BULLETIN 17
JUNE 2007
ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF YEAR 3
CHURCH
SERVICES
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Saturday
16 June | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
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Sunday
17 June | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon for Michael Leonard |
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Monday
18 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Samuel McGonigle |
| Tuesday
19 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Patricia, Felix and Greta Murphy |
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Wednesday
20 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Sheilagh Gallia |
| Thursday
21 June | Mass at 7.00 pm for Kelly Smith |
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Friday
22 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Nora Ramsay |
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Saturday
23 June | Mass at 10.00 am for a special intention - BML |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
17 June | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Children's Liturgy |
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Monday
18 June | 9.00
to 11.30 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm | Nursery |
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Tuesday
19 June |
9.00 to 11.30 am |
Nursery |
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Wednesday
20 June |
9.00 to 11.30 am | Nursery |
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Thursday
21 June | 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 |
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Friday
22 June | 9.00
to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm | Nursery |
PRAYERS
Please
remember in your prayers:
Arthur Smyth, Charles Coulter and
Eunice O'Neill who died recently;
Father Tom Leverage 1996,
Agnes Cochrane 1998, Mary Teresa Dolan 1999,
Michael Leonard
2000, Cardinal Thomas Winning 2001, Samuel McGonigle 1997,
Andrew
McPadden 2002, Sheila Kennedy 1996, Una Delahunt Rice 2005,
John
Malloy 2002, Billy Harvey 2004, Margaret Forbes 2006,
Mary
Bridget Magee 1988, Margaret Boyd 2005, Susan Watson 2002,
Mary
Leishman 1997, Agnes Delahunt 1936 and Sheila Kearney
whose
anniversaries occur at this time and
Hazel McKernan, Steven
McKernan, Stacy McKernan,
Graham McKernan, Amber McKernan,
Lauchlan Young
and Joshua Green who were baptised recently.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £766.45 - 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 £344.40.
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.
PARISH CENTRE DONATION
Many
thanks to the Thursday
Club for their donation of £150 for the use of the Parish Centre from
January to June.
PARISH
CENTRE
During the month of July, the Parish Centre will be closed to allow
the floor in the main hall to be treated and maintained.
SPECIAL
RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT (SPRED) FAMILY MASS
We will be joined at the Vigil
Mass on Saturday 23 June by five SPRED groups from the Diocese to celebrate their
annual family Mass.
THE INNOCENTS
A box is available
in the porch for baby goods, for example, talcum powder, lotion, shampoo and so
on for The Innocents.
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.
DRUMALIS
RETREAT CENTRE, LARNE
Drumalis Retreat Centre is undergoing extensive building
work and to help with the cost, CDs have been made at a cost of £10 each.
If you would like to help Drumalis by buying a CD or give a donation, please contact
Moira Bingham.
SOCIETY
OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
Saint Peter's Conference of the Saint
Vincent de Paul Society will hold a Coffee Morning on Saturday 23 June. There
will be various stalls as well as a Prize Raffle. Donations for any of the stalls,
for example, baking, books, and bric abrac, and prizes for the raffle will be
most welcome and can be given to any member of the Conference. This year, the
Conference will donate the proceeds of theto the Inverclyde Drug Rehabilitation
Project sponsored by the Society and supported by the Holy Spirit Special Works
Conference in Port Glasgow. As always, we ask for your generous support for this
event and hopefully as a result, we can continue to bring real practical assistance
and Christian love and solidarity to these new poor of today.
SAINT
PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
The Sports Day will take place in the Parish Centre
on Wednesday at 10.30 am for the morning children and 2.00 pm for the afternoon
children. Parents, grandparents, family and friends are all welcome. The Kindergarten
closes on Thursday. The Nursery closes on Friday. We offer congratulations to
Josephine Coulter and Lynda Kimm on obtaining their Higher National Certificates
in Child Education and Care. The Staff and Committee would like to wish parents
and children a happy and restful holiday. Best wishes to the boys and girls who
will going to school and we look forward to seeing all the other children on Monday
20 August.
CHILDREN'S
LITURGY ADULT HELPERS
17 June
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Maria
Primary 1 to 3: Andrena
and Theresa
23 June
Pre-Fives:
Frances and Maria
Primary
1 to 3: Elaine, Eileen and Anne
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Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others. |
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If
you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. |
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A
father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he is meant to be. |
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The
greatest remedy for anger is delay. |
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There's one sad truth in life I've found while journeying east and west The only folks we really wound are those we love the best We flatter those we scarcely know, we please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best.. |
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: 2
Samuel
12:7-10.13
Nathan
said to David, The Lord the God of Israel says this, I anointed you king over
Israel; I delivered you from the hands of Saul; I gave your masters house to you,
his wives into your arms; I gave you the House of Israel and of Judah; and if
this were not enough, I would add as much again for you. Why have you shown contempt
for the Lord, doing what displeases him? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite
with the sword, taken his wife for your own, and killed him with the sword of
the Ammonites. So now the sword will never be far from your House, since you have
shown contempt for me and taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. Then Nathan said to David,
The Lord, for his part, forgives your sin; you are not to die.
Second
Reading
Galatians
2:16.19-21
We
acknowledge that what makes a man righteous is not obedience to the Law, but faith
in Jesus Christ. We had to become believers in Christ Jesus no less than you had,
and now we hold that faith in Christ rather than fidelity to the Law is what justifies
us, and that no one can be justified by keeping the Law. In other words, through
the Law I am dead to the Law, so that now I can live for God. I have been crucified
with Christ, and I live now not with my own life but with the life of Christ who
lives in me. The life I now live in this body I live in faith: faith in the Son
of God who loved me and who sacrificed himself for my sake. I cannot bring myself
to give up God's gift; if the Law can justify us, there is no point in the death
of Christ.
Gospel
Luke
7:36 - 8:3
One of the Pharisees invited Jesus to a meal. When he arrived at
the Pharisee's house and took his place at table, a woman came in, who had a bad
name in the town. She had heard he was dining with the Pharisee and had brought
with her an alabaster jar of ointment. She waited behind him at his feet, weeping,
and her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them away with her hair; then she
covered his feet with kisses and anointed them with the ointment. When the Pharisee
who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, 'If this man were a prophet,
he would know who this woman is that is touching him and what a bad name she has.'
Then Jesus took him up and said, "Simon, I have something to say to you."
"Speak, Master," was the reply. "There was once a creditor who
had two men in his debt; one owed him five hundred denarii, the other fifty. They
were unable to pay, so he pardoned them both. Which of them will love him more?"
"The one who was pardoned more, I suppose," answered Simon. Jesus said,
"You are right." Then he turned to the woman. "Simon," he
said, "you see this woman? I came into your house, and you poured no water
over my feet, but she has poured out her tears over my feet and wiped them away
with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but she has been covering my feet with kisses
ever since I came in. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed
my feet with ointment. For this reason I tell you that her sins, her many sins,
must have been forgiven her, or she would not have shown such great love. It is
the man who is forgiven little who shows little love.". Then he said to her,
"Your sins are forgiven." Those who were with him at table began to
say to themselves, "Who is this man, that he even forgives sins?" But
he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace." Now after
this he made his way through towns and villages, preaching, and proclaiming the
Good News of the kingdom of God. With him went the Twelve, as well as certain
women who had been cured of evil spirits and ailments: Mary surnamed the Magdalene,
from whom seven demons had gone out, Joanna the wife of Herod's steward Chuza,
Susanna, and several others who provided for them out of their own resources.