T HE P ARISH OF
S AINT A UGUSTINE
C OATBRIDGE ! S COTLAND
1892 - 2017
S IXTH S UNDAY OF O RDINARY T IME
11 F EBRUARY 2018
P REPARING FOR THE L ENTEN J OURNEY
Lent, the forty days before Easter (not counting Sundays), is a somewhat curious period in the Church’s calendar. Most things in the Church’s year are festivals and we happily talk about celebrating them. Lent is very different: it is a minor-key period which is never ‘celebrated’ but only ‘kept’. Some Christians treat Lent very seriously, while others ignore it entirely.
Even among those who keep Lent, there is no agreement on how it should be kept. Many Christians try to give up Masses for Ash Wednesday something: for instance, chocolate, alcohol, meat on Fridays,
Wednesday 14th February Facebook or television. It’s even become a period for us to try to break bad habits, almost as if Lent gives us another 10am & 7pm opportunity to retake those New Year’s resolutions!
So what exactly is Lent about? One word used by those who observe Lent is ‘preparation’.
Lent is a preparation for Easter. Easter, with its message of Christ destroying sin and death through his death and resurrection, is the most exciting moment in the Church’s year. Yet we can undercut this note of victory by being so occupied that, amid the frantic activity of our lives, we carelessly stumble upon Easter. Lent provides us with forty days’ build-up to Good Friday and Easter Sunday that forces us to prayerfully ponder the death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. As the best way to appreciate a sunrise is to be there in the darkness before dawn, so the only way to appreciate Easter is to have come to it through the sombre and penitential season of Lent. Please make every effort to support the extra Lenten services here at St. Augustine’s, especially the extra 8.00am Morning Mass. Details of additional services are printed on the inside page.
ANNUAL SCIAF ‘WEE BOX’ APPEAL
Please remember to pick-up your Lenten SCIAF pack as
you leave Church this weekend. This pack includes your ‘wee box’. You are invited to return this at the end of Lent. Please note that all donations this year will be DOUBLED by the UK Government!
- Lenten Timetable - Starts This Thursday 15th February
Extra Daily Mass (Mon – Fri): 8.00am Please encourage children to attend this Mass
St. Ambrose High School Mass (Mon – Fri): 8.40am For staff and pupils
Parish Daily Mass (Mon – Sat): 10.00am
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (Mon – Fri) 10.30am – 7.00pm
Sundays of Lent: Evening Prayer & Benediction 5.30pm
Stations of the Cross: Tuesday at 7.00pm
Lenten Confessions
Saturdays 10.30am; 4.00 - 4.30pm Tuesday 6.30 – 6.55pm Sundays 6.15 – 7.00pm
Mary’s Meals Backpack Appeal
The parish is asking for your support with our up -and-coming Mary’s Meals Backpack Appeal. The Appeal is being organized by Primary 6 Confirmation candidates as a sign of their practical witness to their faith. It is also a powerful way to live-out our Lenten commitment to almsgiving.
The young people of P.6 are inviting everyone in the school and parish to put together a backpack filled with goodies for needy children living oversees in poverty. These simple backpacks enable impoverished children to go to school equipped with the basic necessities for learning.
It is our hope that every family in the community will take part in the project. If you can help please fill an old backpack and drop it off at the Church or Parish House by Sunday 25th February. It is not necessary to fill the backpack with all the suggested items – just as much as you are able. Below you will find useful suggestions to help you.
SUGGESTED ITEMS:
Backpack / school bag / exercise book / notepad / pencils / pens crayons / ruler / sharpener / pencil case /
towel / soap / shorts t-shirt / dress / sandals / small
ball / spoon / toothbrush toothpaste
ASH WEDNESDAY – 14th FEBRUARY 2018
Masses / Services for Ash Wednesday:
10.00am Parish Mass
7.00pm Parish Mass
Please note that Ash Wednesday this year falls on a school in-service day. Therefore parents are reminded to bring their children to one of the above parish Masses. Ash Wednesday is also a Day of fast & Abstinence, requiring Catholics to abstain from meat. (Read below for more information).
Days of Fast & Abstinence
Catholics abstain from flesh meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and the Fridays in Lent. Abstinence is one of our oldest Christian traditions. From the first century, the day of the crucifixion has been traditionally observed as a day of abstaining from flesh meat (‘black fast’) to honour Christ who sacrificed his flesh on a Friday. Fasting on Ash Wednesday & Good Friday entails reducing our food intake to 1 main meal + 2 collations (small snacks) as a small sacrifice.
