13th Sunday of Ordinary Time 28 June 2009
This week in the parish
Sunday: Mass at 11am and 5.30pm. Second collection for Peter’s Pence.
The Transport Café starts this Sunday in the hall after 11am Mass “Toast & Sweet Treats”. £1 adults and 50p children. All proceeds to the “Fr Paulin wheels appeal”.
Garden Gang gather after the café for a few hours weather permitting.
Monday: Mass at 10am. Feast of Ss Peter and Paul. This is not a holiday
of Obligation, but you can still come to Mass!
SSVP meeting 7.15pm.
The Losers at 7pm is a friendly weight loss support group.
Tuesday: Mass at 10am.Bingo at 7.30pm.
Wednesday: Mass at 10am.
Thursday: Mass at 10am. Feast of St Thomas, apostle.
Friday: Mass at 10am. With Minds and Hearts at 7.30pm in the hall, looking at Mass, this week we focus on the Word of God so all readers are urged to make a special effort to come along and reflect on this ministry.
Saturday: Mass at 10am. Vigil Mass at 6pm.
Next Sunday: Mass at 11am and 5.30pm.
This Sunday at 3pm: ordinations of 12 men to the Diaconate at St Mary’s Abercrombie St., please keep them in your prayers. Mass in St Agnes’ Lambhill at 3pm for all faithful departed whose committals took place in Lambhill/St Kentigern’s cemeteries.
Garden Tidy up 28 June after the Café. After the success of our last afternoon the “Garden Gang” will be meeting for a few hours this Sunday afternoon. All parishioners are invited to join us in tidying up the church grounds. No special skills required. If you are coming along and you have them bring your own equipment and gloves.
SSVP Vincentian Day at Carfin on Saturday 22 August. Bus will leave the church 11pm, then Hall Cres and Wellhouse Cres at the Hub. The tickets will be £2 for adults and £1 for children. All money raised will go the wheels appeals, the SSVP have covered the cost of the bus. The day will consist of rosary at 1pm and mass at 2pm. Catering facilities will be available at Carfin or you can bring along a packed lunch. Tickets will be available next weekend.
We welcome to our parish this weekend Mgr Paul Watson, the director of the Maryvale Institute and Mr Bernard Farrell- Roberts who are here for the ordination of the deacons on Sunday afternoon. Those being ordained have been studying a Maryvale course in preparation for their ordination. Mgr Paul will be presiding at the 11am Mass. Fr Donato of the Comboni’s will be celebrating the 5.30pm Mass so that Fr Allan can attend the ordination.
Fr Paulin’s Wheels’ Appeal
Over the next 8 weeks we will be making an effort to boost the fund and to get to our target a little quicker and get a motorbike for Fr Paulin to carry out his work in Sierra Leone.
We’re all used to good transport links and that most priests have a car to get around, most of which you support through his salary and travel expenses. In Sierra Leone the “roads” are merely dirt tracks and public transport is almost non-existant. Among Fr Paulin’s duties to visit many small villages and to run the school system. Without transport (which he isn’t able to fund for himself through salary and expenses) his ministry isn’t nearly as effective.
As you know the Wheels’ appeal is over and above what we try to do by twinning with his mission, which goes on school and hospital fees etc. But if you feel over the summer holidays that this is something you might be able to support, it would be really appreciated. So far we have raised over £1200, but we really need to get to about £3000.
There will be three main areas of summer fundraising.
· Wednesday bonus ball for 8 weeks, starting 8 July, you can pay your pay £8 up front or £1 the Sunday before. The list will available this weekend for those who would like a number or text/call Susan on 07922 166 596.
· The Sunday Café will become The Transport Cafe for the next 8 weeks, all profits from the café will go the appeal, please make an effort during the summer months to join with us in the hall after 11 am mass.
· The SSVP will be running a bus to Carfin on 22 August for the Vincentian day, all proceeds from the day will go to the appeal – tickets will be on sale next weekend
Mary’s Meals
Mary’s Meals & Back Pack Appeal, just when you thought the appeal was gone forever it’s back. This is an appeal to parents of children who have just completed another school year. Do you have any backpacks, pencil cases stationery or PE kits (shorts and t- shirts) you no longer need as you will be buying new ones for the new school year? Please do not bin your old stuff, donate it to the appeal, there will be a box under the table at the back of the church. Please do not purchase new items for the appeal. Items collected will be passed to the group in St Bridget’s parish who work every week to make up back packs.
