St Martin of Tours Catholic Church

ST GABRIEL’S WEST LOAN PRESTONPANS Fr James Smith Tel. 01875 610232 Parish Priest Email:[email protected] St Martin of Tours Catholic Church High Street, Tranent, EH33 1HJ 25th June 2017

St Gabriel’s is a parish of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, a charity registered in Scotland – number SC008540

Twelfth Sunday of the Year (Year A)

Church Services Mass Times Intentions

10.00am St Gabriel’s Eucharistic Service Monday 26th 9.00am St Martin’s Eucharistic Service

10.00am St Gabriel’s Eucharistic Service Tuesday 27th 7.00pm St Martin’s Mass Nelson & Wynne families

Memorial of St Irenaeus Wednesday 28th 10.00am St Martin’s Eucharistic Service 7.00pm St Gabriel’s Vigil Mass Angela Tait for St Peter and St Paul

Solemnity of St Peter and St Paul 10.00am St Martin’s Mass with John Curran Thursday 29th Primary School 1.30pm St Gabriel’s Mass with Rae Goodwin Primary School

Friday 30th 10.00am St Gabriel’s Eucharistic Service Please note Mass time 10.30am St Martin’s Funeral Mass for Mrs Catherine Hazzard change (O’Kane) 95 years old

10.00am St Gabriel’s Eucharistic Service Saturday July 1st 6.00pm St Gabriel’s Vigil Mass Peter Gallagher

Thirteenth Sunday of the Year Sunday 2nd 9.30 am St Martin’s Mass People of the Parish 11.30 am St Gabriel’s Mass People of the Parish

There will be confessions in St Gabriel’s before the Saturday Vigil Mass from 5.15pm – 5.45pm

There will also be confessions before Sunday Mass in St Martin’s from 8.45 am - 9.15 am

Parish Announcements

Offertory Collection - £627.60. Thank you for your kind generosity. Next Sunday there is a Second Collection in aid of Peter’s Pence.

VISITORS TO ST. GABRIEL'S Whether you come for one visit or many, you are very welcome to worship with us at Mass on Sunday or any of our weekday services in this church. SACRAMENTS - Please give plenty of notice for the Celebration of Marriage------6 months usually. Baptism ------3 months.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY – will take place today at 11.30 am mass.

RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS (RCIA) Do you recognise any of these situations? 1. Husband and wife come to Mass. One of them is not Catholic, but would like to share in our Faith and become Catholic. Is this you? 2. Do you know of an adult or are you that adult who would like to take the first step to become a Christian Catholic, but you are not quite sure how to find out more? 3. Are you a baptised Christian and now want to share in the other Sacraments of our Faith? 4. You may be a baptised Catholic, but over the years, have drifted from the church. You may now have a desire (that little voice that speaks to us in our hearts) urging you to return and be refreshed. 5. Your friend may be a Catholic and you admire him/her for what their Faith means to them. You often think, I would like to be like him/her. If so, do something about it. It is never too late. Whichever of these or a similar situation, you need to contact us soon. Call Father Jim on 01875 610232, speak to a member of the RCIA, or e-mail Father Jim at [email protected] before 31st August 2017.

CHARITY FILM NIGHT - A date for the diary for all you Pink ladies and T birds out there. Our next themed musical film night in St Martin’s Hall will be “Grease” on Friday 30th June at 7pm. BYOB and snacks. The proceeds from this evening will be donated to a local charity.

MEDICAL MISSIONARIES OF MARY- Please cut used stamps from the envelopes, leaving a small, paper border around the stamp and place them in the box on the table at the back of the church. When sold in bulk, the proceeds will go to the Medical Missionaries of Mary to provide aid for the work that they do.

CHOIR- We are always looking for more singers to join us. Practice is on a Sunday before Mass.

REPOSITORY- Newspapers, books, cards and sacramental gifts are available from the repository. CTS booklets, which help to develop your personal prayer and give more insight to your Faith, are available from the CTS stand inside the repository itself. The Archdiocesan Directory can be purchased from the back of the church.

THE BOOK FOR YOUR PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION - remains at the back of church. Please feel welcome to use it. Your prayers will be included at Mass on Wednesday evenings.

