Saturday
16 November
|
Feast of Saint Margaret |
Sunday
17 November
|
Thirty-Third
Sunday of the Year |
Monday
18 November
|
Holy Mass at 10.00am for Kenneth McCornish RD and Margaret O'Donnell RD |
Tuesday
19 November
|
Holy Mass at 10.00am for Elizabeth Lundie RD and Esther O'Hare A |
Wednesday
20 November
|
Requiem Mass at 10.00am for Catherine Sweeney |
Thursday
21 November
|
Memorial of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin
Mary |
Friday
22 November
|
Memorial of Saint Cecilia |
Saturday
23 November
|
Holy Mass at 10.00am for Mary Paton RD |
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Abbreviations - A anniversary, MM month's mind, RD recently deceased, SI special intention |
The
Holy Mass intention list is just over two weeks ahead. Please notify
anniversaries as early as you can. Thanks. |
Saturday
16 November
|
Vigil
Mass at 4.30pm
|
|
Sunday
17 November
|
Sunday Mass at 10.00am |
Sunday Mass at 11.30am |
Monday
18 November
|
Holy Mass at 10.00am | Holy Mass at 10.00am |
Tuesday
19 November
|
Service of the Word at 10.00am | Requiem Mass at 10.00am |
Wednesday
20 November
|
Mass
at 9.30am in Saint Anthony's Primary School |
Service of the Word at 10.00am |
Thursday
21 November
|
Service of the Word at 10.00am | Service of the Word at 10.00am |
Friday
22 November
|
Holy Mass at 7.00pm | Holy Mass at 10.00am |
Saturday
23 November
|
Vigil Mass at 4.30pm | Holy Mass at 10.00am |
Sunday
17 November
|
11.30am |
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Monday
18 November
|
7.00pm |
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Tuesday
19 November
|
9.00
to 11.00am 7.30pm |
Cardiac
Rehabilitation |
Wednesday
20 November
|
9.30
to 11.30am |
Parents
and Toddlers |
Thursday
21 November
|
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Friday
22 November
|
9.30
to 11.30am 11.00am |
Parents
and Toddlers Tea, coffee and chat in the Snug after Benediction |
PRAYERS
Please remember in your prayers:
Catherine Sweeney, Duncan Cook, Michael Spencer, Isobel Morrison, Mary Paton,
Kenneth McCornish, Margaret O'Donnell, Elizabeth Lundie, Jimmy Tracey and
John Lafferty who died recently;
Francis Brady 1943, George Hilferty 2013, Hugh Madine 1997, Letitia Smith
2001, Setti Cavani 1997, Catherine Keogh 2016, Margaret Lee 1984, Linda Jackson
2009, Alice McGrattan
2013, Stephen Munn 2011, Annie Boyle O'Hare 1967, Alice Tomelty 2000, Susan
Hamilton 2009, Father Frank Kiernan 1989, Joseph Smith 2002, Robert Stevenson
1962, Matthew Ssenyondo, father of Father Charles 2015, Andrew Steven 1998,
Karen Sharon Byrne 2003, Patrick Gerald Burns 2003, John Carry 1997, Canon
George McCafferty 2000, Nora Moore 2012, Janie Matthews 2014, Elizabeth McDougall
1948 and Father John Walsh 2009 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 RECONCILIATION
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 Katrina Pollock at 5.30pm and Patricia
Milligan at 10.30am.
MUSIC
MINISTRY
Next weekend's musicians are the Choir at 5.30pm and Andrena Hughes at 10.30am.
CHILDREN'S LITURGY
Next week's helpers are Geraldine Butcher for the pre-fives, Jacqueline Smith
for Primaries 1, 2 and 3 and Andrena Hughes and Maria Paterson-Kidd and Emma
Paterson for Primary 4.
REQUIEM MASS FOR CATHERINE SWEENEY
Please pray for the Repose of the Soul of Catherine Sweeney who died on 11
November. Her Requiem Mass on Wednesday 20 November at 10.00am will be followed
by her interment at Knocknairshill Cemetery, Greenock at 12.15pm. May she
rest in peace and rise in glory.
