BULLETIN
18 MARCH 2007
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT IN YEAR
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CHURCH SERVICES
| Saturday
17 March | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
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Sunday
18 March | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
| Monday
19 March | Feast
of Saint Joseph Mass at 10.00 am for Annette Jefferson |
| Tuesday
20 March | Mass at 10.00 am for May and Bill Shanks |
| Wednesday
21 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Samuel Bannon |
| Thursday
22 March | Mass at 7.00 pm for Nessie McCallum |
| Friday
23 March | Stations
of the Cross at 9.40 am Mass at 10.00 am for Bessie Delahunt (1934-2006) |
| Saturday
24 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Sharon Gaston and Andrew Wallace |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
18 March | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
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Monday
19 March | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.00 to 4.30 pm 9.30 to 11.30 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 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
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Tuesday
20 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
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Wednesday
21 March |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
| Thursday
22 March | 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 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
|
Friday
23 March | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds Nursery Parents and Toddlers Kindergarten |
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Saturday
24 March | 8.00 pm | Private Party |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Audrey Allan, Peter McIlhatton,
Greta Jennings, Anna McManus,
Patrick McFarlane and Roger
Linden who died recently;
James Mulhern 1982, John Gurney
2004, Keith Baldwin 2006
Kate Smith 1972, William Shanks
1952, William Shanks 1987,
Maureen Conway 1999, Mary Reid 2002,
Maria Monaghan 2004,
Samuel Bannon 2006, Hugh Conway 1976, Sister
Immanuel CP 2002,
Agnes McLaren 1994, Patrick McDermott 1973,
Isabella Connor 1959
and James and Ellen McCarroll 1977
whose anniversaries
occur at this time and
Callum Robert O'Neill and Caitlin
Jane Young who were baptised recently
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's
collection amounted to £715.86 - many thanks.
Banker's Orders amount
to an average of £4300 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 £411.58 - 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.
SPECIAL
COLLECTION
There will be a special collection at all Masses this weekend for
Papal and Espicopal Charities including the Scottish Catholic International Aid
Fund (SCIAF).
| LENTEN
PENANCE SERVICES There will be Lenten Penance Service in the given Churches at the stated times. | |
| Saint Palladius', Dalry | Monday, 26 March at 7.00 pm |
| Saint John's, Stevenston | Tuesday, 27 March at 7.00 pm |
| Saint Mary's Church, Irvine | Tuesday, 27 March at 7.00 pm |
| Saint Mary's, Saltcoats | Wednesday, 28 March at 2.00 pm |
| Saint Brendan's, Saltcoats | Wednesday, 28 March at 7.00 pm |
| Saint Peter's, Ardrossan | Thursday, 29 March at 7.00 pm |
| Saint Brigid's, Kilbirnie | Friday, 30 March at 7.00 pm |
| Saint Winin's, Kilwinning | Sunday, 1 April at 6.00 pm |
| Saint John Ogilvie's, Irvine | Monday, 2 April at 7.00 pm |
SAINT
VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
The Ozanam Centre in Glasgow is run by the Saint
Vincent de Paul Society to assist homeless men and women. We have 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 years 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 during Lent.
KITS FOR KIDS
Kits For Kids tokens
can be collected from the Sunday Mail and Daily Record and placed in the box in
the porch. James Reid School, Saltcoats is this area's school.
LEGION
OF MARY
The annual
Legion
of Mary Accies Ceremony
will take place in Saint Winin's Church, Kilwinning on Sunday 25 March at 3.00
pm with tea in the hall afterwards.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
18
March
Pre-Fives: Frances and Elaine
Primary
1 to 3: Elaine, Eileen and Anne
Primary
4: Julie and Gayle
25 March
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Maria
Primary 1 to 3: Andrena
and Theresa
Primary 4: Frank and Catherine
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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. |
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God could not be everywhere, so He made mothers. |
HAPPY
MOTHERS' DAY
Dear Lord, it's such a hectic day with little time
to stop and pray
For life's been anything but glum since You called
on me to be a mum
Running errands, matching socks, building dreams
with building blocks
Cooking, cleaning, finding shoes and other
stuff that children lose
Fitting lids on bottled bugs, wiping
tears and giving hugs
A stack of last week's mail to read so where's
the quiet time I need?
Yet when I steal a minute, Lord, just at
the sink or ironing board
To ask the blessings of Your grace,
I see then in my small one's face
That you have blessed me all
the while and I stop to kiss that precious smile
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 Joshua 5:9-12
The
Lord said to Joshua, Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you. The
Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth
day of the month, at evening in the plain of Jericho. On the morrow of the Passover
they tasted the produce of that country, unleavened bread and roasted ears of
corn, that same day. From that time, from their first eating of the produce of
that country, the manna stopped falling. And having manna no longer, the Israelites
fed from that year onwards on what the land of Canaan yielded.
Second
Reading
Corinthians
5:17-21
For anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old creation
has gone, and now the new one is here. It is all God's work. It was God who reconciled
us to himself through Christ and gave us the work of handing on this reconciliation.
In other words, God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself, not holding
men's faults against them, and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled.
So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us,
and the appeal that we make in Christ's name is: be reconciled to God. For our
sake God made the sinless one into sin, so that in him we might become the goodness
of God.
Gospel
Luke
15:1-3.11-32
The tax collectors and the sinners were all seeking the company
of Jesus to hear what he had to say, and the Pharisees and the scribes complained.
"This man" they said "welcomes sinners and eats with them."
So he spoke this parable to them: "A man had two sons. The younger said to
his father, "Father, let me have the share of the estate that would come
to me." So the father divided the property between them. A few days later,
the younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country
where he squandered his money on a life of debauchery. When he had spent it all,
that country experienced a severe famine, and now he began to feel the pinch,
so he hired himself out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm
to feed the pigs. And he would willingly have filled his belly with the husks
the pigs were eating but no one offered him anything. Then he came to his senses
and said, "How many of my father's paid servants have more food than they
want, and here am I dying of hunger! I will leave this place and go to my father
and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve
to be called your son; treat me as one of your paid servants." So he left
the place and went back to his father. While he was still a long way off, his
father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his
arms and kissed him tenderly. Then his son said, "Father, I have sinned against
heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son." But the
father said to his servants "Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on
him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the calf we have
been fattening, and kill it; we are going to have a feast, a celebration, because
this son of mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and is found."
And they began to celebrate. Now the elder son was out in the fields, and on his
way back, as he drew near the house, he could hear music and dancing. Calling
one of the servants he asked what it was all about. "Your brother has come"
replied the servant "and your father has killed the calf we had fattened
because he has got him back safe and sound." He was angry then and refused
to go in, and his father came out to plead with him; but he answered his father,
"Look, all these years I have slaved for you and never once disobeyed your
orders, yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me to celebrate with my
friends. But, for this son of yours, when he comes back after swallowing up your
property - he and his women - you kill the calf we had been fattening." The
father said, "My son, you are with me always and all I have is yours. But
it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was
dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found." ".