BULLETIN                                               5 JUNE 2005                    

TENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 1


CHURCH SERVICES

Saturday 4 June
Confession on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm
Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm
Sunday 5 June
Sunday Mass at 10.00 am
Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon
Monday 6 June
Mass at 10.00 am for James and Agnes Conaghan
Tuesday 7 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Ian Clarke
Wednesday 8 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Des Langan
Thursday 9 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Stephen McCann
Friday 10 June
Mass at 9.00 am for Martin Francis Brown
Saturday 11 June
Mass at 10.00 am for Patrick Doherty

 

PARISH CENTRE EVENTS

Sunday 5 June
10.00 am
11.00 am
Children's Liturgy
Tea and Coffee after mass
Monday 6 June
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 11.30 am
11.45 to 2.15 pm
7.00 pm
7.00 to 8.00 pm
Parents and Toddlers
Pre 5 Children
Pre 5 Children
Saint Vincent de Paul Society
Weight Watchers
Tuesday 7 June
9.00 to 11.30 am
11.45 to 2.15 pm
2.30 to 4.00 pm
7.30 pm
7.30 pm
Pre 5 Children
Pre 5 Children
Kindergarten
Keep Fit
Ignatian Prayer Group
Wednesday 8 June
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 8.30 pm
6.30 to 9.00 pm
Pre 5 Children
Pre 5 Children
Kindergarten
Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds
The Best of Health
Special Religious Development (SPRED)
Thursday 9 June
9.00 to 11.30 am
11.45 to 2.15 pm
2.30 to 4.00 pm
1.00 to 3.00 pm
7.30 pm
Pre 5 Children
Pre 5 Children
Kindergarten
Thursday Club
Music Ministry
Friday 10 June
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 4.00 pm
11.45 to 2.15 pm
7.00 pm
Parents and Toddlers
Pre 5 Children
Health and Hygiene Training Course
Pre 5 Children
Saint Peter's Parent Teacher Association Bingo  

PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
   Des Langan who died recently;
   James Conaghan 1999, Alison Dunn 1994, George West 1997, Patrick Clark 2002,
   Martin Brown 1998, Elizabeth Dailly, John Spencer 2002, Hilda Reid and
   John Maher 2002 whose anniversaries occur at this time;
   Emma Mullen who was baptised recently
   and those who are sick.

SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £614.36 - many thanks.
Banker's Orders amount to an average of £4000 per month. 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 £263.15 - many thanks.

BANKER'S ORDERS
Paying your collection by monthly or quarterly banker's order makes money handling much safer.

MARATHON RUN
Karen O'Reilly Pirie has successfully completed her Marathon Run. Well done, Karen. Sponsor money may be handed into the Parish Office. Total at the moment is £254.50.

PARISH CENTRE DONATIONS
Thanks are due to Saint Anne's Guild and the Country Dancers for their donations towards the use of the Parish Centre.

FATHER MICHAEL LYNCH ANNIVERSARY
The first anniversary Mass of Father Lynch's death will be celebrated on Saturday 2 July at 12 noon. Bishop Cunningham and the priests of the diocese have been invited. Tea and coffee will be served in the Parish Centre after Mass.

BAPTISM
The Sacrament of Baptism is normally celebrated on a Sunday. It can be celebrated at Mass or after the 12.00 noon Mass. Please make the arrangements at the Parish Office in good time. Baptism candles and hand-made Baptismal 'robes' are available from the stall at £6 for the set. They make a beautiful gift to the child from a Godparent or family member.

MASS INTENTIONS
Whenever you ask for a Mass to be offered for someone or for a special intention it will be said. lf you ask for a particular day or time that will be honoured as far as possible. The offering is the priest's keep for the day the Mass is said. Some of the Masses are passed on to priests at home or in Mission countries but all Masses are said.

TEN O'CLOCK SUNDAY MASS
There have been a few comments recently about the strong-lunged children - the more the merrier but if the child is louder than the priest then he or she might be happier in the porch or in the Parish Centre for a short break. Children belong as much as adults - so don't worry about them. This is the last word on the matter. Mark 10, 13-16.

SAINT PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
There will be an Open Day on Monday 6 June at 3.00 pm. A limited number of places is available for the new term in August and plans for all day care are making good progress.

SAINT ANNE'S GUILD TRIP
The bus will leave Chapelhill Mount at 9.30 am following usual route for their trip to Stirling and Callendar.

SAINT PETER'S PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION
There will be Bingo on Friday 10 June from 7.00 to 9.00 pm in the Parish Centre.

MUSIC MINISTRY
The Music Ministry meets on Thursday 9 June at 7.30 pm in the Parish Centre.



All we can live is our own dream in the light or shadow of oneself.
No-one can live on what might have been.

Don't mind criticism.
If it is untrue - disregard it.
If it is unfair - don't let it irritate you.
If it is ignorant - smile.
If it is justified - learn from it.

Belief in yourself isn't ego or arrogance. It's knowing who you are and believing
- despite your flaws - that God can and will use you for something significant in His plan.



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
Let us set ourselves to know the Lord; that he will come is as certain as the dawn, his judgement will rise like the light, he will come to us as showers come, like spring rains watering the earth. What am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? This love of yours is like a morning cloud, like the dew that quickly disappears. This is why I have torn them to pieces by the prophets, why I slaughtered them with the words from my mouth, since what I want is love, not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not holocausts.

Second Reading
Though it seemed Abraham's hope could not be fulfilled, he hoped and he believed, and through doing so he did become the father of many nations exactly as he had been promised: Your descendants will be as many as the stars. Even the thought that his body was past fatherhood - he was about a hundred years old - and Sarah too old to become a mother, did not shake his belief. Since God had promised it, Abraham refused either to deny it or even to doubt it, but drew strength from faith and gave glory to God, convinced that God had power to do what he had promised. This is the faith that was 'considered as justifying him'. Scripture however does not refer only to him but to us as well when it says that his faith was thus 'considered'; our faith too will be 'considered' if we believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, Jesus who was put to death for our sins and raised to life to justify us.

Gospel
As Jesus was walking on he saw a man named Matthew sitting by the customs house, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him. While he was at dinner in the house it happened that a number of tax collectors and sinners came to sit at the table with Jesus and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your master eat with tax collectors and sinners?" When he heard this he replied, "It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. Go and learn the meaning of the words: What I want is mercy, not sacrifice. And indeed I did not come to call the virtuous, but sinners."