BULLETIN
2
OCTOBER 2005
TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
1 October | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
2 October | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
3 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Mary Clarke |
Tuesday
4 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Clare Shanks |
Wednesday
5 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Special Intention |
Thursday
6 October | Mass at 7.00 pm for a wedding anniversary |
Friday
7 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Stuart McDonald |
Saturday
8 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Jimmy Grant |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
2 October | 11.00 am | Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
3 October | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 11.30 to 6.00 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Parents and Toddlers Kindergarten Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
4 October |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Country Dancing Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit Saint Peter's Parent Teacher Association |
Wednesday
5 October | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 11.30 to 6.00 pm 5.00 to 6.00 pm 6.30 to 8.30 pm 7.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds 2 B Slim Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
Thursday
6 October | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 11.30 to 6.00 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 |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds Thursday Club Rainbows Brownies Girl Guides |
Friday
7 October |
8.00 to 9.00 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Saturday
8 October | 7.30 to 12.00 pm | Private Party |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Charles Coulter 1992, John
Connor 1983, Hannah Burns 2002,
Robert Paterson 2004, Hugh
O'Hare 2004, Terry O'Neill 2002,
James Martin 1997, Eunice
Ward 2002, Catherine McHugh 1977,
and Vera McMaster 2004
whose anniversaries
occur at this time;
Kristyna Elizabeth Anne Scott who was baptised
recently;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £812.52 - 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 £393.11 - many thanks.
BANKER'S
ORDERS
Paying your collection by monthly or quarterly banker's order makes
money handling much safer. Banker's Order forms are available in the porch.
FATHER MATT
Father Matt
will be away from the parish from Monday 3 October until Saturday 15 October.
Father Gabriel will
celebrate Mass during the week
and Father McLean
at the weekend.
SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION
Primary 4 pupils begin their
preparation for the Sacraments this Sunday at 10.00 am Mass. During Mass, there
will be a Presentation Ceremony. Dates for the Celebration of the Sacraments are
7, 14 and 21 May 2006 at 10.00 am Mass.
SAINT ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
There will be a Rock Service on Sunday 2 October at 7.00 pm in Saint Andrew's
Espiscopal Church. All are welcome.
SAINT
JOHN'S CHURCH, STEVENSTON
As part of the centenary celebrations of Saint
John's Church, Stevenston, there will be a performance by local students and
musicians from the Royal Academy of Music on Friday 7 October. Tickets cost £4
and £3 concession.
SAINT
ANDREW'S ACADEMY
Copies of Saint Andrew's Academy Newsletter are available
at the stall.
THE PARISH
PARTY
Father Matt
thanks everyone involved in Saturday night's party. It was a great night and I
am trying to think of an excuse for another. So many people and such a happy atmosphere
make for real community. Many thanks for the gifts: the money will be used for
something in the new house. The sheep, the blankets and the goat are already on
their way to poor families in Africa. The other presents will be eaten, drunk
or used appropriately. The most important gift was so much friendship and a real
welcome to Saint Peter's.
PARISH SOCIAL
The next Parish Social will
take place on Saturday 19 November at 8.00 pm in the Parish Centre. There will
be music, a quiz, a light supper, raffle and so on. Tickets, costing £2.50,
are available from Kate or Donna.
THURSDAY
CLUB COFFEE MORNING
The Thursday
Club is having its annual coffee morning on Saturday 22 October at 10.30 am
in the Parish Centre. There will be the usual stalls with bric-a-brac, books,
fancy goods, toys, home baking and so on. Tickets cost £1.00.
AGNES
BURNS
Agnes Burns, who has been a parishioner since 1969, is moving from Bridgepark
to stay with her daughter, Geraldine and her husband, David in York.
You
can learn things from children - how much patience you have, for instance. |
The
greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. |
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
Isaiah
5:1-7
Let me sing to my friend the song of his love for his vineyard. my friend
had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug the soil, cleared it of stones, and
planted choice vines in it. In the middle he built a tower, he dug a press there
too. He expected it to yield grapes, but sour grapes were all that it gave. And
now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I ask you to judge between my
vineyard and me. What could I have done for my vineyard that I have not done?
I expected it to yield grapes. Why did it yield sour grapes instead? Very well,
I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge
for it to be grazed on, and knock down its wall for it to be trampled on. I will
lay it waste, unpruned, undug; overgrown by the briar and the thorn. I will command
the clouds to rain no rain on it. Yes, the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the
House of Israel, and the men of Judah that chosen plant. He expected justice,
but found bloodshed, integrity, but only a cry of distress.
Second
Reading
Philippians
4:6-9
There is no need to worry; but if there is anything you need, pray for
it, asking God for it with prayer and thanksgiving, and that peace of God, which
is so much greater than we can understand, will guard your hearts and your thoughts,
in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, fill your minds with everything that is true,
everything that is noble, everything that is good and pure, everything that we
love and honour, and everything that can be thought virtuous or worthy of praise.
Keep doing all the things that you learnt from me and have been taught by me and
have heard or seen that I do. Then the God of peace will be with you.
Gospel
Matthew
21:33-43
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people, "Listen
to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced
it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants
and went abroad. When vintage time drew near he sent his servants to the tenants
to collect his produce. But the tenants seized his servants, thrashed one, killed
another and stoned a third. Next he sent some more servants, this time a larger
number, and they dealt with them in the same way. Finally he sent his son to them.
"They will respect my son" he said. But when the tenants saw the son,
they said to each other, "This is the heir. Come on, let us kill him and
take over his inheritance." So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard
and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those
tenants?" They answered, "He will bring those wretches to a wretched
end and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will deliver the produce to him
when the season arrives." Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in
the scriptures: It was the stone rejected by the builders that became the keystone.
This was the Lord's doing and it is wonderful to see? I tell you, then, that the
kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people that will produce
its fruit."