1 19th Sunday of the Year Contents8th August 2021 Page 3 This Week’s Prayer intentions PageToday 4 Pope’s ReadingsFrancis’ Daily Reflections PagesEphesians 5-7 Daily 4:30 Gospel-5:2 Reflections St. Peter’s Hamilton Page 8 First Communions John 6:41-51 Founded 1953 Page 9- 10 Corpus Christi Processions Diocese of Motherwell Page 11 Prayer Mary Un-doer of Knots § Page 12-13 This Weeks Quiz Contact Information Fr. Frank King (Parish Priest) 2 Buchanan Crescent, Hamilton Phone ✆ 01698 423016 Booking : 07881877367 Email: [email protected] All Announcements, Months Minds & Diocesan Charity No: - SCO11041 Anniversaries. Should be handed in no later than Wednesday Night at 6pm. Thank You Fr. OUR WEEKLY MASS PROGRAMME Frank Sunday: Vigi:l 4pm & 5.30pm Funerals, Baptisms & Weddings: 8am, 9.30am & 11am Contact Fr. Frank (Public) Mon, Weds & Fri 10am (Public) Thurs & Sat (Live Stream) Our Parish Mission Statement "We are Striving to make Jesus known by our response to the Gospel, and guided by the Holy Spirit, the community of St. Peter’s is committed to being a Contents vibrant, worshipping family that reaches Page 2 This Week’s Prayer intentions Page 3-4 Fr. Frank’s Letter to the Parish out in love and friendship to all of God's Page 5-6 Pope Francis’ Daily Reflections people. Page 6-9 Our daily reflections on the Gospels Page 10-11 This Week’s Quiz The Church is the home where the doors are always open, not only because everyone finds a welcome and is able to breathe in love and hope, but also because we can go bearing this love and his hope. Pope Francis Please pray for our Sick: Jim Rooney, Ben McKenna, Betty Walker, Anna Biondi, Margaret Miller, Betty Jack,2 Sarah Rooney, Fr. Michael McLaughlin, Elaine Pake, Charles Cullan, Julie McConnall, Anna Biondi, Alexander Straser, Teresa Sim, Dominic Guirke, Margaret McCleneghan, Jan McVey , Marie McGonnagle, Maureen McCluskey, Bryan Marshall, Walter Stewart, Austin Kerrigan, John McLaughlin, Helen Connolly, Maureen Donnachie, Christopher McGowan, Sharon McCormack, Margaret Boyle Frank McLaughlin, Teresa McCormack This Weeks Book of Remembrance Our Recently Dead: James McSorley, Norah Maher, Mon: Mamie Brown Daniel Phee Josephine Lowell, Winnie McGuire, Tues: Dick Murphy Rita McPherson Alice Paterson John Latta John Miller Thomas McGowan Rose Hughes Month Minds & Anniversaries: Weds: Michael McWilliams Alexander McKeown Paul Gerard McGilvray, Thurs: James Shaw Anthony Burns Mary McLachlan, Fri: Baby Thres Mary MCLachlan Richard Murphy, Mamie Brown, Sat: James Gribben Kenneth Gribben Elizabeth Dennis Brown Snr & Jnr. McCallum John Devlin Mary Gormley Paul Savage Margaret , James & Danny Lindsay, Rosie Togher Arthur Hughes This Weeks Prayer intentions: Mon: The Devanney Family & Fr Ricklan Mallya Cssp St. Bernadette’s Motherwell Tues: The McCluskey Family & Fr Bernard Mournian St. Columbkilles Rutherglen St. Our Lady Un-tier of Knots Weds: The McGowan Family & Fr James Morris Gabriel’s Viewpark Pray for us, Through your grace, Thurs: The Loan Family & Fr Paul Morton St. Bride’s your intercession and your example Cambuslang deliver us from all evil, Fri: The McCluskey family & Fr Owen Ness St. Our Lady and untie the knots that Brendan’s Motherwell prevent us from being united with Sat: The Gillon Family & Fr Henry O’Brien St. Mary’s God, so that we, free from sin and Hamilton error, may find Him in all things, "Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints" may have our hearts placed in Him, and may serve Him always in our O Holy St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love for brothers and sisters. God and Charity for His creatures, made you Amen worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers. Encouraged by this thought, I implore you to obtain for me (request). O gentle and loving St. Anthony, whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my petition into the ears of the sweet Infant Jesus, who loved to be folded in your arms; and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. Amen 3 Dear Parishioner, Welcome Home It has been a long time since we can say that the doors of the church are open as normal, from Monday 9th August, we will still have to keep some protocols in place. 1. Where face masks in the church. 2. Hand sanitise when you enter and leave. 