BULLETIN
11 MARCH 2007
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT IN YEAR
3
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
10 March | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
11 March | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
12 March | Mass at 10.00 am for James Mulhern |
Tuesday
13 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Martin McLaughlin |
Wednesday
14 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Peter Bird |
Thursday
15 March | Mass at 7.00 pm for Frank Slaven |
Friday
16 March | Stations
of the Cross at 9.40 am Mass at 10.00 am for Ann McKenzie |
Saturday
17 March | Mass at 10.00 am for John Carroll |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
11 March | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
12 March | 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 7.30 to 9.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Tuesday
13 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Wednesday
14 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
Thursday
15 March | 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 March | 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 Private Party |
Saturday
17 March | 8.00 pm | Saint Patrick's Social |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Nessie McCallum, Thomas Smyth and
John Hamilton who died recently;
Monsignor
Archibald McSparran 1950, Monsignor
Edward Traynor 2006,
Canon
Charles Matthews 1996, Catherine Stewart 2004, Grace Jamieson 2005,
Hessie
Hyslop 1998, Lilia Agostini 1969, Jean Walker 2001,
Victor
Donald 1985, Susan Heaney 1956 and Martha Pentleton 2004
whose
anniversaries occur at this time and
Lucia Jantje Silvius
who was baptised recently
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection
amounted to £768.04 - 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 £401.63 - 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.
SPECIAL
COLLECTION
There will be a special collection at all Masses next weekend for
Papal and Espicopal Charities including the Scottish Catholic International Aid
Fund (SCIAF).
LENT EXTRA
Copies of Lent Extra are available at the stall.
A donation of 50 pence would be appreciated.
LENT SCIAF BOXES
Lent collection
boxes for the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) are available at
the stall. Please take one home with you and return it at the end of Lent.
STATIONS
OF THE CROSS
Stations of the Cross will be prayed each Friday during Lent at
9.40 am.
REFURBISHING
THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
CHAPEL
The fund raising supper of 23 February raised £200 to bring
the total collected for the refurbishment of the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel to £4125. Thanks very much.
FATHER
JOHN
Father John expresses his thanks for your prayers while he was in
Italy. Please continue to keep him in your prayers.
LEGION
OF MARY
There
will be a meeting of the newly reformed Legion
of Mary in the Parish
Centre on Wednesay 7 March at 7.30 pm. All are welcome.
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.
SAINT
VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
The Ozanam Centre in Glasgow is run by the Saint
Vincent de Paul Society to assist homeless men and women. We have been asked
to assist in the collection of toiletries during Lent so these might be distributed
as a very practical way of assisting those who use the Centre. Saint Peter's parishioners
have donated generously to this appeal in previous years and it is hoped that
you will do so once again. The Conference thanks you in anticipation of your kind
assistance. A box to receive donations of all kinds of toiletries will be available
in the Church Porch during Lent.
THANKS
Greta
McGreevy and her tea team have decided that they are no longer in a position to
help with the Sunday Teas. Many thanks to them for all the years they volunteered
and contributed to this very worthwhile event. More teams are required for Sunday
mornings after 10.00 am Mass. If you would like to volunteer, please phone Kate.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
11
March
Pre-Fives: Frances and Maria
Primary
1 to 3: Andrena and Theresa
Primary 4:
Karen and Sharon
18 March
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Elaine
Primary 1 to 3: Elaine,
Eileen and Anne
Primary 4: Julie and Gayle
Conscience
is what hurts when everything else feels so good. |
PRECIOUS
LITTLE TIME
The man came home from work late again, tired and irritated, to
find his five year old son waiting for him. Daddy, may I ask you a question? "Yes,
sure, what is it?". "Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?"
"That's none of your business! What makes you ask such a thing?" the
man said angrily. "I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make
an hour?" pleaded the little boy. "If you must know, I make £10
an hour." "Oh," the little boy replied, head bowed. Looking up,
he said, "Daddy, may I borrow £5 please?" The father was furious.
"If the only reason you wanted to know how much money I make is just so you
can borrow some to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself
straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you're being so selfish.
I work long, hard hours everyday and don't have time for such childish games."
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man sat down and
started to get even madder about the little boy's questioning. How dare he ask
such questions only to get some money. After an hour or so, the man had calmed
down, and started to think he may have been a little hard on his son. Maybe there
was something he really needed to buy with that £5, and he really didn't
ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and
opened the door. "Are you asleep son?" he asked. "No daddy, I'm
awake," replied the boy. "I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on
you earlier," said the man. "It's been a long day and I took my aggravation
out on you. Here's that £5 you asked for." The little boy sat straight
up, beaming. "Oh, thank you daddy!" he yelled. Then, reaching under
his pillow, he pulled out some more crumpled up notes. The man, since the boy
already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out
his money, then looked up at the man. "Why did you want more money if you
already had some?" the father grumbled. "Because I didn't have enough,
but now I do," the little boy replied. "Daddy, I have £10 now.
Can I buy an hour of your time?"
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 Exodus 3:1-8.13-15
Moses
was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, priest of Midian. He
led his flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain
of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in the shape of a flame of
fire, coming from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing
but it was not being burnt up. I must go and look at this strange sight, Moses
said, and see why the bush is not burnt. Now the Lord saw him go forward to look,
and God called to him from the middle of the bush, Moses, Moses! he said. Here
I am he answered. Come no nearer he said. Take off your shoes, for the place on
which you stand is holy ground. I am the God of your father, he said the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. At this Moses covered his face,
afraid to look at God. And the Lord said, I have seen the miserable state of my
people in Egypt. I have heard their appeal to be free of their slave-drivers.
Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings. I mean to deliver them out of the hands
of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that land to a land rich and broad,
a land where milk and honey flow. Then Moses said to God, I am to go, then, to
the sons of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you.
But if they ask me what his name is, what am I to tell them? And God said to Moses,
I Am who I Am. This he added is what you must say to the sons of Israel: I Am
has sent me to you. And God also said to Moses, You are to say to the sons of
Israel: The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name for all time; by this
name I shall be invoked for all generations to come.
Second
Reading Corinthians
10:1-6.10-12
I want to remind you, brothers, how our fathers were all guided
by a cloud above them and how they all passed through the sea. They were all baptised
into Moses in this cloud and in this sea; all ate the same spiritual food and
all drank the same spiritual drink, since they all drank from the spiritual rock
that followed them as they went, and that rock was Christ. In spite of this, most
of them failed to please God and their corpses littered the desert. These things
all happened as warnings for us, not to have the wicked lusts for forbidden things
that they had. You must never complain: some of them did, and they were killed
by the Destroyer. All this happened to them as a warning, and it was written down
to be a lesson for us who are living at the end of the age. The man who thinks
he is safe must be careful that he does not fall.
Gospel
Luke 13:1-9
Some
people arrived and told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled
with that of their sacrifices. At this he said to them, "Do you suppose these
Galileans who suffered like that were greater sinners than any other Galileans?
They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they
did. Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell and killed them? Do you
suppose that they were more guilty than all the other people living in Jerusalem?
They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they
did." He told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard,
and he came looking for fruit on it but found none. He said to the man who looked
after the vineyard, "Look here, for three years now I have been coming to
look for fruit on this fig tree and finding none. Cut it down: why should it be
taking up the ground?" "Sir," the man replied "leave it one
more year and give me time to dig round it and manure it: it may bear fruit next
year; if not, then you can cut it down." ".