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24Th March 2019 Least Always 4 Turned up It Could Probably Be Completed Within an Hour CHURCH CLEANING… With only one or two people cleaning the St. Bernadette’s RC Church Tullibody church it can take up to 4 plus hours. If we had 6 volunteers and at Parish Newsletter - 24th March 2019 least always 4 turned up it could probably be completed within an hour. The proposal is to clean the church after morning mass and Third Sunday in Lent (C) confessions on a Saturday at 10.30am. Parish Priest: Fr. Mike Freyne MHM We desperately need volunteers and it would be good to have young people come forward. Email: [email protected] Tel: 01259 213274 Book Stall… Over the next few We are always looking for new Baingle Brae, Tullibody. FK10 2SG weekends some of our youth will pass-keepers to help out at vigil be selling books we have to help and Sunday masses Diocese of Dunkeld Scottish Charity No.SC001810 support our Lourdes Youth fund. (male or female any age). Please buy. If you can help (even only occasionally) NORMAL MASS TIMES: Ex-library books are 20p other books 50p. please speak to Fr. Mike. Saturday Vigil 5.30pm. & Sunday Morning Mass: 11.30am Weekday Morning Masses: Mon, Wed, Thurs &Saturday at 9.30am. Health & Safety… Do you know where the fire escape is? Friday evening mass at 7.00pm NO SERVICES ON TUESDAY OUR 3 FIRE EXITS ARE: See Parish Diary for Holy Days and other services / events. 1.The main door. Parish Website: http://www.catholic-church.org/stbernadettes/ 2. The door via the sacristy corridor. For newsletters, notices, information from parish groups, history, 3. The glass door in front of the left hand confession through garden. links to schools, other catholic organisations and publications. THESE EXITS, AISLES AND CORRIDORS MUST NOT BE BLOCKED. Please take people to their places and if chairs, prams, mobility aids etc are blocking the way then please leave them at the back of the church or if necessary in the hall. Are you visiting our Parish or have you just moved into the area? Please feel very TOILETS… The toilet in the sacristy are not for general use, they are for clergy welcome... Introduce yourself to the Parish Priest or welcomers at the back of and altar servers only. For your own security please do not use the toilet in the sacristy corridor the church. There are no strangers here just new friends you haven’t yet met… during mass. If for any reason something should happen in the parish house or office and the police had to be called your names would have to be given for questioning. Please remember in your prayers those who are sick: Margaret Mc’Intyre, The toilets for general use are in the church hall. John Craig, Margaret Byrne, Kathy Mc’Lauglin, Carly Mournian, Nellie Gallon, Dave Kerr, Young children should NOT go unaccompanied to the hall. Brendan Murphy, John Woods, Sarah Jane Connelly, Maurice Di Duca, Mary Gordon, (Kathlean Clarke & Family, Peter-James, Gerard and Shaun-Joseph), Vincent McDaid, Feed the Hungry Geraldine Stolarek, Drs. Dianne & Mike Basquill, Margaret Stark, Charles Roberson, Helen & Tommy Mc’Menemy, Duncan Mc’Gregor, Roger Bray, Fr. Brian Doran, Fr. John Callaghan Bishop Stephen Robson and all those in the various nursing homes. PLEASE HELP! Place non-perishable /tinned items etc. in the box at the back of the church. Your continued support of this Our SVDP /KSC will distribute goods to Remember those who have recently died: the needy in our area and also support vital resource for so many Olivia McCulloch (3 years old) Margaret Giannandrea, Kate McNeil, “The Gate” foodbank. people is greatly appreciated. Cathy Morrison, Lula O’Brian and David Tobin. If want the newsletter emailed to you just email us at the parish newsletter with and those whose anniversaries of their death occur at this time. your request and full name: [email protected] . Greta Soave, Mary Connor, Thomas McGregor and John Boyle. For all other email communications with the Parish or Parish Priest please use the diocesan email address: [email protected] NEXT SUNDAY : Special collection for Papal & Episcopal Charities (including SCIAF) Mobile phones must be switched off or put to Airplane mode in the church as they interfere with the speaker system. Collections 17th March SURELY 1 HOUR WITHOUT YOUR Gift Aided £285.20 Non Gift Aided £275.85 PHONE IS NO REAL HARDSHIP PARISH Third Sunday in Lent, Year C, - 24 March 2019 (Feast of Oscar Romero) DIARY “A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't Sat 23rd March 5.30pm - VIGIL MASS , ST. BERNADETTE’S 3rd Sunday get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn't Feast of St. Oscar Romero Sunday In Lent touch the real sin of the society in which it is being 9.45am - MORNING MASS, DOUNE. 