Feast of the Baptism of Jesus Year C

​St John the Evangelist Parish
Aurs Rd., Barrhead G78 2RW
 
Feast of the Baptism of Jesus  Year C
12 January 2025  
 

 
Rev Monsignor John Canon Tormey: Parish Priest
Rev Joseph J McGill:   Assistant Priest
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: £366.00  NGA £858.83
Christmas GA: £1382.60  NGA £1796.08
Monthly Standing Orders: £4,271.50
 
 
Response to Psalm:
"The Lord will bless his people with peace."

​Justice and Peace Second Collection this Sunday
 
Crib Donations for St Margaret’s Family and Child Care. There is a donation box at the Lady
 
Sunday Tea and Coffee restarts on Sunday 12 January All welcome to join us after the 10 am Mass. It will be the turn of the St Luke’s caritas students.
 
The Tuesday Tea and Coffee  will start back on Tuesday 14 January 2025 after the 10 am Mass.
 
Presentation for Canon Joseph Balmer
Please do come along to the Mass and reception for Canon Joe Balmer this coming Thursday 16 January with Holy Mass at 7pm followed by a reception in the hall to which everyone is invited. All donations of food for the buffet gratefully received and can be dropped off in the hall from 6 pm until 6.45 pm on the night.
Donation envelopes for Canon Joe’s Presentation are available at the back of the church. Thank you.
 
No Quiz Night this January. Next quiz night:  14 February. Thanks for December quiz night which raised £63 for the Church Restoration Fund.
 
“Catholic Families for Life” Newsletter from the National Commission for Marriage, Family and Life - latest version can be found at www.marriagefamilyandlife.org.uk
 
We pray for those who have died recently           Janet Keenan, Betty McQuade, Tommy Taylor, John Rippey, John Marshall, Mark McVey, Thomas McMahon, Tracey McHugh, Eileen McTernan, Kathleen McEntee,
 
and for the anniversaries of Robert Gibbon, Clare Murray, Greg Thomas McMaster, Liam and Irene McLaughlin, Brian Corcoran, Maria and Tommy O’Hara, Pearl Dunne, Bernadette Docherty, May Cheney, Charles McAleavy, Peter McEwan, Anne McQuade, Rosalinda Pinto.
 
Church Cleaning. Can you please spare an hour on a Thursday after 10am Mass to help clean our church. Thanks very much. Fr John
 
St Luke’s High School First Friday Prayer Group.
We will ask our young people to add your intentions to their oratory prayer book.
You can add names at this website: https://forms.office.com/e/LZiW6ZAtiU
 
 
Lourdes Hospitalité: Booking is now open for the Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes, 28th June-3rd July 2025. Booking is currently via the Tangney Tours website, booking forms will be available soon. If you have a life limiting, chronic medical condition or a taking regular medication you should register with the medical/nursing team. If you wish to come to Lourdes as part of the medical/nursing or helper team, please attend the meeting on 7th January at 7pm in St Ninian’s, Gourock. If you would like to come to Lourdes as a registered sick pilgrim please come to the meeting on 26th January at 2pm in St Ninian’s, Gourock. If you have any questions, please contact Anne Louise pilgrimage co-ordinator on 01475 638132
 
 
Think Vocation:. If you think God is calling you to be a priest, please get in touch with Fr John Morrison, our Diocesan Vocations Director, tel: 01418892602 or email: [email protected]
 
 
The Diocesan Youth Commission invites children in P4-7 to a Retreat Day on Sunday 19th January, from 2-5pm. The theme is The Luminous Mysteries of the Holy Rosary. The day begins and ends in the church hall at Holy Family parish, Port Glasgow. It will include Holy Mass. A light dinner will be provided. Registration is necessary: www.tinyurl.com/dpy-january-retreat.
Email Fr Ryan for more info:
[email protected].
 
100 Club Winners for December
1st: £100 N 28 Eliz Corcoran
2nd: £50  N 30 Susan Kinroy
3rd: £30: N 100 John J Reilly
4th: £20: n 132 Marie McCool
5th: £20: n 102 Maureen Davidson
Please collect prizes from sacristy after Mass.
 
Justice & Peace collection Today 12 Jan 2025
In 2024 our Justice & Peace collection raised £16,793 with an additional £1,373 from Gift Aid and £1,665 in interest, bringing total income to £19,831. In 2024 our total (draft) expenditure was £34,953 with £10,300 as our Diocesan pro-rata contribution to the National J&P work and £24,653 for the Scottish Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency. So, our costs in 2024 were £15,122 (76%) higher than our income.
 
This collection helps fund our Scottish Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, our Marriage Tribunal and our Catholic Parliamentary Office. Our Justice & Peace Commission campaigns against renewal of Trident, for fairness for asylum seekers and refugees and for action against climate change and for the environment. It also networks with parishes and advises our Bishops on social justice, international peace and human rights. Our national Marriage Tribunal processes cases for annulment and supports two staff.  Our Parliamentary Office works with MSPs, MPs and the wider political society to promote the influence of Catholic Social Teaching on our law and supports one officer. Thank you
 
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
 
Funerals this  month: 
 
13th January:   Janet Keenan 10am Mass
20th January: Elizabeth (Betty) McQuade
Awaiting date: John McCrory
 
Jubilee Year of Hope
 
The Jubilee Cross will most often be in the Cathedral. Throughout the year we are intending to have a monthly Cluster Mass, from February onwards. Each Cluster will be invited, in turn, to host a Mass at which Bishop John will be the main celebrant. In due course the curial office will organise the dates with you.
 
The Jubilee Year Indulgence. It is possible to receive the Indulgence, with the normal conditions, (having gone to confession, received holy communion and having a true desire to draw closer to God) and these can be obtained  in many contexts: Pilgrimages, pious visits to sacred sites, retreats, missions, engaging in corporal and spiritual works of mercy, for acts of penance and fasting (including from social media), for works in support of the protection of life, joining pilgrimages and Jubilee events through means of communication when it is not possible to be present in person.
 
The Diocesan Education Department has engaged exceptionally with schools to prepare for the Jubilee and have also prepared age-appropriate versions of the Jubilee Prayer, which have already been distributed in St Luke’s HS and to the P7s and P4s in St Mark’s PS and St John’s PS, and the young people are being asked to be “Ambassadors of Hope” to their family, friends, school and parish