BULLETIN
18
DECEMBER 2005
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT IN YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
17 December | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
18 December | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
19 December | Mass
at 10.00 am for Tommy and Margaret Newall Advent Penitential Service at 7.00 pm |
Tuesday
20 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Chelsea Greenwood |
Wednesday
21 December | Mass at 10.00 am for the Mealey family |
Thursday
22 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Iain Loy |
Friday
23 December | Advent Service at 11.00 am for Saint Peter's Primary School |
Saturday
24 December | Vigil
Mass at 5.30 pm Mass at 8.00 pm |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
18 December | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Sacramental Preparation Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
19 December | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 1.30 to 3.30 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 Cardiac Rehabilitation Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
Tuesday
20 December |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Keep Fit |
Wednesday
21 December |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Party Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds |
Thursday
22 December | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 1.30 to 3.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Cathie McMahon who died
recently;
John Campbell 1997, Margaret Bennie, Annie Farmer
1984, Annie Boyle,
George Poole 1991, William Martin 1974,
Father Peter Sweeney 2001,
Alice Grogan 2003, Sister Hilda
CP 2000, Josephine McGeachy 2003,
Jenny McAtee 2003, Tom
Braniff 2003, Ellen Barrett 1984,
Patrick McLaughlin 1998,
Peggy Hamilton and Mereno Berti 2003
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Helena Mary Hansell-Maher
who was baptised recently;
John Kelly and Philomena McGoldrick
who were married recently
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY
COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £722.29 - 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 £311.17
- 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.
PORCELAIN
NATIVITY SET
Raffle tickets costing 50p each are on sale at the Pious Object
Stall for a Porcelain Nativity Set. The draw will take place during the tea and
coffee after 10 00 am Mass on Sunday 18 December.
ADVENT PENITENTIAL
SERVICES
There
will be Penitential Services as indicated below.
Monday
19 December | Church of Saint Peter in Chains, Ardrossan |
Tuesday
20 December | Saint Mary's Church, Largs |
Wednesday
21 December |
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS
Will any Eucharistic Minister who has a Pyx at home, please return it?
SACRAMENTAL
PROGRAMME
A grid is on the notice board in the Parish Centre to allow parents
to add their child's name for the Sunday of their choice on which they wish to
celebrate the Sacraments of First Communion and Confirmation.
SAINT VINCENT
DE PAUL FOOD DONATIONS
The Saint Vincent de Paul Conference has many calls
for help at this time of year and would welcome any gifts of non-perishable, in-date
foodstuffs to supplement its stock for food parcels and so on. A box will be placed
in the porch for any such donations and the Conference members thank you most
sincerely for all your assistance.
CHRISTMAS
MASSES
Christmas Masses in our Church are on Christmas Eve at 5.30 pm and
8.00 pm then on Christmas Day at 11.00 am. There are Christmas Eve Masses at 9.00
pm in Saint Brendan's Church,
Saltcoats and at midnight in Saint
John's Church, Stevenston.
ANNUAL DIOCESAN CAROL SERVICE
The annual Diocesan Carol Service will be held
In the Good Shepherd Cathedral, Ayr on Wednesday, 21 December at 7.30 pm.
CHRISTMAS
DAY AND NEW YEAR'S DAY
There will be no children's Liturgy or Sunday teas
and coffees on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
50-50 CLUB
Congratulations
to the following 50-50 Club prizewinners:
November: 78 Margaret McIntyre £25,
219 Philip McAuliffe £25, 102 Margaret Friel £25, 193 Cecilia Morman
£25
December: 79 Patricia Barry £25, 13 David Atkins £25,
179 Margaret McAuliffe £25, 142 Joe McVey £25
Bonus: 149 Alex
Johnston £100
There will be a further bonus draw on Sunday 18 December
with four prizes of £50 each. We will also give a cheque for £500
to Saint Peter in Chains Parish. New members are welcome. Please telephone Myriame
Sammons, promoter.
What
is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, |
Bless
us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind. |
Second
Reading Romans 16:25-27
Glory
to him who is able to give you the strength to live according to the Good News
I preach, and in which I proclaim Jesus Christ, the revelation of a mystery kept
secret for endless ages, but now so clear that it must be broadcast to pagans
everywhere to bring them to the obedience of faith. This is only what scripture
has predicted, and it is all part of the way the eternal God wants things to be.
He alone is wisdom; give glory therefore to him through Jesus Christ for ever
and ever. Amen.
Gospel
Luke 1:26-38
The
angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin
betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin's name
was Mary. He went in and said to her, "Rejoice, so highly favoured! The Lord
is with you." She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what
this greeting could mean, but the angel said to her, "Mary, do not be afraid;
you have won God's favour. Listen! You are to conceive and bear a son, and you
must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High.
The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over
the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end." Mary said to
the angel, "But how can this come about, since I am a virgin?" "The
Holy Spirit will come upon you" the angel answered "and the power of
the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and
will be called Son of God. Know this too: your kinswoman Elizabeth has, in her
old age, herself conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in
her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to God." "I am the handmaid
of the Lord," said Mary "let what you have said be done to me."
And the angel left her.