BULLETIN
20 NOVEMBER 2016
THE SOLEMNITY OF CHRIST THE KING
IN YEAR 3
CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
19 November
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Mass
at 10.00 am for the Holy Souls |
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Sunday
20 November
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Solemnity
of Christ the King |
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Monday
21 November
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Mass at 10.00 am for Janice Collinson |
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Tuesday
22 November
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No Mass in Saint Peter's |
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Wednesday
23 November
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Mass at 10.00 am for George Kane by Father Kinsler |
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Thursday
24 November
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No Mass in Saint Peter's |
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Friday
25 November
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Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Margaret Harrigan |
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Saturday
26 November
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Mass
at 10.00 am for the Holy Souls |
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The
Mass intention list is just over two weeks ahead. Please notify anniversaries
as early as you can. Thanks. |
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SAINT MARY'S AND SAINT JOHN'S CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
19 November
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Vigil Mass at 4.30 pm |
Mass at 10.00 am |
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Sunday
20 November
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Sunday Mass at 10.00 am |
Sunday Mass at 11.30 am |
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Monday
21 November
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Service at 10.00 am |
Mass at 10.00 am |
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Tuesday
22 November
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Service at 10.00 am |
Requiem Mass at 10.00 am |
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Wednesday
23 November
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Requiem Mass at 10.00 am |
Service at 10.00 am |
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Thursday
24 November
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Service at 10.00 am |
Mass at 10.00 am |
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Friday
25 November
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Mass at 10.00 am |
Service at 10.00 am |
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Saturday
26 November
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Vigil Mass at 4.30 pm |
Mass at 10.00 am |
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PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
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Sunday
20 November
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11.30 am |
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Monday
21 November
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9.30
to 11.30 pm 3.00 to 6.00 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 to 9.00 pm |
Parents
and Toddlers |
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Tuesday
22 November
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9.00
to 11.00 am 3.00 to 6.00 pm 3.45 pm 7.30 to 8.10 pm 8.10 to 8.30 pm |
Cardiac
Rehabilitation |
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Wednesday
23 November
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3.00
to 6.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm 8.00 to 9.00 pm |
Skallywags
Aftercare |
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Thursday
24 November
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3.00
to 6.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm |
Skallywags
Aftercare |
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Friday
25 November
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9.30
to 11.30 pm 3.00 to 6.00 pm |
Parents
and Toddlers Skallywags Aftercare |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Janice Collinson (United States), Gwen McMail (West Kilbride), Margaret Harrigan
of our parish, Helene Adams (Ayr) and Michael Dougan (in Taiwan) who died
recently;
Susan Hamilton 2009, Father Frank Kiernan 1989, Joseph Smith 2002, Robert
Stevenson 1962, Matthew Ssenyondo, father of Father Charles 2015, Andrew Steven
1998, Karen Sharon Byrne 2003, Patrick Gerald Burns 2003, John Carry 1997,
Canon George McCafferty 2000, Nora Moore 2012, Janie Matthews 2014, Elizabeth
McDougall 1948, Father John Walsh 2009, Monsignor Frank Duffy 2000, Mary McNally
2004, Ian Mitchell 2011 and Mary Higgins 1992 whose anniversaries occur at
this time and those who are sick.
If deceased members of your family are not on our anniversary
list, please tell Canon
Matt, the parish office or
contact WebsiteAuthor@SaintPeterinChains.net.
SUNDAY MASS TIMES
Sunday Mass times
in Saint Peter's are 5.30 pm Vigil and 10.30 am. Sunday
Mass times in other local parishes can be
seen here.
SACRAMENT OF FORGIVENESS
The Sacrament of Forgiveness is available at any suitable time as well as
from 4.30 pm before the Vigil Mass on Saturday evenings.
HOSPITAL
CHAPLAINCY
If a member of your family or a friend is sick, please let us know and give
us the details. Deacon Bill Corbett (01292 521208, 07904 248948, Rev.BillCorbett@btinternet.com)
is the chaplain to Crosshouse Hospital and is assisted by the priest on call
each week. Canon Pat Keegans is the chaplain to Ayr Hospital and the Ayrshire
Hospice.
