BULLETIN 24
FEBRUARY 2008
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT IN YEAR 1
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
23 February | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
24 February | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
25 February | Mass at 10.00 am for a special intention |
Tuesday
26 February | Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for John Dolan |
Wednesday
27 February | Mass at 10.00 am for Joe Maloney |
Thursday
28 February | Mass at 7.00 pm for Peter McCall |
Friday
29 February | Mass at 10.00 pm for Bridget O'Neill |
Saturday
1 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Alice Campbell |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
24 February | 10.00
am 10.00 am 1.00 to 4.00 pm |
Children's
Liturgy |
Monday
25 February | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8 00 pm |
Nursery |
Tuesday
26 February | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 pm 1.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Legion of Mary Nursery Ignatian Prayer Group Thursday Club Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit |
Wednesday
27 February | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 6.00 to 7.00 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Barakuda Karate Special Religious Education (SPRED) |
Thursday
28 February | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation |
Friday
29 February | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 8.00 pm | Nursery Parents and Toddlers Nursery Race Night |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Cecil Tracey who died recently;
Margaret Mary Adamson 2005, Brian Griffin 1980, James
Smith 1986,
Canon Michael O'Connor 1966, Father James Coyle 1975,
Maureen McIlhatton 1993,
John Moore 2000, Agnes Delahunt
1944, Elizabeth Delahunt 1976,
William John Dorian 1935,
Frank Clark 1959, Betty Burns 2006,
Odina Carrino, Mennotti Carrino,
Paul Gerard Brown 1986,
Frances Hackett 1997, Father Charles
Barclay 2001 and Margaret Dolan
whose
anniversaries occur at this time and
Jasmine Anne Montgomery
and Samuel John Couper who were baptised recently.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection amounted to £697.18 - many thanks. Banker's Orders
amount to an average of £4300 per month. Each month £4200 is repaid
to the Diocese for the building loan and levy.
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.
CHURCH
STUDENTS
COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for Church Students amounted to £453.15
- many thanks.
LENT
EXTRA
Copies of Lent Extra are available at the stall. A donation of £1
would be appreciated.
LENT SCIAF BOXES
Boxes for the Scottish Catholic
International Aid Fund (SCIAF) Lenten appeal are available at the stall. Please
take one home with you and return it at the end of Lent.
STATIONS
OF THE CROSS
Stations of the Cross will be said during Lent each Friday at
9.40 am.
SAINT MATTHEW'S ACADEMY
Mass will be celebrated in
Saint. Matthew's Academy every
Friday at 12.50 pm.
RACE
NIGHT
The annual Race Night in memory of Larry Kernahan will take place in
the Parish Centre on Friday 29 February at 8.00 pm. Tickets are available from
Esther, cost £2.50 and include light supper. All money raised goes to the
Pilgrimage Trust Group 207. Donations of money, bottles and raffle prizes would
be very much appreciated by Esther. Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Bernadette,
pray for us.
INSTALLATION OF CANONS
Bishop Cunningham has announced
that Canons Michael Farrington of Dumfries, Pat Keegans of Ayr, Matt McManus of
Ardrossan and Pat McSorley of Prestwick will be installed at the Cathedral in
Ayr at Mass celebrated on Thursday 24 April 2008.
MÄNNERENSEMBLE
UNERHÖRT
Männerensemble
Unerhört, a choir from Osterspai in Germany will sing at the 5.30 pm
Vigil Mass on Saturday 3 May, then join local artistes in an evening of Scottish
and German music and song in the Parish Centre. More details will be given nearer
the time.
CHILD
PROTECTION TRAINING DAY
All those who have not received up to date child protection
training are invited to attend a session in the Parish Centre on Sunday 9 March
from 2.30 to 4.00 pm.
ENQUIRERS'
RETREAT
Have you ever considered life as a priest in Scotland? Is this an
idea that has been at the back of your mind for some time? Is it time to spend
just a few hours exploring the Lord's call? The Priests for Scotland programme,
an initiative of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland, is hosting an enquirers'
retreat. The purpose of this overnight experience is simply to bring like-minded
individuals together for prayer, reflection and relaxation. The offer to come
and join us is made at no cost and without obligation, simply come and see. Make
a note in your diary for 29th February - 1st March. Who knows what you might discover
about yourself and the direction in which the Lord wants to lead you. For the
venue and more information please contact the Director of Priests for Scotland
on 0141 554 6936. You may also find it helpful to visit the website www.PriestsForScotland.org.uk.
