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
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.00 to 5.30 pm
12.30 to 2.30 pm
1.30 pm
7.00 pm
7.30 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
9.00 am
9.00 to 11.30 am

9.00 to 4.00 pm

12.30 to 2.30 pm
5.00 to 6.00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
7.00 pm
7.30 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
9.00 to 11.30 am

12.30 to 2.30 pm
1.00 to 3 00 pm
1.30 to 3.00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
6.00 to 7.30 pm
7.30 to 9.00 pm
7.30 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Kindergarten
Thursday Club
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Rainbows
Brownies
Girl Guides
Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA)

Friday 24 March

8.00 to 5.30 am
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.30 am
12.30 to 2.30 pm

Wrap-around Care for 3 to 5 year olds
Nursery
Parents and Toddlers
Kindergarten

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.
You can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in.


Children Learn What They Live

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to appreciate.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world.



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.