BULLETIN
9
OCTOBER 2005
TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
8 October | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
|
Sunday
9 October | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
10 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Sam Cambridge |
| Tuesday
11 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Nora Cairns |
|
Wednesday
12 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Kevin O'Carroll |
| Thursday
13 October | Mass at 7.00 pm for David Dunbar |
|
Friday
14 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Jimmy Cassidy |
| Saturday
15 October | Mass at 10.00 am for John Connor |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
9 October | 11.00 am | Tea and Coffee after Mass |
|
Monday
10 October | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.00 to 5.00 pm 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 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 Key Housing Training No Parents and Toddlers Kindergarten Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
| Tuesday
11 October |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Key Housing Training Kindergarten Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit Ignatian Prayer Group |
| Wednesday
12 October | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.00 to 5.00 pm 12.30 to 2.30 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 Key Housing Training Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds 2 B Slim Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
| Thursday
13 October | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.00 to 5.00 pm 12.30 to 2.30 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 Key Housing Training Kindergarten Thursday Club Rainbows Brownies Girl Guides |
|
Friday
14 October |
8.00 to 9.00 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Andrew McCormick, John
Paterson, Maggie Gibson
and Elizabeth McKay who died recently;
Dan Donnelly 1941, Jane Coulter 1998, Mary Colvin 2000,
Bill Henderson, Joseph Harvey 1998, John Petrie 1966,
Maureen
Haddington 2002, Vincenzo Marchetti 1968, Ena Millar 1987
and
James McKay 1992 whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £745.95
- 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 £336.67 - 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.
THE ROSARY
During the month of October, the Rosary will be led by the
Thursday Club
before morning Mass.
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
Will the parent volunteers who offered to help with the preparation of the
children at the recent parents' meetings please return the completed Disclosure
Scotland and Reference forms as soon as possible in order that the Sunday
preparation may begin?
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.
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.
CEMETERY MASS
The annual Mass for the Deceased will be celebrated in Ardrossan Cemetery
on Sunday 6 November at 2.00 pm.
PARENTS AND TODDLERS GROUP
There will be no Parents and Toddlers Group on Monday 10 October.
| The
person who gets ahead is the one who does more than is necessary - and keeps on
doing it. |
| Success
seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. |
| Time
is: - too slow for those who wait - too swift for those who fear - too long for those who grieve - too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is eternity. |
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 25:6-10
On
this mountain, the Lord of hosts will prepare for all peoples a banquet of rich
food, a banquet of fine wines, of food rich and juicy, of fine strained wines.
On this mountain he will remove the mourning veil covering all peoples, and the
shroud enwrapping all nations, he will destroy Death for ever. The Lord will wipe
away the tears from every cheek; he will take away his peoples shame everywhere
on earth, for the Lord has said so. That day, it will be said: See, this is our
God in whom we hoped for salvation; the Lord is the one in whom we hoped. We exult
and we rejoice that he has saved us; for the hand of the Lord rests on this mountain.
Second
Reading
Philippians
4:12-14.19-20
I
know how to be poor and I know how to be rich too. I have been through my initiation
and now I am ready for anything anywhere: full stomach or empty stomach, poverty
or plenty. There is nothing I cannot master with the help of the One who gives
me strength. All the same, it was good of you to share with me in my hardships.
In return my God will fulfil all your needs, in Christ Jesus, as lavishly as only
God can. Glory to God, our Father, for ever and ever. Amen.
Gospel
Matthew
22:1-14
Jesus
said to the chief priests and elders of the people: "The kingdom of heaven
may be compared to a king who gave a feast for his son's wedding. He sent his
servants to call those who had been invited, but they would not come. Next he
sent some more servants. "Tell those who have been invited" he said
"that I have my banquet all prepared, my oxen and fattened cattle have been
slaughtered, everything is ready. Come to the wedding." But they were not
interested: one went off to his farm, another to his business, and the rest seized
his servants, maltreated them and killed them. The king was furious. He despatched
his troops, destroyed those murderers and burnt their town. Then he said to his
servants, "The wedding is ready; but as those who were invited proved to
be unworthy, go to the cross-roads in the town and invite everyone you can find
to the wedding." So these servants went out on to the roads and collected
together everyone they could find, bad and good alike; and the wedding hall was
filled with guests.< When the king came in to look at the guests he noticed
one man who was not wearing a wedding garment, and said to him, "How did
you get in here, my friend, without a wedding garment?" And the man was silent.
Then the king said to the attendants, "Bind him hand and foot and throw him
out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth." For
many are called, but few are chosen."