WORLD
DAY OF THE POOR
Pope Francis asked the entire Catholic
community worldwide to observe the World Day of the Poor on 17 November. This
year's theme is 'The hope of the poor shall not perish for ever'. Pope
Francis reminds us that 'the poor are not numbers, but people' to be assisted,
accompanied, protected, defended and saved.
LILIES OF THE FIELD
I'm a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don't ever
confuse the two - your life and your work. You will walk out of here this
afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be hundreds
of people out there with your same degree. There will be thousands of people
doing what you want to do for a living but you will be the only person alive
who has sole custody of your life - your particular life, your entire life.
Not just your life at a desk or your life on a bus or in a car or at the computer.
Not just the life of your mind but the life of your heart. Not just your bank
account but your soul. People don't talk about the soul very much anymore.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit - but a resume
is a cold comfort on a winter night or when you're sad or broke or lonely
or when you've gotten back the test results and they're not so good. Here
is my resume - I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to
let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer consider
myself the centre of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I
am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows mean what
they say. I am a good friend to my friends and they to me. Without them, there
would be nothing to say to you today because I would be a cardboard cutout
- but I call them on the phone and I meet them for lunch. I would be rotten,
or at best mediocre at my job, if those other things were not true. You cannot
be really first rate at your work if your work is all you are. So here's what
I wanted to tell you today - get a life. Get a real life, not a manic pursuit
of the next promotion, the bigger salary, the larger house. Do you think you'd
care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon
or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of
salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the rocks on the shore, a life
in which you stop and watch how a hawk circles over the water or the way a
baby scowls with concentration when she tries to pick up a toy with her thumb
and first finger. Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love
and who love you - and remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick
up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. Get a life in which you are
generous - nd realise that life is the best thing ever and that you have no
business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you
want to spread it around. Take money you would have spent on beers and give
it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big brother or sister. All of
you want to do well. But if you do not do good too, then doing well will never
be enough. It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes.
It is so easy to take for granted the colour of our kids' eyes, the way the
melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is
so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. I learned
to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress
rehearsal and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look
at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed
in it, completely and utterly and I tried to do that, in part, by telling
others what I had learned - by telling them this: Consider the lilies of the
field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun
on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness,
because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be
lived.
From
a speech made by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anna Quindlen, at Villanova
University, United States
JUST FOR A LAUGH …
Jock, the painter, often would thin his paint so it would go further so when
the Church in Ardrossan decided to do some deferred maintenance, Jock was
able to put in the low bid and got the job. As always, he thinned his paint
way down with turpentine. One day while he was up on the scaffolding with
the job almost finished, he heard a horrendous clap of thunder and the sky
opened. The downpour washed the thinned paint off the Church and knocked Jock
off his scaffold and on to the lawn among the puddles of thinned and worthless
paint. Jock knew this was a warning from the Almighty so he got on his knees
and cried "Oh, God! Forgive me! What should I do? - and from the thunder,
a mighty voice: "Repaint! Repaint! - and thin no more!"
YOUR ADVENT CAN
BE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR
What does your Advent usually look like? Busy? Hectic? Noisy? Of course it
does. This is the story for so many of us come December. With all the busIness
leading up to Christmas, all too often we miss out on Advent. We find ourselves
on 26 December no different than we were on 24 December. Christmas came, Christ
came - and that amazing reality that changed the world didn't change us. But
what if this coming Advent could be different? What if instead of losing track
of Advent, we walked through it, day by day with someone? What if that someone
knew Christ? What if that someone - was his father on earth, Joseph? How would
that change things? Instead of Christmas being a day on our calendar, suddenly
it would be something completely different. Suddenly Advent would no longer
be a time when we weren't exactly sure what to do but rather would be a time
of joyful anticipation of the coming of a child, a person of the Lord. This
Advent, why don't we journey through Advent with Joseph and make it a bit
special this year? We can experience an Advent that is more peaceful, more
joyful, and more meaningful than ever before.
