BULLETIN
26
FEBRUARY 2006
EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
25 February | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Jessie Brown |
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Sunday
26 February | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
27 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Isabel O'Hare Rae |
| Tuesday
28 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Teresa Joyce |
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Wednesday
1 March | Ash
Wednesday Mass at 10.00 am for Paul Gerard Brown Mass at 7.00 pm for Mary Donnelly |
|
Thursday
2 March | Mass at 7.00 pm for Sadie Jack |
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Friday
3 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Pat Jago |
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Saturday
4 March | Mass at 10.00 am for George Mullen |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
26 February | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Sacramental Preparation Tea and Coffee after Mass |
|
Monday
27 February | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 12.30 to 2.30 pm 1.30 to 3.00 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 Cardiac Rehabilitation Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
|
Tuesday
28 February |
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 |
|
Wednesday
1 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
| Thursday
2 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
| Friday
3 March |
8.00 to 5.30 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
| Saturday
4 March | 10.00
to 4.00 pm 7.30 pm | Child
Protection Course Private Birthday Party |
PRAYERS
Please remember
in your prayers:
John Moore 2000, Agnes Delahunt 1944, Elizabeth
Delahunt 1976,
William John Dorian 1935, Frank Clark 1959,
William Magee 2002,
Ambrose Armstrong 1976, Odina Carrino,
Mennotti Carrino,
Paul Gerard Brown 1986, Frances Hackett
1997, Father Charles Barclay 2001,
Margaret Dolan 1959, Maria
Gillen 2001, Aldegonda Brogi, Pietro Brogi,
Michael Reilly 1995
and Catherine McCutcheon 2002
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Catherine Nancy Isabel Thom
and Leona Briget McInnes
who were baptised recently;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection
amounted to £779.02 - 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 £351.58
- 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.
ASH WEDNESDAY
Wenesday 1 March is Ash Wednesday. There will be Mass at 10.00 am and 7.00 pm.
Ashes will be distributed at both services. Ashes will also be distributed in
Saint Peter's Primary School at 11.00 am and 11.30 am. It is a day of fast and
abstinence for those aged between 18 and 65. This means no meat, one main meal
and two light snacks.
LENT
EXTRA
Copies of Lent Extra are available at the stall. A donation of 50 pence
would be appreciated.
LENT
SCOTTISH CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL AID FUND (SCIAF) BOXES
Lent SCIAF boxes are
available from the stall. Please take one home with you and return it at the end
of Lent.
SAINT
PATRICK'S PARISH SOCIAL
On Saturday, 11 March at 8.00 pm, there will be a
Parish Social to recognise Saint Patrick's Day. There will be music from Jim on
the keyboard, a quiz, a raffle,
stand-up bingo and pie and peas. Tickets costing £4 each are available from
Kate on 464063 and Donna.
ENROLMENT SUNDAY
Enrolment will be celebrated next Sunday, 5 March, during
10 o'clock Mass for children who are preparing to celebrate the Sacraments of
Confirmation and First Communion in May. Please pray for them and their families.
WORLD DAY
OF PRAYER
World Day of Prayer will be marked by a service in Saint Andrew's
Scottish Episcopal Church, South Crescent Road on Friday 3 March at 2.00 pm. The
service has been prepared by the Christian Women of South Africa. All are very
welcome.
STEVENSTON
MUSICAL SOCIETY
Stevenston Musical Society will present Karl Jenkins - The
Armed Man: A Mass for Peace in Saint Andrew's Church, West Kilbride on Saturday
4 March at 7.30 pm. The concert will include a performance by the Fullarton Youth
Vocal Ensemble. Tickets are priced at £5 and £4 concession and are
available now from Stephen Cowan.
NURSERY
MANAGER
A vacancy has arisen for a Nursery Manager in Saint Peter's Children's
Centre. The applicant must have the relevant experience. A full job description
can be obtained from the Children's Centre.
| Watch
your thoughts - they become your words |
| Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge those who fail to try. |
| Those who say they 'sleep like a baby' haven't got one. |
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 Hosea 2:16-17.21-22
Thus
says the Lord: I am going to lure her and lead her out into the wilderness and
speak to her heart. There she will respond to me as she did when she was young,
as she did when she came out of the land of Egypt. I will betroth you to myself
for ever, betroth you with integrity and justice, with tenderness and love; I
will betroth you to myself with faithfulness, and you will come to know the Lord.
Second
Reading
2
Corinthians 3:1-6
Unlike
other people, we need no letters of recommendation either to you or from you,
because you are yourselves our letter, written in our hearts, that anybody can
see and read, and it is plain that you are a letter from Christ, drawn up by us,
and written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets
but on the tablets of your living hearts. Before God, we are confident of this
through Christ: not that we are qualified in ourselves to claim anything as our
own work: all our qualifications come from God. He is the one who has given us
the qualifications to be the administrators of this new covenant, which is not
a covenant of written letters but of the Spirit: the written letters bring death,
but the Spirit gives life.
Gospel
Mark
2:18-22
One day when John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, some
people came and said to Jesus, "Why is it that John's disciples and the disciples
of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?" Jesus replied, "Surely
the bridegroom's attendants would never think of fasting while the bridegroom
is still with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they could
not think of fasting. But the time will come for the bridegroom to be taken away
from them, and then, on that day, they will fast. No one sews a piece of unshrunken
cloth on an old cloak; if he does, the patch pulls away from it, the new from
the old, and the tear gets worse. And nobody puts new wine into old wineskins;
if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins
too. No! New wine, fresh skins!".