welcome Mass Intentions Sat 6.00pm 19TH SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME Ellen Paterson RIP Sun 12th July 9.30am St Martin’s Holy Souls - 11.00am Pat Boyle RIP Mon No Mass 4.00pm Reception of Rena Boyd RIP into the Church Tues 12.00noon Funeral Mass Catherine Boyd RIP St Martins – Vigil Mass The Assumption 7.00pm Mary McGowan RIP Wed 9.15am Mass of the Assumption Stephen Fitzpatrick RIP Thurs St Martins 10.00am Bridget O’Connor RIP Fri 9.15am Mass Winnie Norman RIP Sat 10.00am Mass Holy Souls 10.30am Rosary, exposition and Confessions 5.15pm Confessions Vigil 6.00pm 20th SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME Veronica Scoular AV Sun 19th Aug 9.30am St Martin’s Ann Burns RIP 11.00am James Ritchie AV Teas

The Assumption of the Blessed Mary - Holiday of Obligation Vigil Mass Tranent 7.00pm Mass of Day Musselburgh 9.15am

Our Lady of Loretto & St is an eco congregation

I am very happy to report that on Sunday our congregation won the bronze award from Eco Congregation Scotland for the work of the J&P group in raising the level of awareness of environmental issues within our community. My Sacramental Enrolment

thanks to them for what has been done and my encouragement too them for what will now need to be undertaken First Confession & First Holy Communion as we apply for the Silver Award! This all very timely as we approach Creation Time. Advent Sunday at 11.00am Mass st th Creation Time September 1 – October 4 Francis has established 1 September as the World Day of for the Care of Creation, encouraging the

Catholic community around the world to pray for our common home. We prepare to celebrate the fourth annual World Day of Prayer in September 2018. The annual Day of Prayer is inspired by his landmark encyclical Laudato Si’, which calls on "every person living on this planet" to care for our shared earth.

Pope Francis calls us all to celebrate this opportune moment to “reaffirm [our] personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation, as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live.”

This World Day of Prayer also falls at the beginning of Creation Time, which runs until 4 October, the feast of St . This is an ecumenical season dedicated to prayer for the protection of Creation and the promotion of sustainable lifestyles. The ecological crisis thus summons us to a profound spiritual conversion: Christians are called to “an ecological conversion whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them” (Pope Francis Laudato Si 217)

In celebration of our 30th year, OLOLYP will be returning ‘Home’ to Our Lady of Loretto church hall for one night only.

OLOLYP’s Production Team bring you ‘The Wiz’ Saturday the 18th of August 2018 Tickets are £10 (£5 for under 10s) Email:- [email protected]

TICKETS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FROM SU BOYLE OR JOHN LALLY AFTER MASS.

Please ‘Ease on Down the Road’ and support this fundraising event.

It’s one certainly not to be missed! If you would like to become a Friend Of OLOLYP and support our production of ‘Back to the 80’s at The Brunton Theatre Feb 2019, please see Su or John.

PVG Training Level 1. My thanks to those who have indicated they are coming to this on Monday 20th. However, there are several letters still to be picked up as well as tear off slips to be returned. It is necessary that this training is completed before ministries can be undertaken or continued after the end of September. Fr B

Venerable Margaret Sinclair Hall Committee Meeting The 2018 Annual Pilgrimage to pray for st Tuesday 21 7.30 the of margaret Sinclair will take place on Sunday 9th Sept. from 2.00 – 6.00pm at Hall Booking 07732745357 - St Patrick’s Church, Cowgate. There will www.musselburghcatholic.org be a film at 3.00pm About Margaret Sinclair’s life and Mass at 4.30pm. Hall Bookings Services of Holy Communion - I would like now to extend these to Thursdays as well as Tuesdays. If you are a reader or Communion A New Parish Pastoral Council Minister and would be willing to help then Deacon Gordon will lead a Sun. 26th Aug. 6.00pm training session after mass on Friday the 17thAugust. Loretto Community Hall

Ministries 18th/19th August

Altar Servers: 6pm T, A & G Courtney, 11am A Cusack, K Gray, L Allegrini H & P Lally, M Brown. A & J Ciowek, C Mochar.

Readings: 6pm J McGowan 11am A Vidler, E McDunphy Sunday 29th July Collection £847.02 : 6pm R Dowds 11am J MacNeill Candles £ 39.46 SCIAF £ 17.22 : 6pm J Glen, M McGowan, 11am S Tchamdjou, L Yorkston, J MacNaughton, A Reid. J Brown, A Dixon, A Edie, C Flynn Sunday 5nd August Collection £755.66 Candles £ 40.06 Cleaning: Team 5 - Elspeth & Jean Seniors £ 70.98 Teas: TBC - See Notice Board Children's Liturgy - Family Mass - all available leaders Building £ 50.00 Many thanks for your generosity Bobby Mitchel RIP Praying for the sick. Please remember

A Day for Children’s that I need permissions from the sick Reception Liturgy Leaders persons themselves before their names Mon 20th 4.00pm 15th September 11.00am, - 3.00pm can be published in our newsletter. It is Gillis Centre Funeral mass overkill I know but until the law is clear st Tel 623 8900 to reserve a place Tues 21 10.00am better safe than sorry.

Please pray for the sick: June Fleming, Ellen Paterson, Anne Marie Bevan, Mary Kowal, Colin Wills, Isobel Henderson, The Graham Family. For our faithful departed: Catherine Boyd who died recently and for Bobby Mitchel RIP who died this week. and for Jeanette Knight, Jim Clarke, Elizabeth Coyle Bridget Greig, James Binnie, Isabella Freeman, Sarah Coyle, Alice Nicolson, Ricardo Paganuzzi, Elizabeth Glen, Alan Montgomery,