Third Sunday of Advent Year B Gaudete Sunday

   Gaudete Sunday: 3rd Sunday Advent Year B      17th December 23
 
Sunday Collections                       
First Collection GA: £441.00 NGA: £938.60                                 Monthly Standing Orders: £5,194.50
Building Fund GA: £122.00                                                            
St Anthony’s Box: £85.17
Education GA £50.00
 
Advent Vouchers Appeal: Thank you to all who contributed in our appeal. Through your generosity and kindness many will now have something to give to their children this Christmas.
 
Crib and Christmas trees helpers: Anyone wishing to help put up the Christmas trees on the Sanctuary and setting up the cribs are invited to do so after the 11.30am today.
 
Confessions for Advent: Mon 18th Dec from 7pm to 8pm with other priests from the Deanery. Also 9.30am to 9.50am this Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and Saturday 23rd Dec 10.30am and 3.15pm-3.45pm.
 
Funeral this week: Maureen Frances Callaghan on Tuesday 19th December at 10.00am.
 
Advent Rorate Mass: Mass by candlelight in honour of Our Blessed Lady this Wednesday at 7.30am.
 
Christmas Eve Coffee Morning with raffle. This will take place after the 10am Sunday Mass on Christmas Eve. There will be entertainment and mince pies and maybe even a very special visitor? If anyone wants to donate a raffle prize they can hand it in on the day or after 10am Mass on the 17th.  Happy to have home baking (on the day) too!
 
First Communicants Catechism Class: This will take place in the hal,l this Sunday  17th December after 10am Mass.
 
Masses for Fourth Sunday of Advent and Christmas:
23rd December Vigil 4pm and Sunday 24th 10.00am & 11.30am.
Christmas Eve Vigil (24th Dec) 5pm and Midnight (12) & Christmas Day 8.am & 10.30am.
Please note that 5pm Vigil Mass for Christmas cannot not suffice for both Sunday and Christmas Day obligation.
 
Christmas Flowers for the Church: If you would like to contribute to the flowers and poinsettias for the Christmas Liturgies, please place monies in
 
Parish Fundraiser: Packed with Celtic Heart & Soul (The Herald). Original & Classic Songs with Singer/ Songwriter Maureen O’Kelly on Sunday 21st January from 3pm - 5:30pm in the Hall. Tickets £15pp and can get tickets from the Sacristy/House or 0141 881 0769 or [email protected]  Maureen O Kelly.com/tickets. Ages is plus 16 and  byob and also friends.
 
Stall: There are still some boxes of Religious Christmas Cards (boxes of 18) at £4.25, Christmas Mass Bouquets, Christmas Candles, Church Art Calendars 2024, Children’s Christmas story books, Christmas Gift Wrap bags.  
 
Carols in the Cathedral – Wednesday 27th December 2023 at 2.30pm: This is a lovely way for all of the families to come together as a diocesan community and worship in song the birth of Our Saviour Jesus Christ.  Refreshments in the Hall afterwards.  All donations will go towards SPRED. 
 
Safeguarding Training – 2024: The Scottish Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency has recently reorganised safeguarding induction training into one course only, combining the previous Parts 1 & 2. If you are a new volunteer or one who completed the Part 1 training course more than a year ago, you are invited to sign up for the next Safeguarding training session taking place on Tuesday 16th January at 7pm in St. Mirin’s Cathedral Hall.  Please contact Sarah Jane Colhoun at [email protected] or telephone 0141 847 6138 to book a place.
 
Adoration in the Oratory: The Oratory will close this Friday 22nd of Dec and re-open on Monday 8th January.
 
We pray for those who have died recently:  Maureen Frances Callaghan, James Loughran, Lady Nneka Anieke, Baby Joseph Mellon, Josephine Nasamu, Annie Reid and six months mind of Irene Mc Guire, and for the Anniversaries of John Boyle, Mariano Coelho, Nessie Collins, Margaret & Peter Chesney, Archie & Mary Hughes, Peter Keenan,
Bernard & Susan Mc Allister, Mary MacGregor, Maureen Mc Guire, Anna Marie Pinto, Mary & Tommy Sproul, Mark Smith, Helen Rita Terese Waters.
 
 
 
 
Rev Joseph G Balmer: Parish Priest
Rev Joseph J McGill:   Curate
Email: [email protected]                      Tel- 0141 881 0769
Website: www.stjohns-barrhead.org

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

MaryMurray:SafeguardingCo-Ordinator:[email protected]

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
 
Confiteor: I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned,  in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

Gloria: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

Creed: I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

The Mystery of Faith.
We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again.

Or: When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim your Death, O Lord, until you come again.

Or: Save us, Saviour of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free.
 
Prayer to St Michael, the Archangel:
St Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the Divine Power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen