BULLETIN 2
DECEMBER 2007
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT IN YEAR 1
CHURCH
SERVICES
Saturday
1 December | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
2 December | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
3 December | Feast
of Saint Francis Xavier Mass at 10.00 am for Alex Stewart |
Tuesday
4 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Tom, Hannah and Marie Reid |
Wednesday
5 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Stephen McPolin |
Thursday
6 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Michael Swanson |
Friday
7 December | Feast
of Saint Ambrose Mass at 10.00 am for Mary Clarke |
Saturday
8 December | Feast
of the Immaculate Conception Mass at 10.00 am for Margaret Hughes |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
2 December | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's
Liturgy |
Monday
3 December | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 pm |
Nursery |
Tuesday
4 December | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 1.00 to 3.00 pm 7.30 pm | Nursery
Kindergarten Legion of Mary Nursery Thursday Club Keep Fit |
Wednesday
5 December | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 7.00 7.30 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Special Religious Education (SPRED) Ignatian Prayer Group |
Thursday
6 December | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm 6.30 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation Brownies Girl Guides |
Friday
7 December | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm | Nursery Parents and Toddlers Nursery |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Agnes Burns, Mary Houston
and Sammy McFarlane who died recently and
Gordon Smith 1997,
Isabella McGoogan 1998, Mary Martin 1983,
Margaret Shanks
1990, Jean Graham, Alexander Merrick 2001,
Rose Smith 1999,
Robert Shanks 1996, Sarah Braniff 1961,
John McKay junior
1972, James Mathieson 1999, John Tracey 1999,
Gerard
McCulloch 1990 and Margaret Hughes 2006
whose
anniversaries occur at this time.
SUNDAY
COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £688.29 - 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.
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.
PARISH
CENTRE COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for the Parish Centre amounted
to £341.45 - many thanks.
MASS ON THURSDAY
During December
Mass will be offered at 10.00 am on Thursdays instead of 7.00 pm.
SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION
The children of Primary 4 who are preparing for
the Sacraments will celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Wednesday. Please
pray for them and their families.
ADVENT
PENITENTIAL SERVICES
Advent Penitential Services will be held in the following
Churches at the given times.
Monday 10 December at 7.00 pm - Saint
John's, Stevenston
Wednesday 12 December at 2.00 pm - Saint
Mary's, Saltcoats
Wednesday, 12 December at 7.00 pm - Saint
Brendan's, Saltcoats
Thursday 13 December at 7.00 pm - Saint
Peter's, Ardrossan
Friday 21 December at 7.00 pm - Saint
Mary's, Largs
CHOIR
PRACTICE
All members of the choir are invited to a practice in the Church
on Thursday at 7.30 pm in preparation for Christmas. New members would be very
welcome.
NATIVITY
SET RAFFLE
Raffle tickets for a Nativity Set with Shed costing 50p a strip
are on sale at the stall. The draw will take place at the Sunday Teas on 23 December.
ADVENT
EXTRA AND 2008 DIARIES
Advent Extras and 2008 Diaries are available at the
stall at a cost of 50 pence.
SAINT
VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
The Saint
Vincent de Paul Society would welcome any gifts of non perishable, in-date
foodstuffs to supplement its stock for food parcels and so on. A box has been
placed in the porch for such donations. Keyrings
at £1.00 and fridge magnets at £1.50 are for sale. They hold photographs
of Saint Peter's Church.
LEGION
OF MARY
Auxiliary members of the Legion
of Mary and their friends are invited to a Tea and Coffee afternoon on Tuesday
in the Parish Centre from 2.00 tp 4.00 pm to share ideas and enjoy the afternoon
together. Anyone requiring transport please call Anne or Elaine.
THANKS
Kathleen Chapman would like to thank everyone for thoughts, prayers, gifts and
cards over the past year. It was very much appreciated and God Bless you all.
DIOCESE
OF GALLOWAY CAROL SERVICE
The Annual Diocesan
Carol Service
will take place in Saint Margaret's Cathedral, Ayr on Wednesday 19 December at
7.30 pm. It will be led by Bishop Cunningham. Tea, coffee and mince pies will
be served in the hall afterwards. All are welcome.
SCOTTISH
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
The amount raised by
selling raffle tickets for Mary's Meals on Sunday was £496.90. Added to
September's income, the total is£1098.40. On behalf of the people you have
helped, a huge thank you.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY
The Child Protection Rules from Disclosure Scotland mean that parents
who have
not been through the disclosure process are not able to take part in the Liturgy
in the Parish Centre. If you have not filled in the disclosure form then simply
take your child to the group and leave them. If you think your child will not
settle, then you might have to wait for a month or two until you think they are
ready to be left. The simplest way to deal with this is to get a disclosure form
and go on the rota. More helpers make for a better rota.
SAINT
PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL PARENT COUNCIL
Minutes of Saint Peter's Primary School
Parent Council meeting on 30 October are on the notice board.
SAINT
PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE BINGO
A big thank you to all who attended last week's
fundraising bingo. The fabulous amount of £450 was raised.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
3 to
5 Year Olds: Maria and Karen
Primary 1
to 3: Jacqueline and Michelle
Primary
4: Andrena and Elaine
BE ENTHUSIASTIC
To the
woman who complained that riches hadn't made her happy, the Master said "You
speak as if luxury and comfort were ingredients of happiness; whereas all you
need to be really happy, my dear, is something to be enthusiastic about."
O
God of the second chance, here I am again. |
It's
not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. |
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
2:1-5
The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem. In
the days to come the mountain of the Temple of the Lord shall tower above the
mountains and be lifted higher than the hills. All the nations will stream to
it, peoples without number will come to it; and they will say: Come, let us go
up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Jacob that he may
teach us his ways so that we may walk in his paths; since the Law will go out
from Zion, and the oracle of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will wield authority
over the nations and adjudicate between many peoples; these will hammer their
swords into ploughshares, their spears into sickles. Nation will not lift sword
against nation, there will be no more training for war. O House of Jacob, come,
let us walk in the light of the Lord.
Second
Reading
Romans
13:11-14
You know 'the time' has come: you must wake up now: our salvation
is even nearer than it was when we were converted. The night is almost over, it
will be daylight soon - let us give up all the things we prefer to do under the
cover of the dark; let us arm ourselves and appear in the light. Let us live decently
as people do in the daytime: no drunken orgies, no promiscuity or licentiousness,
and no wrangling or jealousy. Let your armour be the Lord Jesus Christ; forget
about satisfying your bodies with all their cravings.
Gospel
Matthew
24:37-44
Jesus said to his disciples: "As it was in Noah's day, so will
it be when the Son of Man comes. For in those days before the Flood people were
eating, drinking, taking wives, taking husbands, right up to the day Noah went
into the ark, and they suspected nothing till the Flood came and swept all away.
It will be like this when the Son of Man comes. Then of two men in the fields
one is taken, one left; of two women at the millstone grinding, one is taken,
one left. So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming.
You may be quite sure of this that if the householder had known at what time of
the night the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have
allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house. Therefore, you too must
stand ready because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.".