BULLETIN
1
JANUARY 2006
FEAST OF MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD
CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
31 December | Funeral
Mass at 10.00 am for Anne-Marie Jenkins Confession on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
| Sunday
1 January | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
2 January | No Mass |
|
Tuesday
3 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Patrick Hendry |
| Wednesday
4 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Liz McKay |
|
Thursday
5 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Ella Brusnahan |
| Friday
6 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Sarah Murray |
|
Saturday
7 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Michael Ferguson |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Tuesday
3 January |
8.00 pm | Private Birthday Party |
| Wednesday
4 January |
6.00 to 7.00 pm | Burakudo Karate Club |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Anne-Marie Jenkins who died recently;
James Murphy 1997, Father Andrew Karwemers 2002, Lizzie McNamara,
Susan Burns 1986, Hugh Brown 1980, Sister Imelda CP 2000,
Sister Marie Celeste CP 2000, Charles Retzbach 2000, Patrick
Braniff 1991,
Isabella Keenan 1939, Patrick Cawley 2001
and Helen McCluskey 2004
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
and those who are sick.
Please also remember those who died in 2005:
Joseph Arkison
Margaret Boyd
Samuel Cambridge
Ian
Clarke
Michael Doherty
Patrick Doherty
Joseph Doyle
Robert Ferguson
Mary
Guilfolyle
Grace Jamieson
Anne-Marie
Jenkins
James Jenkins
Desmond Langan
Denis Long
Michael Lynn
Marie
Matthews
Douglas Mayberry
Cecilia
McCurdie
James McDermid
Elizabeth
McKay
Margaret McLaughlan
Catherine
McMahon
Rona McNamara
Grant Middlemiss
Margaret Newell
Kathleen Robertson
Elizabeth Walsh
Catherine Welsh
Thomas
West
May they rest in peace.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection total will be given in next week's
bulletin.
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 total for the Parish Centre
will be given in next week's bulletin.
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.
BURNS SUPPER
The Burns
Supper will be held in the Parish Centre on Saturday 28 January. Tickets costing
£10 each are available from Kate and Gerry.
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.
MINISTRIES
Many thanks to all who throughout the year help in any way with
the various ministries of the Church. It is very much appreciated.
HAPPY
NEW YEAR
Father
Matt wishes
everyone a happy and blessed New Year.
| Enter
the year with a kind thought for everyone. |
| May your troubles in the New Year be as short-lived as your resolutions. |
Second
Reading Galatians
4:4-7
When the appointed time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born
a subject of the Law, to redeem the subjects of the Law and to enable us to be
adopted as sons. The proof that you are sons is that God has sent the Spirit of
his Son into our hearts: the Spirit that cries, 'Abba, Father,' and it is this
that makes you a son, you are not a slave any more; and if God has made you son,
then he has made you heir.
Gospel
Luke 2:16-21
The
shepherds hurried away to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying
in the manger. When they saw the child they repeated what they had been told about
him, and everyone who heard it was astonished at what the shepherds had to say.
As for Mary, she treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart. And
the shepherds went back glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and
seen; it was exactly as they had been told. When the eighth day came and the child
was to be circumcised, they gave him the name Jesus, the name the angel had given
him before his conception.