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Saturday
15 June
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Vigil
Mass at 4.30pm
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Holy Mass at 10.00am |
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Sunday
16 June
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Sunday Mass at 10.00am |
Sunday Mass at 11.30am |
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Monday
17 June
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Service of the Word at 10.00am | Service of the Word at 10.00am |
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Tuesday
18 June
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Holy Mass at 10.00am | Service of the Word at 10.00am |
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Wednesday
19 June
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Holy Mass at 10.00am | |
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Thursday
20 June
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Service of the Word at 10.00am | Holy Mass at 10.00am |
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Friday
21 June
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Holy Mass at 10.00am | Service of the Word at 10.00am |
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Saturday
22 June
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Vigil Mass at 4.30pm | Holy Mass at 10.00am |
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Sunday
16 June
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11.30am |
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Monday
17 June
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9.30
to 11.30am |
Parents
and Toddlers |
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Tuesday
18 June
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9.00
to 11.00am 5.00 to 8.00pm |
Cardiac
Rehabilitation |
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Wednesday
19 June
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9.30
to 11.30am |
Parents
and Toddlers |
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Thursday
20 June
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Friday
21 June
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9.30
to 11.30am 11.00am |
Parents
and Toddlers Tea, coffee and chat in the Snug after Benediction |
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Friday
22 June
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12 noon to 3.45pm | Eucharistic Ministers' Oasis Day |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Hannah Munn, Bridget Graham, Theresa McGarvey and Sam Morrison who died recently;
David Brodie 1994, Agnes Hunter 1956, Sheila Reilly 1987, Carol Stewart 2005, Agnes Cochrane 1998, Mary Theresa Dolan 1999, Bernard Kilbane 1986, Michael Leonard 2000, Father Tom Leverage 1996, Cardinal Thomas Winning 2001, Sheila Kennedy 1996, Samuel McGonigle 1997, Andrew McPadden 2002, Una Delahunt Rice 2005, Margaret Forbes 2006, Billy Harvey 2004, John Malloy 2002, Father Alan Wilson 2012, Margaret Boyd 2005, Gertrude Cunningham 2008, Mary Bridget Magee 1988, James Lane 1995, Catherine Robertson 2015, Susan Watson 2002, Rosie Benson 1995, Agnes Delahunt 1936, Margaret Donnelly 1953, Mary Leishman 1997 and Ronald McKay 2008 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 Father Duncan, the parish office or contact WebsiteAuthor@SaintPeterinChains.net. If members of your family or friends are in need of our prayers, please tell Father Duncan or the parish office. If they are in hospital, Reverend Bill Corbett on 01292 521208 - assisted each week by the priest on call - is the chaplain to Crosshouse Hospital and can be contacted through the ward. Ayr Hospital and the Ayrshire Hospice have an on-call chaplaincy.
SUNDAY MASS TIMES
Sunday Mass times in Saint Peter's are 5.30pm Vigil and 10.30am. Sunday Mass times in other local parishes can be seen here.
SACRAMENT OF FORGIVENESS
The Sacrament of Forgiveness is celebrated on Saturdays between 4.45 and 5.15 pm and at other times on request.
READERS
Next weekend's readers are Julie Coldwell at 5.30pm and Margaret Harvey at 10.30am.
ALTAR SERVERS
Next weekend's altar servers are Group 1 at 5.30pm and Group 2 at 10.30am.
MUSIC MINISTRY
Next weekend's musicians are the Choir at 5.30pm and George McGrattan at 10.30pm.
CHILDREN’S
LITURGY
Next week's Children's Liturgy helpers are Emma
Paterson for the pre-fives, Andrena Hughes for Primaries 1, 2 and 3 and Claire
Sweenie and Linda Martin for Primary 4.
SPECIAL
MASS AT SAINT JOHN'S TOWER, AYR
Bishop Nolan will celebrate Mass
on 24 June at 7.00pm
in
the grounds of Saint John's Tower in Ayr to mark the Solemnity. The tower
is all that remains of Ayr's original parish church, which was dedicated to
Saint John the Baptist, the patron saint of Ayr. The Church was built in the
late twelfth century. The building, however, is not specifically mentioned
in documents until 1233. Notable visitors to the Church include Robert the
Bruce, who held Parliament at the Church in April 1315, James IV, who made
numerous offerings for Masses to be said in Saint John's and possibly Mary
Queen of Scots, who is said to have 'supped and slept at Saint John's in Ayr',
although this may be a reference to the town rather than the church. Saint
John's was Roman Catholic until 1560 when it became a Reformed Church, under
an Act of Parliament, after John Knox led the Protestant Reformation in Scotland.
