BULLETIN 6
JUNE 2010
FEAST OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST IN YEAR 3
CHURCH
SERVICES
Saturday
5 June | Mass
at 10.00 am for the parishioners Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Alison Dunn |
Sunday
6 June |
Sunday Mass
at 10.00 am for the parishioners Sunday Mass at 12.00 noon for Eamon Lennon |
Monday
7 June | Mass at 10.00 am for Tommy Coulter |
Tuesday
8 June |
Mass at 10.00 am for Margaret Lang |
Wednesday
9 June |
No
Mass in Saint Peter's |
Thursday
10 June | No
Mass in Saint Peter's Mass offered elsewhere for Gerry Brown |
Friday
11 June |
Mass at 10.00 am for John Maher senior |
Saturday
12 June | Mass
at 10.00 am for the sick Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Martin Francis Brown |
The
Mass intention list is just over two weeks ahead. Please notify anniversaries
as early as you can. Thanks. |
PARISH
CENTRE EVENTS
Saturday
5 June | 7.30 pm | Private Function |
Sunday
6 June | 11.00
am |
Tea
and Coffee after Mass |
Monday
7 June | 9.30
to 11.30 am 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm 7.00 to 9.00 pm | Parents
and Toddlers Rainbows Brownies Weight Watchers Saint Vincent de Paul Society |
Tuesday
8 June | 11.00
am 1.00 to 3.00 pm 7.00 to 8.00 pm 7.00 to 9.00 pm 7.30 pm |
Legion
of Mary |
Wednesday
9 June | 1.30
pm 6.00 to 7.00 pm 7.00 pm |
Private
Meeting |
Thursday
10 June | 1.30
to 3.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm | Cardiac
Rehabilitation |
Friday
11 June | 9.30 am | Parents and Toddlers |
Saturday
12 June | 7.30 pm | Private Function |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
James Conaghan 1999, Mary
Walsh 1954, Father Ninian Currie OFM 2009, Alison Dunn 1994, Patrick Clark 2002,
Charles
Coulter 2007, George West 1997, Martin Francis Brown 1998, Elizabeth Dailly, Hilda
Reid,
John Spencer 2002, John Maher 2002, Helen Taylor 1998, Agnes
Blake 2008, John Higgins 1973 and
Felix Murphy 1997 whose
anniversaries occur at this time and those who are sick.
Information for the anniversary
list is appreciated.
OFFERTORY COLLECTION
Last weekend's
Offertory collection amounted to £803.98 - many thanks. We are grateful
for your generous support of the parish and the diocese to which we pay a monthly
levy of £1250.
PARISH
CENTRE COLLECTION
Last
weekend's collection for the Parish Centre amounted to £385.55 - many thanks.
BANKER'S
ORDERS
Have you thought of using a Bankers Order? It assists us with the safe
handling of cash. Banker's Orders for the Parish and Centre amount to an average
of £3800 per month. Forms are available.
GIFT AID
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. Forms are available.
WILLS
Would you
consider remembering Saint Peter's in your will?
READERS
Next
weekend's readers are Celia Andrew at 5.30 pm, Angela Body at 10.00 and Ronnie
Cairns at 12 noon.
If you would consider becoming a Reader at Mass please speak to Canon
Matt or the Parish Office on 464063. Thank you. We are especially short at
the 10.00 am Sunday Mass.
PAPAL VISIT ARRANGEMENTS
Pope Benedict
XVI will visit the United Kingdom from Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 September. The
Pope will spend Thursday 16 in Scotland. He will celebrate Mass in Bellahouston
Park, Glasgow in the early evening of that day - the only public event. The Office
for the Papal Visit has written to say that tickets will be available, transport
will be arranged, no private cars will permitted within 45 minutes walk of the
Park, shuttle buses will bring people to and from the Park to the designated bus
parking area. All of the arrangements have to be finalised with Glasgow City Council
and Strathclyde Police. Full details will be made public soon and we are urged
not to make any private arrangements until full information is available.
PAPAL
VISIT CHOIR
The diocese has a few places available in the choir for the Mass
in Bellahouston Park. Names have to be submitted to the diocese. Send your name
here or to The Diocese of Galloway, 8 Corsehill Road, Ayr, KA7 2ST.
PAPAL
VISIT COLLECTION
The Papal Visit collection raised £685.90 but was wrongly
designated in the last bulletin. There are Gift Aid forms you can use. If you
put something in the collection, please fill in a form and drop it in. An envelope
with 'Papal Visit' can be used to contribute at any time.
PAPAL NUNCIO
TO GREAT BRITAIN
Archbishop Faustino Sainz Munõz, the Papal Nuncio to
Great Britain is seriously ill. Please keep him in your prayers.
