BULLETIN
3 DECEMBER 2006
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT IN YEAR 3
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
2 December | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for James Cummings |
Sunday
3 December | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
4 December | Mass at 10.00 am for May Duncan |
Tuesday
5 December | Mass
at 10.00 am for May Duncan Sacrament of Reconciliation for Primary Four Pupils |
Wednesday
6 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Jihad Abdallah |
Thursday
7 December | Mass at 7.00 pm for Jean Rice |
Friday
8 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Gerard McCulloch |
Saturday
9 December | Mass at 10.00 am for Bernard Porelli |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
3 December | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
4 December | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 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 |
Tuesday
5 December |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Wednesday
6 December |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Kindergarten Street Dance for 13 to 18 year olds Burakudo Karate Club Special Religious Development (SPRED) Ignatian Prayer Group |
Thursday
7 December | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 1.00 to 2.30 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 6.00 to 8.00 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
Friday
8 December | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Parents and Toddlers Nursery |
Saturday
9 December | 1.30
pm | Private Birthday Party |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Jack Gartland and Hugh Wyllie who died
recently;
Gordon Alexander Smith 1997, Isabella McGoogan
1998, Mary Martin 1983,
Margaret Shanks 199, Rose Smith 1999,
Anne Thompson, May Shanks 1990,
Alexander Merrick 2001, Jean
Graham, Rose Smith 1999, Robert Shanks 1996,
Sarah Braniff
1961, John McKay junior 1972, James Mathieson 1999,
John
Tracy 1999 and Gerard
McCulloch 1990
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
and those who are sick.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £731.65
- 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 £304.18
- 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
Raffle tickets costing 50p each are on sale at the pious object
stall for a porcelain Nativity Set. The draw will take place at the Sunday Teas
on 17 December.
ADVENT PENITENTIAL SERVICES
Advent Penitential Services
will be held in the following Churches at the given times.
Tuesday
12 December at 7.00 pm - Saint
John's, Stevenston
Wednesday 13 December at 2.30 pm - Saint
Mary's, Saltcoats
Wednesday,
13 December at 7.00 pm - Saint
Brendan's, Saltcoats
Thursday
14 December at 7.00 pm - Saint Peter's, Ardrossan
50-50
CLUB
Congratulations
to the following 50-50 Club prizewinners:
October - 199 Annie
Watt £25, 226 Nora Moore £25, 3 Michael Sammons £25,
May
- 147 Morag Farro £25
November - 93 John Clarke £25,
247 Margaret Quigg £25, 74 Michelle Miller £25, 155 John Craig £25
REFURBISHING
THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
CHAPEL
An
Evening of Fun and Scottish Folk Music on 25 November raised £200 for
the Blessed Sacrament
Chapel bringing the total to £1425. Thanks to all who supported this
Parish Social. Pictures of the event are on the Pictures
page.
CHRISTMAS MUSIC
Stephen Cowan is planning the music for the 8.30
pm Christmas Vigil Mass. He is looking for the help of past, present - and new
- choir members. There is a rehearsal on Tuesday at 7.00 pm.
SAINT
VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
The members of the Saint
Vincent de Paul Society thank you most sincerely for all your generous support
and regular assistance. As you will appreciate there are many requests for help
at this time of year and in particular we would welcome any gifts of non-perishable,
in-date, foodstuffs to supplement our stock for food parcels and so on. A box
has been placed in the porch for such donations.
SACRED
HEART FATHERS
The Advent Series begins on Monday 27 November and continues
on the following three Mondays in Smithstone House, Kilwinning from 7.00 to 9.00
pm.
SAINT MICHAEL'S MAGAZINES - NOW ON COMPACT DISC
A CD has been produced
to celebrate the success of the staff and pupils of Saint Michael's College, Irvine
and Saint Michael's Academy, Kilwinning from 1921 to 2007. It contains all twelve
school magazines produced from 1957 to 1990. Copies cost £5 each and all
profits will be divided between Father Martin Chambers' Mission in Ecuador and
the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund. Please order your copy from John
Walsh.
