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27/4/2025

Divine Mercy Sunday Year C

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St John the Evangelist Parish
Aurs Rd., Barrhead G78 2RW

He is Risen, Alleluia.

Divine Mercy Sunday
     27 April 2025


Rev Monsignor John Canon Tormey: Parish Priest
Rev Fr Joseph J McGill:   Assistant Priest
Rev Denis Murphy: Deacon
Email: [email protected] Tel- 0141 881 0769
Website: www.stjohns-barrhead.org

Mary Hallan: Safeguarding Co-Ordinator: [email protected]

LAST WEEK’S COLLECTIONS
First Collection GA: £347.00. NGA £1546.37
Holy Places: GA £575.60 NGA £755.75
SCIAF BOXES £299.00
Monthly Standing Orders: £4,271.50

St Conval’s Cemetery Mass
This Sunday at 2pm. Main celebrant
Monsignor John Tormey

Response to Psalm:
“Give praise to the Lord for he is good,
His mercy endures forever.”

May 10th In the Parish Hall, AGAP Theatre presents “The Margaret Sinclair Story” (marking 100 years since the death of Venerable Margaret Sinclair) National Tour.
The true story of the Edinburgh factory girl who could be Scotland’s next canonised Saint brought to life in this acclaimed production en route to the Edinburgh Fringe. An ordinary life lived with cheerful holiness amidst the challenges of her time, proving that saintliness is something we can all aspire to. Performed by Rachel Callaghan, a living relative of Venerable Margaret Sinclair. Written & Directed by Stephen Callaghan. Sat 10th May at 7.30pm – St John the Evangelist, Barrhead: Tickets: £10/£7/£5 (Pay What You Can – you choose.) from www.agap.org.uk/tickets or call 0749 534 7884. (50% of ticket sales will support the parish renovation project.) See posters for more details.

We pray for those who have died recently: Pope Francis, Monsignor Charles Cavanagh, Lynne Ewing, Patricia Wheelan, Michael Docherty

We have had sympathy messages on the death of our Holy Father from Blair McDougall, MP, Rev Tim Mineard, St Andrew’s C.of S, and from congregation and minister of URC.

We pray for the anniversaries of:
Fr John F McNamara, O.C.D., William McNamara,
Matilda McGorrian, John McGorrian, Margaret Ellis,
James McShane, Maurice McGuire, James Bisland, Bernardine Wilson, Anne Richardson, John Marshall,
Joseph McKee, Catherine Kerrins.

Funerals
Michael Docherty Wednesday 7 May 10am
Patricia Wheelan Thursday 15 May 10am

Lourdes Hospitalité: Booking is now open for the Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes, 28th June-3rd July 2025. please contact Anne Louise pilgrimage co-ordinator on 01475 638132

Catholic Mothers Play and Pray Group
Tues 10.30am in Parish Hall, All children and mothers welcome Contact Rachel Callaghan for more details 07508835310
[email protected]

Coffee Mornings: £237 was presented to the building fund from recent events. Thank you all who use the Sunday Teas.

New Sunday Missal in Stall
Orders have now arrived.
Red cover: £19.95 White cover: £22.95
Jubilee Year Items also available in stall.

Summer Fete Saturday 7 June 2025
We need more volunteers for our summer fete, even just to help set up and put away tables. Also required, are abled bodied people to help erect the gazebos. Please help.

Raffle Tickets are now available for selling.
Raffle Tickets: Can you please take away a bunch of tickets and when you get them sold, please hand in ticket stubs and money to the sacristy. We have great prizes, including a 40” Samsung TV. Envelopes with sets of tickets can be collected from the back of the church. Thank you.
      Donations Can now be handed in to the church hall, back room or in the donation box in the church porch: Toys, jewellery, plants and home baking, (the day before the fete), arts and crafts, bottles and gifts for the wheel of fortune
     and the tombola. Alcohol can be given to SSVP members before Mass or handed into the sacristy.
We will also have a bouncy castle, beat the goalie and other games for all the family.

Parish Renovation Project
The Diocesan Property Office conducted a due diligence report with three options for our parish church:
Option One: Restore the Present Building.
Option Two: Rebuild a new church on the present site.
Option Three: Build on a church extension to the existing hall and demolish the existing church.

