BULLETIN
29 APRIL 2007
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR
3
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
28 April | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
29 April | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
30 April | Mass at 10.00 am for a special intention - KM |
Tuesday
1 May | Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Lena (McGinn) McMahon |
Wednesday
2 May | Mass at 10.00 am for May Murphy |
Thursday
3 May | Mass at 7.00 pm for Margaret Boyle |
Friday
4 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Agnes McEvoy |
Saturday
5 May | Mass at 10.00 am for the McCarroll family |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
29 April | 10.00
am 10.00 am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
Monday
30 April | 8.00
to 5.30 pm 9.00 to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 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 | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
Tuesday
1 May |
8.00 to 5.30 pm |
Wrap-around Care for
3 to 5 year olds |
Wednesday
2 May |
8.00 to 5.30 pm | Wrap-around
Care for 3 to 5 year olds |
Thursday
3 May | 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
4 May | 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 |
Saturday
5 May | 7.30 pm | Family Party |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Vincent Picozzi and James Miller
who died recently;
Aldo Agostini 1974, Kathleen Walsh 1955,
Annie Mathieson Dorian 1974,
Simon Cawley 2004, Mary Crossan
1981, Elizabeth Hendry 1998,
Jean Nesbit 1999, Joe Arkison
2005, Ian Clarke 2005, Agnes Gorman 1954,
Bobby MacNamara,
James Timmons 1982, Harry Hissey 1976,
Robert Hunter 1956,
John, Irene and Patrick McKelvey
whose
anniversaries occur at this time;
and Olivia Patricia Atkinson
who was baptised recently.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection
amounted to £708.36 - 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 £318.44 - 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.
VOCATIONS
SUNDAY
Today is Vocations Sunday. Prayer Cards are available at the stall.
Please take one home and say the prayer for vocations.
SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL
AID FUND (SCIAF)
So far the Lenten Alms boxes have raised £901 for SCIAF.
If you still have a box at home, please hand it in.
PILGRIMAGE TO MEDJEGORE
There
will be a pilgrimage to Medjegorge from 7 to 14 June 2007 leaving from Gatwick
Airport. The cost is £335 which includes insurance and half board. For further
information, phone Patrick McCaig.
THE ROSARY
During the month of May,
the Rosary will be led by the Thursday
Club before morning Mass.
THE
INNOCENTS
The Innocents urgently require a travel cot and a pram or buggy.
If you can help, please telephone Josephine to make arrangements for uplifting.
RACE
NIGHT AND DISCO
Saint Peter's Parent Teacher Association is having a Race Night
and Disco with buffet in the Parish Centre on Friday 11 May at 7.30 pm for 8.00
pm. Tickets, costing £5, will be on sale after all Masses this weekend.
EDUCATE
THE KIDS FUND RAISING SOCIAL
One of our cantors, Marie-Anne McGrattan,
is going to Africa for four weeks in the summer to work with deprived children.
To help support her efforts, there will be a fund-raising social event in the
Parish Centre on Saturday 2 June at 8.00 pm. Details of how the proceeds will
be used can be seen at www.EducateTheKids.com.
Further information on the event will be given nearer the time.
COFFEE
AFTERNOON
The Thursday
Club is having a Coffee Afternoon on Tuesday 8 May at 1.00 pm in the Parish
Centre. There will be the usual stalls - home baking, bric-a-brac and so on. Tickets
cost £1.00. All are welcome.
SACRAMENTS
OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
Primary 4 children will celebrate the Sacraments
of Confirmatiion and First Communion on Sunday 13 May, 20 May and 3 June at 10.00
am Mass. Please pray for them and their families.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
29 April
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Maria
Primary 1 to 3: Eileen,
Anne and Elaine
Primary 4: Gayle and Julie
6
May
Pre-Fives: Frances and Maria
Primary
1 to 3: Andrena and Theresa
Primary 4:
Frank and Catherine
PLANT
CAREFULLY
If you plant honesty, you will reap trust.
If you plant goodness,
you will reap friends.
If you plant humility, you will reap greatness.
If
you plant perseverance, you will reap victory.
If you plant consideration,
you will reap harmony.
If you plant hard work, you will reap success.
If
you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation.
If you plant openness,
you will reap intimacy.
If you plant patience, you will reap improvements.
If
you plant faith, you will reap miracles.
But ...
If you plant dishonesty,
you will reap distrust.
If you plant selfishness, you will reap loneliness.
If
you plant pride, you will reap destruction.
If you plant envy, you will reap
trouble.
If you plant laziness, you will reap stagnation.
If you plant bitterness,
you will reap isolation.
If you plant greed, you will reap loss.
If you
plant gossip, you will reap enemies.
If you plant worries, you will reap wrinkles.
If
you plant sin, you will reap guilt.
So
...
Be careful what you plant now.
It will determine what you will reap
tomorrow.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. |
Nothing
makes one feel so strong as a call for help. |
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
Acts
13:14.43-52
Paul
and Barnabas carried on from Perga till they reached Antioch in Pisidia. Here
they went to synagogue on the sabbath and took their seats. When the meeting broke
up, many Jews and devout converts joined Paul and Barnabas, and in their talks
with them Paul and Barnabas urged them to remain faithful to the grace God had
given them. The next sabbath almost the whole town assembled to hear the word
of God. When they saw the crowds, the Jews, prompted by jealousy, used blasphemies
and contradicted everything Paul said. Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly.
We had to proclaim the word of God to you first, but since you have rejected it,
since you do not think yourselves worthy of eternal life, we must turn to the
pagans. For this is what the Lord commanded us to do when he said: I have made
you a light for the nations, so that my salvation may reach the ends of the earth.
It made the pagans very happy to hear this and they thanked the Lord for his message;
all who were destined for eternal life became believers. Thus the word of the
Lord spread through the whole countryside. But the Jews worked upon some of the
devout women of the upper classes and the leading men of the city and persuaded
them to turn against Paul and Barnabas and expel them from their territory. So
they shook the dust from their feet in defiance and went off to Iconium; but the
disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.
Second
Reading
Apocalypse
7:9.14-17
I, John, saw a huge number, impossible to count, of people from every
nation, race, tribe and language; they were standing in front of the throne and
in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms in their hands.
One of the elders said to me, "These are the people who have been through
the great persecution, and because they have washed their robes white again in
the blood of the Lamb, they now stand in front of God's throne and serve him day
and night in his sanctuary; and the One who sits on the throne will spread his
tent over them. They will never hunger or thirst again; neither the sun nor scorching
wind will ever plague them, because the Lamb who is at the throne will be their
shepherd and will lead them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away
all tears from their eyes.".
Gospel
John
10:27-30
Jesus
said: "The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice; I know them and they
follow me. I give them eternal life; they will never be lost and no one will ever
steal them from me. The Father who gave them to me is greater than anyone, and
no one can steal from the Father. The Father and I are one.".