BULLETIN 12
AUGUST 2007
NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN YEAR 3
CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
11 August | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
|
Sunday
12 August | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
13 August | Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Mara Cheshire |
| Tuesday
14 August | Requiem
Mass at 10.00 am for Sadie Hamilton Vigil Mass at 7.00 pm |
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Wednesday
15 August |
Feast of The Assumption Mass at 10.00 am for a special intention Mass at 7.00 pm |
| Thursday
16 August | Mass at 10.00 am |
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Friday
17 August | Mass at 10.00 am for Patrick Retzbach |
| Saturday
18 August | Mass at 10.00 am for Jessie Hazelton |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
12 August | 11.00 am | Tea and Coffee after Mass |
|
Monday
13 August | 2.00
to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm | Cardiac
Rehabilitation Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
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Tuesday
14 August | 7.00
to 8.00 pm 7.30 pm | Keep
Fit Legion of Mary |
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Wednesday
15 August | 6.00 to 7.00 pm | Burakudo Karate Club |
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Thursday
16 August | 2.00 to 3.00 pm | Cardiac Rehabilitation |
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Friday
17 August | 2 | 2 |
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Saturday
18 August | 8.00 pm | Private Party |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Mara Cheshire, Rosa Welnitz, Joan
Gibson and Sadie Hamilton who died recently;
Maria Mathieson
1975, Elizabeth Wilson 2000, Daniel Mathieson 1949,
James
O'Neill 1998, Father John Harkin 1996, James Thomas Taylor 1998,
Kate
Gribben 1994, David Walsh 1980, Patrick Retzbach 1981 and
Stephanie
Smith 1999 whose anniversaries occur at this time and
Gillian
McVeigh and David Murray who were married recently.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £683.32 - 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 £341.19 - 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.
FEAST
OF THE ASSUMPTION
Wednesday is the Feast of the Assumption and is a holiday
of obligation. There is a Vigil Mass on Tuesday at 7.00 pm and Mass on Wednesday
at 10.00 am and 7.00 pm
ADVERTISERS
We
have a new advertiser in the bulletin this week, namely Robert Kelly, photographer.
All our advertisers appreciate your support.
REFURBISHING THE BLESSED
SACRAMENT CHAPEL
Donations of £100 in memory of Gavin Finnegan and
£200 and £5 from parishioners bring the total collected for the refurbishment
of the Blessed Sacrament
Chapel to £5297.50.
CLEANER
FOR SAINT PETER'S NURSERY AND PARISH CENTRE
Elaine has secured full time employment
so we require a part-time cleaner for the Nursery and Parish Centre. A basic 15
hours per week are needed with extra hours when required. Please contact Margaret
on 485551 to discuss hours and wages.
WHITHORN PILGRIMAGE
The annual
pilgrimage to Saint Ninian's Cave is on Sunday 26 August. Mass will be celebrated
at the Cave at 4.00 pm and in the Church at 4.45 pm for those who cannot make
the journey to the Cave.
THE
INNOCENTS
Many thanks for the anonymous monetary donation and for all the baby
goods which are regularly donated. It is so very much appreciated by all who give
their time to the Innocents. A box is also available in the porch for baby goods,
for example, talcum powder, lotion, shampoo and so on.
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.
SCOTTISH
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF - PLEASE CAN YOU HELP?
Scottish International Relief
(SIR) works with some of the poorest people
in the third world countries such as Malawi, Liberia, Peru, Ecuador, India and
Uganda, amongst others. SIR offers help by collecting unwanted clothes, bedding,
bric-a-brac and tools. They then send the goods donated as aid or raise funds
through shops for overseas projects. SIR will be visiting Saint Peter's on Saturday
15 and Sunday 16 September. There will be more details nearer the time. Photographs
of the last two years' visits by Scottish
International Relief are on the Pictures
page.
ANNUAL
GALLOWAY MUSIC FESTIVAL MASS
The annual Galloway Music Festival Mass will be
held in the grounds of Smithstone House, Kilwinning on Sunday 19 August at 2.30
pm. Musicians, singers and everyone are welcome. Bring the family, friends and
a picnic! Rehearsal starts at 1.00 pm. Further details can be obtained from Michael
McCulloch.
COFFEE
MORNING
Montgomerie Court Residents are having a Coffee Morning in the Parish
Centre on Saturday 18 August at 10.30 am. There will be bric-a-brac, books, home
baking, a bottle stall, tombola and so on. Tickets cost £1.00. The Parish
Centre will be open between 2.00 and 6.00 pm on Friday to receive any goods.