Here are the budget costs for these options:
Option One complete refurbishment: £1,554,042
Option Two new Build: £4,182,773
Option Three Hall Extension: £1,563,285

The Parish Pastoral Council met to discuss this report on March 25. Clearly Option two is beyond our means. Option one was favoured, but option three was also seen as a possibility.

The Diocesan Property Office has since informed the parish that along with our present building fund savings (over £543,610) and what the diocese can lend the parish, our total budget including VAT and Fees cannot go over £900,000 for any of these projects.
      This presents a challenge. It was suggested by the diocesan and finance and property committee that we could sell off some land to help fund option three.

A further meeting took place with the Diocesan Property Manager, the Project Manager from KSNPM, and two parish reps on 10 April. It is possible to do a reduced project for Option One costing £907,000 (including VAT and Fees). This would make the building wind and water tight, and would include repair of gutters, repairs to upper and lower roofs, walls, removing insulation in cavity walls, drying out wall and replacing plaster, repainting the church, and refurbishing windows. It would exclude new windows and leave the heating system as it is for the time being.

Any church building will always need an ongoing maintenance plan, which will allow us to make further improvements, once we get the church into a good state of repair and have paid off the diocesan loan.
Option Three can still be done but it means we have to sell land and demolish the existing church. Therefore, my own opinion is that I feel that option one will allow us to retain
a separate hall, and return the church to a good condition, and allow the parish church of St John’s to retain its prominence in the town of Barrhead.

I invite everyone to a general meeting for the whole parish in the church at 7pm on Tuesday 6 May.

We will meet with the Parish Priest, Diocesan Finance Director, Diocesan Property Manager, the Project Manager from KSNPM, and the Chairperson of the Parish Pastoral Council, to inform parishioners about how the project could be undertaken, and to allow for questions and suggestions. We would also look at how we would repay the diocesan loan. There will be a format for asking questions.
As a parish community I ask you to pray earnestly for the successful outcome of this enterprise.
Monsignor John Tormey. Parish Priest.

St John’s, Barrhead Diocesan Finance Report from Jackie Brett, Diocesan Finance Director

The profit and loss account for year ended 31 December 2024 shows a profit of £48,339.
Income            £248,924
Expenses         £200,585
Profit £48,339
This represents a 19% profit.

The balance as at 31 December 2024 on the parish loan to Diocese was £91,922.
The balance as at 31 December 2024 on Investment with Diocese was £451,688.

The buying power of a £10 per week donation in 2015 is equivalent of £14.20 per week in 2025 after adjusting for inflation. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support of the parish and would ask parishioners wishing to increase their standing orders or set up new standing orders to complete a standing order form and gift aid declaration, if applicable and return them to the parish priest. These forms can be obtained from the parish website. Alternatively, you can set up regular faster payment to the parish via your online banking system. Thank you. Jackie Brett, Diocesan Finance Director

Parish bank details as follows:
St Johns Church
Sort Code 80-05-54
Account No 00761597

Times of Sunday Masses: Sat Vigil 4pm. Sun: 10am, 11.30am, 5pm.
Weekdays: Mon to Saturday 10am. Workers Mass: Each Wednesday at 7.30am
Daily Adoration in Church: 9.00am – 9.55am.
In Oratory: 10.30am-9pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Daily Rosary: 9.25am.
Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions): Monday to Friday 9.30am -9.50am
Saturday: 10.30 am – 10.50am & 3.15pm – 3.45pm

Fatima Vigils at Howwood resume on Monday 12th May
and every 12th of the month until October. Rosary Procession
(round the grounds, weather permitting), Mass, followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, ending with Benediction. In this Holy Year of Hope we will focus on praying for peace in our divided world. The hall opens at 7pm, and the Rosary procession starts at 7.30pm. Tea/coffee available in hall after Benediction. Please consider making this a parish activity for the Holy Year. All welcome.

22/4/2025

Easter Sunday Year C

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St John the Evangelist Parish
Aurs Rd., Barrhead G78 2RW

He is Risen, Alleluia.

