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."