Prayers and Thank you
Jenny Connolly and family would like to thank Fr Allan, Ann & Amelia for services rendered and all friends and neighbours for cards and kindness during their sad loss. Holy Mass will be offered for all concerned.
Please pray for:
Sick: Mary Kelly, Tommy Scanlan, Betty McSherry, Gerald Deighan, Roseann Murphy, Robert McManus, Rose Aitken, Helen Todd, Robert McCrory, Viktor Verzluk, Ladonia Gordon, David Binks,
RIP: Catherine Logan, Pearl Hayes,
Month’s Mind: Andy Connolly, Simon Bradbury
Anniversaries: Robert McIntyre, Joseph Donaghy, Elizabeth Ferguson, Mrs Watters, Gerald Grainger, Martha Lynas
Vincention Reflection: In today’s Gospel we see how in faith, Jarius asked Jesus to heal his daughter and how Jesus then answered his prayer. In prayer we also come to know that we are loved by God, and in that trust we ask for healing for ourselves, our loved ones and all those who are suffering. This week, please join with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in praying for the healing of all those who are ill and especially those who have no one to pray for them.
Vocations Reflection: “For your sakes He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich.” Are you among those being called to be rich in Christ’s poverty as a priest, deacon, brother or sister? www.priestsforscotland.org.uk
Oban/Iona 25th - 27th September, £140. There are some seats still available on the bus, if you contact Flo on 07547450559, we will contact the hotel and try and book a bed. The final balance of £115 is payable by 25 August.
On Sunday afternoon the Archbishop will ordain the first twelve Permanent Deacons for our diocese. The 12 men are Frank Flynn, Kenneth McGeachie, Thomas Morrison, Michael O'Donnell, Bernard Lavery, Jim Dean, Kevin Kelly, Jack Gallacher, John Cairns, James Kernaghan, Andrew Davis, Edward McDonald. Please keep them in your prayers today and in the future. Often the question is asked, what does a deacon do? The answer is quite a lot, but the much more important question is “what is a deacon?” Being ordained a deacon is defined, not so much by what they can and cannot do, but by what they are called to be. The Compendium of the Catechism asks (330) “What is the effect of the ordination to the diaconate? The deacon, configured to Christ the servant of all, is ordained for service to the Church. He carries out this service under the authority of his proper bishop by the ministry of the Word, of divine worship, of pastoral care and of charity.” Notice “Configured to Christ the servant of all”. All of us as Christians are called to be like Christ (hence being called Christian), but a deacon has a special calling to be like Christ who came not to be served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many. A deacon’s primary goal to model and reflect the kind of servanthood of the Lord. So while the deacon is involved in the ministry of the Word (eg a deacon always reads the gospel at Mass and can preach), and in the Liturgy (eg the deacon gives instructions at Mass, “let us offer each other the sign of peace”; ”go the Mass is ended”). It is the third: pastoral care and charity that will be their main concerns. In next week’s Flourish you’ll see the list of their diaconal appointments that will make a big impact on the life of the diocese.
After 12 months of special liturgies, conferences, Bible reflections, indulgences, concerts and pilgrimages, the Year of St. Paul has left the Apostle a more clearly defined figure on the Catholic landscape. Even before Pope Benedict XVI leads the final closing ceremonies in Rome June 29, Vatican officials declared the jubilee year a success. "The result has been positive, even beyond the most optimistic predictions," Cardinal Lanza di Montezemolo, said at a Vatican press conference June 26. It was Pope Benedict who almost single-handedly gave the jubilee its content. In weekly talks, homilies and liturgical celebrations, he sketched a detailed portrait of the man considered the model of Christian conversion and the archetypal missionary. The pope's main point was that Paul’s evangelizing spirit based on personal conversion needs to be rekindled among today's 1.1 billion Catholics. "Dear brothers and sisters, as in early times, today too Christ needs apostles ready to sacrifice themselves. He needs witnesses and martyrs like St. Paul," the pope said when he proclaimed the jubilee.
Pope Benedict also applied the saint's lessons to contemporary rivalries and controversies within the church community. In early 2009, during debate over several of his own decisions in the church, the pope quoted St. Paul's admonition to Galatian Christians not to "go on biting and devouring one another." St. Paul understood that church unity was the primary requisite for a credible witness of the Gospel in the world, he said. In the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the pope emphasized St. Paul's message that without internal unity, Christians cannot bring peace and reconciliation to the ruptured societies across the globe.
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