FORTY SIX YEARS OF BULLETINS
Saint Peter's website now has every
bulletin for the past nineteen months and one from every year since the first
one was issued in 1960. The Website
Author is very grateful to the parishioners who supplied the 'missing' bulletins
following recent appeals.
NORTH AYRSHIRE SCHOOLS
SENIOR CHOIR CONCERT
The North Ayrshire Schools Senior Choir is performing
Paukenmesse - Mass in Time of War - by Franz Joseph Haydn in Saint Peter's Church
on Sunday 10 December at 7.30 pm. Tickets are available from Cultural Services
Box Office, telephone 274059. Tickets cost £5 or £4 concession. Father
Matt is delighted that Saint Peter's has been chosen to host this concert
again and hopes parishioners will support this event.
SAINT
JOHN'S CONCERT
Saint
John's annual Christmas Gala Concert will take place on Friday 8 December
at 7.30 pm, in Saint
John's Church Hall, Stevenston. Tickets cost £5 or £3 concession
and are available from the Church or at the door on the night.
ADVENT
EXTRA
Next Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent. Advent Extras are available
at the stall at a cost of 50 pence.
CATHOLIC
DIARIES 2007
This is the first year you have been asked to pay for your diary
as the publishers were unable to attract any local advertising resulting in no
free copies. The cost is £1.
SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION
The
children who are preparing to receive the Sacraments next year will celebrate
the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Wednesday 6 December at 7.00 pm in the Church.
GALLOWAY
NEWSLETTER
The Advent 2006 edition of the Galloway Newsletter is available
at the stall.
COMBONI CALENDARS
The Comboni family would like to thank
you for the £259 they made from selling calendars here.
LIVING
WATER MINISTRY
The Living Water Ministry is
conducting its monthly 'Saturday in Saltcoats' Youth Day at Saint
Brendan's Church Hall, Saltcoats on Saturday 16 December from 11.00 am to
5.00 pm. Mass follows for those who can stay. Young adults aged 15 to 25 are invited
to a day of faith, fun, discussion and prayer. Our theme this month is 'Good Decisions
and Standing Out'. Please bring a packed lunch.
THANKS TO SAINT CLARE
Grateful
thanks to Saint Clare for favours granted.
As
we grow old, the beauty steals inward. |
The
rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. |
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
Jeremiah
33:14-16
See,
the days are coming - it is the Lord who speaks - when I am going to fulfil the
promise I made to the House of Israel and the House of Judah: In those days and
at that time, I will make a virtuous Branch grow for David, who shall practise
honesty and integrity in the land. In those days Judah shall be saved nd Israel
shall dwell in confidence. And this is the name the city will be called: The Lord-our-integrity.
Second
Reading
Thessalonians
3:12 - 4:2
May
the Lord be generous in increasing your love and make you love one another and
the whole human race as much as we love you. And may he so confirm your hearts
in holiness that you may be blameless in the sight of our God and Father when
our Lord Jesus Christ comes with all his saints. Finally, brothers, we urge you
and appeal to you in the Lord Jesus to make more and more progress in the kind
of life that you are meant to live: the life that God wants, as you learnt from
us, and as you are already living it. You have not forgotten the instructions
we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.
Gospel
Luke
21:25-28, 34-36
Jesus said to his disciples: "There will be signs in the
sun and moon and stars; on earth nations in agony, bewildered by the clamour of
the ocean and its waves; men dying of fear as they await what menaces the world,
for the powers of heaven will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man
coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to take
place, stand erect, hold your heads high, because your liberation is near at hand.
'Watch yourselves, or your hearts will be coarsened with debauchery and drunkenness
and the cares of life, and that day will be sprung on you suddenly, like a trap.
For it will come down on every living man on the face of the earth. Stay awake,
praying at all times for the strength to survive all that is going to happen,
and to stand with confidence before the Son of Man.".