BULLETIN
8
JANUARY 2012
EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD IN YEAR 2
CHURCH
SERVICES
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Saturday
7 January
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Mass
at 10.00 am for Christmas intentions Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm Betty Freeman |
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Sunday
8 January
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Sunday
Mass at 10.00 am for the congregation, Alice Sibbald and John Strachan |
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Monday 9 January
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Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Helen McGinn |
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Tuesday
10 January
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Mass at 10.00 am for Willy Quinn, Cassie Millen and Joseph, Philomena and William McAuliffe |
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Wednesday
11 January
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Mass at 10.00 am for David McGhee and Eileen McCabe |
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Thursday
12 January
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Requiem Mass at 10.00 am for Catherine Marroni followed by her cremation at 11.00 am |
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Friday
13 January
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Mass at 10.00 am for George Kelly and Jimmy Gailey |
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Saturday
14 January
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Mass
at 10.00 am for Janet Chapman and Gwen Body Vigil Mass at 5.30 pm for Mrs Mackrell |
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The
Mass intention list is just over two weeks ahead. Please notify anniversaries
as early as you can. Thanks. |
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PARISH CENTRE EVENTS
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Sunday
8 January
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11.00
am |
Tea
and Coffee after Mass |
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Monday 9 January
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9.30
to 11.30 am 5.30 to 6.30 pm 6.30 to 8.00 pm 7.00 to 9.00 pm |
Parents
and Toddlers Rainbows Brownies Saint Vincent de Paul Society |
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Tuesday
10 January
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11.00
am 7.30 to 8.30 pm |
Legion
of Mary |
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Wednesday
11 January
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6.00
pm to 7.00 pm 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm 8.00 pm to 8.45 pm |
Karate |
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Thursday
12 January
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1.30
to 3.00 pm 5.00 to 9.00 pm 6.00 to 7.30 pm 7.30 to 9.00 pm |
Cardiac
Rehabilitation Dancing Class Brownies Guides |
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Friday
13 January
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9.30 to 11.30 am |
Parents and Toddlers |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Helen McGinn of our parish, Catherine Marroni of our parish,
Clara Piacentini (Saltcoats) and Hughie McShane
(Canada) who died recently;
Patricia Brennan 2005, Robert Colvin 1998, Gerard Fairhurst
2003, Bernard McLaughlan 1984, Derek Tomelty 2003,
Joseph Gibbons 1973, Hugh Henry 2008, Joan McCallum 2001, Rosina
McPeake, Terence Murphy 1989,
John Aitken 2001, Christine Cassidy 1998, Mary Donnelly 2006,
Eamon Lennon 2009, Kathleen
Tritschler 2006,
Roy White 1993, Cecilia McCurdie 2005, James McNamara 1982, Mary
Guilfoyle 2005, Ishbel McCarroll 1983,
Monica McDonald 1997 and David Stirling 2004 whose anniversaries
occur at this time and those who are sick.
If deceased members of your family are not on our anniversary
list, please tell Canon
Matt, the parish office or
contact
WebsiteAuthor@SaintPeterinChains.net.
SACRAMENT OF FORGIVENESS
The Sacrament of Forgiveness is available at any suitable time as well as
from 4.30 pm before the Vigil Mass on Saturday evenings.
OFFERTORY
COLLECTION
Last weekend's Offertory collection amounted to £761.28 - 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 £263.61
- many thanks.
JUSTICE AND PEACE
The second collection this weekend is for the Bishops’ Justice and Peace Office.
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, Margaret Harvey at 10.00 am and Ronnie Cairns at 12 noon.
ALTAR SERVERS
Next weekend's altar servers are Group 2 at 5.30 pm, Group 5 at 10.00
am and Group 6 at 12 noon.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY
Next Sunday's Children's Liturgy helpers are Jacqueline Waugh and Michelle
Champion for the pre-5s, Elaine Shaw and Maria Paterson for primaries 1 and
2, Claire Sweenie and Michelle Morton for primary 3 and Frances Gemmell and
Gayle Paterson for Primary 4.
SUNDAY TEAS
Next Sunday's teas will be served by Maria Hilferty's team.
DECEASED PARISHIONERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS DURING 2011
During
2011, the following parishioners or family members of our parishioners went
to God:
David Gallagher, Betty Kelly, Lilli McCulloch, James Burns, Oonagh McVeigh,
Alan Carrick, Sadie McAloon, Peter Hughes, Father
Gabriel Kigozi shown right, Kathleen O’Donnell, Margaret Kelly,
Anne Howieson, Joseph Bale, Catherine Carroll, Ellen Neilson, Peggy Clarke,
Michael Marshall, Robbie Reid, Susan Garland, Ann Kilday, Roberta Breslin,
James Tomelty, James Forbes, David White, Samuel George Logue, Sadie Clegg,
Mary Timmons, Stephen Munn, Ian Mitchell, Lilian Paterson, James Brodie, Molly
Ball, Martin Vernon, George Kelly, Cassie Millen, Jane Gallagher and Sister
Anne Delahunt. May they and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in
peace. Amen.