FINANCES
Bankers Orders for the Parish and Parish Centre amount to £3500 per
month. We are grateful for your generous support in collections. If you can
manage a little more from time to time, it would be a great help. A Standing
Order would make the handling of money so much easier. Have you signed a Gift
Aid form? If you are a taxpayer the Church would get 25p added to every £1
you donate.
COLLECTIONS
Last weekend's Offertory collection amounted to £581.17 and the Maintenance
Fund collection to £267.46.
GIFT AID
The Inland Revenue now requires us to use a new style of Gift
Aid form. These are available at the back of the Church and on the parish
website. If you pay tax, please complete the new form and return it to the
box provided. This allows us to provide the additional information required
on the Gift Aid claim. Gift Aid is a vital source of income. All that is needed
is that you pay tax. You simply declare that you give funds to the Church.
We do the rest. Why not sign a form today? We get back an extra 25p for every
£1 you give the Church in your weekly collection or by way of a donation.
There is no need to cancel or renew it. We simply claim in the income we receive.
PARISH RECORDS
Our parish records are covered by the Data Protection Act and are for parish
use only. We cannot give out phone numbers or addresses. Please help us to
keep our records up to date using the cards provided.
READERS
Next weekend's readers are Harry Sammons at 5.30 pm and Robert
Cooper at 10.30 am.
ALTAR SERVERS
Next weekend's altar servers are Group 1 at 5.30
pm and Group 4 at 10.30 am.
SUNDAY
TEAS
We
are very short of Sunday Tea teams. Is there any chance of a group of friends
forming a team? It would be a shame to lose the Sunday Teas altogether. Would
you consider making a team or joining a team that organises the teas and coffees
after Sunday 10.30 am Mass? If so, please leave your details at the Parish
Office or telephone 01294 464063.
Next Sunday's teas will be served by the Caritas team.
MUSIC AT MASS
Music is an essential part of Mass. Are there any budding musicians willing
to offer their talent and service?
CHILDREN’S
LITURGY
We would more volunteers to help with the Children's Liturgy during Mass at
10.30 am on Sunday mornings. Next week's helpers are Geraldine Butcher
and Emily Tarbet for the pre-fives, Claire Sweenie and Linda Martin for Primaries
1, 2 and 3 and Jacqueline Waugh and Maria Paterson for Primary 4.
VOLUNTEERS
If you are able to help with Sunday Teas, Music or the Children's
Liturgy, please speak to Canon
Matt or contact the Parish Office on 464063. Thank you.
MONTH
OF THE HOLY SOULS
During November, Mass will be offered for all our dead. There are November
Lists available. Fill in the names of all family members and put it in an
envelope. There is a basket by the altar. A Mass offering is traditional,
but not necessary.
COMBONI SISTERS
The Comboni Sisters are selling their Mission Calendars this weekend.
DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES
The Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will be from 3 to 10 July 2017. Full details
are available from the parish office
PILGRIMAGE TO FATIMA
The Diocese of Paisley is looking at the possibility of organising a Pilgrimage
to Fatima in the one hundredth anniversary year of the Apparitions of our
Blessed Lady. The proposed dates are 8 to 15 June 2017. You can express interest
by calling Ann Marie Cairns on 01698 262941 or emailling amcalba@yahoo.co.uk.
SPECIAL RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT (SPRED) CHRISTMAS DRAW
SPRED supports our parishioners, children and adults who have special needs.
the draw takes place at our Christmas celebration in Troon on 11 December.
The Diocesan SPRED Centre needs to locate from Queen Margaret Academy, Ayr.
Please support us as we try to identify alternative accommodation. All funds
raised will go to any necessary refurbishment. Members of SPRED will be selling
tickets next weekend. Your help is greatly appreciated and necessary. Sister
Kathleen, SPRED Director
50/50 CLUB
Congratulations to our 50/50 Club winners for November who each win £25.
