Twenty First Sunday Year A

 Twenty First Sunday Year A 27 th August 23
Sunday Collections First Collection
​GA: £381.55. NGA: £931.69.

Monthly Standing Orders: £5,194.50
Building Fund GA: £65.00
Pro-life GA: £200.
St Anthony’s Box: £112.10.

​First Friday Children’s Rosary in St John’s: This Friday at 6.30pm. This is an opportunity, for children of all ages to gather together to pray the rosary. All families are invited to attend and pre-school children are very welcome. The idea is that children as young as 4 or 5 and up to around 14 can learn to lead the rosary and make the rosary part of their daily lives. The rosary only lasts around 15 minutes. Please contact Lesley Ward if you need any further information ([email protected] or call 07910266821). First Friday Masses: 10am & & 7pm. Diocesan Vocations Mass: Please join Bishop John and our Diocesan family in praying for Vocations to the Priesthood, Diaconate and the Consecrated Life at St. Mirin’s Cathedral on Thursday 14th September 7.00pm. All welcome! Safeguarding Training For Those Holding PVGs: If you are a PVG holder, who has not yet attended training, a prospective applicant, or a pastoral worker and have only completed Level One Training, please see the notice on the Safeguarding Board in the porch or contact Mary Hallan at [email protected] . Massive threat to Religious Freedom- please contact your MSPS: The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill, tabled by Gillian Mc Kay, will soon be debated in Holyrood. The Bill will introduce so-called buffer zones around abortion clinics. It bans prayer in certain areas, a massive attack on religious freedom and removes a lifeline for women who want to keep their babies but feel they have no other choice than abortion. Please contact your Member of the Scottish Parliament to make your views known. You can go to https:// www.spuc.org.uk/nobufferzonesscotland . This webtool helps you edit the email template and submit to your MSP. Diocesan Fundraising Appeal 26th/27th August: This is essentially a relaunch of the successful Friends Appeal of some years back which continues to bring in over £50,000 annually to Diocese. This helps with the costs like Vocations, Seminarians, Retired Priests, Special needs Religious Education and much more. Sister Connie Cameron (4pm Vigil) Stephanie Carr (10 & 11.30) and Anna Gallagher will speak at the Masses. Information packs will be available to explain each collection with the promise of annual updates to show how things are progressing. Annual National Pilgrimage to Carfin: This will take place on Sunday the 3 rd of September with Mass at 3pm. Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family in the UK will preach. The Bishop’s Conference of Scotland ask us to pray especially for peace at this Mass between Russia and the Ukraine. List in Sacristy for Bus. Assisted Suicide: The Dangers: A webinar to consider the dangers of legalising assisted suicide in Scotland, and what you can do to help prevent it Online, Thursday 31st August from 7pm-8pm. 2023 National Pilgrimage for the Beatification of the Venerable Margaret Sinclair: This will take place on Sunday 17 September from 12.30pm - 6pm at St Patrick's Church, Cowgate, Edinburgh, EH1 1NA. 12.30-1.50 Refreshments and sale of candles & goods; 2pm Holy Hour with Rosary, Confession, Silence, Hymns & Benediction; 3pmReflection & Novena Prayers; 3.30pm Break for refreshments and sale of candles & goods; 4.30pm Holy Mass. Parish Hall: Teas & Coffees in the hall after the 10am Mass. We pray for those who have died recently: Carol Forsyth, James Mc Gettigan, Joseph Porter and for the Anniversaries of James& Jean Carberry, Elizabeth & James Carberry, Mariano Coelho, Sacramento Coelho, Eamon Delaney, John Delaney, Jane Devenny, Greta Doyle, Agnes Geddes, John Hughes, Jean Millar, Annie Wiseman