Easter Sunday
20 April 2025

Rev Monsignor John Canon Tormey: Parish Priest
Rev Fr Joseph J McGill:   Assistant Priest
Rev Denis Murphy: Deacon
Email: [email protected] Tel- 0141 881 0769
Website: www.stjohns-barrhead.org

Mary Hallan:    Safeguarding Co-Ordinator: [email protected]

LAST WEEK’S COLLECTIONS
First Collection GA: £379.60. NGA £1002.11
Building Fund: GA £146.00 NGA £220.00
Monthly Standing Orders: £4,271.50

Easter Coffee Morning after 10am Mass on Easter Sunday in the church hall. It's going to be fantastic! Please come along for a cup of tea and a hot cross bun and enjoy some entertainment from Anna Marie. There will be a raffle, home baking and there might even be an extra special treat for the kids. Come along and celebrate a very blessed Easter in the parish.

Response to Psalm:
“The is the day the Lord has made:
let us rejoice in it and be glad”
Thanks to everyone who helped us to celebrate Holy Week: the most holy of weeks of the year.
Thanks to our sacristans, church cleaners, flower arrangers, readers, pass keepers, Eucharistic ministers, choirs and musicians for helping to make the church and liturgy so beautiful for our celebrations. Thanks for your hard work and commitment.
Easter Sunday: 10am and 11.30 am
No Easter Sunday evening Mass
Easter Week: Masses at Normal Times

Barrhead Churches Together
Thank you to everyone who joined in the Holy Week Celebrations of the local Christians in Barrhead and Neilston. It is good for us to find ways to pray and celebrate together.
We pray for those who have died recently            John Walker, Florence (Ann) Carson, Kenneth McMaster, Thomas Kelly, Lynne Ewing.

We pray for the anniversaries of
James Kierney, Helen Monaghan, Barbara McAleavy, Christopher Gribbon, James Hunter, Eleanor Hunter, Roseann Armstrong, Margaret Conafray, Sharon Giblin, Robin Millar, Jim Cassidy, Tom McAllister, Nan Brady, Ian Morton, Kenneth McMaster

Funerals
John Walker: vigil 7pm 22 April
Funeral Mass 10am 23 April
Florence Ann Carson 10am 24 April

Lourdes Hospitalité: Booking is now open for the Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes, 28th June-3rd July 2025. please contact Anne Louise pilgrimage co-ordinator on 01475 638132

Catholic Mothers Play and Pray Group
Tues 10.30am in Parish Hall, All children and mothers welcome Contact Rachel Callaghan for more details 07508835310
[email protected]

New Sunday Missal in Stall
New Red and White Cover Sunday Missal are now available. If you would like to order a new missal please let Alison know.
Red cover: £19.95 White cover: £22.95
Jubilee Year Items also available in stall.

Summer Fete Saturday 7 June 2025
We need more volunteers for our summer fete. We would like different parish groups and individuals to take charge of a stall each. It will be a great family day for the parish and we look forward to everyone getting involved in some way, even just to help set up and put away tables. Also required, are abled bodied people to help erect the gazebos.

Raffle Tickets are now available for selling. Can you please take away a bunch of tickets and when you get them sold, please hand in ticket stubs and money to the sacristy. We have great prizes, including a 40 inch Samsung TV. Tickets can be collected from the back of the church. Thank you.

Donations Can now be handed in to the church hall, back room or in the donation box in the church porch: Toys, jewellery, plants, home baking, (the day before the fete), arts and crafts, bottles and gifts for the wheel of fortune and the tombola. Alcohol can be given to SSVP members before Mass or handed into the sacristy.

We will also have a bouncy castle, beat the goalie and other games for all the family.

Parish Renovation Project
The Diocesan Property Office conducted a due diligence report with three options for our parish church:
Option One: Restore the Present Building.
Option Two: Rebuild a new church on the present site.
Option Three: Build on a church extension to the existing hall and demolish the existing church.

Here are the budget costs for these options:
Option One complete refurbishment: £1,554,042
Option Two new Build: £4,182,773
Option Three Hall Extension: £1,563,285

The Parish Pastoral Council met to discuss this report on March 25. Clearly Option two is beyond our means. Option one was favoured, but option three was also seen as a possibility.

The Diocesan Property Office has since informed the parish that along with our present building fund savings (over £400,000) and what the diocese can lend the parish, our total budget including VAT and Fees cannot go over £900,000 for any of these projects.

This presents a challenge. It was suggested by the diocesan and finance and property committee that we could sell off some land to help fund option three.

