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Saturday
17 February
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Vigil Mass at 4.30pm |
Holy Mass at 10.00am |
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Sunday
18 February
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Sunday Mass at 10.00am |
Sunday Mass at 11.30am |
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Monday
19 February
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Service at 10.00am | Holy Mass at 10.00am |
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Tuesday
20 February
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Service at 10.00am | Requiem Mass at 10.00am |
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Wednesday
21 February
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Holy Mass at 11.00am | |
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Thursday
22 February
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Service at 10.00am | Holy Mass at 9.30am |
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Friday
23 February
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Holy Mass at 10.00am | Service at 10.00am |
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Saturday
24 February
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Vigil Mass at 4.30pm |
Holy Mass at 10.00am |
PARISH CENTRE EVENTS |
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Sunday
18 February
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11.30am |
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Monday
19 February
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9.30
to 11.30am 8.00pm |
Parents
and Toddlers |
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Tuesday
20 February
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9.00
to 11.00am 3.45pm |
Cardiac
Rehabilitation |
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Wednesday
21 February
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3.45pm | Irish Dancing |
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Thursday
22 February
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6.00 to 7.30pm |
Brownies |
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Friday
23 February
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9.30 to 11.30am | Parents and Toddlers |
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Saturday
24 February
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7.00pm | Private Function |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Margaret Osprey, Peggy McKechan, Mae Murray, Bernadette Doyle (formerly Sister Bernadette), Anna Rankin and Carol McMahon (Glasgow) who died recently;
Jack Conlan 2013, Nathan Murray-Collier 2005, Ellen Reilly 1954, Eileen Watkins 2015, Jean Wylie, Francis Clark 1953, Helen Clark 1973, Hugh McGinn 2013, Kelly Smith 2007, John Patrick Collins 2012, Rose Folan 2012, Patrick Haggarty 2017, George Monaghan 2004, Margaret McCarroll 2015, Patsy McDonald 1993, Guilia Marchetti 1998, Justine McAllister 2000, Brian O'Reilly 1993, Mary McCluskey 1980, Bessie Murphy 2008 and Margaret Mary Adamson 2005 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 Father Duncan, 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 celebrated on Saturdays between 4.45 and 5.15 pm and at other times on request.
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.
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 £707.48 and the Maintenance Fund collection to £264.73 - thanks.
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 Katrina Pollock at 5.30pm and Ami Paterson at 10.30am.
ALTAR SERVERS
Next weekend's altar servers are Group 1 at 5.30pm and Group 4 at 10.30am.
MUSIC MINISTRY
Next weekend's musicians are George McGrattan at 5.30pm and Catherine Kerr and Catherine Boyd at 10.30am.
CHILDREN’S
LITURGY
Next week's Children's Liturgy helpers are Emma
Paterson for the pre-fives, Frances Gemmell and Gayle Paterson for Primaries
1, 2 and 3 and Andrena Hughes and Jacqueline Smith for Primary 4.
SUNDAY TEAS
Tea
and coffee will be served after the 10.30am Mass next Sunday in the Parish
Centre by Sadie,
Maria and Phyllis. Can
you help? We are in need of some additional volunteers to form a team or would
be interested in forming a team to help with the Sunday morning teas and coffees.
If you are interested, please contact the Parish Office on 464063.
REQUIEM MASS FOR MAE MURRAY
Please pray for the Repose of the Soul of Mary Elizabeth Murray who died recently.
Her Requiem Mass on Thursday 22 February at 10.00am will be followed by interment
at Ardrossan Cemetery. May she rest in peace and rise in glory!
REQUIEM MASS FOR PEGGY McKECHAN
Please pray for the Repose of the Soul of Margaret McKechan who died recently.
Her Requiem Mass on Friday 23 February at 10.00am, will be followed by a service
at Holmsford Bridge Crematorium, Dreghorn. May she rest in peace and rise
in glory!
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
We welcome to the Family of the Church Eva Elizabeth Moriconi who will be
baptised on Saturday. Congratulations to her parents and Godparents.
VISITATION FROM BISHOP NOLAN
Sincere thanks to Bishop Nolan
for his Visitation this weekend. We continue to ask God to give him all the
strength and the grace he needs for the shepherd-leadership of our Diocese.
CONFIRMATION CELEBRATION 2018
Seventy children will be confirmed this year by Bishop
Nolan at Saint Peter's on Monday 19 February at 7.00pm. Twenty-nine are
from our own Parish. Please keep the children and their families in your prayers
that they receive in abundance the gifts of the Holy Spirit and experience
a day of joy and grace.
DAY
OF PRAYER AND FASTING FOR PEACE
Pope Francis has asked the worldwide
Church to join in a day of prayer and fasting for peace in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, in South Sudan and in all the world. This day will
be observed on 23 February, the Friday of the first week of Lent. We pray
and fast "that God the Father, infinite in His mercy, might change hearts,
especially of those who hold in their hands the respective destinies of these
countries and of those others who in some way are also involved".
