Seventh Sunday of Year B 19 February 2012
This Week in the parish
Sunday: Mass at 11am & 5.30pm. Education Sunday, Second collection. Representatives from Our Lady of Peace Primary school will be joining us at the 11am Mass. J Team at the Sunday Café. Frank on the mini bus. Welcome to the families enrolling their children for the sacraments of Initiation and Abby & James Allingham who are being baptised after 11am Mass.
Monday: Service of Word and Holy Communion at 10am in the hall.
J Team 5:30 -7:30pm. SSVP meeting 8pm.
Tuesday: Mass at 10am in the hall.
Wednesday: Ash Wednesday Mass, with distribution of ashes at 10am & 7pm.
Thursday: Mass at 10am in the church
Friday: Mass at 10am.
Saturday: Service of Word and Holy Communion at 10am.
Vigil Mass at 6pm.
Next Sunday: Mass at 11am & 5.30pm. First Sunday of Lent. Second collection for sick and retired Priests. Umbrella Group at the Sunday Café.
Lourdes 2012, with Bernadette praying the Rosary. Is Our lady calling you to Lourdes, if so there are a few place available on this years parish pilgrimage from 26 May -2 June, cost £300 per person – £40 single room supplement. Please contact Margaret McElroy, Helen Marks, Amelia Buckley or Liam/Susan O’Neill for more details or to have you name added, a £30 non refundable deposit will be required to secure your booking. Travel is overland and accommodation in Lourdes is full board.
Bonus Ball winners this week Saturday 11th February number 6, Helen Marks & Maureen Nathaniel, Wednesday 15th February number 16, Annemarie Gallagher.
Lentfest 2012. Among the festival highlights will be a new play about the martyrdom of Saint John Ogilvie who died at Glasgow Cross in 1615. Anyone interested in going to the play about St John Ogilvie are asked to put their names on the list. Monday 12 March in St Paul’s. Tickets £5
Catholic Education Week—theme for 2012. The theme chosen this year to help us to focus on the importance of education in faith is: “This Is Our Faith”. These words remind us of our baptismal commitment to proclaim the faith which we have received from the Church, thanks to the efforts of our parents, teachers and priests.
We will be moving Mass back into the church from Wednesday.
SCIAF packs are ready to be collected today. Please take one home and return your wee box at the beginning of Easter time. Also the Lenten “Walk With Me” booklets are available, 50p each.
The Season of Lent
We prepare for Lent with Ash Wednesday this week. We are marked on the forehead with ashes made from Palms blessed last year on Palm Sunday. These ashes are a sign of our inner fragility and mortality, and inner penance. We’re reminded of the continual, daily call to conversion which our loving God speaks to us. We respond during these forty days—the time Jesus spent in the desert after His baptism—in faith and hope, by acts of alms-giving, prayer and fasting, so as to purify ourselves spiritually and bodily for a genuine and joyous celebration of our Lord’s Resurrection at the coming of Easter.
Lenten Station Mass. Archbishop Mario Conti will celebrate the Station Mass for the East End Deanery on Monday 5th March at 7.00 pm(?) in St Paul’s Shettleston. The tradition of station churches dates from Pope St Gregory the Great (540-604) in Rome, when Christians met at one church and processed to an agreed-upon station where Mass was celebrated. The Archdiocese continues this tradition with the Bishop celebrating Mass in each deanery, symbolising his role as the centre of unity of the diocese. While we have Mass for the novena to St John Ogilvie here, but request all parishioners to make an effort to join in this Diocesan event.
St John Ogilvie and the Mercy of God.
Friday 2 March He who sees me, sees the Father
Saturday 3 March The Messianic Message
Sunday 4 March Second Sunday of Lent
Monday 5 March Mercy in the Old Testament
Tuesday 6 March The Prodigal Son
Wednesday 7 March The Paschal Mystery
Thursday 8 March From generation to generation
Friday 9 March The Mission of the Church
Saturday 10 March Feast of St John Ogilvie
Masses on weekdays: 10am and 7pm. Masses on Weekends: Saturday 10am and Vigil Mass 6pm, Sunday 11am and 5.30pm. Novena prayers follow each Mass.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament every day between the Masses.
Lent on your Mobile Phone
The Archdiocese will provide a “Lenten thought for the Day” service free to anyone who wishes to make use of it throughout Lent via social media. The idea is to send a short idea or inspirational thought via your mobile phone or computer to help you focus on the message of Lent. Many people leading busy lives have found this a convenient and useful way to help focus their thoughts on spiritual matters in the midst of the buzz of everyday life. To make use of this service visit the Archdiocese of Glasgow Facebook Page and click “like”.
This can be found at www.facebook.com/ArchdioceseofGlasgow
or follow the Archdiocese of Glasgow Twitter Feed. This can be found at www.twitter.com/ArchdiocGlasgow
Sick: Jenny Connolly, Ladonia Low, David Burns, Margaret Barrowcliff, Michael Connolly, Arthur Keenan, Sally Dornan, Brian Fisher, Margaret Kelly, Mary Smith, John Connolly, Diane Smith and Edward McIntosh
RIP: John McDermott
Anniversaries: Betty Brown, Robert Boyle, William Kerr, James Taylor, James Bryce, Peter Drysdale
“I am about to do a new thing.” Are you discerning the inclination to do something new for the Lord, perhaps as a priest, deacon or in the consecrated life? email amckenzie@pfs.org.uk See www.priestsforscotland.org.uk
Beginning Experience The Beginning Experience are holding a weekend for those who find themselves alone again through divorce, separation or bereavement. The weekend will take place from 23rd-25th March 2012 at St. Mary’s, Kinnooull, Perth. For details contact: Ros on 0131 669 0003 or email: roz@hotmail.co.uk.
Newman Association Inter Faith Today: A Newman Association talk by Sister Isabel Smyth SND at 7.30 pm on Thursday 23rd February in Turnbull Hall, 15 Southpark Terrace, Glasgow G12 8LG. All welcome. Non-members admission is £3 which includes refreshments.
PARISHES PILGRIMAGE TO DUBLIN Are you interested in joining with people from other parishes on a pilgrimage to Dublin from June 10th – 17th to celebrate
the 50th International Eucharistic Congress? If so, contact Monsignor Robson at Chancery@standed.org.uk or on 0131 623 8902. Visit www.iec2012
The St.Patrick’s Day Festival, Coatbridge begins on Friday 2nd March and
culminates with the Family Street Event on Saturday 17th March within Coatbridge Town Centre between 11am and 4pm.
For a full list of information about events, to suit everyone, over the 2 weeks please visit www.stpatricksdayfestivalcoatbridge.org
World day of Prayer on Friday 2 March. Written by Christian women of Malaysia, “Let Justice Prevail”. Services in St Paul’s Shettleston at 2pm and St Serf’s, Shettleston at 7.30pm.
The annual “White Mass” will take place on Sunday, 19 February at 3.00 pm in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Cardonald with reception to follow. The Mass is for all who work in the medical, nursing and care sectors and is intended to be a time of solidarity and encouragement. The Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Philip Tartaglia, Bishop of Paisley. All welcome. No tickets necessary.
Fasting: Traditionally giving up sweets and chocolate seems to be the way we “give something up for Lent”. Perhaps this year we might consider doing something a bit more challenging: For example why not fast from some TV, spending the time in prayer instead. Perhaps you might try taking the Short Term Pledge from the Pioneer Association – abstaining from all intoxicating drink until Easter Sunday. Leaflets are available.
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