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This week in the parish
This week in the parish
Feast of St Margaret (33rd Sunday Year A) 16 November 2008
Sunday: Mass at 11.00am and 5.30pm. Welcome to the families of the children being Confirmed in the Faith at the 11am Mass.
Second collection for Assisted Parishes.
Flo & Margaret at the @ the Sunday Cafe, join us after the 11am
Mass for scones, sweet treats and fairtrade refreshments.
Monday: Mass at 10am.
J Team Mega Club 5:.30 – 7.30pm. £1.
ll children in P1 to P5. £1:00 name, I am there with them.St Jude’s Losers in the sacristy 7pm. SSVP Meeting at 8pm.
Tuesday: Mass at 10am.
Bingo in the hall at 7.30pm.
Wednesday: Mass at 10am.
Thursday: Mass at 10am. Find out more about the Catholic church. Meeting in the hall at 7pm foranyone interested.
Friday: Mass at 10am
Saturday: Service of the Word and Communion at 10am. Vigil at 6pm.
Next Sunday: Mass at 11.00am and 5.30pm. J Team @ the Sunday Cafe, joinus after the 11am mass in the hall.
SSVP Food bank. Thank you to everyone for your generosity for the food bank appeal. Divine Word Christmas Cards on sale: £4 per pack of 12.
Requiem Mass for the faithful departed in St Peter’s Cemetery at 3pm on Sunday 16th November. (In event of inclement weather Mass will be offered in St Michael’s Parkhead and St Joseph’s Tollcross.) For all buried in local cemeteries or whose final committal at Daldowie crematorium.
Mary’s Meals – A Simple Solution to World Hunger. Rags to Riches Appeal.
Mary’s Meals is an international movement to set up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. The Mary’s Meals van will be visiting the parish again on Sunday 7th December before the 11am mass, once again you are asked to clear your homes of all those unwanted textiles, anything will be accepted from rags to nearly new, all we ask is that items are clean, even your rags, bric a brac will also be accepted. Two times bin bags of textiles for recycling = Mary’s Meals for a year for a child in Malawi (£5.30). For further information click on http://www.marysmeals.org or see any member of the Justice & Peace group.
St Andrew’s Night Ceilidh on Saturday 29 November in Barlanark Community Centre. Tickets (£10 or £20 for family of 4) on sale this weekend. Ceilidh band and buffet supper. All welcome, children have be accompanied, bar available.
Thanks to the Circle of Friends group for their work with the children in the parish and to Mrs Docherty and Mrs Khalid for preparing the children in school.
But most of all thanks to all the parents and guardians for handing on their faith to the children in the home, the domestic church.
III. The Effects of Confirmation
1302 It is evident from its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of Confirmation is the full outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost. From this fact, Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace:
- it roots us more deeply in our being children of God;
- it unites us more firmly to Christ;
- it increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us;
- it renders our bond with the Church more perfect;
- it gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross
Like Baptism which it completes, Confirmation is given only once, for it too imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark, the "character," which is the sign that Jesus Christ has marked a Christian with the seal of his Spirit by clothing him with power from on high so that he may be his witness.
This "character" perfects the common priesthood of the faithful, received in Baptism, and "the confirmed person receives the power to profess faith in Christ publicly and as it were officially."
Prisoner’s Week Scotland 16 – 23 November 2008 "Whose Crime is it Anyway?"
Prisoner’s Week first appeared 33 years ago and is an international event. It is an awareness raising week sponsored by the Churches. In November, the month of remembrance, it presents us with an opportunity to remember all in our communities who are affected by crime and imprisonment: prisoners and their families, victims of crime, and those who work within the criminal justice system, including prison staff. Further details at http://prisonersweekscotland.co.uk/
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The Age of the Woman
Gospel Commentary for the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
By Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap
ROME, NOV. 14, 2008 (Zenit.org).- This Sunday's Gospel is the parable of the talents. Unfortunately, in the past the meaning of this parable has been habitually distorted, or at least very much reduced.
Hearing talk of talents we immediately think of natural gifts of intelligence, beauty, strength, artistic abilities. The metaphor is used to speak about actors, singers, comedians, etc. The usage is not completely mistaken, but it is secondary. Jesus did not intend to speak of the obligation of developing one's natural gifts, but of developing the gifts given by him. On the contrary, sometimes it is necessary to curb this tendency to focus on one's own talents because this can easily become careerism, a mania of imposing oneself on others.
