BULLETIN 4
MAY 2008
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
3 May | Mass
at 10.00 am for Charlie Davidson |
| Sunday
4 May | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am for the parishioners Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon for the parishioners |
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Monday
5 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Bessie Murray |
| Tuesday
6 May |
Mass at 9.00 am for Liz Higgins Requiem Mass for Jack Mulholland in Saint Bride's Church, West Kilbride at 11.00 am |
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Wednesday
7 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Andrew Sweeney |
| Thursday
8 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Margaret Dorrian |
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Friday
9 May | No
Mass in Saint Peter's Mass in the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Saltcoats at 10.00 am Short rehearsal for Confirmation and Holy Communion at 6.00 pm |
| Saturday
10 May | Mass
at 10.00 am for Hugh Kelly Confession on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm Sunday Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Helen McGee |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Saturday
3 May | 7.45 pm | Männerensemble Unerhört Scottish/German Evening |
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Sunday
4 May | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am 1.00 pm |
Children's
Liturgy |
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Monday
5 May | 9.30
am 5.30 pm 6.30 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8 00 pm |
Parents and Toddlers |
| Tuesday
6 May | 11.00
am 1.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 pm | Legion
of Mary Thursday Club Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit |
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Wednesday
7 May | 6.00
to 7.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.30 pm | Burakudo
Karate Club Special Religious Development (SPRED) and Guests with Mass at 7 30 pm Ignatian Prayer Group |
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Thursday
8 May | 1.30
pm 6.00 pm 7.30 pm | Cardiac
Rehabilitation Brownies Guides |
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Friday
9 May | 9.30 am | Parents and Toddlers |
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Saturday
10 May | 8.00 pm | Private Party |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Gerard Dorrian (Knuttsford)
and Jack Mulholland (Seamill) who died recently and
Bobby
MacNamara, James Timmons 1982, Harry Hissey 1976, Robert Hunter 1956,
John, Irene and Patrick McKelvey, Robert Stewart 2002, Patricia McPadden 2004,
Helen McGee, James McEvoy 1964, Margaret Long 1999, Josephine Cunningham 2000,
Jean Agostini 1978, Margaret Stevens 2007, Simon Smyth 2001 and
Frank
Nils Matthews 2003 whose anniversaries occur at this time.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £923.74.
We are grateful for your generous support of the Parish. Banker's Orders amount
to an average of £4300 per month.
BANKER'S
ORDERS, GIFT AID AND WILLS
Have you thought of using a Bankers Order? It assists
us with the safe handling of cash. Have you signed a Gift Aid Form? If you pay
tax, then every £1 you give to the Parish is worth £1.28 to us. Would
you consider remembering Saint Peter's in your will?
PARISH
CENTRE COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for the Parish Centre amounted
to £382.64 - many thanks.
COMMUNICATIONS SUNDAY
This is World
Communications Day. Our second collection today goes to the Scottish Catholic
Press Office.
READERS
Next weekend's readers are Margaret Munn, Michael Clarke and Tom Reid.
MÄNNERENSEMBLE
UNERHÖRT
Männerensemble
Unerhört, a choir from Osterspai in Germany, will sing at the 5.30 pm
Vigil Mass on Saturday 3 May then join local artistes in an evening of Scottish
and German music and song in the Parish Centre. There will be a bar. Tickets cost
£2.50 and are available from Janette McMurdo or the
stall.
FINANCE
Many thanks to those who have already asked for new Standing Order forms, or increased
your collections.
THREE
TOWNS CHURCHES CRUISE
A charity evening cruise on the Waverley has been arranged
for Wednesday 18 June with profits going to the Vine Trust for work in Peru. The
Waverley will leave Ardrossan Harbour at 6.15 pm for a cruise round Rothesay Bay
with a stop at Millport and return to Ardrossan around 9.30 pm. Tickets will be
on sale shortly. Demand will be heavy, so watch for an announcement about ticket
sales.
