Intimati0ns Of your charity please pray for: Sick: Anna & Rena McDonald, Kevin Murphy, Gerard Daly, Ellen Paton, Tricia Power, Mary Morrison, Ryan Allison, John McCann, Kitty O’Neil Baptismal Blessings on Millie-Margaret Dougan & on Oliver Paul Woodhouse. “Jesus said... ‘Can you... be baptized with the Baptism with which I must be baptized?’” [Mk 10: 38] Pro-Catechumen Stuart Arran was accepted. The Archbishop will visit here (11.40am, Sun 22nd Nov) for his Baptism, Confirmation & Holy Communion. Banns of Marriage are called for the third time for Alan Martin McGowan and Laura Ann Brady. And for the happy repose of the souls of: Recently Dead: Fr Thomas O’Rourke, Mary Culter, Lucy O’Hare, Robert MacSween, Cathy (Cree) Spinelli, Frances O’Donnell, Gerry O’Connor, Angela Sharpe, Robert Fisher, Adrian Medford Month’s Mind Catherine Connor 6 Months’ Mind Moira Smith Anniversaries: Rt Rev Mgr Hugh N Canon Boyle, V Rev John Canon Ryan (former P.P. here), Elizabeth (Betty Taggart) Rooney, Daniel Harkins, James Dickie (Jnr), Martin Fitzpatrick, Roseanna Fitzpatrick, Denis Mellon, Frances Gilmour, William & Margaret Fowler, Mary Scott, Kate & Joe Fay, James, Elizabeth & Matt Livingstone, Mamie Crainey, John Scott, Dick O’Raw, Hugh & Agnes Brown, Betty Rooney, Paul Waters, Anne & Jim Forbes, Peggy & Margaret O’Brien, Brian Christie, Hugh Lang, James Nash, Hilda McLaren, Margie McGuire, Margaret Maxwell, Baby Ellie-‐claire Rose, Tommie Murray, Sean Murray, Mrs Bridie Ward In Good Company Feast days Monday: St Chad & St Cedd; Tuesday: St Otteran; Wednesday; St Simon & St Jude; Thursday: St Colman
Holy Cross 24th /25th October 2015
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time [B] Jer 31: 7-9; Ps 125; Heb 5: 1-6; Mk 10: 46-52
“The Chapel House”, Holy Cross, Constarry Road, Croy, G65 9JG
01236-‐ 822148 [email protected]
www.holycrosscroy.com and holycrosscroy on Clergy: Rev Fr Joseph Sullivan PVG Scheme Record No. 200000001253657 Holy Mass Saturday Vigil: 6pm; Sunday: 9.30am & 11.40am Monday to Saturday: 10am Sacrament of Reconciliation/ Confession Saturday after 10am & 6pm Mass Holy Rosary daily at 9.30am Novena in honour of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal at the end of Mass on Tuesdays. Tea & Toast after Mass in the Parish Hall. Day Visits the Church building is open during the day. Additional Support Transport to 11.40am Mass please ’phone: 07946 610381 Wheelchair- access ramp begins halfway down Our Lady’s Shrine side of Building Wheelchair- accessible Toilet: ask a Pass-‐keeper for a key to the Parish Hall Large print Bulletins available on request from a Pass-‐keeper Low Gluten Hosts (or reception from the Chalice) available: see Fr Sullivan Hearing: Loop System is present Hall Bookings See Website for details, then email: [email protected] or Booking Secretary, Tel 07910 532605, Mon-‐ Thursday between 8-‐9pm
Our Lady of Guadalupe Icon Sun 25th Oct Open Visits from 9.30am-‐ 6.30 pm & during the week 7.30am-‐ 6.30 pm so that pilgrims may venerate the Image, at the Cathedral. Thurs 29th Oct Mass of Our Lady of Guadalupe at 7.30 pm. Torchlight Procession for the Repeal of the Abortion Act on Thurs 29th Oct at George Square, Glasgow. Rosary begins at 6.30pm followed by Procession to St Andrew’s Cathedral, Clyde St. Surely modern society can offer a better option to serious difficulties than “take the life of an unborn child.” Request for Old Spectacles at Kwale Eye Clinic, Kenya. These will be brought by our very own Ann & John McDonald. If known, write the prescription on a sticker on the glasses & place in box in porch area. Proceeds at this time, from Tea & Toast on Tuesdays will go to fund Medical supplies in Kenya. Archdiocese of Glasgow Arts Project (AGAP) invites artists to consider the theme of Mercy for a special art exhibition to take place during Lent within the Year of Mercy. The Remit: Artists are invited to submit an original work of art, inspired by the theme Mercy. Further details: Archdiocesan Website. October Devotions Mondays at 7pm. Please consider praying the Rosary as a family; a plenary Indulgence is attached.
Mission Sunday Appeal raised £1,500 SCIAF Quiz on Friday 27th November. SCIAF Parish Updates in porch area and alongside them is a SCIAF petition to PM David Cameron against climate change and the potential damage to the world's poorest people. Coffee Morning next week after 9.30am Mass, proceeds will go to Carmelite Monastery, Kirkintilloch, the local “powerhouse of prayer”. Month of the Holy Souls There are November Lists & Envelopes in the Porch Area. Please uplift & return.
Divine Mercy Visit by Internationally-‐ renowned Speaker Fr Peter Prusakiewicz CSMA to this Parish on Sunday 25th October. Fr Peter will be the Celebrant at 11.40am Mass and will lead us in a Holy Hour at 5pm (with tea in Hall afterwards). Bereaved of the Past Year are being invited to Mass next week. The Names of the Deceased whose Funerals took place over the past year (mid-‐ October 2014 to mid-‐ October 2015) from here, will be read out & a candle lit. If you would like to assist offering Tea/ Coffee to the Bereaved (& others) please see Brenda (after 9.30am Mass) or Carol (after 11.40am Mass). Croy Historical Society Its former members will again hold a picture display, in our Hall today, Sunday, 25th Oct, 10am-‐ 2pm. Hopefully most of the photos/ items will be returned to the original or interested family members. Helpful Words for those who have had an abortion from Pope John Paul II: “I would now like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion. The Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not yet have healed. Certainly what happened was and remains terribly wrong. But do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly. If you have not already done so, give yourselves over with humility and trust to repentance. The Father of mercies is ready to give you his forgiveness and his peace in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. To the same Father and his mercy you can with sure hope entrust your child. With the friendly and expert help and advice of other people, and as a result of your own painful experience, you can be among the most eloquent defenders of everyone's right to life. Through your commitment to life, whether by accepting the birth of other children or by welcoming and caring for those most in need of someone to be close to them, you will become promoters of a new way of looking at human life.” Evangelium Vitae n.99 Statistic of the Week The Parish Facebook page has just passed 500 “likes”.