REFLECTION: The Church is open from 9.30am until 11am Monday to Saturday for private prayer This week the Prayers of Our Liturgy, Mass and Divine Office are all from the and our morning mass at 10am. Numbers are restricted to fifty and for weekday Twenty-sixth Week of the Year except.: masses it is first come first served. Volunteer Stewards will be on hand to guide you. Tues.29th: Sts Michael. Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels: Gabriel brought God’s Monday to Friday the Church is open from 6pm – 7pm for private prayer, with message to Mary, Raphael was guide to Tobias and Michael is venerated as Confessions available on Monday and Friday evenings at this time. protector of Christians in general and soldiers in particular. They are the Saturday Evening Church is open from 5pm for our Vigil Mass at 5.30pm. On Sunday messengers of God’s will and vocation. morning Church is open from 10.30am for our Sunday morning Mass at 11am. These masses Wed. 30th. St Jerome (347-420): Priest and Doctor of the Church, he was secretary are also restricted to fifty people attending subject to demands of social distancing. Places to Pope Damasus I and was given the task of translating the Bible into Latin, a for these masses must be booked on booking web-page Eventbrite.co.uk . Enter the Church by main door and exit is by side door on left near the Sacristy. Our translation known as “The Vulgate”. In the later part of his life he moved from volunteer Stewards will be on hand to guide and direct. Rome to Bethlehem where he followed a monastic life but continued his study of Baptisms and Marriages can be celebrated with severely restricted numbers. the scriptures and wrote several biblical commentaries. Funerals can be celebrated in Church with restricted attendance of twenty. Thurs. 1st. October: St Therese of the Child Jesus (1873-1897): Born in Alencon in Time-table for streamed Mass from St Brigid’s through Church Services tv or through the North west France, she entered the Carmelite Order at Lisieux as a young girl. She Live Stream button on Parish Web Page: Saturday Vigil Mass 5.30pm, Sunday Mass at battled ill health but developed the virtues of humility, gospel simplicity with a firm 11am, Monday-Saturday Morning Mass at 10am. confidence in God. She developed her “Little Way” of taking God at His word and Live Stream is available all day on Church Servicestv if you wish to use it as an aid to letting his love wash away all our weaknesses. personal or family prayer at home. Fri. 2nd: The Holy Guardian Angels: Our Feast affirms our belief that God assigns an NEARLY NEW SHOP is open from 9am – 1pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday angel to guard us body and soul, an expression of God’s concern and care for each each week. The same rules apply as in any shop during these times. The Shop will be of us whatever the joys or sorrows of life. closed this Holiday Monday. Proceeds for September came to £1500.00 PARISH CENTRE: We have been able to open the Nearly New Shop and Slimming World PARISH NEWS has resumed following their own guidelines but we are some way off being able to hold any social events. The restriction on families meeting together (and maximum family size This week my journey of life in the Priesthood which began on 1st July 1967 will (6) make social events still impossible. enter a new and quieter phase as I retire from active ministry. From my first years PARISH INCOME: Sun.20th September 2020. Offertory: £935.00. Fundraising £1600.00. as an assistant priest at the Cathedral in , I have been in , SCIAF WEE BOXES £150.00. Thank you. Hamilton, Shieldmuir, Baillieston, Garthamlock, and finally Newmains. I 300 CLUB WINNERS: WEEK 38: Sunday 20th September 2020: am grateful for my life and the joys it has brought to me. I have a host of memories £ 100 Prize No. 98. Abbie Horsley, C/O 10 Kildare Place, Newmains. to treasure as I enter retirement.