John Knox is known to have preached in Ayr, having had strong links with Ayrshire.
His second wife came from Ochiltree.
ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO SAINT NINIAN'S CAVE
Sunday 25 August is a date for your diary. Mass at Saint Ninian's Cave will
be celbrated at 4.00pm. We will be organising a coach from our parish and
Saint Mary's
Church, Largs.
OUR PARISH FEAST DAY
Our Parish Feast Day this year will be on the weekend of 29 and 30 June. We
ask the Good Lord to bless all our parishioners in a special way and we pray
for all our deceased parishioners. Fiona will bake the traditional Lammas
Bread that is blessed and distributed on the Feast of Saint Peter.
SHAMROCKS,
THE SUN AND ROSES
The shamrock, a kind of clover, is a leguminous herb that grows in marshy
places. Saint Patrick, the missionary patron saint of Ireland, used the shamrock
to explain the Holy Trinity. The story goes that one day his friends asked
Patrick to explain the mystery of the Trinity. He looked at the ground and
saw shamrocks growing amid the grass at his feet. He picked one up one of
its trifoliate leaves and asked if it were one leaf or three. Patrick's friends
couldn't answer - the shamrock leaf looked like one, but it clearly had three
parts. Patrick explained to them "The mystery of the Holy Trinity - one
God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - is like this
but more complex and unintelligible." Saint Cyril, the teacher of the
Slavs, tried to explain the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity using sun as
an example. He said "God the Father is that blazing sun. God the Son
is its light and God the Holy Spirit is its heat - but there is only one sun.
So, there are three Persons in Holy Trinity, but God is One and indivisible."
St. John Maria Vianney used to explain Holy Trinity using roses on the altar.
"The rose has colour, fragrance and shape. But these are expressions
of one reality, namely, the single rose. There is also a very old and much-repeated
story about Saint Augustine, one of the intellectual giants of the Church.
He was walking by the seashore one day, attempting to conceive of an intelligible
explanation for the mystery of the Trinity. As he walked along, he saw a small
boy on the beach, pouring seawater from a shell into a small hole in the sand.
"What are you doing, my child?" asked Augustine. "I am trying
to empty the sea into this hole" the boy answered with an innocent smile.
"But that is impossible, my dear child" said Augustine. The boy
stood up, looked straight into the eyes of Augustine and replied "What
you are trying to do - comprehend the immensity of God - is even more impossible."
Then he vanished. The child was an angel sent by God to teach Augustine a
lesson. Later, Augustine wrote "You see the Trinity if you see love."
According to him, the Father is the lover, the Son is the loved one and the
Holy Spirit is the personification of the very act of loving. This means that
we can understand something of the mystery of the Holy Trinity more readily
with the heart than with our feeble mind. Evagrius of Pontus, a Greek monk
of the 4th century who came from what is now Turkey in Asia and later lived
out his vocation in Egypt, said"God cannot be grasped by the mind. If
God could be grasped, God would not be God."
JUST FOR A LAUGH
• After the Baptism of his baby brother in church, Jason sobbed all the way
home in the car. His father asked him three times what was wrong. Finally,
the boy replied "That priest said he wanted us brought up in a Christian
home and I want to stay with you."
• A primary school teacher asked her class "What was Jesus' Mother's
name?" One child answered, "Mary." The teacher then asked,
"Who knows what Jesus' stepfather's name was?" A little boy said
"Verge." Confused, the teacher asked, "Where did you get that?"
The boy said, "Well, you know they are always talking about Verge 'n'
Mary.
CALLING ALL OUR PARISH EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS
Our annual day for Eucharistic Ministers in our Deanery is coming soon on
Saturday 22 June 2019 from 12 noon until 3.45pm. Refreshemtns will be served.
The themes will include the Parish being 'grounded in the Eucharist' and 'rediscovering
the sense of the Sacred'. Leaflets for Eucharistic Ministers are available
in the sacristy. Please inform Father
Duncan that you will be there for catering and
organisational purposes. Thanks!
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY
Happy Fathers' Day to
those who are fathers with children of their own, to those who are fathers
as they step into the role for children not their own such as stepfathers,
grandfathers, uncles, brother and foster dads, to those who are grieving the
loss of a father, navigating a tense relationship with their father or living
life with an absentee father, to those who want to be fathers but is not their
reality in their lives yet and all our spiritual fathers. No matter where
you are in the journey of fatherhood, you are seen, loved and valued especially
by God, who is father to all. Today we honour those fathers who have shown
us something of God's love and remember that our father in heaven loves us.
