Saturday 20th July 5.30pm Vigil Mass - St. Bernadette’s Parish Priest: Fr. Mike Freyne MHM Day 16th Sunday

Email: [email protected] Sunday 9.45am - Morning Mass, St. Fillan’s, Doune. for in 21st July 11.30am - MORNING MASS - ST. BERNADETTE’S Life Ordinary time Tel: 01259 213274 Mon 22nd July 9.30am - Morning Mass St. Bernadette’s Baingle Brae, Tullibody. FK10 2SG

Tues 23rd July NO PARISH SERVICES

Wednesday 9.30am - Morning Mass St. Bernadette’s. 24th July Thursday 9.30am - Morning Mass, St. Bernadette’s : 25th July Friday 26th July 7.00pm - Evening Mass, St Bernadette’s.

9.30am - Morning Mass,& Confessions St Bernadette’s Saturday 27th July 5.30pm - Vigil Mass, ST. BERNADETTE’S

17th Sunday Sunday 9.45am - Morning Mass, St. Fillan’s, Doune in 28th July 11.30am - MORNING MASS - ST. BERNADETTE’S Ordinary time

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

4 Aug Mensal Fund Please remember in your prayers those who are sick: Margaret Mc’Intyre,

3.00pm National Pilgrimage John Craig, Margaret Byrne, Kathy Mc’Lauglin, Carly Mournian, Nellie Gallon, Sarah Jane Connelly, 1 Sept to Carfin Grotto Dave Kerr, Brendan Murphy, John Woods, Maurice Di Duca, Mary Gordon, Duncan Mc’Gregor, 2 Sept Parish Pastoral Council (Kathlean Clarke & Family, Peter-James, Gerard and Shaun-Joseph), Vincent McDaid, Regular Meetings Drs. Dianne & Mike Basquill, Margaret Stark, Roger Bray, John Mc’Niven, Fr. Brian Doran, Church Cleaning 10.30am Charles Roberson, Helen & Tommy Mc’Menemy, Fr. John Callaghan, John Smith SVDP: and all those in the various nursing homes. on Saturday Mornings Next meetings: 28th July & 11th Aug Please help! Knights of St. Columba: We need more volunteers. Peter Lamb, Tina Burgoyne, Winnie Conlan and Moira Docherty. ALL WELCOME

Gift Aided £349.75 Non Gift Aided £227.22 People, including regulars, are still not turning Apostleship of the Sea special collection £318.11 their mobile phones or other electrical devices off. EMERGENCY EVACUATION OF CHURCH In the case*** of an emergency in the church the procedure is to follow*** the instruc- tions given by the celebrant using the microphone. THEN ONLY follow the in- structions of people in yellow high visibility vests. (They will have been trained THE SHRINE OF to advise which exits to head for and where to regroup outside.) OUR LADY OF CARFIN Only follow the instructions of YELLOW VESTS. Over the next few Sunday 1st September 2019 weeks at mass we will repeat this and instruct where to regroup. NATIONAL 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time - 21st July PILGRIMAGE MASS with the Relics of “Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run Saint Thérèse of Lisieux the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, Holy Mass 3pm in the Grotto with their physical presence which challenges us, Celebrant with their pain and their pleas, with their joy Right. Rev. , which infects us in our close and continuous Bishop of interaction. True faith in the incarnate Son For more information visit www.carfingrotto.org of God is inseparable from self-giving, from membership in the community, from service, from reconciliation with others.” Pope Francis@pontiflex - (Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, para 88 )

MARY’S MEALS More at: Annual clothes collection weekend will be Saturday & Sunday 28th+29th September 2019. VISITING OR ON HOLIDAY ? (only able to collect TEXTILES (any condition) e.g. clothes, household We as a Christian community welcome all visitors and textiles, shoes, bags, etc.) Volunteers from the charity will speak at people on holiday. Please feel at home and free to ask any masses and will be selling raffle tickets for their annual prize draw. questions about anything, services, mass times, events Mary’s Meals are currently feeding over 1.4 million children in 15 countries ! and even where are the toilets ? Contact and website Just a few bin bags filled with textiles could generate enough funds to feed a details are below and on the front page of this newsletter. child for a school year. (£13.90 is all it costs to feed a child for a whole school year.) So if you are updating your wardrobe for holidays etc then don’t throw out your old clothes keep them and bring to the church on the collection days. Watch this space for more information. For all other email communications with the Parish or Parish Priest please use For more about Mary’s Meals go to: https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/ the diocesan email address: [email protected]

Stirling Catenians were in the parish to hand over bursaries to 3 of our girls working for oth- ers during the summer. Hopefully they will support our requests in the future. If anyone is interest- ed they meet at 7.30pm on the third Monday of each month (except July) in the Westlands Hotel,

Doune Rd. Dunblane, FK15 9H. Contact Harry Donnelly on 07753 473969 or [email protected] More information at: https://thecatenians.com/ Our SVDP /KSC will distribute goods to the needy in our BRAZIL COINS AND CLOTHES... Please take a jar from the back of the church to area and also support “The Gate” foodbank. collect spare coins for Brazil. This money helps small projects that get very little and often no other sup- port. For July/August we have the opportunity to send out 40kg of clothes especially for 2- 6 year old boys Fr. Mike’s SVDP are our parish based charity f and 6 -15 year old girls. Please leave in the sacristy or back of the church. Please remember because of Brazil Jar the weight no shoes and it is a tropical country so there’s no need for winter woollies.

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