The Law of the Church Up until 1966, church law prohibited meat on all Fridays throughout the entire year. The new law of the Church was set-out in 1983 in the revised Code of Canon Law, which states: “Abstinence [is] to be observed on Ash Wednesday and on the Friday of the Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Canon 1251).
“All persons who have completed their fourteenth year are bound by the law of abstinence” (Canon 1252).
It is the long-established custom of the Catholic Church to extend this law to include all Fridays in Lent. Since Jesus sacrificed his flesh for us on Good Friday, we refrain from eating flesh meat in his honour on Fridays. Flesh meat included the meat of mammals and poultry, and the main foods that come under this heading are beef and pork, chicken and turkey. While flesh is prohibited, the non-flesh products of these animals are not (like milk, cheese, butter and eggs). Fish do not belong to the flesh meat category. In former times, flesh meat was more expensive, eaten only occasionally and associated with feasting and rejoicing; whereas fish was cheap, eaten more often and not associated with celebrations.
Abstinence is a form of penance. Penance expresses sorrow and contrition for our wrongdoing, indicates our intention to turn away from sin and turn back to God, and makes reparation for our sins. It helps to cancel the debt and pay the penalties incurred by our transgressions.
Abstinence is a form of asceticism, the practice of self-denial to grow in holiness. Jesus asks his disciples to deny themselves and take up their cross (Matthew 16:24).
Abstinence is a sober way to practice simplicity and austerity, to deny the cravings of our bodies to honour Jesus who practiced the ultimate form of self-denial when he gave his body for us on the cross. Thus, to give up flesh meat on Fridays, only to feast on lobster tail or Alaskan king crab, is to defeat the ascetical purpose of abstinence. Less is more!
Those who are excused from fast or abstinence. Those who exceed 65 years are exempt. So too are the following groups: young children, those of unsound mind, the sick, the frail, pregnant or nursing women according to need for meat or nourishment, manual labourers according to need, guests at a meal who cannot excuse themselves without giving great offense or causing enmity and other situations of moral or physical impossibility to observe the penitential discipline.
PARISHSaturday NEWS ______
BROADCASTING OF SERVICES GIFT-AID Please note that all the Masses and services at The gift-aid scheme allows the parish to claim an St. Augustine’s are broadcast online. You can additional 25p for every £1 donated by a UK tax- watch services directly through our parish payer. Please consider enrolling in the scheme. website or through the MSN Media host site. Forms available from the sacristy/Chapel House.
HOSPICE HOEDOWN St. Andrew’s Hospice are holding a Country & Western Night this Friday 16th February 2018 at Airdrie Working Men’s Social Club, 15-17 New Multi-Sports Club Broomknoll Street, Airdrie. Tickets: £12.50pp. At St. Augustine’s Parish Centre Starts 7.30pm – Midnight. Call 01236 766951 to book your tickets. Every Friday from 4 – 5pm
50p per session
Open to all pupils from P.4 – P.6 ROME PILGRIMAGE For more details contact Vikki Sadler Final Price: £860 (NLC Active Schools Co-ordinator) (includes all entrance fees) on 07984 291606 or [email protected] Next Meeting:
St. John the Baptist’s Church, Uddingston SACRAMENTS DATES 2018 Thursday 22nd February 2018, 7.30pm
Pilgrims to pay outstanding balance on this night First Reconciliation th Tuesday 13 March 2018, 7pm --- THIS PILGRIMAGE IS NOW FULL First Holy Communion Sunday 6th May 2018, 10am Mass SVDP SENIOR CITIZENS DINNER Sunday 13th May 2018, 12noon Mass Many thanks to the SVDP for organising another Confirmation memorable Senior Citizens’ Dinner at the Bank Monday 26th February 2018, 7pm Mass Club. A great night was had by all.
FR TRAVERS SVDP FURNITURE PROJECT We offer our thanks and prayers to Fr. Travers St. Vincent de Paul is looking for volunteer who has now moved to St. Mary’s & St. Bernard’s drivers for the Coatbridge van. The regular to continue his priestly ministry there. Please driver is unable to work for some time owing to return envelopes in the weekend collection an accident. Any willing parishioners should baskets or to the Parish House by Sunday 25th speak to a member of the SVDP at the back of February. Fr. Travers thanks all those who the Church. supported him during his time here, and for all
CHILDREN AT 10am FAMILY MASS who attended his Mass of Thanksgiving last Sunday. He will be sadly missed at St Augustine’s. Please remember that the children who attend the 10am Sunday Family Mass are asked to sit in the very front pews in the Church, together with the Children’s Liturgy leaders. This applies to children from P1 – P7.