QUESTION OF GENDER - MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM
The Vatican questions gender ideology in a new document for parents and educators.
It's called Male And Female He Created Them. Toward A Path Of Dialogue On
The Question Of Gender Theory In Education. It insists you cannot leave male
or female identity in the hands of subjectivity. The document says that presenting
'a society without sexual differences' is unrealistic and has no biological
basis. It also warns that 'the utopia of the neuter' destroys the concept
of family. In a mother-father family children 'learn how to recognise the
value and beauty of the differences between the two sexes' leading to his
or her understanding of his or her own identity. The text calls on Catholic
educators and universities to be well-prepared in this field. Likewise, it
launches a call for governmental reflection. It says that a democratic state
cannot reduce the range of educational to a single school of thought which
is concerned on one hand with the fundamentals of human nature and on the
other with natural rights of parents to freely choose any education that agrees
with the dignity of the human person.
KNIT AND KNATTER GROUP
The last Knit and Knatter meeting before stopping for the summer will be in
the Lauriston Hotel, Ardrossan, on Wednesday 26 June 2019 at 12.30pm for 1.00pm.
We will start back again on Wednesday 7 August 2019 at 1.00pm. We hope you
all have a lovely summer!
THANKS
Rena Fitzpatrick is very grateful for all the Mass cards, prayers, flowers
and cards received after her stay in hospital. Holy Mass will be offered for
the intentions of all.
COME AND JOIN THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME
A new initiative at Saint Peter's is to try and get our young adults together
for a regular meeting and service in the parish. Maureen and Anne McGuire
will be supporting the initiative. The first, informal get-together will be
on the parish Feast Day, Sunday 30 June after Holy Mass. Spread the word!
REFURBISHMENT OF THE CHURCH ORGAN
Saint Peter's has a very fine organ, called a Walker Organ. It desperately
needs a complete refurbishment and repair. At the moment, it is not working.
The costs are extensive and will include an entire month of work. The estimate
is around £9000. If any parishioner would like to make a special contribution
to the Church organ, please add it to the second collection at the weekend
Masses or hand it in to Father
Duncan or the Parish Office, marked Organ Collection.
Thank you in anticipation for all your support and generosity.
COLLECTIONS
Last weekend's Offertory collection amounted to £611.91 and the Maintenance
Fund collection to £268.85 - thanks very much. The
Organ Fund stands at £1600.00 - thank you!
GIFT AID
The updated new Gift Aid Forms have been sent to parishioners that will require
them. Please send them back as soon as you can in the stamped-addressed envelope
provided. Thank you so much for your support and help.
SPONSORED
CYCLE AROUND MILLPORT
Ami Paterson and Lucy Skene have organised a Sponsored Cycle around Millport
on 18 July to raise funds for the refurbishment of our Church organ. Sponsor
Sheets are available this weekend. Please support this great initiative from
our young people.
NEW
EMAIL ADDRESSES
To comply with the recent changes to Data Protection Act, Saint Peter's has
two new email addresses. If you are contacting the Parish Office, please use
Ardrossan@GallowayDiocese.org.uk. If you wish to contact Father
Duncan personally, then use Duncan.McVicar@GallowayDiocese.org.uk
- thanks!
HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY
If a member of your family or a friend is sick, please let us know and give
us the details. Deacon Bill Corbett (01292 521208, 07904 248948, Rev.BillCorbett@btinternet.com)
is the chaplain to Crosshouse Hospital and is assisted by the priest on call
each week.
FINANCES
Bankers Orders for the Parish and Parish Centre amount to £3500 per
month. We are grateful for your generous support in collections. If you can
manage a little more from time to time, it would be a great help. A Standing
Order would make the handling of money so much easier. Have you signed a Gift
Aid form? If you are a taxpayer the Church would get 25p added to every £1
you donate.
SUNDAY
TEAS
Tea and coffee will be
served after the 10.30am Mass next Sunday in the Parish Centre by Sharon McLaughlin's
team.
VISITORS
Are you visiting us for Holy Mass? Please know that you are very welcome.
During the 10.30 am Holy Mass outwith holidays, 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 10.30am Holy Mass, tea, coffee
cakes and buns are available in the Parish Centre. At both of our weekend
Holy Masses, we have a second collection for Church maintenance.
ADVERTISER SUPPORT
Our advertisers would welcome your support. We are grateful for their continuing
sponsorship. We are grateful for the support of Mr and Mrs Sohal, Nisa Stores,
Glasgow Street for the weekly donation of tea, coffee and milk for the Sunday
teas.
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.