SAINT
MATTHEW'S ACADEMY TIES
Saint Matthew's Academy ties are available from the
Parish Office.
50/50 CLUB
Congratulations
to the following £25 winners in recent draws:
June - Saint
Peter's Parent Teacher Association 195, Rose McCann 29, Michelle Miller 74
and
Kathleen Tracy 227
July - Joseph Sammons
4, Mary Angus 260, Delia McAteer 97 and W Boyle 102.
New members are always
welcome. Please contact the promoter, Myriame Sammons.
THE
WAY TO HEAVEN
A clergyman visiting a strange town stopped a boy in the street
to enquire the way to the church. Instead of rewarding him with some money he
said, "Always remember to say your prayers - and you'll find the way to Heaven".
"Sure what do you know about the way to heaven" the boy replied "if
you don't even know your way to church?".
What
is most valuable, is not what we have in our lives but who we have in our lives. |
When
the power of love will exceed the love of power, the world will know peace. |
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
Wisdom
18:6-9
That
night had been foretold to our ancestors, so that, once they saw what kind of
oaths they had put their trust in, they would joyfully take courage. This was
the expectation of your people, the saving of the virtuous and the ruin of their
enemies; for by the same act with which you took vengeance on our foes you made
us glorious by calling us to you. The devout children of worthy men offered sacrifice
in secret and this divine pact they struck with one accord: that the saints would
share the same blessings and dangers alike; and forthwith they had begun to chant
the hymns of the fathers.
Second Reading
Hebrews
11:1-2.8-19
Only
faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of
the realities that at present remain unseen. It was for faith that our ancestors
were commended. It was by faith that Abraham obeyed the call to set out for a
country that was the inheritance given to him and his descendants, and that he
set out without knowing where he was going. By faith he arrived, as a foreigner,
in the Promised Land, and lived there as if in a strange country, with Isaac and
Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. They lived there in tents
while he looked forward to a city founded, designed and built by God. It was equally
by faith that Sarah, in spite of being past the age, was made able to conceive,
because she believed that he who had made the promise would be faithful to it.
Because of this, there came from one man, and one who was already as good as dead
himself, more descendants than could be counted, as many as the stars of heaven
or the grains of sand on the seashore. All these died in faith, before receiving
any of the things that had been promised, but they saw them in the far distance
and welcomed them, recognising that they were only strangers and nomads on earth.
People who use such terms about themselves make it quite plain that they are in
search of their real homeland. They can hardly have meant the country they came
from, since they had the opportunity to go back to it; but in fact they were longing
for a better homeland, their heavenly homeland. That is why God is not ashamed
to be called their God, since he has founded the city for them. It was by faith
that Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He offered to sacrifice
his only son even though the promises had been made to him and he had been told:
It is through Isaac that your name will be carried on. He was confident that God
had the power even to raise the dead; and so, figuratively speaking, he was given
back Isaac from the dead.
Gospel
Luke
12:32-48
Jesus
said to his disciples: "There is no need to be afraid, little flock, for
it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and
give alms. Get yourselves purses that do not wear out, treasure that will not
fail you, in heaven where no thief can reach it and no moth destroy it. For where
your treasure is, there will your heart be also. See that you are dressed for
action and have your lamps lit. Be like men waiting for their master to return
from the wedding feast, ready to open the door as soon as he comes and knocks.
Happy those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. I tell you solemnly,
he will put on an apron, sit them down at table and wait on them. It may be in
the second watch he comes, or in the third, but happy those servants if he finds
them ready. You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at
what hour the burglar would come, he would not have let anyone break through the
wall of his house. You too must stand ready, because the Son of Man is coming
at an hour you do not expect." Peter said, "Lord, do you mean this parable
for us, or for everyone?" The Lord replied, "What sort of steward, then,
is faithful and wise enough for the master to place him over his household to
give them their allowance of food at the proper time? Happy that servant if his
master's arrival finds him at this employment. I tell you truly, he will place
him over everything he owns. But as for the servant who says to himself, 'My master
is taking his time coming', and sets about beating the menservants and the maids,
and eating and drinking and getting drunk, his master will come on a day he does
not expect and at an hour he does not know. The master will cut him off and send
him to the same fate as the unfaithful. The servant who knows what his master
wants, but has not even started to carry out those wishes, will receive very many
strokes of the lash. The one who did not know, but deserves to be beaten for what
he has done, will receive fewer strokes. When a man has had a great deal given
him, a great deal will be demanded of him; when a man has had a great deal given
him on trust, even more will be expected of him.".