Parish Religious Shop Open daily after each Mass
Religious cards Statues Rosaries EUCHARISTIC ADORATION gifts jewellery Candles fonts Mon – Fri from 10.00am – 7.00pm at the Main Altar plaques books & much more…
SOCIAL NEWS ______
EARLSTON AFTER SCHOOL CLUB
The Club runs every school day from the upper floor of our Parish Centre. For more details contact the Manager Audrey on 07887427131 or at: facebook@earlstonafterschoolclub
VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED
The parish is looking for more volunteers for: - Church cleaning
- Kairos Café & Dinner Club
- Breakfast Club Open Monday – Friday Please consider giving the parish the gift of your time and talents. We would be grateful for from 10am – 2pm
even a couple of hours each month. Call the Parish Office on 423044 if you are interested. in the Parish Centre
CATHOLIC SCOUTS OF EUROPE We are still looking for new Scouts, Guides and Cubs to join the Group which meets in our Parish Centre. For more information or details on how on how to sign-up contact Ailish Lanahan at: [email protected]
ARRANGEMENTS DURING LENT
Please note that during Lent (starting this Thursday 15th February) the Breakfast Club will Friday Night Hub – Volunteers Required start at 7.45am. This enables all of the children We are looking to enlist the help of more adults to of our Club to attend the early morning Lenten Mass in our Church at 8.00am. Children should be volunteer their time for the Hub. Volunteers are dropped-off at the Parish Centre at 7.45am, expected to undergo a PVG check in accordance before staff escort them to the Church. with the Church’s safeguarding procedures, and to Breakfast will be given after the Mass. Contact volunteer a couple of hours every few weeks. our Co-Ordinator Liz Quate on 07703 774512 for Contact Taylor Quate on 07948 963485. more information.
PARISH CENTRE FUNCTION SUITES FRIDAY NIGHT YOUTH CLUB Please note that our function suites are Please note: the Hub runs every Friday night available FREE OF CHARGE for charity (term time only) in the Parish Centre from 7 – fundraiser events. Contact Chris Hamill the 9pm for P.7, S1 & S2 pupils from the Coatbridge Centre Manager on 07917 433647 for more area. Contact Group Leader Taylor Quate for information or to book your event. more details on 07948 963485. Pre-registration required for new members.
SAINT AUGUSTINE’S ARISH ENTRE P C Our two Function Suites available for:
50+ DINNER CLUB Wedding Receptions / Funeral Breakfasts Every Thursday from 3 – 5pm Baptism Receptions / Birthday Parties Anniversary Parties / Family Reunions / Charity Events 3 Course Meal + tea/coffee Only £7.50 per person Call: 01236 427538 or 07917 433647
PARISH TIMETABLE FOR THE WEEK AHEAD
10.00am Family Mass Sunday 11 February 12 noon Holy Mass SIXTH SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME 1.00pm Baptisms
Monday 12 February No Breakfast Club (School holiday)th mas Family Fun Day, scheduled10.00am Holy for MassSunday 13 December (today). If you can Sixth Week of Ordinary Time help please leave donations10.00am in Kairos – 2.00pm Café Kairos on CaféSunday open morning. (Parish Centre) 10.30 – 7.00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 7.30pm Senior Choir Practice (Sacristy) NEW MEMBERS WELCOME!
No Breakfast Club (School holiday) Tuesday 13 February 10.00am Holy Mass Sixth Week of Ordinary Time 10.00am – 2.00pm Kairos Café open (Parish Centre) 10.30 – 7.00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 6.30pm Church Cleaning (Volunteers always welcome!) 7.30pm Good News For All Group Meeting (Parish House)
No Breakfast Club (School holiday) Wednesday 14 February 10.00am Parish Mass with Distribution of Ashes ASH WEDNESDAY 10.00am – 2.00pm Kairos Café open (Parish Centre) 10.30 – 6.00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament *Day of Fast & Abstinence 12 noon Ash Wednesday Service for Staff at St. Ambrose High 1.30pm Ash Wednesday Service for Residents at Summerlee House LENT BEGINS 2.30pm Ash Wednesday Service for Residents at Woodside Care Home 3.00pm Ash Wednesday Service for Residents at Millbrae Care Home
4.00pm Ash Wednesday Service for Residents at Deanston Care Home 7.00pm Parish Mass with Distribution of Ashes