3. Track and Trace. (More about that later.) Below is the weekly programme from Monday 9th August Sunday: Vigil: 4pm, 9.30am & 11am Weekdays: Mon, Weds, Thurs, Fri & Sat: 10am (No Morning Mass on a Tuesday.) Confessions: After every weekday Mass. Saturday: 3.30pm to 3.50pm & after the Vigil Mass. I was hoping to start the 3 Novenas in the beginning of September. I am going to postpone that until the beginning of October. This may change. But I will keep you up to date. We still have to track and trace. What does that mean for you. 1. You do not need to book in 2. But we still have to take your name and contact number. 3. How do we plan and do it.? a) Using the barcode system. Where you scan it with your phone b) You bring your name and telephone with you on a piece of paper. And put it in a box. c) You give it to one of the helpers at the door when you come. This may take more time and hold up people coming in. 4. You can choose any of the three options above. However, we must have these details from you. 4 I want to thank Luke for all his hard work during this time. I couldn’t have done it without him. He is leaving us to go and study in Canada for a year on the 31st August. Please keep him in your prayers as he begins another adventure in his life As we begin to get back to normal, we will gradually introduce Readers, Eucharist Ministers, Altar Servers and the Offertory Procession. Hopefully we will get our organists back for our Sunday Masses. And we will continue to play the music during the week. We will continue to use: 1. The Ghetto Blaster 2. The projector 3. The live stream camera. 4. The Emailing of the Bulletin to you. Modern technology has been so important to us during this time. Pope Francis said to use modern technology the promote the Gospel. This has been a difficult time for all of us. The one thing that has helped me get through this; I believe that God the Father has never abandoned us. He has walked beside us. We have lost some parishioners to COVID, and we continue to pray for them and their families. Your support for me has been wonderful. I can’t thank you enough. I will offer up mass for all your intentions. Always be assured of my continued prayers and commitment to the parish. God Bless and Prayers Fr, Frank 5 Our Daily Reflections from Pope Francis August Human Family Family as Domestic Church and School of Learning Love is patient and kind; Loves does not envy or boast; it sis not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on all its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Monday: Sadly, in our day, the family all too often needs to be protected against insidious attacks and programmes contrary to all we hold sacred, all that is most beautiful and noble in our culture. Tuesday: Making peace gives unity to the family; and tell young people, young couples, that it is not easy to go down this path, but it is a very beautiful path, very beautiful. Wednesday: The “Good News” of the family is very important part of evangelisation, which Christians can communicate to all by the witness of their lives…. This is evident in secularised societies: true Christian families are known by their fidelity, their patience, their openness to life, and by their respect for the elderly… the secret to this is the presence of Jesus in the family. 6 Thursday: What is the family? Over and above it’s the most pressing problems and its peremptory necessities, the family is a “centre for love,” where the law of respect and communication reigns and is able to resist the pressure of manipulation and domination from the world’s “power centres.” Friday: In the heart of the family, the person naturally and harmoniously blends into a human group, overcoming the false opposition between the individual and society. Saturday: In the bosom of the family, no one is set apart: both the elderly and the child will be welcome here. The culture of encounter and of dialogue, openness to solidarity and transcendence, originates in the family. Our Daily Reading Reflections 09AUG2021 Memorial Of Teresa Benedicta Of The Cross, Pick up a page-turner of faith Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born Edith Stein in 1891 and was killed at Auschwitz in 1942. She was a German Jewish philosopher who had been an atheist, although she had admired Christians she knew. She shocked everyone by becoming Catholic and, 11 years later, a Carmelite nun. Her conversion was prompted by an all-night reading of the autobiography of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th-century Carmelite also of Jewish origins. Pick up a copy of the autobiographies of both these riveting saints—and see how they contribute to your own ongoing conversion. Today's readings: Deuteronomy 10:12-22; Matthew 17:22-27 (413).