BULLETIN
26
MARCH 2006
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT IN YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
25 March | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
|
Sunday
26 March | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
27 March | Funeral Mass at 11.00 am for Samuel Bannon |
|
Tuesday
28 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Peter McIntosh |
| Wednesday
29 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Bessie O'Rourke |
| Thursday
30 March | Mass at 7.00 pm for Anne Marie Jenkins |
| Friday
31 March | Stations
of the Cross at 9.40 am Mass at 10.00 am for Johnny Mooney |
|
Saturday
1 April | Mass at 10.00 am for Monsignor Eddie Traynor |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
26 March | 10.00
am 11.00 am 1.00 pm 5.30 pm |
Children's Liturgy Tea and Coffee after Mass Christening Party Birthday Party |
| Monday
27 March | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 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 Kindergarten Cardiac Rehabilitation Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society Weight Watchers |
|
Tuesday
28 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for 3 to
5 year olds Seafield School Nursery Kindergarten Country Dancing Ignatian Prayer Group Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit |
|
Wednesday
29 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Key Housing Training Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
|
Thursday
30 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
| Friday
31 March |
8.00 to 5.30 am |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Keith
Baldwin, Samuel Bannon, Jim Ogilvey, John McKechnie,
Tina
McLaughlin, Margaret Johnstone and John McCabe
who
died recently;
Don
Foley, Anna Bates 1997, Moira Rafferty, Terry McCabe 2005,
Sandy
Miller, Devlin McIndoe, Allister Nesbit 2000, Sarah Sanderson 2003,
Isa Stuart 2004,
Gus Slimman 1993, James Kelly 1983, Jenny Murphy 1998,
Marjorie
Robertson, Margaret Shanks 1993 and Kenneth McSkimming
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Molly Sheridan Smale who was
baptised recently
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £681.95 - 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 £339.14
- 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.
PARENTS AND TODDLERS
There will be no Parent and Toddlers Group on Monday 27 March.
SPECIAL
COLLECTION
There will be a Special Collection at all Masses this weekend for
the Papal and Episcopal Charities including the Scottish Catholic International
Aid Fund (SCIAF).
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.
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.
PENANCE SERVICES
There will be Penance Services in:
-
Saint Peter's, Ardrossan on Monday 3 April at 7.00 pm
- Saint
John's, Stevenston on Tuesday 4 April at 7.00 pm
- Saint
Mary's, Saltcoats on Thursday 6 April at 2.00 pm
- Saint
Brendan's, Saltcoats on Thursday 6 April at 7.00 pm
SMOKING, HEALTH
AND SOCIAL CARE (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005
As from Sunday 26 March, there will be
no smoking in the Parish Centre in compliance with the Smoking, Health and Social
Care (Scotland) Act 2005.
HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY
When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of 'overtime'
when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around
on this one." And God said, "She has to be completely washable, but
not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts all replaceable. Run on black coffee and
leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up, a kiss that can cure
a broken leg to a broken heart, and six pairs of hands." The angel shook
her head slowly and said. "Six pairs of hands … no way." "It's
not the hands that are causing me problems, it's the three pairs of eyes that
mothers have to have, and that's on the standard model?" God nodded. "One
pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, "What are you kids doing
in there?" when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that
sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here
in front that can look at a child when he messes up and say. "I understand
and I love you" without so much as uttering a word." "God"
said the angel, "get some rest" "I can't," said God, "I'm
so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals
herself when she is sick, can feed a family of six on one pound of mince, and
can get a nine year old to take a bath." The angel circled the model of a
mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she sighed. "But tough!"
said God excitedly. "You can imagine what this mother can do or endure."
"Can it think?" "Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise,"
said the Creator. Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek.
"There's a leak," she said. "I told you that you were trying to
put too much into this model." "It's not a leak," said the Lord,
"It's a tear." "What's it for?" "It's for joy, sadness,
disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride." "You are a genius,"
said the angel. Somberly, God said, "I didn't put it there."
| A
mother should be like a quilt - |
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
2
Chronicles 36:14-16.19-23
All
the heads of the priesthood, and the people too, added infidelity to infidelity,
copying all the shameful practices of the nations and defiling the Temple that
the Lord had consecrated for himself in Jerusalem. The Lord, the God of their
ancestors, tirelessly sent them messenger after messenger, since he wished to
spare his people and his house. But they ridiculed the messengers of God, they
despised his words, they laughed at his prophets, until at last the wrath of the
Lord rose so high against his people that there was no further remedy. Their enemies
burned down the Temple of God, demolished the walls of Jerusalem, set fire to
all its palaces, and destroyed everything of value in it. The survivors were deported
by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon; they were to serve him and his sons until the kingdom
of Persia came to power. This is how the word of the Lord was fulfilled that he
spoke: through Jeremiah, Until this land has enjoyed its Sabbath rest, until seventy
years have gone by, it will keep Sabbath throughout the days of its desolation.
And in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfil the word of the Lord
that was spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord roused the spirit of Cyrus king of
Persia to issue a proclamation and to have it publicly displayed throughout his
kingdom: Thus speaks Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord, the God of heaven, has given
me all the kingdoms of the earth; he has ordered me to build him a Temple in Jerusalem,
in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him!
Let him go up.
Second
Reading
Ephesians
2:4-10
God
loved us with so much love that he was generous with his mercy: when we were dead
through our sins, he brought us to life with Christ - it is through grace that
you have been saved - and raised us up with him and gave us a place with him in
heaven, in Christ Jesus. This was to show for all ages to come, through his goodness
towards us in Christ Jesus, how infinitely rich he is in grace. Because it is
by grace that you have been saved, through faith; not by anything of your own,
but by a gift from God; not by anything that you have done, so that nobody can
claim the credit. We are God's work of art, created in Christ Jesus to live the
good life as from the beginning he had meant us to live it.
Gospel
John
3:14-21
Jesus
said to Nicodemus: "The Son of Man must be lifted up as Moses lifted up the
serpent in the desert, so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in
him. Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone
who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life. For God sent his
Son into the world not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world
might be saved. No one who believes in him will be condemned; but whoever refuses
to believe is condemned already, because he has refused to believe in the name
of God's only Son. On these grounds is sentence pronounced: that though the light
has come into the world men have shown they prefer darkness to the light because
their deeds were evil. And indeed, everybody who does wrong hates the light and
avoids it, for fear his actions should be exposed; but the man who lives by the
truth comes out into the light, so that it may be plainly seen that what he does
is done in God.".