MY LIFE IS BUT A WEAVING
My life is but a weaving between my God and me
I do not choose the colours, He worketh steadily
Oft-times He weaveth sorrow and I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper, and I the underside
Not
till the loom is silent and shuttles cease to fly
Will
God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why
The
dark threads are as needful in the skilful weaver's hand
As
the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned
With
thanks
to Maria Hilferty
EDUCATION SUNDAY
Next Sunday is Education Sunday. We will welcome Stephen Colligan, Head Teacher
of Saint Matthew's
Academy, Saltcoats, who will say a few words after Holy Communion.
EMERGENCY ON-CALL FOR HOSPITALS
Father
Duncan
will be attending the emergency on-call for local hospitals from Sunday 17
November until Sunday 24 November . Please keep all the sick and those waiting
operations in your thoughts and prayers.
HCPT LOURDES GROUP 376 CHRISTMAS FAYRE
The HCPT Lourdes Group' Christmas Fayre will be on Saturday 30 November in
the Parish Centre from 10.30am to 1.00pm. There will be various stalls, tombola,
home baking, children's choir and tea room. Entry is free. The contacts are
Esther and Josephine Coulter.
SAINT PETER'S PRIMARY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS FAYRE
Saint Peter's Primary
School will be holding their Christmas Fayre on Thursday 5 December between
3.30 and 5.30pm. If you wish to have a stall, they are priced at £15
each. Please contact the school for further information on 01294 462554.
PARISH
STEWARDSHIP
Last weekend's Offertory collection amounted to £675.15 and the Maintenance
Fund collection to £255.77 - thanks very much. The Organ Fund stands
at £7301.13 - many thanks for all your support and generosity!
THANKS
FROM THE COMBONI SISTERS
The Comboni Sisters thank you for your generosity. The recent sale of calendars
raised a total of £340.55.
CHURCHES' HOMELESS ACTION NORTH AYRSHIRE (CHANA)
CHANA would like to provide Christmas presents for those in the hostels and
supported accommodation this year. We are appealing for gift sets of toiletries,
new pyjamas, hats and gloves, mostly for men. Please use the CHANA box provided
or hand them in to the Ardrossan Hostel in Princes Street. Thanks once again
for your continued generosity.
FOOD BANK COLLECTION
Can you help by giving two hours of your time for a collection at Tesco in
Saltcoats or Irvine on Thursday, Friday or Saturday 21 to 23 November? If
you can, please phone Danny on 07979 542319. Thank you!
SPECIAL RELIGIOUS EDUCATION GROUP (SPRED) GALLOWAY
SPRED Galloway invites you to its Saint Andrew's Night Ceilidh and Disco in
Saint Paul's Church Hall, Ayr on Saturday 30 November from 7.30 to 11.00pm.
A light supper will be provided and please bring your own bottle. Tickets
cost £10.00 and family tickets also available. Please see the poster
at the back of the Church. SPRED contacts are 01292 738068 and info@spredgalloway.org.uk.
HOUSE SHARE
If you are looking for lodgings in Saltcoats, please enter postcode KA21 5PP
on the app SpareRoom for photos and details or see notice at back of Church.
Alternatively, call 07426 381455 for details.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CO-ORDINATOR
If you have excellent communication and facilitation skills and experience
of working and communicating with young people between the ages of seven and
twenty-five, we would love to hear from you. You will be responsible for the
promotion, development, support for and co-ordination of the Society of Saint
Vincent de Paul Scotland's youth work. The salary for a thirty hour week is
£21840 to £24960 depending on experience. For further information
about the Society and its work and to view the job description and personal
specification, please visit www.ssvpscotland.com.
To apply, email your curriculum vitae and cover letter with examples how your
skills and experiences fit the person specification for this role to officemanager@ssvpscotland.com.
The closing date is 17 November. Interviews will be held on Monday 2 December
2019.
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 haplain to Crosshouse Hospital and is assisted by the priest on call
each week.
SUNDAY
TEAS
Tea and coffee will be served after the 10.30am Mass next Sunday in the Parish
Centre by Sadie, Marie and Phyllis.
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.