DON'T GIVE UP CHOCOLATE FOR LENT!
I'd like to invite you to join in the Best Lent Ever, a free email programme
from Dynamic Catholic. Lent comes every year. It's meant to be a time when
we invite God to help us become the best version of ourselves. But for many
of us, Lent isn't a transformative experience. It's just a time when we give
up chocolate or something else we enjoy, then go back to it at Easter. This
year, you can change that with Best Lent Ever. You'll receive daily emails
with short inspirational videos, practical tips for your everyday life and
real-life stories to encourage you in your journey. All you have to do is
sign up at DynamicCatholic.com/BestLent. It's free and it's a wonderful resource!
Cards with details are available after Mass or from Father
Duncan.
LENTEN RETREAT 2018
The Season of Lent is a great opportunity to do a simple Sunday Retreat at
the short homilies at Mass. This year the theme will be Troubled Hearts -
Peace for our Souls and this will lead us on our sacred journey to Easter.
TALKS AT SAINT MARY'S CHURCH DURING LENT
The Option for the Poor Group has invited Bishop
Nolan to speak about his recent trips to Calais and Palestine. We have
also Joe Cullinane to talk about poverty in North Ayrshire. These will take
place on Saint
Mary's Church, Saltcoats on 21 February and 14 March, both at
7.30pm.
EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
At the last meeting of the Parish Eucharistic Ministers, the suggestion came
up to have a Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament followed by a simple Benediction.
This would be every Friday after Mass for twenty minutes. The Holy Hour would
be complete by 11am. Could this not be a really good Lenten Resolution?
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
The Stations of the Cross at Saint Peter's will be every Tuesday in Lent at
9.30am, followed by Holy Mass as usual - another great suggestion for a Lenten
Resolution?
STILL LOOKING FOR A LENTEN RESOLUTION?
Here are a few ideas - apart from giving up something, you could sign up for
the Best Lent Ever on the internet. There is a poster on the notice board.
You could read Pope Francis Message for Lent 2018. There are sheets in the
Church. You could pray the Surrender Novena. Again, there ae sheets in the
Church. You could come to the Stations of the Cross every Tuesday at 9.30am.
You could to Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass on Fridays until
11am. You could offer to help the parish Saint
Vincent de Paul Society. You could support the Church cleaning
team. You could get to daily Mass during Lent. You could get to confession
at least once during the season of Lent after making a good examination of
conscience. Daily, you could make a plan to get up earlier than anyone else
in your house and spend your first fifteen minutes of the day thanking God
for the gift of life and offering your day to Him. You could make a decision
to read at least some Scripture every day during Lent. You could make sure
you have a Catholic Bible. Here's a great Lenten idea - pray for your enemies.
In fact, think of the person who has most hurt you or who most annoys you
and spend several minutes each day thanking God for that person and asking
God to bless him or her. You could get the DVD of Mel Gibson's film The Passion
of the Christ and watch it during Lent. There are some violent scenes. When
Easter comes, don't drop the new ideas and practice you've begun during the
Season of Lent! Make them a permanent feature of a deeper, richer Christian
life! Still looking for a Resolution?
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
There will be a World Day of Prayer service on Friday 2 March at 2.00pm in
the Park Church, Ardrossan. All are welcome.
A PIECE OF MY HEART
One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that
he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered
and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or
a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they
had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about
his beautiful heart. Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd
and said "Why, your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine." The
crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart. It was beating strongly,
but it was full of scars. It had places where pieces had been removed and
other pieces put in but they didn't fit quite right and there were several
jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges where whole pieces
were missing. The people stared - how can he say his heart is more beautiful,
they thought. The young man looked at the old man's heart and saw its state
and laughed. "You must be joking." he said, "Compare your heart
with mine. Mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears." "Yes"
said the old man, "yours is perfect looking but I would never trade with
you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love.
I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them and often they give me
a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart but because
the pieces aren't exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because
they remind me of the love we shared. Sometimes I have given pieces of my
heart away and the other person hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me.
These are the empty gouges - giving love, taking a chance. Although these
gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these
people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting.
So now do you see what true beauty is?" The young man stood silently
with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, reached into
his perfect young and beautiful heart and ripped a piece out. He offered it
to the old man with trembling hands. The old man took his offering, placed
it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed
it in the wound in the young man's heart. It fitted, but not perfectly as
there were some jagged edges. The young man looked at his heart, not perfect
anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's heart
flowed into his. Have a blessed Lent!
