BULLETIN
9
JULY 2006
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
8 July | Confession
on request from 4.45 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
Sunday
9 July | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
10 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Andy McVeigh |
Tuesday
11 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Betty Holmes |
Wednesday
12 July | Mass at 10.00 am for James and Agnes Conaghan |
Thursday
13 July | Mass at 7.00 pm for a special intention |
Friday
14 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Thomas Walsh |
Saturday
15 July | Mass at 10.00 am for Alice Devine |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
9 July | 11.00
am |
Tea and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
10 July | 7.00
pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Saint
Vincent de Paul Society |
Tuesday
11 July |
7.30 pm |
Keep Fit |
Wednesday
12 July |
5.00 to 6.00 pm | Street
Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club |
IF
YOU ARE HERE ON HOLIDAY, YOU ARE VERY WELCOME; IF
YOU ARE GOING ON HOLIDAY, ENJOY YOUR BREAK.
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Teresa Usher and Pat Mulholland
who died recently;
Patrick Tourish 1986, Father Harry Farrell
1998, Donald Newall 1998,
Catherine Teggart 1998, Alex Quigg
1999, Andy McVeigh 2000,
Mr and Mrs Francis Brown 1976, Margaret
McAteer 1992, Father Donal Burke,
Julie Kelley-Holland 2005,
Jeannie Brown 1995, Annie O'Kane 2001,
Agnes Conaghan 2002, Robert
Macrae 1986 and James Jenkins 2005
whose anniversaries occur at this time;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £806.84
- 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.
PETER'S
PENCE COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection
for Peter's Pence amounted to £300.00 - 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.
PIOUS
OBJECT STALL
Father
John has left rosary beads, medals and so on for sale at the Pious Objects
Stall.
GALLOWAY NEWSLETTER
Free copies of the Galloway Newsletter
are available at the stall.
SEA SUNDAY
Today is Sea Sunday. Please pray for all who work at sea and their
families. Envelopes are available at the stall for anyone wishing to make a donation
to the Apostleship of the Sea.
LOST
BRACELET
A bracelet has been found in the car park and can be claimed at the
stall.
SAINT
ANDREW'S ACADEMY NEWSLETTER
Copies of Saint Andrew's Academy newsletter are
available at the stall.
THANKS FROM MONSIGNOR
PETER MAGEE
Dear Father
Matt and Parishioners
Profoundest
thanks to you all for giving me the opportunity to celebrate the twenty-fifth
anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood with all of you! It was for me
a truly inspiring, comforting and renewing moment of grace. There are so many
of you that I should thank individually for your help, your prayers, your love
and your gifts. The best way I can do that is to offer Mass for you all, which
I will gladly do on Sunday 9 July. God bless you all, especially the children
and the sick. Let us keep the love of Christ and of his Church at the centre of
our lives!
Monsignor
Peter Magee
SAINT
PETER'S WEBSITE - RECORDING OUR HISTORY TODAY
Saint Peter's website was launched
a year ago on 13 July 2005. It contains over 400 pages, 340 photographs and some
audio clips of the choir among many articles on past and present spiritual and
community life in Saint Peter's. The website has attracted nearly 10000 visits,
far exceeding expectation. Father
Matt and the website author are very grateful to those who have accessed the
site, lent photographs, passed on stories, identified errors, made suggestions
and expressed compliments. The aims of the site are to make parishioners aware
of current events and record our history. If you can help with this project, please
contact WebsiteAuthor@SaintPeterinChains.net.
It
isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out - |
Yesterday
is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision but today, well-lived, |
Faith
makes it wholly possible to quietly endure the |
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
Ezekiel
2:2-5
The
spirit came into me and made me stand up and I heard the Lord speaking to me.
He said, "Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to the rebels who
have turned against me. Till now they and their ancestors have been in revolt
against me. The sons are defiant and obstinate; I am sending you to them, to say,
'The Lord says this'. Whether they listen or not, this set of rebels shall know
there is a prophet among them.".
Second
Reading
Corinthians
12:7-10
In view of the extraordinary nature of these revelations, to stop
me from getting too proud I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan
to beat me and stop me from getting too proud! About this thing, I have pleaded
with the Lord three times for it to leave me, but he has said, "My grace
is enough for you: my power is at its best in weakness." So I shall be very
happy to make my weaknesses my special boast so that the power of Christ may stay
over me, and that is why I am quite content with my weaknesses, and with insults,
hardships, persecutions, and the agonies I go through for Christ's sake. For it
is when I am weak that I am strong.
Gospel
Mark
6:1-6
Jesus
went to his home town and his disciples accompanied him. With the coming of the
Sabbath he began teaching in the synagogue and most of them were astonished when
they heard him. They said, "Where did the man get all this? What is this
wisdom that has been granted him, and these miracles that are worked through him?
This is the carpenter, surely, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joset
and Jude and Simon? His sisters, too, are they not here with us?" And they
would not accept him. And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is only despised
in his own country, among his own relations and in his own house"; and he
could work no miracle there, though he cured a few sick people by laying his hands
on them. He was amazed at their lack of faith.