DOM CHARLES
Dom Charles OCR, a Ugandan Cistercian Abbot presently staying in the Cistercian
Monastery at Portglenone, Northern Ireland, will visit us from Monday 9 till
Tuesday 31 January. Dom Charles was a friend of Father
Gabriel. Canon
Matt will be away from home from Tuesday 10 till Thursday 19 January.
Father John Kinsler will say the Sunday Masses on the weekend of 15 and 16
January.
SAINT PETER'S WEBSITE
On 24 December, Saint Peter's website had its 70000th visit since its launch
on 13 July 2005. The site has over 1400 web pages, 840 pictures, 390 bulletins
between 1960 and 2011, 12000 links, some audio and video clips and been viewed
in 68 countries. Over 1100 of our deceased relatives and friends are remembered
in our anniversary list. The site 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 and others aware of current events and record our history. If
you can help with this project, please contact
WebsiteAuthor@SaintPeterinChains.net.
BURNS SUPPER
The
Burns Supper will take place in the Parish Centre on Saturday 28 January 2012
at 7.00 pm and patrons are asked to be seated by 6.50 pm. Ardrossan-born Laurence
Macintyre MBE shown right, former Chief Superintendent of Strathclyde Police,
will deliver The Immortal Memory. Jim Fegan, former Head Teacher of Saint
Andrew's Academy, Saltcoats, will propose the Toast to the Lassies and our
parishioner and cantor, Monica Taylor shown right, will reply. Tickets cost
£12.50 and must be booked in advance though the Parish Office on 01294
464063. Patrons can request group seating arrangements to be with friends.
Vegetarian meals are available with notice as an alternative to the traditional
Burns Supper main course. More details will follow.
CHURCH HEATING
The help you are giving to pay for the new boiler is very, very useful. The
brown envelope donations of £20+ - and gift-aided if you can - is certainly
easing the pain. Some fundraising by parish groups would be a great help.
Brown envelope donations of £85 bring the total to £8434. We are
getting there!
PILGRIMAGE TRUST RAFFLE
A Christmas Raffle will be held with all proceeds going to HCPT - The Pilgrimage
Trust Group 207 and the Special Religious Education Group (SPRED). Tickets
cost 25p each or £1 per strip are available at the stall. The raffle
will be drawn at the Sunday Teas on 8 January 2012. Many thanks for your support.
PAPAL BLESSINGS
Papal Blessings for a wedding, wedding anniversary or a special birthday can
be ordered at the stall. The cost of the parchment and postage is about £30.
Please leave plenty of time.
NEW MISSAL
New Missals containing the new Rite are now available at the stall £7.99
or £9.99.
LARGE PRINT MASS BOOKS
Mass Books in Polish are available from the stall. Sunday Readings in most
European languages can be printed from the parish website.
GALLOWAY NEWSLETTER
The
Galloway Newsletter is available. The article about Captain Father Sharkey
in Lourdes with the Military Pilgrimage gets more prominence than the one
on our Annual Cemetery Mass, but there is a photograph of Father Bell cooking
for the young pilgrims at the World Youth Day.
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.
CHERNOBYL CHILDREN'S LIFELINE
There will be a group of sixteen children coming from the Ukraine to Ayrshire
from 20 February to 19 March. We are in need of new pyjamas, underwear and
socks for boys and girls aged 9 to 14. A charity ceilidh in aid of Chernobyl
Children’s Lifeline will be held in the Seamill Hydro, West Kilbride on Saturday
4 February from 7.30pm to 12.30 am. Ticket costing £20 include supper,
Irish bingo ticket and a complimentary drink. All are welcome. If you have
anything to donate, would be interested in finding out more about the charity
or attending the ceilidh please contact Michael or Lisa Lafferty on 461234
or 07813 650411. Thanks.
SACRAMENTS OF CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION
We have chosen three Sundays this year because of the number of children being
presented for the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Communion. The dates
are Sundays 13, 20 and 27 May. There is a list of the three dates at the back
of the Church. Please fill in your preferred Sunday. I would hope for about
ten children each Sunday because of available room in the Church, but the
choice is completely yours as parents and guardians. Please remember that
you can alter your choice if the circumstances change. Just be sure to let
me know.
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.