I then met with the Diocesan Property Manager, the Project Manager from KSNPM, and two parish reps on 10 April to discuss what could be done.

The result of this meeting is as follows.
We can do a reduced project for option one that would come to £907,000 (including VAT and Fees) which would make the building wind and water tight, and would include repair of gutters, repairs to upper and lower roofs, walls, removing insulation in cavity walls, drying out wall and replacing plaster, repaint the church, and refurbish windows. It would exclude new windows and leave the heating system as it is for the time being.

Any church building will always need an ongoing maintenance plan, which will allow us to make further improvements, once we get the church into a good state of repair and have paid off the diocesan loan.

Option Three can still be done but it means we have to sell land and demolish the existing church.

I feel that option one will allow us to retain a separate hall, and return the church to a good condition, and allow the parish church of St John’s to retain its prominence in the town of Barrhead.

I invite you to a general meeting for the whole parish in the church at 7pm on Tuesday 6 May, to which every parishioner is welcome to attend.

We will meet with the Parish Priest, Diocesan Finance Director, Diocesan Property Manager, the Project Manager from KSNPM, and the Chairperson of the Parish Pastoral Council, to inform parishioners about how the project could be undertaken, and to allow for questions and suggestions. We would also look at how we would repay the diocesan loan. There will be a format for asking questions.

As a parish community I ask you to pray earnestly for the successful outcome of this enterprise.
Monsignor John Tormey. Parish Priest.

Times of Sunday Masses: Sat Vigil 4pm. Sun: 10am, 11.30am, 5pm.
Weekdays: Mon to Saturday 10am. Workers Mass: Each Wednesday at 7.30am
Daily Adoration in Church: 9.00am – 9.55am.
In Oratory: 10.30am-9pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Daily Rosary: 9.25am.
Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions): Monday to Friday 9.30am -9.50am
Saturday: 10.30 am – 10.50am & 3.15pm – 3.45pm

Training for Baptismal Preparation Volunteers: The next 'training' day for volunteers delegated by their Parish Priests to be involved in Baptismal Preparation is on Saturday 3rd May, 10:30am - 3pm in the Diocesan Offices. You will be most welcome.

Happy Easter to you all
from Fr John, Fr Joe and Deacon Denis.

12/4/2025

Palm Sunday Year C Holy Week

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St John the Evangelist Parish
Aurs Rd., Barrhead G78 2RW

Palm Sunday Year C
Holy Week
13 April 2025

Rev Monsignor John Canon Tormey: Parish Priest
Rev Fr Joseph J McGill:   Assistant Priest
Rev Denis Murphy: Deacon
Email: [email protected] Tel- 0141 881 0769
Website: www.stjohns-barrhead.org

Mary Hallan:    Safeguarding Co-Ordinator: [email protected]

LAST WEEK’S COLLECTIONS
First Collection GA: £332.00. NGA £1084.30
Building Fund: GA £691.70 NGA £525.74
Monthly Standing Orders: £4,271.50

Easter Coffee Morning after 10am Mass on Easter Sunday in the church hall. It's going to be fantastic! Please come along for a cup of tea and a hot cross bun and enjoy some entertainment from Anna Marie. There will be a raffle, home baking and there might even be an extra special treat for the kids. Come along and celebrate a very blessed Easter in the parish.

Response to Psalm:
“My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?”

Mass Times for Holy Week

Palm Sunday Normal Mass times
Monday – Wed normal Mass times
Holy Triduum
Chrism Mass: (Wed) St Mirin’s Cathedral 7pm
Holy Thursday: Morning Prayer 10am
Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7pm
Night Prayer 10pm
Good Friday: Morning Prayer 10am
Good Friday Walk of Witness in Barrhead starting at St John’s RC Church 10.30am
Commemoration of the Passion 3pm
Stations of the Cross 7pm
Holy Saturday: Morning Prayer 10am
Easter Vigil (at sunset): 8.30pm
Easter Sunday: 10am and 11.30 am
No Easter Sunday evening Mass
Easter Week: Masses at Normal Times

The Oratory will be closed from 9.00 pm on Wednesday16th April until 10.30 am on Monday 28th April

