BULLETIN
13 MAY 2007
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR
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CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
12 May | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
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Sunday
13 May | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
14 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Norman Gough |
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Tuesday
15 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Nellie McGrattan |
| Wednesday
16 May | Mass
at 10.00 am for Joe Conroy Vigil Mass at 7.00 pm for the Feast of the Ascension |
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Thursday
17 May | Feast
of the Ascension Mass at 10.00 am for Agnes McCann Mass at 7.00 pm for Robert Fitzpartick |
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Friday
18 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Patricia Carmichael |
| Saturday
19 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Joseph and Jenny Stevens |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
13 May | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
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Monday
14 May | 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 |
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Tuesday
15 May |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
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Wednesday
16 May |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
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Thursday
17 May | 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 |
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Friday
18 May | 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 |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Christine McMenament, William Hall
and Margaret Stevens who died recently;
Mary McFarlane 2004,
Ann Cameron 2003, Mary Teresa Dolan 1999,
William Calvert
1992 and Frances Hackett 1997
whose
anniversaries occur at this time.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's
collection amounted to £669.43 - 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 £319.74.
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.
FEAST OF THE ASCENSION
Thursday is the feast of the Ascension and is
a holyday of obligation. The Vigil Mass is on Wednesday at 7.00 pm. Thursday's
Masses are at 10.00 am and 7.00 pm.
SACRAMENTS OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST
COMMUNION
Jasmine Brady, Gemma Coldwell, Hugh Harkin, Aidan McGrath, Emily
Tarbet and Nicole Telford celebrate the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Communion
on Sunday. Each child will receive a Bible from the Thursday
Club.
COMMUNICATIONS
SUNDAY
There will be a special collection at all Masses next weekend for the
Communications Fund. Gift Aid envelopes are available at the stall. Please take
one home and return it next weekend.
THE ROSARY
During the month of
May, the Rosary will be led by the Thursday
Club before morning Mass.
THE
INNOCENTS
Josephine would like to thank all those who donated prams, buggies
and cots to the Innocents. They were all very much appreciated.
EDUCATE
THE KIDS FUND RAISING SOCIAL
One of our cantors, Marie-Anne McGrattan is
going to Africa for four weeks in the summer to work with deprived children. To
help support her efforts, there will be a fund-raising social event in the Parish
Centre on Saturday 2 June at 8 pm. There will be singing, dancing, a quiz, food,
drink, humour, fun and good company. Tickets costing £3.50 are available
from Kate or Donna. Details of how the proceeds will be used can be seen at www.EducateTheKids.com.
LENTEN
APPEAL FOR TOILETRIES
The Saint
Peter's Conference of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society wishes to thank everyone
who donated toiletries for the Frederic Ozanam Centre in Glasgow. These have now
been taken to the Centre to be distributed to the many homeless men and women
who attend there. As in previous years, there was a most generous response to
this Appeal and this has been acknowledged in a letter of thanks to the Parish
Community. This is displayed on the Notice Board in the Parish Centre. Thank you
most sincerely for your help.
SACRED
HEART FATHERS
The Smithstone House, Kilwinning Programme of Events and Booking
Forms are available in the Porch.
THURSDAY
CLUB
The Thursday
Club thanks all who helped and supported their Coffee Afternoon. The amount
raised was £326.
GOING
INTO HOSPITAL
If you are going into hospital, please let the staff know you
are a Roman Catholic in order that the Chaplain can be informed.
USED
STAMPS
Father
Sean O'Dowd of Saint Patrick's Mission, Stirling sells used stamps for the Mission's
Catechist Fund. Last year, his used stamp project raised over £22000. A
collecting box will be available in the Porch for anyone wishing to contribute
used stamps of any designation for this very worthwhile project.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
13 May
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Maria
Primary 1 to 3: Anne
and Elaine
20 May
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Maria
Primary 1 to 3: Andrena
and Theresa
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When problems knock you to your knees, you are in a perfect position to pray. |
Everyone
is kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven. |
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others. |
Your
own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. |
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
15:1-2.22-29
Some
men came down from Judaea and taught the brothers, Unless you have yourselves
circumcised in the tradition of Moses you cannot be saved. This led to disagreement,
and after Paul and Barnabas had had a long argument with these men it was arranged
that Paul and Barnabas and others of the church should go up to Jerusalem and
discuss the problem with the apostles and elders. Then the apostles and elders
decided to choose delegates to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; the whole
church concurred with this. They chose Judas known as Barrabbas and Silas, both
leading men in the brotherhood, and gave them this letter to take with them: The
apostles and elders, your brothers, send greetings to the brothers of pagan birth
in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia. We hear that some of our members have disturbed
you with their demands and have unsettled your minds. They acted without any authority
from us, and so we have decided unanimously to elect delegates and to send them
to you with Barnabas and Paul, men we highly respect who have dedicated their
lives to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Accordingly we are sending you Judas
and Silas, who will confirm by word of mouth what we have written in this letter.
It has been decided by the Holy Spirit and by ourselves not to saddle you with
any burden beyond these essentials: you are to abstain from food sacrificed to
idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from fornication. Avoid
these, and you will do what is right. Farewell.
Second
Reading
Apocalypse
21:10-14.22-23
In
the spirit, the angel took me to the top of an enormous high mountain and showed
me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down from God out of heaven. It had all the
radiant glory of God and glittered like some precious jewel of crystal-clear diamond.
The walls of it were of a great height, and had twelve gates; at each of the twelve
gates there was an angel, and over the gates were written the names of the twelve
tribes of Israel; on the east there were three gates, on the north three gates,
on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. The city walls stood on
twelve foundation stones, each one of which bore the name of one of the twelve
apostles of the Lamb. I saw that there was no temple in the city since the Lord
God Almighty and the Lamb were themselves the temple, and the city did not need
the sun or the moon for light, since it was lit by the radiant glory of God and
the Lamb was a lighted torch for it.
Gospel
John
14:23-29
Jesus said to his disciples: "If anyone loves me he will keep
my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make our home
with him. Those who do not love me do not keep my words. And my word is not my
own: it is the word of the one who sent me. I have said these things to you while
still with you; but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in
my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you. Peace
I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace the world cannot give, this
is my gift to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me
say: I am going away, and shall return. If you loved me you would have been glad
to know that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have
told you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe.".