BULLETIN
8
MAY 2005
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
7 May | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
8 May | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
9 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Bridget McLellan |
Tuesday
10 May | Mass at 10.00 am for John and Margaret Murphy |
Wednesday
11 May | Mass at 10.00 am or Eucharistic Service |
Thursday
12 May | Mass at 7.00 pm for Johnny Kelly |
Friday
13 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Agnes McCann |
Saturday
14 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Francis Joseph Smith |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
8 May | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy Sacramental Preparation Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
9 May |
5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm | Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
10 May | 9.00
to 11.30 am 11.45 to 2.15 pm 2.30 to 4.30 pm 1.30 pm 7.00 pm 7.30 pm 7.30 pm |
Pre 5 Children Pre 5 Children Kindergarten Country Dancing Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit Ignatian Prayer Group |
Wednesday
11 May | 9.00
to 11.30 am 11.45 to 2.15 pm 2.30 to 4.00 pm 5.00 to 6.00 pm 6.30 to 9.00 pm |
Pre 5 Children Pre 5 Children Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
Thursday
12 May | 9.00
to 11.30 am 11.45 to 2.15 pm 2.30 to 4.00 pm 1.00 to 3.00 pm 6.00 to 7.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm 7.30 pm |
Pre 5 Children |
Friday
13 May | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.00 to 11.45 am 11.45 to 2.15 pm 7.30 pm | Parents
and Toddlers Pre 5 Children Pre 5 Children Private Party |
Saturday
14 May | 7.30 pm | Private Party |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Joe Arkison and Ian Clarke
who died recently;
James Timmons 1982, Frank Nils Brown
1998,
Francis Moran 1999 and Nicky McIntee 2004
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Ross Beech, Charles Donaldson,
Liam Donnelly, Siobhan Dorrian,
Adam Higgins, Shaun Howie,
Michelle Kelly, Carter Lothian,
Meghan Newton, Megan Rankin,
Jessica Reid and Keiran Tumilty
who celebrated the Sacraments
of Confirmation and First Communion recently;
Hannah
Montgomery and Joshua William Ralston who were baptised recently;
and those
who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £595.35 - many
thanks.
Banker's Orders amount to an average of £4000 per month. Forms
are available in the Church porch. Each month £4000 is repaid to the Diocese
for the building loan and levy.
PARISH
CENTRE COLLECTION
Last
weekend's collection for the Parish Centre amounted to £275.43
- many thanks.
SPECIAL COLLECTION
There will be a special collection
for the Communications Fund at all Masses this weekend. A copy of a letter from
Bishop Joseph Devine is available at the stall.
50/50
CLUB
The 50/50 Club supports the Parish financially. If you are not a member,
please consider it and contact Myriame Sammons.
SACRAMENTS OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
Next
Sunday at 10.00am Mass, a further twelve children will celebrate the Sacraments.
Please pray for them and their families. A rehearsal will take place on Friday
13 May at 6.00 pm in the Church. Each child receiving the Sacraments will be presented
with a Bible from the Thursday Club.
Photographer Margaret Cambridge will be available after both celebrations to photograph
the children individually.
MARATHON
RUN
Karen O'Reilly Pirie has generously agreed that all proceeds from her
fundraising Marathon
Run in Prague on Sunday 22 May will be given to Saint Peter's parish. If you would
like to support her and the parish, sponsor sheets are available at the stall.
Donations may be handed into the Parish Office.
SAINT
VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY COFFEE MORNING
The Saint
Vincent de Paul Society is holding a Coffee Morning on Saturday 4 June at
10.00 am. There will be various stalls on the day as well as a prize raffle. All
the proceeds of this year's event will be sent the Society's Tsunami Appeal. Donations
for any of the stalls - baking, books, bric a brac - as well as prizes for the
raffle will be most welcome and can be notified to any member of the Conference.
Your support will be most welcome for this project as a great many poor communities
in the area hit by the Tsunami still require help to rebuild their homes and re-establish
their livelihoods.
FATHER
MICHAEL LYNCH
The first anniversary Mass
of Father Lynch's death will be celebrated
on Saturday 2 July at 12 noon.
SAINT
PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
There are still a few places available in the Children's
Centre for both the Nursery and Kindergarten in August 2005. By then, we hope
to offer daycare facilities for three to five year olds. For further information,
telephone the Centre on 473030.
SACRED
HEART FATHERS
Details of summer retreats offered by the Sacred Heart Fathers
at Smithstone House, Kilwinning are on the notice board and booking forms are
available at the stall.
There
is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future. |
Sometimes
it's more important to be human than to have good taste. |
Too
many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. |
The
best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. |
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 from the Acts of the Apostles
From
the Mount of Olives, as it is called, to Jerusalem, a short distance away, no
more than a Sabbath walk; and when they reached the city they went to the upper
room where they were staying; there were Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip
and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot,
and Jude son of James. All these joined in continuous prayer, together with several
women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
Second
Reading from the First Letter of Saint Peter
If you can have some share in
the sufferings of Christ, be glad, because you will enjoy a much greater gladness
when his glory is revealed. It is a blessing for you when they insult you for
bearing the name of Christ, because it means that you have the Spirit of glory,
the Spirit of God resting on you. None of you should ever deserve to suffer for
being a murderer, a thief, a criminal or an informer; but if anyone of you should
suffer for being a Christian, then he is not to be ashamed of it; he should thank
God that he has been called one.
A
Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John
Jesus raised his eyes to heaven
and said: "Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son so that your Son may
glorify you; and, through the power over all mankind that you have given him,
let him give eternal life to all those you have entrusted to him. And eternal
life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
I have glorified you on earth and finished the work that you gave me to do. Now,
Father, it is time for you to glorify me with that glory I had with you before
ever the world was. I have made your name known to the men you took from the world
to give me. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
Now at last they know that all you have given me comes indeed from you; for I
have given them the teaching you gave to me, and they have truly accepted this,
that I came from you, and have believed that it was you who sent me. I pray for
them; I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because
they belong to you: all I have is yours and all you have is mine, and in them
I am glorified. I am not in the world any longer, but they are in the world, and
I am coming to you.".