BULLETIN       3 JUNE 2007

TRINITY SUNDAY


CHURCH SERVICES

Saturday 2 June

Confession on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm  
Vigil Mass at 5.30 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
Tea and Coffee after Mass

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
Parents and Toddlers
Nursery

Cardiac Rehabilitation
Saint Vincent de Paul Society  
Weight Watchers

Tuesday 5 June

9.00 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 4.00 pm
9.30 to 11.00 am
7.30 pm
7.30 pm

Nursery
Key Housing
Kindergarten
Keep Fit
Legion of Mary

Wednesday 6 June

9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.00 am
11.30 to 4.30 pm
12.30 to 3.00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
7.00 to 9.00 pm
7.30 pm

Nursery
Kindergarten

Key Housing
Nursery

Burakudo Karate Club
Special Religious Development (SPRED)  
Ignatian Prayer Group

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
Kindergarten
Nursery
Kindergarten

Cardiac Rehabilitation
Brownies
Girl Guides

Friday 8 June
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.30 am
12.30 to 2.30 pm

Nursery
Parents and Toddlers
Kindergarten

Saturday 9 June
8.00 to 11.45 pmPrivate 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"."