19 Douglas Gee, 268 Margaret Gribben, 39 Anne Calvert and
172 Sheila Coulter
All winners in our next draw for December will receive their cheque in the
post at the beginning of December. Please ensure you notify the Promoter of
any change of address during this year otherwise you may not receive your
winnings. I believe a few members have moved during the year but as yet not
notified us in order to update our database. Your help in this matter would
be appreciated. Any members wishing to join for 2017 may do so now. The 50/50
Club has given a cheque to the Parish for £500 making 2016 total to
the Parish £2000. Many thanks to all our members. Parish
Promoter, Mrs Myriame Sammons, 01294 469006
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE FOODBANK
The Foodbank at the Church of the Nazarene in Glasgow Street is desperately
short of tinned meat, juice, ultra-heat treatment (UHT) milk and tinned fruit.
Can you help, please?
HCPT LOURDES GROUP 376 BINGO
The HCPT Lourdes Group 376 is holding a Prize Bingo in the Parish Centre on
Friday 2 December with eyes down at 7.30 pm. We are intending to take nine
local adults with additional support needs to Lourdes at Easter 2017 to join
the HCPT pilgrimage. Thank you for your support. If you wish to donate in
any way, please contact Esther Coulter on 464692 or Josephine Coulter on 602179.
CEMETERY MASS
The annual Ardrossan Cemetery Mass will be celebrated on Sunday 20 November
at 1.30 pm.
EMBRACING
CHANGE
- CLOSING OF THE HOLY YEAR OF MERCY
As part of the Embracing Change process, there will be a joint service for
all the parishes of Saint Mary's North Ayrshire Deanery in Saint
Brigid's Church, 30 Newton Street, Kilbirnie, KA25 6HW on Sunday 20 November
at 3.00 pm. The Service will give us a chance to focus and reflect on the
key events of this Year of Mercy and to pray that we may build upon what has
been done and become ever more authentically a reflection of God's mercy in
our world. The service will last under one hour and will be follow by tea,
coffee and home baking. All are very welcome.
AN EVENING WITH OCTAVE
There will be a cabaret evening with Octave - voted the best mixed-voice choir
at Glasgow Music Festival in 2013 - in the Parish Centre on Sunday 20 November
at 7.00 pm. Tickets cost £7 from the Parish Office on 464063. Proceeds
are for our new doors. You may Bring Your Own Bottle and nibbles.
LIGHT UP A LIFE SERVICE
The annual Light Up A Life service, organised by the Ardrossan and Saltcoats
Churches Group will be held in Saint Peter's on Monday 5 December at 2.30
pm. There will be a collection for the Ayrshire Hospice and light refreshments
afterwards. The service is to remember all those of any denomination or none
who died in the past year and to give thanks for all those who cared for them
at home, hospital, care home or in the Hospice.
BURNS SUPPER 2017
The Parish Burns
Supper will be on Saturday 28 January 2017.
SAINT PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE TODDLER GROUP
Saint Peter's Children's Centre Toddler Group is holding
- a Baby Sensory class with Amanda on Monday 21 November
at 10.00 am and
- an Art Creation session with Sarah on Friday 25 November
at 10.00 am and
The above classes are free and open to the community. For more information,
call Josephine or Lynda on 473030.
HOMELESSNESS IN NORTH AYRSHIRE
The inter-church group who are concerned with homelessness around us would
like to appeal for donations of household cleaning materials to help people
get started when they are housed. They also need new socks, gloves and pyjamas
for those who are housed in the Homeless Hostels. A full list of requirements
is on the box at the back of the Church. We will also be collecting toys for
needy children for Christmas. More details will be given later. Thank you.
VISITORS
Are you visiting us for Mass? Please know that you are very welcome. During
the 10.30 am Mass outwith holidays, there is a Children’s Liturgy provided
for preschool children, children in Primaries 1 to 3 and a Sacramental Programme
for children in Primary 4. After the 10.30 am Mass, tea, coffee cakes and
buns are available in the Parish Centre. At both of our weekend Masses, we
have a second collection for Church maintenance.
ADVERTISER SUPPORT
Our advertisers would welcome your support. We are grateful for their continuing
sponsorship. We are grateful for the support of Mr and Mrs Sohal, Nisa Stores,
Glasgow Street for the weekly donation of tea, coffee and milk for the Sunday
teas.
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.