SAINT
PETER'S SCHOOL PARENT COUNCIL
Saint Peter's School Parent Council meets in
the school on Tuesday at 7.00 pm.
WORLD
DAY OF PRAYER
A World Day of Prayer service will take place on Friday 7 March
at 2.00 pm in the Park Church.
THE
BURNING BUSH
George W Bush, in an airport lobby, noticed a man in a long,
flowing, white robe with a long,
flowing, white beard and long, flowing,
white hair. The man had a staff in one hand and some
stone tablets under the
other arm. George W, struck by the man's appearance, approached
him and asked
"Aren't you Moses?" The man ignored George W and stared at the ceiling.
George W, unaccustomed to being ignored, positioned himself more directly
in the man's view
and asked again, "Aren't you Moses?" The man
continued staring at the ceiling. George W then
tugged at the man's sleeve
and asked once again "Aren't you Moses?" The man finally responded
in an irritated voice "Yes I am." George W asked him why he ignored
him and the man replied
"The last time I spoke to a Bush I had to spend
forty years in the desert.".
The
Church exists, not only to comfort the disturbed, but also to disturb the comfortable. |
The
actions of today can save the embarrassments of tomorrow. |
People
may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said but they will always remember how you made them feel. |
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 Exodus 17:3-7
Tormented by thirst, the people complained against Moses. Why did you bring us
out of Egypt? they said. Was it so that I should die of thirst, my children too,
and my cattle? Moses appealed to the Lord. How am I to deal with this people?
he said. A little more and they will stone me! The Lord said to Moses, Take with
you some of the elders of Israel and move on to the forefront of the people; take
in your hand the staff with which you struck the river, and go. I shall be standing
before you there on the rock, at Horeb. You must strike the rock, and water will
flow from it for the people to drink. This is what Moses did, in the sight of
the elders of Israel. The place was named Massah and Meribah because of the grumbling
of the sons of Israel and because they put the Lord to the test by saying, Is
the Lord with us, or not?
Second
Reading Romans 5:1-2.5-8
Through our Lord Jesus Christ by faith we are judged righteous and at peace with
God, since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of
grace in which we can boast about looking forward to God's glory. This hope is
not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the
Holy Spirit which has been given us. We were still helpless when at his appointed
moment Christ died for sinful men. It is not easy to die even for a good man -
though of course for someone really worthy, a man might be prepared to die - but
what proves that God loves us is that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
Gospel
John 4:5-15.19-26.39-42
Jesus came to the Samaritan town called Sychar, near the land that Jacob gave
to his son Joseph. Jacob's well is there and Jesus, tired by the journey, sat
straight down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan woman
came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." His disciples
had gone into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, "What?
You are a Jew and you ask me, a Samaritan, for a drink?" - Jews, in fact,
do not associate with Samaritans. Jesus replied: "If you only knew what God
is offering and who it is that is saying to you: Give me a drink, you would have
been the one to ask, and he would have given you living water." "You
have no bucket, sir," she answered and the well is deep: how could you get
this living water? Are you a greater man than our father Jacob who gave us this
well and drank from it himself with his sons and his cattle?" Jesus replied:
"Whoever drinks this water will get thirsty again: but anyone who drinks
the water that I shall give will never be thirsty again: the water that I shall
give will turn into a spring inside him, welling up to eternal life." "Sir,"
said the woman, "give me some of that water, so that I may never get thirsty
and never have to come here again to draw water." "I see you are a prophet,
sir" said the woman. "Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, while
you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship." Jesus said:
"Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither
on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship
what we do know; for salvation comes from the Jews. But the hour will come - in
fact it is here already -when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit
and truth: that is the kind of worshipper the Father wants.God is spirit and those
who worship must worship in spirit and truth. "The woman said to him, "I
know that Messiah - that is, Christ - is coming; and when he comes he will tell
us everything." "I who am speaking to you," said Jesus "I
am he." Many Samaritans of that town had believed in him on the strength
of the woman's testimony when she said, "He told me all I have ever done",
so, when the Samaritans came up to him, they begged him to stay with them. He
stayed for two days, and when he spoke to them many more came to believe; and
they said to the woman, "Now we no longer believe because of what you told
us; we have heard him ourselves and we know that he really is the saviour of the
world."