Barrhead Churches Together
You are welcome to join in with the Holy Week Celebrations of the local Christians in Barrhead and Neilston:
Sunday 13th April 7pm: Palm Sunday service: Bourock Parish Church
Monday 14th April 7pm: St Thomas’ RC Church Neilston
Tuesday 15th April 7pm: United Reformed Church Barrhead
Wednesday 16th April 7pm: Barrhead St Andrew’s Parish Church
Friday 18th April 10.30am: Walk of Witness: Meeting at St John’s RC Church
Friday 18th April 7pm: Stations of the Cross
St John’s RC Church
Sunday 20th April 8am: Early morning service outside Bourock Parish Church

We pray for those who have died recently            John Walker, Florence (Ann) Carson, Kenneth McMaster

We pray for the anniversaries of
Theresa Haggerty, Eamon Delaney, John Delaney, John Lafferty, Andrew McLaughlin, Kate Crowther (nee Munn)
And the first anniversary of Maria Straiton

Funerals
John Walker: vigil 6pm 22 April
Funeral Mass 10am 23 April

Lourdes Hospitalité: Booking is now open for the Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes, 28th June-3rd July 2025. please contact Anne Louise pilgrimage co-ordinator on 01475 638132

Catholic Mothers Play and Pray Group
Tues 10.30am in Parish Hall, All children and mothers welcome Contact Rachel Callaghan for more details 07508835310
[email protected]

New Sunday Missal in Stall
New Red and White Cover Sunday Missal are now available. If you would like to order a new missal please let Alison know.
Red cover: £19.95 White cover: £22.95
Jubilee Year Items also available in stall.

Parish Renovation Project
The diocesan property office conducted a due diligence report with three options for our parish church:
Option One: Restore the Present Building.
Option Two: Rebuild a new church on the present site.
Option Three: Build on a church extension to the existing hall and demolish the existing church.

Here are the budget costs for these options:
Option One complete refurbishment: £1,554,042
Option Two new Build: £4,182,773
Option Three Hall Extension: £1,563,285

The Parish Pastoral Council met to discuss this report on March 25. Clearly Option two is beyond our means. Option one was favoured, but option three was also seen as a possibility.

The Diocesan Property Office has since informed the parish that along with our present building fund savings (over £400,000) and what the diocese can lend the parish, our total budget including VAT and Fees cannot go over £900,000 for any of these projects.

This presents a challenge. It was suggested by the diocesan and finance and property committee that we could sell off some land to help fund option three.

I then met with the Diocesan Property Manager, the Project Manager from KSNPM, and two parish reps on 10 April to discuss what could be done.

The result of this meeting is as follows.
We can do a reduced project for option one that would come to £907,000 (including VAT and Fees) which would make the building wind and water tight, and would include repair of gutters, repairs to upper and lower roofs, walls, removing insulation in cavity walls, drying out wall and replacing plaster, repaint the church, and refurbish windows. It would exclude new windows and leave the heating system as it is for the time being.

Any church building will always need an ongoing maintenance plan, which will allow us to make further improvements, once we get the church into a good state of repair and have paid off the diocesan loan.

Option Three can still be done but it means we have to sell land and demolish the existing church.

I feel that option one will allow us to retain a separate hall, and return the church to a good condition, and allow the parish church to retain its prominence in the town of Barrhead.

I invite you to a general meeting for the whole parish in the church at 7pm on Tuesday 6 May, to which every parishioner is welcome to attend.

We will meet with the Parish Priest, Diocesan Finance Director, Diocesan Property Manager, the Project Manager from KSNPM, and the chairperson of the Parish Pastoral Council, to inform parishioners about how the project could be undertaken, and to allow for questions and suggestions. We would also look at how we would repay the diocesan loan. There will be a format for asking questions.

As a parish community I ask you to pray earnestly for the successful outcome of this enterprise.
Monsignor John Tormey. Parish Priest.

Summer Fete Saturday 7 June 2025
We need more volunteers for our summer fete. We would like different parish groups and individuals to take charge of a stall each. It will be a great family day for the parish and we look forward to everyone getting involved in some way, even just to help set up and put away tables. Also required, are abled bodied people to help erect the gazebos.
Donations Can now be handed in to the church hall, back room or in the donation box in the church porch: Toys, jewellery, plants, home baking (the day before the fete), arts and crafts, bottles and gifts for the wheel of fortune and the tombola. Alcohol can be given to SSVP members before Mass or handed into the sacristy.
We will also have a bouncy castle, beat the goalie and other games for all the family.

