BULLETIN 2
MARCH 2008
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT IN YEAR 1
HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY
CHURCH SERVICES
Saturday
1 March | Confession
on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm |
Sunday
2 March | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon |
Monday
3 March | No
Mass in Saint Peter's Church Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Elizabeth Higgins in Saint John's Church, Stevenston |
Tuesday
4 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Eddie Keogh |
Wednesday
5 March | Mass at 10.00 am for a special intention |
Thursday
6 March | Mass at 7.00 pm for Hugh Henry |
Friday
7 March | Mass at 10.00 pm for Bridget O'Neill |
Saturday
8 March | Mass at 10.00 am for Cosimo and Arturo Farro |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Sunday
2 March | 10.00
am 10.00 am 1.00 to 4.00 pm |
Children's
Liturgy |
Monday
3 March | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 to 8 00 pm |
Nursery |
Tuesday
4 March | 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 7.30 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Legion of Mary Nursery Ignatian Prayer Group Thursday Club Saint Anne's Guild Keep Fit Saint Peter's Parent Teacher Association |
Wednesday
5 March | 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 7.30 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Barakuda Karate Special Religious Education (SPRED) Ignatian Prayer Group |
Thursday
6 March | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.00 am 12.30 to 3.00 pm 2.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Nursery Kindergarten Nursery Cardiac Rehabilitation Brownies Guides |
Friday
7 March | 9.00
to 11.30 am 9.30 to 11.30 am 12.30 to 2.30 pm 7.30 pm | Nursery Parents and Toddlers Nursery Asda Staff Dance |
Saturday
8 March | 7.30 pm | Engagement Party |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Charles Conlan, Mary Delahunt
(London), James Ronney, Mary Taylor,
Bessie Murphy, Jane
Whittaker, Elizabeth Higgins (Kilwinning),
John Campbell (United
States), Margaret Dorian and
Andrew Sweeney (West Kilbride) who
died recently and
Maria Gillen 2001, Aldegonda Brogi, Piertro
Brogi, Michael Reilly 1995,
Catherine McCutcheon 2002, Cosimo
Farro 1993, Father Charles McLaughlin,
Bishop Joseph McGee, Isabella
McLaughlan 2001, Hugh McGraa 2002
and Hugh McCluskey 1992 whose
anniversaries occur at this time.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last
weekend's collection amounted to £759.19 - 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.
PARISH
CENTRE COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for the Parish Centre amounted
to £391.01 - many thanks.
SCOTTISH
INTERNATIONAL AID FUND (SCIAF) COLLECTION
The annual collection for SCIAF
will take place at all Masses this weekend.
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.
LENT
EXTRA
Copies of Lent Extra are available at the stall. A donation of £1
would be appreciated.
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.
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.
IGNATIAN
PRAYER GROUP RETREAT
The Ignatian Prayer Group is going on Retreat on Sunday
9 March to Skelmorlie from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.
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.
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
is available in the Church Porch during Lent.
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.
KIDS
ARE DOGS, TEENS ARE CATS - A MOTHER'S STORY
I just realised that while children
are dogs - loyal and affectionate - teenagers are cats. It's so easy to be a dog
owner. You feed it, train it, boss it around. It puts its head on your knee and
gazes at you as if you were a Rembrandt painting. It bounds indoors with enthusiasm
when you call it. Then around age thirteen, your adoring little puppy turns into
a big old cat. When you tell it to come inside, it looks amazed as if wondering
who died and made you emperor. Instead of dogging your doorstep, it disappears.
You won't see it again until it gets hungry then it pauses on its sprint through
the kitchen long enough to turn its nose up at whatever you're serving. When you
reach out to ruffle its head in that old affectionate gesture, it twists away
from you then gives you a blank stare, as if trying to remember where it has seen
you before. You, not realising that the dog is now a cat, think something must
be desperately wrong with it. It seems so antisocial, so distant, sort of depressed.
It won't go on family outings. Since you're the one who raised it, taught it to
fetch and stay and sit on command, you assume that you did something wrong. Flooded
with guilt and fear, you redouble your efforts to make your pet behave. Only now
you're dealing with a cat, so everything that worked before now produces the opposite
of the desired result. Call it and it runs away. Tell it to sit and it jumps on
the counter. The more you go toward it, wringing your hands, the more it moves
away. Instead of continuing to act like a dog owner, you can learn to behave like
a cat owner. Put a dish of food near the door and let it come to you. But remember
that a cat needs your help and your affection too. Sit still and it will come,
seeking that warm, comforting lap it has not entirely forgotten. Be there to open
the door for it. One day your grown-up child will walk into the kitchen, give
you a big kiss and say "You've been on your feet all day. Let me get those
dishes for you." Then you'll realise your cat is a dog again.
A
child who is allowed to be disrespectful of his parents will not have true respect for anyone. |
There
is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. |
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 1 Samuel 16:1.6-7.10-13
The Lord said to Samuel, Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse
of Bethlehem, for I have chosen myself a king among his sons. When Samuel arrived,
he caught sight of Eliab and thought, Surely the Lords anointed one stands there
before him, but the Lord said to Samuel, Take no notice of his appearance or his
height for I have rejected him; God does not see as man sees; man looks at appearances
but the Lord looks at the heart. Jesse presented his seven sons to Samuel, but
Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not chosen these. He then asked Jesse, Are
these all the sons you have? He answered, There is still one left, the youngest;
he is out looking after the sheep. Then Samuel said to Jesse, Send for him; we
will not sit down to eat until he comes. Jesse had him sent for, a boy of fresh
complexion, with fine eyes and pleasant bearing. The Lord said Come, anoint him,
for this is the one. At this, Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him where
he stood with his brothers; and the spirit of the Lord seized on David and stayed
with him from that day on.
Second
Reading Ephesians
5:8-14
You were darkness once, but now you are light in the Lord; be like
children of light, for the effects of the light are seen in complete goodness
and right living and truth. Try to discover what the Lord wants of you, having
nothing to do with the futile works of darkness but exposing them by contrast.
The things which are done in secret are things that people are ashamed even to
speak of; but anything exposed by the light will be illuminated and anything illuminated
turns into light. That is why it is said: Wake up from your sleep, rise from the
dead, and Christ will shine on you.
Gospel
John 9:1.6-9.13-17.34-38
As Jesus went along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. He spat on the
ground, made a paste with the spittle, put this over the eyes of the blind man
and said to him, "Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam" (a name that means
'sent'). So the blind man went off and washed himself, and came away with his
sight restored. His neighbours and people who earlier had seen him begging said,
"Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?" Some said, "Yes,
it is the same one." Others said, "No, he only looks like him."
The man himself said, "I am the man. They brought the man who had been blind
to the Pharisees. It had been a Sabbath day when Jesus made the paste and opened
the man's eyes, so when the Pharisees asked him how he had come to see, he said,
"He put a paste on my eyes, and I washed, and I can see." Then some
of the Pharisees said, "This man cannot be from God: he does not keep the
Sabbath." Others said, "How could a sinner produce signs like this?"
And there was disagreement among them. So they spoke to the blind man again, "What
have you to say about him yourself, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He
is a prophet" replied the man. "Are you trying to teach us," they
replied "and you a sinner through and through, since you were born!"
And they drove him away. Jesus heard they had driven him away, and when he found
him he said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" "Sir,"
the man replied "tell me who he is so that I may believe in him." Jesus
said, "You are looking at him; he is speaking to you." The man said,
"Lord, I believe", and worshipped him.