SAINT
PETER’S WEBSITE – FIFTY THOUSAND VISITS
On 27 May, Saint Peter's website had
its fifty-thousandth visit since its launch on 13 July 2005. The site has over
1100 web pages, 650 pictures, 300 bulletins between 1960 and 2010, 8300 links,
some audio and video clips and been viewed in 54 countries. It contains many articles
on past and present spiritual and community life in Saint Peter's. Canon
Matt
and the website author are very grateful to those who have accessed the site,
lent photographs, passed on stories, identified errors, made suggestions and expressed
compliments. The aims of the site are to make parishioners aware of current events
and record our history. If you can help with this project, please contact WebsiteAuthor@SaintPeterinChains.net.
The website address is www.SaintPeterInChains.net.
The site carries our Anniversary List. Please feel free to inform us of any corrections
or additions.
GALLOWAY NEWS
The latest edition of Galloway News,
the diocesan magazine, is available at the stall.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY
The Children's Liturgy is offered during the 10.00 am Mass. The group who offer
this service is always grateful to have new names on the rota. You must have disclosure
before you can take part and that is easily arranged. Please phone Michelle in
the Parish Office on 464063 on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday morning.
VISITORS
Are you visiting us for Mass? Please know that you are very welcome.
During the 10.00 am Mass there is a Children’s Liturgy provided for preschool
children, children in Primaries 1 to 3 and a Sacramental Programme for children
in Primary 4. After the 10.00 am Mass, tea, coffee cakes and buns are available
in the Parish Centre. At all of our weekend Masses, we have a second collection
for our Parish Centre debt.
SCOTTISH
CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL AID FUND (SCIAF) WEE BOXES
The Wee Boxes tend to come
in all year round and we happily send the proceeds to SCIAF. We acknowledge £840.59
sent a few weeks ago.
HOLY HOUR
There will be a Holy Hour, offered for
priests, in Saint Winin’s Church, Kilwinning on Sunday 13 June at 2.00 pm. Everyone
is welcome.
SAINT ANNE'S GUILD
Saint Anne's Guild is
now finished until after Summer. Thank you to the Guild for the donation of £200.
WORLD
YOUTH DAY 2011 - MADRID
World Youth Day is an international festival of Catholic
faith with Pope Benedict XVI and thousands of young people from all over the world.
In 2011, a group will be taking part from Galloway Diocese. It will leave on 11
August, travel through the port of Santander and spend a weekend in the city of
Salamanca. They will then travel to Madrid to be with the Pope from 16 to 21 August.
Once the Pope celebrates the final Mass, the Galloway group will leave Spain and
arrive back home on 23 August. To take part in this event, you must be sixteen
years old by the 31 July 2011. The total cost of the trip will be £800.
Booking forms are available from Father Martin Chambers on 01563 533587 or Mhartino2004@yahoo.co.uk.
To book a place a non-refundable deposit of £50 should be sent to Father
Martin by 1 August 2010.
SMITHSTONE HOUSE SUMMER FAYRE
Smithstone
House, Kilwinning will have its Summer Fayre on Sunday 6 June. Come along from
2.00 pm and support the work of the Sacred Heart Fathers who have been providing
retreats in the diocese for the last forty years. There will be the usual stalls.
It makes for a great family day out.
WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
There
will be a special collection for World Communication Day this weekend.
SCOTTISH
MARRIAGE CARE
Are you interested in supporting marriage and relatiinships?
Scottish Marriage Care - a leading Relationship Support Charity - is now recruiting
for volunteer counsellors for its Diploma in Relationship Counselling to deliver
counselling in our local area. For more information please contact Christina Smiley
or Maureen Hally on 0141 222 2166 or info@ScottishMarriageCare.org.
RENA
Rena
is a project to recycle good furniture to people who are granted new tenancies.
Many of them are homeless and have very little to furnish a house or flat. If
you have furniture to donate, could spare some time to volunteer office skills
or drive the van, please phone 07743 497115 during office hours.
FRESH
START
Fresh Start is a project to give starter packs to people moving from
homelessness into permanent housing. The packs include towels, soap, cutlery,
light bulbs, tin openers, soap, toothpaste and so on. Leaflets are available and
there will be a box in the porch. Some of these items will have to be new to be
suitable. Contact Sadie O’Reilly or phone 07563 724421 to volunteer your help
or to ask for more information.
THURSDAY CLUB TRIP
The Thursday Club
trip leaves Stanley Road across from Park Church on Tuesday 8 June at 9.00 am.
THANKS
TO SAINT CLARE
Grateful thanks to Saint Clare for favours received. May the
Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised, adored and glorified and loved today and every
day throughout the world, Amen. DJ
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE
ADULTS - MISSION STATEMENT
The Catholic Church in Scotland is concerned with
the lives, safety, wholeness and well-being of each individual person within God's
purpose for everyone. It seeks to safeguard the welfare of people of all ages
who are involved in whatever capacity with
the Church and its organisations. As a Church community, we accept that it is
the responsibility of all of us, ordained, professed, paid and
voluntary members, to work together to prevent the physical, sexual, emotional
abuse or neglect of children, young people and vulnerable adults.