BULLETIN
31
DECEMBER 2006
THE FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY IN YEAR 3
FATHER
MATT AND FATHER
JOHN WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY AND BLESSED NEW YEAR.
CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
30 December | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
|
Sunday
31 December | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon for those who died in 2006 |
|
Monday
1 January | Feast
of Mary, the Mother of God Mass at 10.00 am for Patrick Hendry |
| Tuesday
26 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Margaret McGowan |
| Wednesday
27 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Theresa Dorrans |
|
Thursday
28 January | Mass at 7.00 pm for Les Retzbach |
|
Friday
29 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Margaret Hughes |
| Saturday
30 January | Mass at 10.00 am for Nora Ryan |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
30 December | 10.00
am 10.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Bessie Delahunt who died recently;
Father
Joseph Glendinning 1993, Alfonso Agostini 1955, James Murphy 1997,
Father Andrew Karwemers 2002, Lizzie McNamara, Susan Burns
1986,
Hugh Brown 1980, Sister Imelda CP 2000, Sister Marie Celeste
CP 2000,
Charles Retzbach 2000, Patrick Braniff 1991, Isabella Keenan
1939,
Patrick Cawley 2001, Helen McCluskey 2004 and James Burns
1955
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
Caitlyn Margaret Elizabeth Harvey who was baptised recently;
and those who are sick.
Please also remember those who died in 2006:
Mary Donnelly
Kathleen
Tritschler
George Agostini
Brookelyn Angel Donnachy
Mary Kelly
Chrissie Welsh
Elizabeth Burns
Samuel Bannon
Jane McFarlane
Jean Taylor
Angel Doyle
George Wilson
Joseph Higgins
Michael Fitzpatrick
Margaret Burns
Teresa Usher
Margaret Pacewicz
Agnes Long
Catherine Mitchell
Gladys Moore
Nan Caddies
Alex Jamieson
Chrissie Ferguson
Mary McAtee
Tom Adamson
Daniel Murray
Mary Dalziel
Chris Casey
May Wilson
May they rest in peace.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amount will be given in the bulletin of 14 January
2007.
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 amount
will be given in the bulletin of 14 January 2007.
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.
SUNDAY
TEAS
The total raised in 2006 from the Sunday Teas was £2650.20. Many
thanks to all the ladies who make this worthwhile contribution to the Parish.
It is very much appreciated.
MINISTRIES
Many
thanks to all who, throughout the year, help in any way with the various ministries
of the Church. It is very much appreciated.
SAINT
PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL
The Enterprise Group, staff and pupils of Saint Peter's
Primary School thank all who supported their sale of goods in the Parish Centre
on 17 December. The total raised was £250. £100 each will go the Neo
Natal Unit and Children's
Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS)
and £50 to Marie Curie Cancer Care.
BURNS
SUPPER
The Burns
Supper will be held in the Parish Centre on Saturday, 20 January 2007. Tickets
costing £10
each are available from Kate and Gerry. Patrons are asked to be seated by 7.20
pm for a prompt start at 7.30 pm. The speakers and musicians are George McGrattan,
Father Matt McManus,
David Munn, Margaret Munn, Len Murray, Robin Reid, Ciaran Sinclair, Margaret Swiercz,
Aimee Taylor and Monica Taylor. Len Murray is a retired Glasgow solicitor who
has spoken at over 300 Burns Suppers on four continents. Further details of this
and previous Burns
Suppers are on Saint Peter's website.
50-50
CLUB
Congratulations to the following 50-50 Club End of Year consolation prizewinners
who each win £25:
69 Millie McCann, 168 Josephine Coulter,
5 Lorna Sammons and 76 John Kennedy
Thank you for your continued support of
the 50-50 Club. If you would like to join the 50-50 Club, please contact Myriame
Sammons.
| You
can't change your past, but you can change your future. |
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 Samuel 1:20-22.24-28
Hannah
conceived and gave birth to a son, and called him Samuel, since she said, I asked
the Lord for him. When a year had gone by, the husband Elkanah went up again with
all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the Lord and to fulfil his vow.
Hannah, however, did not go up, having said to her husband, Not before the child
is weaned. Then I will bring him and present him before the Lord and he shall
stay there for ever. When she had weaned him, she took him up with her together
with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour and a skin of wine, and she brought
him to the temple of the Lord at Shiloh; and the child was with them. They slaughtered
the bull, and the childs mother came to Eli. She said, If you please, my lord.
As you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to the
Lord. This is the child I prayed for, and the Lord granted me what I asked him.
Now I make him over to the Lord for the whole of his life. He is made over to
the Lord. There she left him, for the Lord.
Second
Reading John 3:1-2.21-24
Think
of the love that the Father has lavished on us, by letting us be called God's
children; and that is what we are. Because the world refused to acknowledge him,
therefore it does not acknowledge us. My dear people, we are already the children
of God but what we are to be in the future has not yet been revealed; all we know
is, that when it is revealed we shall be like him because we shall see him as
he really is. My dear people, if we cannot be condemned by our own conscience,
we need not be afraid in God's presence, and whatever we ask him, we shall receive,
because we keep his commandments and live the kind of life that he wants. His
commandments are these: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and
that we love one another as he told us to. Whoever keeps his commandments lives
in God and God lives in him. We know that he lives in us by the Spirit that he
has given us.
Gospel
Luke 2:41-52
Every
year the parents of Jesus used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover.
When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual. When they were
on their way home after the feast, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without
his parents knowing it. They assumed he was with the caravan, and it was only
after a day's journey that they went to look for him among their relations and
acquaintances. When they failed to find him they went back to Jerusalem looking
for him everywhere. Three days later, they found him in the Temple, sitting among
the doctors, listening to them, and asking them questions; and all those who heard
him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies. They were overcome when
they saw him, and his mother said to him, "My child, why have you done this
to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for you.' 'Why were
you looking for me?" he replied. "Did you not know that I must be busy
with my Father's affairs?" But they did not understand what he meant. He
then went down with them and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority.
His mother stored up all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom,
in stature, and in favour with God and men.