Times of Sunday Masses: Sat Vigil 4pm. Sun: 10am, 11.30am, 5pm.
Weekdays: Mon to Saturday 10am. Workers Mass: Each Wednesday at 7.30am
Daily Adoration in Church: 9.00am – 9.55am.
In Oratory: 10.30am-9pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Daily Rosary: 9.25am.
Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions): Monday to Friday 9.30am -9.50am
Saturday: 10.30 am – 10.50am & 3.15pm – 3.45pm

BUS FOR THE 7PM MASS OF THE CHRISM AT THE CATHEDRAL WEDNESDAY 14 APRIL
There is a bus booked for us leaving at 6.15pm from St John’s Barrhead to go to the Chrism Mass this Wednesday 14 April. Bus returns at 9.20pm to allow for a cup of tea after Mass in the Hall. Tickets £5

5/4/2025

Fifth Sunday of Lent Year C

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St John the Evangelist Parish
Aurs Rd., Barrhead G78 2RW

5th Sunday of Lent Year C
Passion Week
6 April 2025

Rev Monsignor John Canon Tormey: Parish Priest
Rev Fr Joseph J McGill:   Assistant Priest
Rev Denis Murphy:  Deacon
Email: [email protected] Tel- 0141 881 0769
Website: www.stjohns-barrhead.org

Mary Hallan Safeguarding Co-Ordinator: [email protected]

LAST WEEK’S COLLECTIONS
First Collection GA: £421.30.00  NGA £1234.85
Building Fund: GA £74.70 NGA 20.00
SCIAF COLLECTION: £1064.54
Monthly Standing Orders: £4,271.50

Children’s Rosary
We meet on Friday 11th April at 6pm.

Sacred Heart Companions Prayer Group
The Prayer Group will meet in St John’s Tea Room,
Tue 8 April from 1pm – 2pm.

Response to Psalm

“What great deeds the LORD worked for us! Indeed, we were glad.”
The Season of Lent

Weekday Masses During Lent 10am each day
And Wednesdays 7.30am and Thursdays 7pm
St Luke’s HS Fridays 8.20am
Stations of the Cross:
After Masses on Wednesday (10.30am), Thursday (7pm) and Friday (10.30am)
Brief Stations of the Cross for Infants after Tuesday Morning Mass: (10.30am)(Catholic Mothers Group)

Mass Times for Holy Week

Palm Sunday Normal Mass times
Monday – Wed normal Mass times
Triduum
Chrism Mass: St Mirin’s Cathedral 7pm
Holy Thursday: Morning Prayer 10am
Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7pm
Night Prayer 10pm
Good Friday: Morning Prayer 10am
Good Friday Walk of Witness in Barrhead starting at St John’s RC Church 10.30am
Commemoration of the Passion 3pm
Stations of the Cross 7pm
Holy Saturday: Morning Prayer 10am
Easter Vigil (at sunset): 8.30pm
Easter Sunday: 10am and 11.30 am
No Easter Sunday evening Mass
Easter Week: Masses at Normal Times

Sacrament of Reconciliation
Confessions at St Joseph’s Clarkston 7pm 8 April
Confessions at normal times in St John’s up until and including Wednesday of Holy Week.

Barrhead Churches Together
You are welcome to join in with the Holy Week Celebrations of the local Christians in Barrhead and Neilston:
Sunday 13th April 7pm: Palm Sunday service: Bourock Parish Church
Monday 14th April 7pm: St Thomas’ RC Church Neilston
Tuesday 15th April 7pm: United Reformed Church Barrhead
Wednesday 16th April 7pm: Barrhead St Andrew’s Parish Church
Friday 18th April 10.30am: Walk of Witness: Meeting at St John’s RC Church
Friday 18th April 7pm: Stations of the Cross
St John’s RC Church
Sunday 20th April 8am: Early morning service outside Bourock Parish Church

New Tax Year Gift Aid First and Second Collection Envelopes.
Gift Aid Declarations: you are kindly requested to donate by standing order to St John’s Parish Account or take a full box of Gift Aid Envelopes.
If you have a standing order you can also use Second Collection Envelopes, which allow us to claim tax back on your second collection offerings.

