BULLETIN
15 APRIL 2007
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR
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CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
14 April | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
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Sunday
15 April | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
16 April | Mass at 10.00 am for Joe Higgins |
| Tuesday
17 April | Mass at 10.00 am for Theresa Dorrans |
| Wednesday
18 April | Mass at 10.00 am for Robert Tracy |
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Thursday
19 April | Mass at 10.00 am for Mary Cusack |
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Friday
20 April | Mass at 10.00 am for John Hamilton |
| Saturday
21 April | Mass at 10.00 am for Francis and Sarah Coulter |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
15 April | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
|
Monday
16 April | 9.00
to 3.00 am 2.00 to 3.00 pm 2.30 to 3.30 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm | In-service
training for Children's Centre staff |
|
Tuesday
17 April |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
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Wednesday
18 April |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
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Thursday
19 April | 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 7.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
|
Friday
20 April | 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:
Ann McEvoy 1980, Francis Smith
1999, Jean Taylor 2006, Cliff Atkey 2000,
Mary Ann Walsh
1955, Francis Coulter 1976, Marie McCarroll 1982,
Robert
Tracy 2004, Jane Tumilty 1983, Mary McKay 1980, Agnes McCann 1970,
and
Philomena Doherty 2001 whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Sophie Phillips who was
baptised recently
and David Strain who was received into
the Church.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amount will
be given in the next bulletin.
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
The amount of last weekend's
collection will
be given in the next bulletin.
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.
THANKS
Many
thanks to all who helped in any way with the Holy Week and Easter liturgies.
FATHER
MATT IN AMERICA
Father
Matt will be in America from 17 to 26 April because of a family bereavement.
KITS
FOR KIDS
Kits For Kids tokens can be collected from the Sunday Mail and Daily
Record and placed in the box in the
porch. James Reid School, Saltcoats is this area's school.
COT REQUIRED
The Saint Vincent de Paul Society
urgently requires a cot in good condition. If you can help, please phone Sadie.
SCOTUS SOCIETY
Did you ever go to senior seminary in Scotland? If so,
you maybe interested to know that there is now a Scotus Society. Anyone who was
a former senior seminarian resident in Scotland or a resident member of staff
of a home seminary qualifies for membership. The society will meet this year on
Friday 11 May. For more information call Stuart Parkes or email him at SJParkes@BTinternet.com.
REQUESTS
FOR PAPAL AUDIENCES
We have been advised by an official who deals with requests
for Papal audiences that enquiries should be made by the pilgrims themselves.
Forms are available from the Parish Office.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
15 April
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Maria
Primary 1 to 3: Elaine,
Eileen and Anne
Primary 4: Frank and Catherine
22
April
Pre-Fives: Frances and Maria
Primary
1 to 3: Andrena and Theresa
Primary 4:
Karen and Sharon
WHEN
SORROW FILLS YOUR HEART
When sorrow seems to fill your heart and all you feel
is bad
I'm going to share a truth with you about a friend I have
It happened
on a lonely night when all I though was lost
Upon the wall a picture hung of
Christ upon his cross
I raised my head as tears ran down and looked at Him
and said
"With all my heart, I ask of you to take away my dread."
With
arms stretched out, I heard him say "Be still for all is well.
My love
for you is mightier than any pain you feel."
My tears were dried, my heart
was light, once more he softly spoke
"To others tell, when in despair
in me they shall have hope."
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Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. |
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
Acts
5:12-16
The faithful all used to meet by common consent in the Portico of Solomon.
No one else ever dared to join them, but the people were loud in their praise
and the numbers of men and women who came to believe in the Lord increased steadily.
So many signs and wonders were worked among the people at the hands of the apostles
that the sick were even taken out into the streets and laid on beds and sleeping-mats
in the hope that at least the shadow of Peter might fall across some of them as
he went past. People even came crowding in from the towns round about Jerusalem,
bringing with them their sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and all
of them were cured.
Second
Reading
Apocalypse
1:9-13.17-19
My
name is John, and through our union in Jesus I am your brother and share your
sufferings, your kingdom, and all you endure. I was on the island of Patmos for
having preached God's word and witnessed for Jesus; it was the Lord's day and
the Spirit possessed me, and I heard a voice behind me, shouting like a trumpet,
'Write down all that you see in a book.' I turned round to see who had spoken
to me, and when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands and, surrounded by them,
a figure like a Son of man, dressed in a long robe tied at the waist with a golden
girdle. When I saw him, I fell in a dead faint at his feet, but he touched me
with his right hand and said, 'Do not be afraid; it is I, the First and the Last;
I am the Living One. I was dead and now I am to live for ever and ever, and I
hold the keys of death and of the underworld. Now write down all that you see
of present happenings and things that are still to come.'