BULLETIN                                     20 MAY 2007

SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER IN YEAR 3


CHURCH SERVICES

Saturday 19 May

Confession on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm
Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Jimmy Lappin

Sunday 20 May
Sunday Mass at 10.00 am
Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon
Monday 21 May
Mass at 10.00 am for James and Mary McNamara
Tuesday 22 May
Mass at 10.00 am for James Miller
Wednesday 23 May
Mass at 10.00 am for Vincent Picozzi
Thursday 24 May
Mass at 7.00 pm for Bill Main
Friday 25 May
Mass at 10.00 am for Lily and Joe Peppard
Saturday 26 May
Mass at 10.00 am for Joseph Higgins


PARISH CENTRE EVENTS

Sunday 20 May
10.00 am
11.00 am

Children's Liturgy
Tea and Coffee after Mass

Monday 21 May
9.00 to 11.30 am
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

Nursery
Parents and Toddlers
Kindergarten
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Rainbows
Brownies
Saint Vincent de Paul Society
Weight Watchers

Tuesday 22 May

9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.00 am
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
7.30 pm

Nursery
Kindergarten
Thursday Club
Keep Fit
Saint Anne's Guild

Wednesday 23 May

9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.00 am
12.30 to 3.00 pm
6.00 to 7.00 pm
7.00 to 9.00 pm
7.30 pm

Nursery
Kindergarten
Nursery

Burakudo Karate Club
Special Religious Development (SPRED)  
Legion of Mary

Thursday 24 May
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

Nursery
Kindergarten
Nursery
Kindergarten

Cardiac Rehabilitation
Brownies
Girl Guides

Friday 25 May
9.00 to 11.30 am
9.30 to 11.30 am
12.30 to 2.30 pm

Nursery
Parents and Toddlers
Kindergarten

PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
   Frank McGee and Susan Little who died recently;
   Robert McKay 1942, Harry Andrew 2003, Mary Quinn 1978, George Wilson 2006,
   Brian Cairns 2004, Angus Donnelly 2003, William McCafferty 1920, Mary Kelly 2002,
   Meta McCulloch , Patrick O'Hare 1973, Margaret McAuley 1953, Joe Peppard 1993,
   Lily Peppard 2004 and Joseph Higgins 2006
whose anniversaries occur at this time and
   Clare McQuade and Robert Steel who were married recently.

SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £822.56 - 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 £361.67.


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.

SACRAMENTS OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
Jacob Adamson, Aylah Cassidy, Laura Clabby, Ross Findlay, Aidan Grant, Sean Henry, Dara Mathieson, Lucy Mathieson and Cameron McColl celebrate the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Communion on Sunday. Each child will receive a Bible from the Thursday Club.

PRAYERS FOR MADELEINE
Prayers for Madeleine McCann and her family will take place in Saint Mary's Church, Saltcoats on Sunday at 7.30 pm. Please come along.

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 four Moses baskets and a double buggy. If you can help, please phone Josephine to arrange uplift. A box is available in the porch for baby goods, for example, talcum powder, lotion, shampoo and so on.

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 pm. There will be singing, dancing, a quiz, food, drink, humour, fun and good company. Tickets costing £3.50 are available from Kate or Donna. Details of how the proceeds will be used can be seen at www.EducateTheKids.com.

SACRED HEART FATHERS
The Smithstone House, Kilwinning Programme of Events and Booking Forms are available in the Porch.

GOING INTO HOSPITAL
If you are going into hospital, please let the staff know you are a Roman Catholic in order that the Chaplain can be informed. The hospital does not routinely inform the chaplain about Catholic patients.

USED STAMPS
Father Sean O'Dowd of Saint Patrick's Mission, Stirling sells used stamps for the Mission's Catechist Fund. Last year, his used stamp project raised over £22000. A collecting box will be available in the Porch for anyone wishing to contribute used stamps of any designation for this very worthwhile project.

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
If you have a sewing machine in good working order you no longer use please phone Sadie.

THANKS
Julia Paterson would like to thank her friends and family for cards, Mass intentions, flowers, gifts and the Papal Blessing she received on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday and to all who entertained and contributed in any way to her party in the Parish Centre. It was great night enjoyed by all but especially by Julia. Donations to the Saint Peter's Lourdes Fund amounted to £800.

CARFIN LOURDES GROTTO
A programme of events at the carfin Lourdes Grotto is available on the notice board in the porch.

DAY FOR LIFE - FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABORTION ACT - THURSDAY 31 MAY
There will be a Deanery Mass in Saint Peter's at 7 pm on 31 May. The Scottish Bishops have asked all of us to remember the passing of the Abortion Act and ask God's pardon for our shameful disregard of human life. We should also ask God's blessing on all who work to protect human life from the cradle to the grave. Leaflets are available at the stall with further information.

CHILDREN'S LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
   20 May

      Pre-Fives: Frances and Maria
      Primary 1 to 3: Andrena and Theresa

   27 May
      Pre-Fives: Frances and Maria
      Primary 1 to 3: Elaine, Eileen and Anne



   "See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little." - Pope John XXII  

  Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.  

   What worries you masters you.  



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 7:55-60
Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand. I can see heaven thrown open he said and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. At this all the members of the council shouted out and stopped their ears with their hands; then they all rushed at him, sent him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses put down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul. As they were stoning him, Stephen said in invocation, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Then he knelt down and said aloud, Lord, do not hold this sin against them; and with these words he fell asleep.

Second Reading           Apocalypse 22:12-14.16-17.20
I, John, heard a voice speaking to me: "Very soon now, I shall be with you again, bringing the reward to be given to every man according to what he deserves. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Happy are those who will have washed their robes clean, so that they will have the right to feed on the tree of life and can come through the gates into the city." I, Jesus, have sent my angel to make these revelations to you for the sake of the churches. I am of David's line, the root of David and the bright star of the morning. The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." Let everyone who listens answer, "Come." Then let all who are thirsty come; all who want it may have the water of life, and have it free. The one who guarantees these revelations repeats his promise: I shall indeed be with you soon. Amen; come, Lord Jesus.

Gospel           John 17:20-26
Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: "Holy Father, I pray not only for these, but for those also who through their words will believe in me. May they all be one. Father, may they be one in us, as you are in me and I am in you, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may they be so completely one that the world will realise that it was you who sent me and that I have loved them as much as you loved me. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see the glory you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Father, Righteous One, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. I have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.".