BULLETIN 3
JUNE 2007
TRINITY SUNDAY
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
2 June | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
3 June | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
4 June | Mass at 10.00 am for a special intention - BC |
Tuesday
5 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Frank McGee |
Wednesday
6 June | Mass at 10.00 am for John and Agnes Conaghan |
Thursday
7 June | Mass at 7.00 pm for Sheila Harper |
Friday
8 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Peter Murray |
Saturday
9 June | Mass at 10.00 am for James Timmons |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
3 June | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
4 June | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm | Nursery |
Tuesday
5 June |
9.00 to 11.30 am |
Nursery |
Wednesday
6 June |
9.00 to 11.30 am | Nursery |
Thursday
7 June | 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 | Nursery |
Friday
8 June | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm | Nursery |
Saturday
9 June | 8.00 to 11.45 pm | Private Party |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
William McNeil who died recently;
Peg
Brown 1991, Susan Boylan, Jim Glass, Denis Long 2005,
Father
Michael Masterson 1997, Rose McKenzie 1996, James Conaghan 1999,
Mary
Walsh 1954, Alison Dunn 1994, George West 1997 and
Patrick
Clark 2002 whose
anniversaries occur at this time.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's
collection amounted to £726.25 - 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 £303.72.
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.
SACRAMENTS OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
Ellis Aitken, Jordan Boyle,
Samuel Brown, Adam Chapman, Jamie Dorrian, Anthony Gorman, Lee Horn, Erin McLaughlin,
Amy Newton, Nicola Petrie, Morgan Roy and Rachel Smith celebrate the Sacraments
of Confirmation and First Communion on Sunday. Each
child will receive a Bible from the Thursday
Club.
BLESSED
SACRAMENT CHAPEL
The work of adorning the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel is beginning to be seen. The glasswork is now in place. It
has to be completed, the Tabernacle suitably lit, the area carpeted and a small
area for prayer created. I slowed down on the fundraising since the progress was
slow but we should start again. The whole project will cost about £6500.
It certainly improves what was a dark area of the Church. Any ideas or donations
would be welcome. Thanks for a recent donation of £50 from a parishioner
that brings the fund total to £4475.
THE
INNOCENTS
A box is available in the porch for baby goods, for example, talcum
powder, lotion, shampoo and so on for The Innocents.
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.
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. The hospital
does not routinely inform the chaplain about Catholic patients.
TWENTY-THOUSANDTH
VISIT TO SAINT PETER'S WEBSITE
On 17 May, Saint Peter's website had its 20000th visit since it was launched
on 13 July 2005. The site has over 700 pages, 430 photographs, 160 bulletins
between 1960 and 2007, 4200 links, some audio clips of the choir and has been
viewed in at least 27 countries. It contains many articles on past and present
spiritual and community life in Saint Peter's. Father
Matt and the website author are very grateful to those who have accessed
the site, lent photographs, passed on stories, identified errors, made suggestions
and expressed compliments. The aims of the site are to make parishioners aware
of current events and record our history. If you can help with this project,
please contact WebsiteAuthor@SaintPeterinChains.net.
SMITHSTONE
HOUSE SUMMER FAYRE
There will be a Summer Fayre at Smithstoune House, Kilwinning
on Sunday 3 June from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm. Enjoy an afternoon out for all the family
at Smithstone House and grounds. Everyone is welcome.
HARMONIES
FOR HUNGARY
A charity concert featuring local singers, Marie Claire Breen,
Theresa Coulter and Jamie Munn will be held in the Church on Friday 15 June at
7 30 pm. Enjoy an evening of fine music to help us on our way to Hungary with
the prestigious National Youth Choir of Scotland. Tickets costing £5 and
£3 concession, including tea, are available from Theresa Coulter.
SAINT
ANNE'S GUILD OUTING
The bus for the Saint Anne's Guild outing will leave
Chapelhill Mount on Tuesday at 12.00 noon and follow the usual pick up route.
CONGRATULATIONS
We
offer congratulations and best wishes to Robbie and Maria Reid who celebrate their
sixty-fifth wedding anniversary on Sunday 3 June.
SOCIETY
OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
Saint Peter's Conference of the Saint
Vincent de Paul Society will hold a Coffee Morning on Saturday 23 June. There
will be various stalls as well as a Prize Raffle. Donations for any of the stalls,
for example, baking, books, and bric abrac, and prizes for the raffle will be
most welcome and can be given to any member of the Conference. This year, the
Conference will donate the proceeds of theto the Inverclyde Drug Rehabilitation
Project sponsored by the Society and supported by the Holy Spirit Special Works
Conference in Port Glasgow. As always, we ask for your generous support for this
event and hopefully as a result, we can continue to bring real practical assistance
and Christian love and solidarity to these new poor of today.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
3
June
Pre-Fives: Frances and Maria
Primary
1 to 3: Andrena and Theresa
10
June
Pre-Fives: Frances and Maria
Primary
1 to 3: Elaine, Eileen and Anne
A
positive attitude may not solve all your problems but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. |
When you get what you want in your struggle for self And the world makes you king for a day Just go to a mirror and look at yourself And see what that man has to say For it isn't your father or mother or wife Whose judgement upon you must pass The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life Is the one staring back from the glass He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest For he's with you clear up to the end And you've passed the most dangerous, difficult test If the man in the glass is your friend You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years And get pats on the back as you pass But your final reward will be the heartaches and tears If you've cheated the man in the glass |
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
Proverbs
8:22-31
The Wisdom of God cries aloud. The Lord created me when his purpose
first unfolded, before the oldest of his works. From everlasting I was firmly
set, from the beginning, before earth came into being. The deep was not, when
I was born, there were no springs to gush with water. Before the mountains were
settled, before the hills, I came to birth; before he made the earth, the countryside,
or the first grains of the worlds dust. When he fixed the heavens firm, I was
there, when he drew a ring on the surface of the deep, when he thickened the clouds
above, when he fixed fast the springs of the deep, when he assigned the sea its
boundaries - and the waters will not invade the shore - when he laid down the
foundations of the earth, I was by his side, a master craftsman, delighting him
day after day, ever at play in his presence, at play everywhere in his world,
delighting to be with the sons of men.
Second
Reading
Romans
5:1-5
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith we are judged righteous and at
peace with God, since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this
state of grace in which we can boast about looking forward to God's glory. But
that is not all we can boast about; we can boast about our sufferings. These sufferings
bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance
brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been
poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.
Gospel
John
16:12-15
Jesus said to his disciples: "I still have many things to say
to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the Spirit of truth comes
he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from
himself but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things
to come. He will glorify me, since all he tells you will be taken from what is
mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: All he tells you
will be taken from what is mine"."