CHURCH
OF SAINT PETER IN CHAINS, ARDROSSAN • A Family of
Parishes • SAINT BRIDE'S CHURCH, WEST KILBRIDE
Meeting people where they are - leading them to where God calls them
to be!
BULLETIN 25 JULY 2021
SERVICES
AND GATHERINGS
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, public Church services and gatherings
are limited till further notice. Father
Duncan
will live-stream Holy Mass every day and assures you of his prayers for you
and your family.
WORLD DAY FOR GRANDPARENTS AND THE ELDERLY
Pope Francis has designated this Sunday as a day of prayer for our grandparents
and the elderly. The Pope's special message
and prayer
are now available on our websites. Paper copies are also available in Church.
I thank you, Lord, for the comfort of your presence even in times of loneliness.
You are my hope and my confidence. You have been my rock and my fortress since
my youth! I
thank you for having given me a family and for having blessed me with a long
life. I thank you for moments of joy and difficulty, for the dreams that have
already come true in my life and for those that are still ahead of me. I thank
you for this time of renewed fruitfulness to which you call me. Increase,
O Lord, my faith, make me a channel of your peace, teach me to embrace those
who suffer more than me, to never stop dreaming and to tell of your wonders
to new generations. Protect and guide Pope Francis and the Church that the
light of the Gospel might reach the ends of the earth. Send your Spirit, O
Lord, to renew the world that the storm of the pandemic might be calmed, the
poor consoled and wars ended. Sustain me in weakness and help me to live life
to the full in each moment that you give me in the certainty that you are
with me every day, even until the end of the age.
SAINT
PETER'S AND SAINT BRIDE'S CHURCH SERVICES
Saint
Peter's
All services are live-streamed and public by booking unless otherwise stated. |
Saint
Bride's Church, West Kilbride
All services are public by booking unless otherwise stated. |
|
Saturday
24 July |
Vigil Mass at 5.30pm for John Welsh at his anniversary, John and Mary Hutson at their anniversaries and Eddie Cunningham at his anniversary | |
Sunday
25 July
Seventeenth Sunday of the Year |
Holy Mass at 10.30am for our parishes | Holy Mass at 12.15pm |
Monday
26 July
Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne |
Holy
Mass at 10.00am for Sarah Wright and Pamela Sandys at her anniversary Reception of John Boyle at 6.30pm |
|
Tuesday
27 July
|
Requiem
Mass at 10.00am for John Boyle |
Holy Mass at 10.00am |
Wednesday
28 July
|
Votive
Mass of Saint Joseph at 10.00am for Jean McLellan who died recently |
|
Thursday
29 July
Memorial of Saint Martha |
Holy
Mass at 10.00am for Emilia Sallie Private |
|
Friday
30 July
|
Holy Mass at 10.00am for Annie Watt who died recently and Benny McGrath | Holy Mass at 12 noon |
Saturday
31 July |
Vigil Mass at 5.30pm for all children preparing for First Eucharist and and Confirmation and John Kean who died recently | |
Father
Duncan
is assisted by the retired priest, Father Gerry Hamill.
|
Saint
Mary's Church, Saltcoats
All services are live-streamed and public by booking unless otherwise stated. |
Saint
John’s Church, Stevenston
All services are live-streamed and public by booking unless otherwise stated. |
|
Saturday
17 July |
Vigil Mass at 4.30pm | |
Sunday
18 July
Sixteenth Sunday of the Year |
Holy
Mass
at 10.00am |
Holy
Mass
at 11.30am |
Monday
19 July
|
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Tuesday
20 July
|
Holy
Mass at 10.00am |
|
Wednesday
21 July
|
Holy Mass at 10.00am | |
Thursday
22 July
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene |
Holy
Mass at 10.00am |
|
Friday
23 July
Feast of Saint Bridget of Sweden |
Holy Mass at 10.00am | |
Saturday
31 July |
Vigil Mass at 4.30pm | |
Canon
Martin Poland is assisted by Father Benjamin Mkeri and Canon
Matt McManus who is retired.
|
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Jim
Boyle, Bill Holden, Pat Breen, Mary Carrick, Jayne Adams and Joann McLaughlin;
John Boyle, Jean McLellan, Annie Watt, John Kean and Catherine McIntosh
who died recently;
Isabella Aldridge 2010, Eddie Cunningham 1992, Anne Higgins 2020, May Steele
2014, Elizabeth Fitzsimmons 1999, Angus McMaster 2019, Elizabeth Murray
2005, Annie Walsh 1969, Elizabeth Byers 2009, Tommy Burns 1982, Eileen Mathieson
2003, John McQuaid 2004, Jordan Walsh 1998, Des Blanch 2017, Annie Cavani
2012, Alice Gibbons 1997, Desmond McGarvey, Caroline Dunlop 2013, William
Johnston 1999, Michael Marshall 2011 and David Shaw 2019
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. If members
of your family or friends are in need of our prayers, please tell Father
Duncan or the parish office.
