BULLETIN
8
OCTOBER 2006
TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 2
CHURCH SERVICES
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Saturday
7 October | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm |
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Sunday
8 October | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon for Steven Smyth |
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Monday
9 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Sarah Foran |
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Tuesday
10 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Nan Caddies |
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Wednesday
11 October | Mass at 10.00 am for William Stalker |
| Thursday
12 October | Mass at 7.00 pm for Margaret Burns |
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Friday
13 October | Mass at 10.00 am for George Wilson |
| Saturday
14 October | Mass at 10.00 am for Ellen Hamilton |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
8 October | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
|
Monday
9 October | 8.00
pm 9.00 to 11.00 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 4.30 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 7.00 to 8.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
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Tuesday
10 October |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
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Wednesday
11 October |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Kindergarten Nursery Nursery Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club Special Religious Development (SPRED) |
|
Thursday
12 October | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.00 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm 6.00 to 8.00 pm 6.30 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Kindergarten Nursery Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation Italian Class Brownies Girl Guides |
| Friday
13 October | ||
Saturday
14 October | 7.30 pm | Private Birthday Party |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Sal McAtee and Mary Nellis who
died recently;
Catherine Helen McMullan, Catherine McHugh
1977, Vincenzo Carrino 1980,
Dan Donnelly 1941, Jane Coulter
1998, Mary Colvin 2000, Bill Henderson,
Joseph Harvey 1998,
Shannon McTaggart 1996, John Petrie 1966,
Maureen Haddington
2002, Vincenzo Marchetti 1968 and Ena Millar 1987
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Ethan Robert Linsday who
was baptised recently;
Karen Hamblin and Jamie Campbell and
Angela Connor and Colin Smith
who were married recently;
and
those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted
to £683.01 - 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 £326.61
- 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.
FATHER
MATT HOLIDAY
Father
Matt will be on holiday from 9 to 25 October.
SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION
A
grid is available on the notice board in the Church porch for the children who
are receiving the Sacraments next year. Please add your child's name.
THE
ROSARY
During the month of October, before morning Mass, the Rosary will be
led by the Thursday
Club.
BAPTISMAL PREPARATION
A short introduction to the Sacrament
of Baptism for parents is offered for one evening only in Saint
John's Hall, Stevenston. The preparation repeats monthly on the second Tuesday
at 7.30 pm.
COFFEE MORNING
The Thursday
Club is having its annual coffee morning on Saturday 21 October at 10.30 am
in the Parish Centre. There will be the usual stalls, bric-a-brac, books, fancy
goods, toys, home baking and so on. Donations would be very much appreciated.
Tickets cost £1.00. The Parish Centre will be open on Friday 20 October
from 6.00 pm to receive donations.
REFURBISHING THE BLESSED
SACRAMENT CHAPEL
The first Fund Raising Supper for the Blessed
Sacrament Chapel will take place in the Presbytery on Friday 27 October. There
will be an Italian Theme. The numbers are limited to twenty persons and the cost
is £25 per head. Tickets are available from the Parish Office. A donation
of £200 from Saint Winin's
Church, Kilwinning has been received with thanks. The total is now £400.
GALLOWAY LOURDES HOSPITALITÉ
The Fiftieth Anniversary Ceilidh
of Galloway Lourdes Hospitalité will take place on Friday 3 November at
7.30 pm in the Park Hotel, Kilmarnock. Tickets cost £10 and include a buffet.
BRITISH
HOSPITALITÉ NOTRE DAME DE LOURDES REUNION
The British Hospitalité
Notre Dame de Lourdes will have a reunion on Saturday 4 November. There will be
Mass in Saint Joseph's Church, Kilmarnock at 11.30 am and a Dinner Dance at 7.00
pm in the Park Hotel, Kilmarnock. Tickets cost £35.
NATIONAL
HEALTH SERVICE - AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN - REVIEW SERVICES
A public meeting will
be held in Livingstone Church, Stevenston on Tuesday at 7.00 pm to discuss health
provision in the three towns. Stewart Donnelly will address the meeting.
PASSKEEPERS
Our
thanks go to Gavin Finnegan for all his help in Church on a Saturday evening.
We now have a new team of volunteers who will assist with the collection, the
presentation of the Gifts of Bread and Wine and the Communion Procession, enabling
Gavin to 'retire'. We are still looking for a few more Ministers of Holy Communion.
PARISH
CENTRE
For almost a year now there has been a difficulty in arranging a
drinks licence when using the Parish
Centre for social functions. That clause has been altered and now allows for
various functions to take place, for example, engagements, weddings, birthdays,
family events, socials and so on. The Management will however reserve the right
to make a decision on any eighteenth and twenty-first birthday parties. To book
the Centre, telephone 606442.
| Great
works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. |
| Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. |
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 Genesis 2:18-24
The
Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a
helpmate. So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all
the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them,
each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all
the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild beasts. But no helpmate suitable
for man was found for him. So the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep.
And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. The Lord
God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the
man. The man exclaimed: This at last is bone from my bones, and flesh from my
flesh! This is to be called woman, for this was taken from man. This is why a
man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become
one body.
Second
Reading Hebrews 2:9-11
We
see in Jesus one who was for a short while made lower than the angels and is now
crowned with glory and splendour because he submitted to death; by God's grace
he had to experience death for all mankind. As it was his purpose to bring a great
many of his sons into glory, it was appropriate that God, for whom everything
exists and through whom everything exists, should make perfect, through suffering,
the leader who would take them to their salvation. For the one who sanctifies,
and the ones who are sanctified, are of the same stock; that is why he openly
calls them brothers.
Gospel Mark
10:2-16
Some Pharisees approached Jesus and asked, "Is it against the
law for a man to divorce his wife?" They were testing him. He answered them,
"What did Moses command you?" "Moses allowed us" they said
"to draw up a writ of dismissal and so to divorce." Then Jesus said
to them, "It was because you were so unteachable that he wrote this commandment
for you. But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. This
is why a man must leave father and mother, and the two become one body. They are
no longer two, therefore, but one body. So then, what God has united, man must
not divide." Back in the house the disciples questioned him again about this,
and he said to them, "The man who divorces his wife and marries another is
guilty of adultery against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries
another she is guilty of adultery too." People were bringing little children
to him, for him to touch them. The disciples turned them away, but when Jesus
saw this he was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come
to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.
I tell you solemnly, anyone who does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little
child will never enter it." Then he put his arms round them, laid his hands
on them and gave them his blessing.