FAITH DEVELOPMENT FOR ADULTS - The next meeting of the group will be in the side chapel room on Thursday 29th June at 7pm.

FILM SUNDAY – tonight in St Martin’s Hall at 7pm, doors open at 6.30pm “Denial” When university professor Deborah E. Lipstadt includes World War II historian David Irving in a book about Holocaust deniers, Irving accuses her of libel and sparks a legal battle for historical truth. With the burden of proof placed on the accused, Lipstadt and her legal team fight to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred. Based on the book "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier." Age 12.

THE JUSTICE&PEACE GROUP - will meet in the side chapel on Wednesday 28th at 7-30pm. All welcome. COMMUNICATION - 1. The Parish Newsletter: available at Mass on Saturday evening/Sunday. 2. The Parish Facebook Page:- www.facebook.com/stgabrielsprestonpans.org.uk 3. The Parish Website:- www.stgabrielschurcprestonpans.btck.co.uk/ 4. Noticeboards: at the back of the church and the porch.

THE SICK AND THE HOUSEBOUND Please provide the contact details of any family member or friend, who is sick or housebound and who has requested a visit from a Eucharistic Minister, to bring them Holy Communion at home.

We pray for the sick and those who care for them: Peter Aitken; Fred Carson; Aileen Lothian; Emily McNichol; Nicholas Morrison; Rose Paxton. We remember…and we pray for all who have recently died and for those who mourn. Also those, whose anniversaries occurred last week: John Connachan 18th (1963); Matthew Knox 18th (1999); Margaret Archibald 19th (1957);Anthony Rogers 19th (2002); William Combe 19th (2011); Theresa Corkan 20th (----);James Coutts 20th (1997); Fr Hugh McAvoy cp 20th (2005); Agnes Carroll 21st (1984); Lennie Maguire 22nd (1980); Walter Maguire 22nd (1984); Peter Connachan 24th (2005).

and for those, whose anniversaries occur this week: Frank Traynor 25th (1965); George McQue 25th (1999); Veronica Martin 26th (1987);Annie Fitzpatrick 26th (1996); Victor Williamson 27th (2008); Nan Maguire 28th (1986); Winnie Wilson 29th (2008); Anna Wynne 29th (2009); Mary Docherty (--) (1944); Mary Thomson (--) (1961; Paul Hogan (--) (2001);George Thomson 1st (1998).

+ Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them O Lord +

NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND, MOUND, EDINBURGH – CARAVAGGIO EXHIBITION – A LIFE SACRED AND PROFANE Beyond Caravaggio -on now until 24th September 2017 - £12 (concession: £10) Free for Our Friends. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 – 1610) was a radical and revolutionary artist whose work had a transformative impact on art in Italy and beyond during his lifetime and in the decades following his premature death. Brilliant, challenging, argumentative and violent, our image of his work is inseparable from his tumultuous personal life, which combined support from several of the most discriminating patrons of the day, with repeated appearances in the Roman law courts. In 1606 he murdered a man after a quarrel over a game of tennis and spent the last four years of his life as a fugitive, although he also produced his most profound and moving works during this time. This is the first exhibition of works by Caravaggio and his followers – the so-called Caravaggesque painters – ever to be shown in Scotland. Caravaggio’s dramatic lighting and compositions, and his radically new approach to subject matter exerted a huge influence on a host of contemporary artists from all over Europe, many of them painters of the very highest calibre, such as Gentileschi, Ribera, Valentin and Ter Brugghen. This exhibition is a collaboration between the National Gallery, London, the National Gallery of Ireland and the National Galleries of Scotland. Part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2017.

Reflection A Celtic Prayer I rise today with God’s strength to direct me,

God’s wisdom to guide me,

God’s eyes to look before me,

God’s ear to hear me,

God’s word to speak for me,

God’s hand to uphold me,

God’s pathway before me,

God’s shield to protect me,

God’s host to save me – from temptations, from one man or many that seek to destroy me. Amen

Joke of the week

The six year old girl and her four year old brother were sitting together at Mass. The boy couldn’t keep quiet. He giggled, sang and talked out loud.

Finally, his big sister had had enough. “You’re not supposed to talk at Mass.”

“Why?” Who’s going to stop me?” the boy asked.

She pointed to the back of the Church and said, “See those men standing by the door?” They’re hushers.”