FAST, ABSTINENCE, AND SELF-DENIAL IN LENT 1888
This is from the parish bulletin on 22 February 1888 of Saint Patrick's Church,
Mount Saint Patrick, Ontario, Canada. You might be interested in reading -
perhaps even following - the Lenten regulations from 118 years ago. The regulations
for the keeping of Lent which begins next Wednesday are as follows. Persons
obliged to fast must fast every day in Lent except Sundays. They can eat meat
once a day except Wednesdays and Fridays, Ember Saturday and Holy Saturday.
So, persons obliged to fast can eat meat as often as they like on Sundays,
once on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays except Saturday of Ember
Week and Holy Saturday but not at all on Wednesdays, Fridays, Ember Saturday
or Holy Saturday. Persons fasting may take tea or coffee and a piece of bread
in the morning, a full meal about noon and eight ounces in the evening. Eight
ounces is a pretty fair allowance but they should not drink milk in the morning
except what they use in their tea, nor is it allowed to eat fish and meat
at the same meal. They can use grease, lard and drippings in cooking fasting
food. Persons under 21 and over 60 are not obliged to fast, neither are persons
working so hard that they could not do their work fasting, nor women bearing
or nursing their children. Persons not obliged to fast may eat meat as often
as they like on the days that persons fasting are allowed to eat it once but
they are not allowed to eat meat on Wednesdays and Fridays. During Lent, self-denial
may be practised in many little acts but particularly in the avoidance of
dangerous occasions of sin such as, reading novels, attending dances, close
company-keeping, glib-tonguedness about one's neighbour and excessive use
of liquor.
SAINT PETER'S RAINBOWS AND BROWNIES
Parents please remember that Monday's meetings are not in Parish Centre due
to Confirmation. Girls should go directly to Basebowl in Hamilton Street,
Saltcoats.
MARY'S MEALS
Recently we filled ninety backpacks for Mary's
Meals. A further seventy-nine were donated from Nazarene Ladies Bible
Group. A total of 169 filled backpacks are now on their way to school children
in Malawi. This makes a running total of 2158 backpacks sent to date. Thanks
to all who contributed with donations of any kind.
50-50 CLUB
Congratulations to January's prizewinners - 56 George Paterson, 119 Rosemary
Smith, 51 Kathleen Collins, 45 Christine Edmunds and the Early Bird draw winner,
93 John Clarke. We welcomed twelve new members in January and wish them good
luck during the year ahead. However, we still await nineteen members to renew
their membership of £15. Our next draw will be at the end of February
for four prizes of £25. If you wish to join or renew membership, please
contact the Parish Promoter as soon as possible before the next draw. Joining
Slips are in the porch. The Promoter is Myriame Sammons on 469006.
OZANAM CENTRE, GLASGOW
The Saint Vincent de Paul Society
usually collects toiletries for the Ozanam Centre, Glasgow for homeless
people during Lent. There is a box in the porch.
BUILDING AND REPAIR WORK AT SAINT PETER'S
Thank you everyone for the support and generosity in our second Collection
during Mass for the Building Fund. We will have a few serious repairs to do
in the next weeks - one at the very top of the Church which will cost just
under £3000 and another for the Hall which will be close to £4000.
Your weekly support is a tremendous help and makes this necessary repair and
maintenance work possible. Thank you again and please be as generous as you
can in the collection so that we can build up the funds needed to maintain
well God's House in Ardrossan. God bless!
SPRED SING ALONG
A sing-along, led by George McGrattan and Michael McCulloch, shown below,
in aid of the Special Religious Education Group (SPRED) will be held on Tuesday
20 February from 1.00 to 2.45pm in the Civic Centre, Ardrossan. Tickets cost
£3 with tea or coffee and are available at the stall.
BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE
If you can never find the time to give blood, here it is - Tuesday 27 February
from 2.00 to 3.40pm and 5.15 to 7.30pm and Wednesday 28 February 4.00 to 7.30pm
in the Civic Centre, Glasgow Street, Ardrossan. Thank you.
www.scotblood.co.uk
SISTERS OF SAINT ELISABETH
We welcome the Sisters of Saint Elisabeth who will be coming to our Parish
next weekend. The Sisters will be bringing beautiful icons and religious items
for sale in support of their apostolate.
SCOTTISH HEAD INJURY GROUP
Drew Cochrane, who was so
entertaining at the recent Burns
Supper, has scripted 'Invisible – The Musical' to raise funds for the
Scottish Head Injury Musical Support Group. It will be performed at the Harbour
Arts Centre in Irvine on 1 and 2 March at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £10 and
are available on 01294 274059 and
www.North-Ayrshire.gov.uk/hac.
VISITORS
Are you visiting us for Holy Mass? Please know that you are very welcome.
During the 10.30 am Holy 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 Holy Mass, tea, coffee
cakes and buns are available in the Parish Centre. At both of our weekend
Holy 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.