of your house.
He'll ask how many
people you welcomed into your home.
3 God won't ask you about the
clothes you had in your wardrobe.
He'll ask you how many you helped to clothe.
4
God won't ask what your highest salary was.
He'll ask if you compromised
your character to obtain it.
5 God won't ask what your job title
was.
He'll ask if you performed your job to the best of your ability.
6
God won't ask how many friends you had.
He'll ask how many people
to whom you were a friend.
7 God won't ask what neighbourhood you
lived in.
He'll ask you how you treated your neighbour.
8 God
won't ask you about the colour of your skin.
He'll ask you about the content
of your character.
9 God won't ask why it took you so long to seek
salvation.
He'll lovingly take you to the gates of heaven and not the gates
of hell.
10 God won't have to ask how many people you've shared this
list with.
He already knows.
The
worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. |
The
wise man has long ears, big eyes and a short tongue. |
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
Jeremiah
17:5-8
The
Lord says this: A curse on the man who puts his trust in man, who relies on things
of flesh, whose heart turns from the Lord. He is like dry scrub in the wastelands:
if good comes, he has no eyes for it, he settles in the parched places of the
wilderness, a salt land, uninhabited. A blessing on the man who puts his trust
in the Lord, with the Lord for his hope. He is like a tree by the waterside that
thrusts its roots to the stream: when the heat comes it feels no alarm, its foliage
stays green; it has no worries in a year of drought, and never ceases to bear
fruit.
Second
Reading
Corinthians
15:12.16-20
If
Christ raised from the dead is what has been preached, how can some of you be
saying that there is no resurrection of the dead? For if the dead are not raised,
Christ has not been raised, and if Christ has not been raised, you are still in
your sins. And what is more serious, all who have died in Christ have perished.
If our hope in Christ has been for this life only, we are the most unfortunate
of all people. But Christ has in fact been raised from the dead, the first-fruits
of all who have fallen asleep.
Gospel
Luke
6:17.20-26
Jesus came down with the Twelve and stopped at a piece of level
ground where there was a large gathering of his disciples with a great crowd of
people from all parts of Judaea and from Jerusalem and from the coastal region
of Tyre and Sidon who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.
Then fixing his eyes on his disciples he said: "How happy are you who are
poor: yours is the kingdom of God. Happy you who are hungry now: you shall be
satisfied. Happy you who weep now: you shall laugh. Happy are you when people
hate you, drive you out, abuse you, denounce your name as criminal, on account
of the Son of Man. Rejoice when that day comes and dance for joy, for then your
reward will be great in heaven. This was the way their ancestors treated the prophets.
But alas for you who are rich: you are having your consolation now. Alas for you
who have your fill now: you shall go hungry. Alas for you who laugh now: you shall
mourn and weep. Alas for you when the world speaks well of you! This was the way
their ancestors treated the false prophets.".