Standing Orders
Thank you to everyone who has recently signed a new standing order
We are encouraging parishioners to take out a standing order for the first collections, rather than using cash. If you feel you can do this, it will make our money counters very happy, as they will have less work to do. Forms available in church porch.
If you already pay by standing order you may wish to consider increasing the amount you donate.
Remember that you can take out a standing order whether you Gift Aid or not. Some banks have their own SO Forms, eg Virgin Bank. Please check.
If you do pay tax and have not already signed a Gift Aid form, please think of signing a Gift Aid Form today. This helps your contributions to the parish at no extra expense to you, but it gives 25p extra to the church. It is like money for old rope, as the saying goes!

We pray for those who have died recently: Charlotte Duncan

We pray for the anniversaries of
Margaret Nunnery, Hugh Lynch, Gerard Maguire, Michael McGuire, Claudina Fernandes,
Suzie Tinsley, Catherine Smith, John Gray,
Robert Philips, Catherine McCready, Nancy Wilson

Funerals
Charlotte Duncan: Tues 8th April 10am Mass

Lourdes Hospitalité: Booking is now open for the Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes, 28th June-3rd July 2025. please contact Anne Louise pilgrimage co-ordinator on 01475 638132

Catholic Mothers Play and Pray Group
Tues 10.30am in Parish Hall, All children and mothers welcome Contact Rachel Callaghan for more details 07508835310
[email protected]

New Sunday Missal in Stall
New Red and White Cover Sunday Missal are now available. If you would like to order a new missal please let Alison know.
Red cover: £19.95 White cover: £22.95
Jubilee Year Items also available in stall.

Think Vocation: There is no greater joy than to share with people the all-encompassing love and mercy of God in the sacraments. Could you be called to share this gift with others, to bring them the Father’s undying love? Speak to our Diocesan Vocations Director, Fr John Morrison - email: [email protected] or phone 01418892602.

Additional Teaching Qualification in Religious Education (Catholic Schools): The St. Andrews Foundation for Catholic Teacher Education is delighted to offer the opportunity for teachers to gain an additional qualification in religious education. The ATQRE course fulfils the academic requirement for applying to the GTCS for professional registration as a specialist Religious Education teacher in the Catholic Secondary school. The course begins in August 2025. For all details including teaching dates and costs - https://www.gla.ac.uk/study/cpd/atqreforcatholicschools/
The Diocese of Paisley support ATQRE and will pay one third of the fees for any applicants who live in the diocese and attend bishop John’s support sessions. For details - https://www.rcdop.org.uk/atqre

Proposal for Summer Fete Saturday 7 June 2025
Please do offer your help to plan for our Summer Fete. We would like different parish groups and individuals to take charge of a stall each. It will be a great family day for the parish and we look forward to everyone getting involved in some way, even just to help set up and put away tables.

Donations Can now be handed in to the church hall, back room: Toys, jewellery, plants, home baking, arts and crafts, bottles and gifts for the wheel of fortune and the tombola.
We will also have a bouncy castle, beat the goalie and other games for all the family.

Youth to Lourdes Quiz: St. Patrick's church hall Orangefield Place Greenock on this Sunday 6th April commencing at 7.30pm. BYOB and eats. £2 entry adults, children free. Tea/ Coffee biscuits will be served. Donations for the raffle will be welcome.

Lent Pro-Life Stations of the Cross: Pray the Stations of the Cross every Monday in Lent: 7.45pm, on Zoom. Register here:  https://bit.ly/stations25

2025 Leadership programme for Sixth Form Students: The CHC’s Christian Leadership Formation programme. For more information and to apply at St. Mary’s Twickenham see: www.christianleadershipformation.com

Times of Sunday Masses: Sat Vigil 4pm. Sun: 10am, 11.30am, 5pm.
Weekdays: Mon to Saturday 10am. Workers Mass: Each Wednesday at 7.30am

Daily Adoration in Church: 9.00am – 9.55am.

In Oratory: 10.30am-9pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Daily Rosary: 9.25am.

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions): Monday to Friday 9.30am -9.50am
Saturday: 10.30 am – 10.50am & 3.15pm – 3.45pm

100 Club Winners for March
Jim Bell 105 £100
Helen Deveney 57 £50
G & M Easdon 168 £30
Marie McCool 132 £20
Virginia Durie 39 £20