3TFM
Please support our local radio station. If you would like to be involved or to
know more, please phone Lewis on 604612 for information. Saint Peter's will have
a slot on 'Thought for the Day' from time to time.
SCOTTISH
CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL AID FUND (SCIAF) BOXES
Please continue to use SCIAF
boxes throughout the year or make a box of your own. Please hand in any donations
for forwarding to SCIAF for our poorest brothers and sisters.
BULLETIN
Notices for inclusion in the Bulletin need to be here by Thursday of each week.
The Bulletin is available on a table at the back of the Church. You have to fold
your own!! The readings of the Mass are on the worship sheet as are the hymn numbers.
Hymn books are at the end of each seat. Hymns not in the book are printed on the
sheet. The Mass settings we use should be familiar to most of you. Please follow
the cantors. You might like to take a bulletin and worshipe sheet to any of our
parishioners who are sick. After Mass, we would be grateful if you would return
the hymn sheets to the boxes.
NEW
CHILD PROTECTION BOOKLETS
All who have a signed a Disclosure Form to work in
Children's Liturgy, Saint
Vincent de Paul Society,
Legion of Mary and so on are asked to collect the new Guidance Booklet from Annie
Watt after 10.00 am or 12 noon Mass this weekend.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations
are due to our neighbouring Parish, Saint Bride's Church, West Kilbride and to
their Parish Priest, Canon McGinness, on the centenary of Saint Bride's this weekend;
to Canon McGarry of Saint Bridget's Church, Kilbirnie who is celebrating the Golden
Jubilee of his ordination shortly; to Father
Stephen Motroni SCJ of Smithstone House, Kilwinning who is celebrating his
Silver Jubilee of ordination.
SACRAMENTS
The
Sacrament of Confirmation and receiving Holy Communion for the first time will
be on Sundays 11 and 18 May at the 10.00 am Mass.
THANKS
Thanks to everyone who has volunteered to do some secretarial work voluntarily
over the next few weeks. The offer is gratefully received and I will be in touch.
We should have a volunteer starting this week.
IGNATIAN
PRAYER GROUP
The Ignatian Prayer Group meets in the Parish Centre on the first
Wednesday at 7.30 pm, the second Tuesday at 7.30 pm and the last Tuesday at 2.00
pm.
PROTECTION
OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS - MISSION STATEMENT
The Catholic Church in
Scotland is concerned with the lives, safety, wholeness and well-being of each
individual person within God's purpose for everyone. It seeks to safeguard the
welfare of people of all ages who are involved in whatever capacity with the Church
and its organisations. As a Church community, we accept that it is the responsibility
of all of us, ordained, professed, paid and voluntary members, to work together
to prevent the physical, sexual, emotional abuse or neglect of children, young
people and vulnerable adults.
SAINT PETER'S PARISH CENTRE
To book the
Parish Centre, please phone Fiona or Michael. Because of licensing laws, the Centre
cannot be booked for eighteenth or twenty-first birthday
parties. The charge for an evening function is £100; for a day-time function,
£15 per hour and the fee for a licence is £25 including service charges.
THANKS
TO GUIDES AND BROWNIES
The 5th Ardrossan Guides and 3rd Ardrossan Brownies have contributed £500
each for the use of the Parish Centre - more power to their elbows!
GUIDES
FUNDRAISING FETE
The Guides are having a fete in the Parish Centre on Saturday
31 May. Details will follow later.
SAINT PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
Afternoon
places are available in Saint Peter's Nursery starting in August 2008. For more
information and an application form, please contact Josephine Coulter.
SPRING
SONGS
There will be an evening of music featuring our parishioner, Theresa
Coulter with Marie Claire Breen, Jamie Munn and soloists from the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama in Saint Peter's Church on Friday 23 May at 7.30 pm.
Tickets, costing price £5 and £4 concession, are available at the
door.