24th proclaimed — what gospel is that?” 11.30am - MORNING MASS, ST. BERNADETTE’S. Children's Liturgy March - (Saint Óscar Romero) 5.00pm - Stations of the Cross A Catholic Social Teaching More at : Monday 9.30am - Mass or Morning Office & Holy Communion, St. Bernadette’s. Message from Pope Paul VI: http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/ “If you want peace 25th March 7.00pm - Reception of body of Margaret Giannandrea, St. Bernadette’s. work for justice” Tues 26th March 9.30am - Funeral Mass of Margaret Giannandrea, St. Bernadette’s. CHARISMATIC RENEWAL PRAYER GROUP ST. BERNADETTE’S SCHOOL Wednesday 8.20am - Mass at St Modan’s High School Stirling INVITATION TO HALF DAY OF REFLECTION CLOSING FINAL MASS. 9.30am - School Mass, St. Bernadette’s 27th GIVEN BY Fr. WILLIE BRANDON SMA The final school mass closing the March 10.30am - Stakeholders Meeting, Abercromby school actual St. Bernadette’s will be 2.00pm - Religious Education reps, Kilncraigs On Wednesday 3rd April 2019 1pm - Stovies in Church Hall (soup & bread for Vegetarians) celebrated in the parish church. Thursday 9.30am - Morning Mass, St. Bernadette’s The school hall would not hold so 2pm - Talk in Hall 3pm - Exposition and quiet time in church. 28th March 11.00am - Priests’ Council, Dundee many people. The last mass in the 3.30pm - Stations of the Cross. 4pm - Benediction. school a few years ago we had Friday 1.00pm - Internment, Port of Menteith Cemetery, Stirlingshire. 4.15pm - Mass. 5pm - Cuppa in hall. Then home. 29th March 7.00pm - Evening Mass, St. Bernadette’s. less than 80 children. Today we COST £6 - Hosted by Charismatic Prayer Group. have about 130 children. Mass will 9.30am - Morning Mass & Confessions. St. Bernadette’s. Please add your name to list at back of the church. Saturday be celebrated by Bishop Stephen 30th March 5.30pm - VIGIL MASS, ST. BERNADETTE’S or contact Maggie on 01259 212022 at 2pm on Tuesday 25th June. Speaker from SCIAF at all mass. 4th Special collection for Papal & Episcopal Charities (including SCIAF) Sunday “How do we not judge, not condemn, and forgive? "Give and it will be given to you": be generous in giving. Not only material alms, but Sunday 9.45am - MORNING MASS, DOUNE. In Lent MOTHER’S DAY spiritual alms too: spend time with someone in need, visit someone who 31st 11.30am - MORNING MASS, ST. BERNADETTE’S. is sick, offer a smile.” #SantaMarta - ( POPE FRANCIS @Pontifex ) March 5.00pm - Stations of the Cross, St Bernadette’s. Join our WEE BOX Big Change appeal and together we can end poverty. While Fr. Mike is covering emergency calls etc. for Callander there is a possibility of short notice changes to our parish diary. (covers the area of Trossachs / Crianlarich) Every Lent, the time between Ash Wednesday and Easter, thousands of Scots save money in their SCIAF WEE BOX Please collect your Each Sunday PLEASE COLLECT to help give a hand up to people living in poverty. gift aid envelopes for during Lent YOUR By collecting your loose change, or giving up a treat use from 7th April at 5.00pm we will have WEE BOX FOR like chocolate or wine and putting what you save into at the back of Stations of The Cross THE SCIAF a WEE BOX you can make a lasting difference to families in some of the world’s the church in St. Bernadette’s. LENTEN APPEAL poorest countries. Donations to the WEE BOX have helped people in countries like Uganda where a generation of young people have been left without hope, trapped FORTHCOMING EVENTS in extreme poverty. Together we are helping them to be independent, support 19 April Special collection for Holy Places GOOD FRIDAY themselves and their families and have real hope for the future. Lots more information at: https://www.sciaf.org.uk/ 25 June 2pm - Final school mass closing of the actual St. Bernadette’s, celebrated by Bishop Stephen 26 May ’19 Confirmations 16 June ’19 First Communions SVDP are our parish ACN Shop | Sale. We have a based charity range of gifts for all occasions, Regular Meetings focussing on the needy and socially excluded (1st Communions/ Confirmation etc.) locally. If you know of anyone in need in the SVDP: Meet 2 weekly at 10.30am before Knights of St. Columba: Meet at 7.30pm parish please let the SVDP know or just put a and many of them are now on sale! Your purchase will go Sunday morning mass in the church hall. on first Wednesday of each month in note of the name and contact details in the a long way in helping suffering Christians around the Next meetings: 24th March + 7th April. the church hall at St.
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