SAINT
PETER'S NOTICES
BOOKING
FOR MASS |
SAINT
BRIDE'S NOTICES
BOOKING
FOR MASS |
SACRAMENT
OF BAPTISM
We welcome to the Family of God Harry Iain Diamond who will be baptised
on Saturday. Congratulations to his parents and Godparents.
HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCIES
Due to family commitments, Deacon Bill Corbett has stepped down as hospital
chaplain. He is to be thanked for his many years of compassionate service
to the in hospital. As of 1 August, Father
Stephen McGrattan is appointed hospital chaplain for Crosshouse Hospital.
He will be assisted by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Kilmarnock.
Deacon Robert Mackie is appointed chaplain for Ayr hospital.
PILGRIMAGE TO SAINT NINIAN AT WHITHORN
The pilgrimage to Whithorn will take place this year on Sunday 29 August.
While Mass will be celebrated on the shore, there will be no Mass in the
Church in Whithorn. So that we can estimate if we should hire a coach for
the parish, please let me know if anyone would like to go.
PRAYER
FOR SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in this Holy Sacrament of the altar.
I love you above all things and I passionately desire to receive you into
my soul. Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, come spiritually
into my soul so that I may unite myself wholly to you now and forever. Amen.
FEED
YOUR SOUL - RENEWING OUR PARISH COMMUNITIES
It is necessary to teach the believer to pray with Jesus Christ and like
him, initiating the believer into blessing and adoration, petition, intercession,
thanksgiving and praise. There are several well-established means - the
prayerful reading of sacred scripture, in particular through the liturgy
of the hours and lectio divina, the Jesus Prayer, the veneration of the
Blessed Virgin Mary through practices of the Rosary, processions et cetera.
The faith is professed, celebrated, expressed and lived above all in community.
We should cultivate a spirituality of communion. This makes one able to
see the light of the Trinity reflected in the face of one's sister or brother
as well, feeling through the profound unity of the Body of Christ that they
are part of oneself; sharing their joys and sorrows in order to perceive
their desires; taking care of their needs; offering them a true and profound
friendship. Looking above all at what is positive in them in order to cherish
them as a gift from God helps one to reject the selfish temptations that
lead to competition, careerism, distrust and jealousy.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT - RENEWING OUR PARISH COMMUNITIES
The liturgy is one of the essential and indispensable sources of the Church's
catechesis. The liturgy is the 'privileged place for catechising the People
of God.' This is not to be understood in the sense that the liturgy should
lose its celebratory character and be turned into catechesis - but catechesis
is set in motion by a first effective encounter between the one being catechised
and the community that celebrates the mystery, which is to say the catechesis
reaches its fulfilment when the one being catechised takes part in the liturgical
life of the community. Catechesis cannot be thought of merely as preparation
for the sacraments but must be understood in relation to liturgical experience.
THINGS
ARE NOT ALWAYS AS THEY SEEM
Two
traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family.
The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's
guest room. Instead, the angels were given a small space in the cold basement.
As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in
the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel
replied "Things aren't always what they seem." The next night,
the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer
and his wife. After sharing what little food they had, the couple let the
angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest. When
the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife
in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead
in the field. The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel,
How could you have let this happen? The first man had everything, yet you
helped him" she accused. "The second family had little but was
willing to share everything and you let the cow die." "Things
aren't always what they seem" the older angel replied. "When we
stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in
that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling
to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it. Then
last night as we slept in the farmer's bed, the angel of death came for
his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem."
Sometimes, that is exactly what happens when things don't turn out the way
it seems they should.
JUST FOR A LAUGH ...
• A little boy was listening to a long and excessively
boring sermon in Church. Suddenly the red sanctuary lamp caught his eye.
Tugging his father's sleeve, he said "Daddy, when the light turns green
can we go?"
• Jesus
was walking along one day, when he came upon a group of people surrounding
a woman of ill repute. It was obvious that the crowd was preparing to stone
her so Jesus made His now-famous statement "Let the person who has
no sin cast the first stone." The crowd was shamed and one by one began
to turn away. All of a sudden, a lovely little woman made her way through
the crowd. Finally, getting to the front, she tossed a pebble towards the
woman. Jesus looks over and said "I really hate it when you do that,
Mum."
STANDING
ORDERS
Please consider taking out a Standing Order. It would be of great benefit
to our parishes. Forms are available from the parish office, Ardrossan@GallowayDiocese.org.uk
and 01294 464063.
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.