BULLETIN
19 MARCH
2006
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT IN YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
18 March | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
19 March | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
20 March | Feast
of Saint Joseph Mass at 10.00 am for Kevin Doherty |
Tuesday
21 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Mary Kelly |
Wednesday
22 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Catherine Stewart |
Thursday
23 March | Mass at 7.00 pm for a special intention |
Friday
24 March | Stations
of the Cross at 9.40 am Mass at 10.00 am for Brian Sudlow |
Saturday
25 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Mary Garvey |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
19 March | 10.00
am 11.00 am 2.00 to 4.00 pm |
Children's Liturgy Tea and Coffee after Mass Guide Association |
Monday
20 March | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 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
21 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Nursery Key Housing Training Kindergarten Country Dancing Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit |
Wednesday
22 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Site Meeting Nursery North Ayrshire Council Calm Training Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club Special Religious Development (SPRED) Finance and Fabric Committee |
Thursday
23 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Friday
24 March |
8.00 to 5.30 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Monsignor
Edward Traynor who died recently;
Kevin Doherty 1979, Kate
Smith 1972, William Shanks 1952,
William Shanks 1987, Maureen
Conway 1999, Mary Reid 2002,
Maria Monaghan 2004, Hugh
Conway 1976,
Sister Immanuel Cross and Passion 2002,
Agnes
McLaren 1994, Isabella Connor 1959
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Amy and Hope Jaap and Alexander
MacKinnon Wardrope
who were baptised recently
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection
amounted to £569.43 - 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 £245.91
- 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.
RETREAT
There will be a Sacred Heart Retreat Day on Saturday, 8 April from 10.00 am to
4.00 pm. There will also be three Monday evenings Lenten Series meetings from
7.00 to 9.00 pm on 13, 20 and 27 March. Further details for both events are on
the notice board.
COLLECTION OF TOILETRIES
The Ozanam Centre in Glasgow
is run by the Saint Vincent de Paul Society to assist homeless men and women.
We have again been asked to assist in the collection of toiletries during Lent
so these might be distributed as a very practical way of assisting those who use
the Centre. Saint Peter's parishioners have donated generously to this appeal
in previous yeas and it is hoped that you will do so once again. The Conference
thanks you in anticipation of your kind assistance. A box to receive donations
of all kinds of toiletries will be available in the Church porch.
COACH
TRIP TO DONEGAL
The balance for the coach trip to Donegal should be paid by
the first week in April. Cheques should be made payable to F and M Tours and then
given to Moira or Alice.
SAINT
PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL TENTH ANNIVERSARY
All those willing to support and
help the Saint Peter's Primary School Parent Teacher Association (PTA) with the
Fun Day in June are invited to a meeting in the school on Wednesday 22 March at
7.30 pm.
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.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Stations of the Cross will be said each Friday
in Lent at 9.40 am.
SAINT ANDREW'S ACADEMY MASS
There will be Mass
each Wednesday in Lent in Saint Andrew's Academy at 8.30 am.
Regret
is an appalling waste of energy. |
Children
Learn What They Live |
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
Exodus
20:1-17
God
spoke all these words. He said, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no gods except
me. You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in
heaven or on earth beneath or in the waters under the earth; you shall not bow
down to them or serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God and I punish
the fathers fault in the sons, the grandsons, and the great-grandsons of those
who hate me; but I show kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my
commandments. You shall not utter the name of the Lord your God to misuse it,
for the Lord will not leave unpunished the man who utters his name to misuse it.
Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do
all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath for the Lord your God. You shall
do no work that day, neither you nor your son nor your daughter nor your servants,
men or women, nor your animals nor the stranger who lives with you. For in six
days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that these hold,
but on the seventh day he rested; that is why the Lord has blessed the Sabbath
day and made it sacred. Honour your father and your mother so that you may have
a long life in the land that the Lord your God has given to you. You shall not
kill. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false
witness against your neighbour. You shall not covet your neighbours house. You
shall not covet your neighbours wife, or his servant, man or woman, or his ox,
or his donkey, or anything that is his.
Second
Reading
1
Corinthians 1:22-25
Here
we are preaching a crucified Christ, an obstacle to men, but to those who are
called, the wisdom of God. While the Jews demand miracles and the Greeks look
for wisdom, here are we preaching a crucified Christ; to the Jews an obstacle
that they cannot get over, to the pagans madness, but to those who have been called,
whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power and the wisdom of God.
For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger
than human strength.
Gospel
John
2:13-25
Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in
the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money
changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove
them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money changers'
coins, knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon-sellers, "Take all
this out of here and stop turning my Father's house into a market." Then
his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour
me. The Jews intervened and said, "What sign can you show us to justify what
you have done?" Jesus answered, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three
days I will raise it up." The Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six
years to build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?"
But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from
the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the
scripture and the words he had said. During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover
many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he gave, but Jesus knew
them all and did not trust himself to them; he never needed evidence about any
man; he could tell what a man had in him.