BULLETIN 18
MAY 2008
THE FEAST OF THE HOLY TRINITY IN YEAR 1
CHURCH
SERVICES
|
Saturday
17 May | Mass
at 10.00 am for Margaret Dorrian |
| Sunday
18 May | Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am for the parishioners Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon for Susan Little Baptism of Alexander Gallagher at 1.15 pm |
| Monday
19 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Phil Kelso |
|
Tuesday
20 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Charles Conlan |
| Wednesday
21 May | Mass at 10.00 am for Rebecca Walsh |
| Thursday
22 May | Mass at 7.00 pm for Patrick McDonald |
| Friday
23 May | Mass
at 10.00 am for Craig Kerr Spring Songs Concert for MacMillan Nurses and Marie Curie at 7.00 pm |
|
Saturday
24 May | Mass
at 10.00 am for Jimmy Hamilton Confession on request from 4.30 to 5.15 pm Sunday Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for James Convery |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
| Sunday
18 May | 10.00
am 11.00 am |
Children's
Liturgy |
|
Monday
19 May | 9.30
am 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.00 pm |
Parents and Toddlers |
| Tuesday
20 May | 11.00 am 7.00 pm 7.00 pm | Thursday
Club Trip Legion of Mary Keep Fit Harbour View Residents' Association |
|
Wednesday
21 May | 2.00
to 4.00 pm 6.00 to 7.00 pm 7.00 pm | Key
Housing Burakudo Karate Club Special Religious Development (SPRED) and Guests |
|
Thursday
22 May | 1.30
pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Cardiac
Rehabilitation Brownies Guides |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Joe Moran (West Kilbride)
and Josephine Mulligan (Leeds) who died recently and
William
Calvert 1992, Susan Little 2007, Frances Hackett 1997, Robert McKay 1942,
Harry Andrew 2003, Mary Quinn 1978, George Wilson 2006, Brian Cairns
2004,
Nora Ramsay 2007, Angus Donnelly 2003, William McCafferty
1920, Mary Kelly 2002,
James Cairnie 1953, Meta McCulloch and
Angela Murray whose
anniversaries occur at this time.
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last weekend's
collection amounted to £749.30. We are grateful for your generous support
of the Parish. Banker's Orders amount to an average of £4400 per month.
BANKER'S
ORDERS, GIFT AID AND WILLS
Have you thought of using a Bankers Order? It assists
us with the safe handling of cash. Have you signed a Gift Aid Form? If you pay
tax, then every £1 you give to the Parish is worth £1.28 to us. Would
you consider remembering Saint Peter's in your will?
PARISH
CENTRE COLLECTION
Last weekend's collection for the Parish Centre amounted
to £501.87 - many thanks.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to the boys and girls of our Parish who are being confirmed this
weekend and will receive Holy Communion for the first time. They are Rachel, Megan,
Niamh, Aidan, Craig, Lauryn, Ryan, Rhiannon, Jasmine and Caitlin. The
Thursday
Club
members who are Prayer Partners will present each child receiving the Sacraments
with a copy of the Holy Bible.
READERS
Next weekend's readers are Elsie
Brodie, Annie Watt and Alfie Agostini.
THREE TOWNS CHURCHES
CRUISE
A charity evening cruise on the Waverley has been arranged for Wednesday
18 June with profits going to the Vine Trust for work in Peru. The Waverley will
leave Ardrossan Harbour at 6.15 pm for a cruise round Rothesay Bay with a stop
at Millport and return to Ardrossan around 9.30 pm. Tickets will be on sale shortly.
Demand will be heavy, so watch for an announcement about ticket sales.
3TFM
Please support our local radio station. If you would like to be involved or to
know more, please phone Lewis on 604612 for information. Saint Peter's will have
a slot on 'Thought for the Day' from time to time.
SCOTTISH
CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL AID FUND (SCIAF) BOXES
Paul Chitnis, SCIAF's Chief
Executive says "This is a huge disaster and urgent international action is
needed to ensure that help is given to the survivors of Cyclone Nargis. SCIAF
is working with its international sister agencies to help co-ordinate our response."
If you can help, please call SCIAF on 0141 354 5555 or post your donation to SCIAF,
19 Park Circus, Glasgow, G3 6BE. Envelopes for the Disaster Fund handed into the
Parish will be forwarded to Mary's Meals or SCIAF.
SCOTTISH
CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL AID FUND (SCIAF) BOXES
Please continue to use SCIAF
boxes throughout the year or make a box of your own. Please hand in any donations
for forwarding to SCIAF for our poorest brothers and sisters.
BULLETIN
AND WORSHIP SHEETS
Notices for inclusion in the Bulletin need to be here by
Thursday of each week. After Mass, we would be grateful if you would return the
worship sheets to the boxes for use at a later Mass .
SPRING
SONGS
There will be an evening of music featuring our parishioner, Theresa
Coulter with Marie Claire Breen, Jamie Munn and soloists from the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama in Saint Peter's Church on Friday 23 May at 7.30 pm.
Tickets, costing price £5 and £4 concession, are available at the
door.
GUIDES
FUNDRAISING FETE
The Guides are having a fete in the Parish Centre on Saturday
31 May. Details will follow later.
OFFICIAL
OPENING OF SAINT MATTHEW'S ACADEMY
Saint Matthew's Academy will be officially
opened by His Eminence Cardinal O'Brien and First Minister, Alex Salmond on Wednesday
evening at 7.00 pm. The Official Blessing of the School by Bishop Cunningham took
place on 30 January during Catholic Education Week.
COULD
YOU BE A RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLOR?
There will be a Scottish Marriage Care Information
Evening on Tuesday 20 May in the Family Mediation Offices, 28/30 Grange Street,
Kilmarnock, KA1 2DD. More information is available available from Vim.Morris@ScottishMarriageCare.org.
CATHOLIC
NEWSPAPERS
Each week, we have copies of the Scottish Catholic Observer and
The Universe available for sale. They are informative on events happening in the
Catholic world in Scotland and the rest of the world. Perhaps you could reserve
your copy at the stall. This would ensure that we order enough and not too many.
IGNATIAN
PRAYER GROUP
The Ignatian Prayer Group meets in the Parish Centre on the first
Wednesday at 7.30 pm, the second Tuesday at 7.30 pm and the last Tuesday at 2.00
pm.
SAINT
PETER'S PARISH CENTRE
To book the Parish Centre, please phone Fiona or Michael.
Because of licensing laws, the Centre cannot be booked for eighteenth or twenty-first
birthday parties. The charge for an evening function is £100; for a day-time
function, £15 per hour and the fee for a licence is £25 including
service charges.
SAINT PETER'S CHILDREN'S CENTRE
Afternoon places
are available in Saint Peter's Nursery starting in August 2008. For more information
and an application form, please contact Josephine Coulter.
CHURCH GROUNDS
We pay to have our grass cut round the Church, Parish Centre and house but we
could do with a little help to keep the weeds in order and to work a pressure
washer. Do you need to fill a few hours each week? Please phone me.
WORLD
YOUTH DAY BEETLE DRIVE
There will be a fundraising Beetle Drive for World
Youth Day in Australia on Monday 26 May in the Parish Centre at 7.00 pm. Tickets
cost £2 for adults and £1 for children and concessions. All are welcome.