The talents that Jesus is speaking about are the Word of God and faith: in a word, the kingdom proclaimed by him. In this sense the parable of the talents stands alongside that of the sower. The different outcomes of the talents given correspond to the different fates of the seeds cast on the ground by the sower -- some produce 60%, some are buried beneath thorns or eaten by birds.
Today faith and the sacraments are the talents that we Christians have received. The parable thus obliges us to examine our conscience: What use are we making of these talents? Are we either like the servant who made them bear fruit or like the one who buried them? I would compare it to a Christmas present that one has forgotten and left unopened in a corner.
The fruits of natural talents become irrelevant to us when we die or, at best, pass on to those who come after us; the fruits of spiritual talents follow us into eternal life and one day will gain us the approval of the divine Judge: "Well done, good and faithful servant. Since you have been faithful in small things I will give you authority over greater things. Enter into the joy of your master."
Our human and Christian duty is not only to develop our own natural and spiritual talents, but also to help others develop theirs. In the contemporary world there are people whose job it is to be "talent scouts." They are people who can pick out hidden talents -- in painting, singing, acting, sports and so on. They help those with the talents to cultivate them and find them sponsors. They do not do this for free or for the love of art, but to get a percentage of the earnings of the talented people they discovered, once they succeed.
The Gospel invites us all to be talent scouts, not for the love of gain but to help those who are unable to begin developing their talents on their own. Humanity owes some of its geniuses and best artists to the altruism of the friends of these people, who believed in them and encouraged them when no one else did. One exemplary case that comes to mind is Theo Van Gogh, who supported his brother Vincent financially and morally his whole life, when no one believed in him and he was unable to sell any of his paintings. They exchanged more than 600 letters, documents of great humanity and spirituality. Without Theo Van Gogh, we would not have the many paintings of his brother that everyone loves and admires.
The first reading invites us to reflect on a particular talent that is both natural and spiritual: the talent of femininity, the talent of being a woman. This reading contains the famous praise of women that begins with the words: "A perfect woman, who can find her?" This praise, which is so beautiful, has one defect, which does not come from the inspiration but from the epoch in which it was written and the culture that i t reflects. If we pay attention, we see that the praise has entirely to do with what the woman does for the man. Its implicit conclusion: Blessed is the man who has such a woman. She makes him nice clothes, brings honor to his house, allows him to hold his head high among his friends. I do not think women today would be enthusiastic about this laud.
Putting this limitation aside, I would like to underscore the relevance of this praise of women. Everywhere there is the demand to make more room for women, to value the feminine genius. We do not believe that "the eternal feminine will save us." Daily experience shows that women can lift themselves up, but also that they can let themselves down. They also need Christ's salvation. But it is certain that, once she is redeemed and "liberated" by him, on the human level, from ancient subjections, she can help to save our society from some inveterate evils that threaten it: violence, will to power, spiritual aridity, scorn for life, etc.
After so many ages that took their name from man -- from the ages of "homo erectus" and "homo faber," to the age of "homo sapiens" today, we might hope that there will finally come, for humanity, the age of woman: the age of the heart, of tenderness, of compassion. It was devotion to the Virgin that, in past centuries, inspired respect for women and their idealization in literature and art. The woman of today, too, can look to her as a model, friend and ally in defending the dignity and the talent of being a woman.
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Mission Statement
"We the worshipping community of St Jude’s and St John Ogilvie’s, Barlanark, accept the challenge of the Gospel to know, love and serve God and each other by upholding the traditions of our Faith and by building up the body of Christ universal"
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New Parishioners & Visitors :
If you are new to our Parish and would like information on joining our church, please contact Father Allan at the church, by phone (0141 771 5004), or e-mail
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History of
St. Jude’s and
St John Ogilvie’s.
The parish of St Jude’s was founded in 1954 by Fr. Martin Docherty, eventually Canon Docherty. ,
The church was opened in November 1956.
Since the parish was founded we have had 4 parish priests:
- Canon Docherty, (1954 - 1982)
- Fr Gus Hurley, (1982 - 1989)
- Fr Tom Hurley and (1989 - 2000)
- Fr Allan Cameron. (2000 - date)
We started our Jubilee celebrations in 2004 and by raising a Jubilee Fund were able to upgrade and renovate the church to mark this Jubilee.
In January 2008 we welcomed the parishioners from St. John Ogilvie’s in Easterhouse which closed.
The Parish was renamed as ‘The Parish of St Jude and St John Ogilvie’ in March 2008.
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The Parish of St Jude and St John Ogilvie is a Parish of the Archdiocese of Glasgow,
A designated Religious Charity, Number SC018140
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Click here to view a copy of the accounts for 2007/2008.
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