BULLETIN 26
AUGUST 2007
TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN YEAR 3
CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
25 August | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
|
Sunday
26 August | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
27 August | Mass at 10.00 am for Allister Maxwell |
| Tuesday
28 August | Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Jimmy McVeigh |
| Wednesday
29 August | Mass at 10.00 am for Ian Boyle |
| Thursday
30 August | Mass at 7.00 pm for Mara Cheshire |
| Friday
31 August | Mass at 10.00 am for Eileen Barclay |
| Saturday
1 September | Mass at 10.00 am for the McCarroll family |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
26 August | 11.00 am | Tea and Coffee after Mass |
|
Monday
27 August | 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
28 August | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 1.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.30 pm 7.30 pm | Nursery
Kindergarten Nursery Thursday Club Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit Legion of Mary |
|
Wednesday
29 August | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.30 to 3.45 pm 5.15 to 7.30 pm | Nursery
Kindergarten Nursery Blood Donations Blood Donations |
|
Thursday
30 August | 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 7.30 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Kindergarten Cardiac Rehabilitation Primary Four Parents' Meeting |
|
Friday
31 August | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm | Nursery
Parents and Toddlers Nursery |
|
Saturday
1 September | 8.00 pm | Private Party |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Tom Wilson, Frank Campbell, Jimmy
McVeigh, Thomas Connelly
and Charles Gibson who died recently;
Elizabeth
Taylor 1951, Samuel Taylor 1969, Mary McCann 1987,
Joseph
Doyle 2005, John Kelly 2004, Sister Mary Peter 1999,
James
McGrattan 1982, John Stewart, Rick Harrison, Pete Mosley 1994,
Grant
Middlemiss 2005 and John Sherry 2005 whose anniversaries occur at this time;
Lucy
Findlay who was baptised recently and
Jacqueline Sweeney
and Colin Waugh who were married recently.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last
weekend's collection amounted to £735.55 - 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 £335.18 - 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.
RETIRED
PRIESTS' COLLECTION
The annual collection for Retired Priests due on 2 September
will now take place on the weekend of 22 and 23 September. Gift Aid envelopes,
which are available at the stall, should be used for this collection.
XAVERIAN
MISSION APPEAL
One of the Xaverian Fathers will speak at all Masses next weekend
and a collection will be taken for their work with the missions.
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.
NATIONAL
PRIGRIMAGE TO CARFIN
The National Pilgrimage to Carfin is on Sunday 2 September
with Mass at 3.00 pm. Further details are on the notice board in the Church porch.
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.
FATHER
MATT HOLIDAY
Father
Matt will be on holiday from 3 to 19 September. Father
John will be back from Africa on Sunday 2 September.
SACRAMENTAL
PREPARATION
A meeting will take place in the Parish Centre on Thursday at 7.30
pm for the parents and guardians of the Primary 4 children who will be receiving
the Sacraments next year.
THE
INNOCENTS
A box is available in the Porch for baby goods, talcum powder, lotion,
bottles, shampoo and so on. In June and July, 21 babies were helped with new layettes
and 130 toddlers and older children up to 12 years were given good recycled clothing
and equipment. The parents are always very thankful in their time of temporary
need. Please contact Josephine if you can help.
MASS
IN POLISH
Mass in Polish will be celebrated in Saint
John's Church, Stevenston on Tuesday at 7.00 pm.
DOORS OPEN
DAY - MODEL CHURCHES: AYRSHIRE AND BEYOND
An exhibition
of the model Churches by Jim Miller will be held in the Parish Centre on Sunday
2 September from 2.00 pm until 5.00 pm. Tea and coffee will be available with
donations going to Christian Aid.
TALK.
LISTEN. SAVE LIVES
Every day, around two people die by suicide in Scotland.
Suicide affects all ages genders and cultures. In North Ayrshire, in 2006 there
were 21 deaths by suicide. Across the globe many countries mark World Suicide
Prevention Day on 10 September. In Scotland, we have extended the day into a week
of activities known as Suicide Prevention Week. Suicide affects thousands of people
in Scotland. The effects of one person taking their life reaches families, friends,
emergency services, local communities, schools, colleges … the list goes on. To
raise awareness of the impact of suicide, to help prevent individuals reaching
a point where they only see suicide as a way out, to break the silence and stigma
associated with suicide are some of the aims of the Choose Life Strategy in Scotland.
In North Ayrshire, the Choose Life Group have been working to target many of the
most vulnerable and at risk groups as well as raising awareness and improving
skills and confidence of anyone who comes into contact with someone they think
is at risk. The key message is that talking and listening are the first most important
steps.
Face
the worst that can happen with the best you can give. |
He
that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. |
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 Isaiah 66:18-21
The
Lord says this: I am coming to gather the nations of every language. They shall
come to witness my glory. I will give them a sign and send some of their survivors
to the nations: to Tarshish, Put, Lud, Moshech, Rosh, Tubal, and Javan, to the
distant islands that have never heard of me or seen my glory. They will proclaim
my glory to the nations. As an offering to the Lord they will bring all your brothers,
on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, on dromedaries, from all the nations
to my holy mountain in Jerusalem, says the Lord, like Israelites bringing oblations
in clean vessels to the Temple of the Lord. And of some of them I will make priests
and Levites, says the Lord.
Second
Reading Hebrews 12:5-7.11-13
Have
you forgotten that encouraging text in which you are addressed as sons? My son,
when the Lord corrects you, do not treat it lightly; but do not get discouraged
when he reprimands you. For the Lord trains the ones that he loves and he punishes
all those that he acknowledges as his sons. Suffering is part of your training;
God is treating you as his sons. Has there ever been any son whose father did
not train him? Of course, any punishment is most painful at the time, and far
from pleasant; but later, in those on whom it has been used, it bears fruit in
peace and goodness. So hold up your limp arms and steady your trembling knees
and smooth out the path you tread; then the injured limb will not be wrenched,
it will grow strong again.
Gospel
Luke 13:22-30
Through
towns and villages Jesus went teaching, making his way to Jerusalem. Someone said
to him, 'Sir, will there be only a few saved?' He said to them, 'Try your best
to enter by the narrow door, because, I tell you, many will try to enter and will
not succeed. 'Once the master of the house has got up and locked the door, you
may find yourself knocking on the door, saying, "Lord, open to us" but
he will answer, "I do not know where you come from." Then you will find
yourself saying, "We once ate and drank in your company; you taught in our
streets" but he will reply, "I do not know where you come from. Away
from me, all you wicked men!" 'Then there will be weeping and grinding of
teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom
of God, and yourselves turned outside. And men from east and west, from north
and south, will come to take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.
'Yes, there are those now last who will be first, and those now first who will
be last.'