7.45 – 8.50am Breakfast Club (Parish Centre) Thursday 15 February 8.00am Early Morning Parish Mass (school children welcome!) Thursday After Ash Wednesday 8.40am Lenten Mass for Staff & Pupils in St Ambrose High School (Main Hall) 10.00am Holy Mass 10.00am – 2.00pm Kairos Café open (Parish Centre) 10.30 – 7.00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 11.00am Fr. Kane Visit to First Reconciliation Children (Primary School) 12.15pm Funeral Service for John (Jackie) McGowan (McLaren’s Parlour) 1.30pm Confirmation Children Practice (Church) 3.00 – 5.00pm Over 50’s Dinner Club (Parish Centre) 7.00pm SPRED Group (Parish House)
7.45 – 8.50am Breakfast Club (Parish Centre) Friday 16 February 8.00am Early Morning Parish Mass (school children welcome!) Friday After Ash Wednesday 8.40am Lenten Mass for Staff & Pupils in St Ambrose High School (Main Hall)
10.00am Holy Mass 10.00am – 2.00pm Kairos Café open (Parish Centre) 10.30 – 7.00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 4.00 – 5.00pm New Multi-Sports Club for P4 – P6 Kids (Parish Centre) 7.00 – 9.00pm Friday Night Hub Youth Club (Parish Centre)
9.30am – 1.30pm Marriage Preparation Course in the Parish Centre Saturday 17 February 10.00am Holy Mass Saturday After Ash Wednesday Confessions after Holy Mass 4.00 – 4.30pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 4.00 – 4.30pm Confessions 5.00pm Vigil Mass
10.00am Family Mass Sunday 18 February 12 noon Holy Mass FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT 1.00pm Baptisms 5.30 – 6.15pm Lenten Devotions & Benediction 6.15 – 7.00pm Confessions
RECENTLY DECEASED
John (Jackie) McGowan; Nicole Lafferty; Greta Entrican; Tommy O’Connor; Martin Shaw (Wales).
ANNIVERSARIES / MONTHS MINDS / BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCES
Very Rev. John Canon Moss; Very Rev. Gerald Canon Maher; James, Rose & Betty Traquair; Sandra Weldon; Fay Hamilton; Peter Hannaway; Gerry McCudden; Bridie McEachen; Marie Cairns; William & Margaret Cairns; Harry Brown; John & Roseanne Shields; Martin & Agnes Glen; Dan & Grace McLaughlin; Frank & May Hillen; David & Annie Trower; Aidan & John O’Neill; Daniel Hughes; Richard & Mary McCann; Marie McGonnagle; Patrick Owens; David Mulholland; Arthur & Margaret Reilly; Joe & Nan McLaughlin; Mary Gallacher; Michael, James & Patrick Gray; Sarah Corrie; Anne Hamill; Sally Murray; Ellen Cunningham; Margaret Maxwell.
SICK
Sandra O’Donnell; Joan Reid; Roisin O’Toole; John Steele; David Miller; Margaret Davidson; Charlie Donnelly; James Stewart (Canada); Caroline McGoogan; Alison Black; Anne Campbell; Michael McDade; Anna McGoldrick; Patrick Clare; Frances Smith; John Docharty; Gerard Hamill; Kit Reilly; Colum Coyle; James Coyle; Irene McLeary (formerly Kelso Quad); Catherine Gordon; Duncan Miller; Alison & Chick McGarrity; Patrick Eli; Moira Tobin; Sandra Wilson (Spain); Bridie McMurray; John Lynch; Hugh Glen.
(Please alert the clergy when a name is to be removed from the sick list)
Parish Priest Rev. Michael John Kane
Mrs. Margaret Haggarty (Secretary) AINT UGUSTINE S Miss. Antoinette Parr (Safeguarding Officer) S A ’ 1892 - 2017 PARISH CENTRE
Baptisms To book any of the function suites for parties etc contact: On the last Sunday of the month by arrangement with the clergy.
Mr. Chris Hamill (Manager)
Marriages Tel: 01236 427538 Arrangements for weddings should be made by appointment Mob: 07917433647 with the Parish Priest (6 months notice required) [email protected]
Calling Times / Office Hours Appointments to speak to the clergy may be made through the Secretary by calling 01236 423044. (Office hours: 9.00am – 5.00pm Mondays; 9.00am – 3.00pm Fridays). Appointments may also be made outside these hours or by emailing [email protected]. Please remember that if you reside outside the boundary of St. Augustine’s, then you must ask for the sacraments in your own parish.
Sacrament of the Sick / Hospital Visitations Those who require the Sacrament of the Sick at home should contact the Chapel House to arrange for a visit from the clergy. This should ordinarily be arranged prior to any prolonged hospital visit. The Catholic Chaplain to Monklands Hospital is Fr. Zulu (St. Bernard’s). In cases of emergency where you or a family member require the pastoral assistance of the Chaplain please request this from the nursing staff at the hospital.
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