welcome

Mass Intentions Vigil Mass 6.00pm The SECOND Sunday in Lent Maria Pye RIP & Sheena Gillespie RIP

Sun 25th Feb 9.30am 11.00am

Pathhead

Brian O’Mara AV

Mon No Mass

Tues 9.15am Mass Francisco Oliveira RIP

Wed 9.15am 7.00pm

Mass Stations of the Cross

Special Intention

Thurs 1st March 9.15am Mass Anni Ritchie and Patrick Gauson AV

Fri 9.15am Mass Gerard McVey RIP

Sat. 5.15pm Vigil Mass 6.00pm

No Mass Confessions Rosary Confessions

Sun 4th March 11.00am The THIRD Sunday in Lent Charlie Hayes Recovery

Janet and Alex Hay AV

Ministries Weekend 3rd/4th March

Altar Servers: 6pm T, A & G Courtney, 11am K Gray, N Piecuch, A Cusack L Allegrini, C Mochar, M Brown Readings: 6pm H Kilday, I Wilson 11am A Vidler, E McDumphy Prayers: 6pm M Combe 11am R McCabe Eucharist: 6pm M Gilhooley, J Glen, 11am M McHardy, J McLean, V MacNaughton, P Nicolson, C Purnell,

A Reid J Scott, A Vidler

Teas – UCM Children's Liturgy - Hazel, Sheena & helpers

Cleaning Week Beginning 4th: Team 5 - Elspeth & Jean

Lent Bible Study Tuesdays 7.00pm

Charity Bingo Saturday 3rd March 7.00pm Then first Fridays until July

6th

Sunday 18th February 2018 Collection £855.61 Candles £ 57.29 Stall £ 40.00

Many thanks for your generosity

Your continued support will allow extensive building restoration to take place in 2018 - with a budget of £50,000.

❖ Roof repairs begin this coming week.

❖ Stonework and pointing repairs in March/April.

❖ Interior plasterwork in June/July.

❖ Church painting will follow on from that.

In 2019 we will move on to the exterior of the Hall.

Please Pray - For The Sick: Natalie Archibald, Rachel Mitchell, June Fleming, Nan Brogan, Rita Fowler, Albert Binnie, Elizabeth McMahon, Mary Kowal, Sean Hall, Sybille Durie, Isabel Gray, Bobby Mitchell, Baby Cooper Carter, Eddie Brown, Hugh Rodgers, Hugh Scott, Joan Brooks, Caryle Hughes, Eileen Hunter, Maureen Keane, Allan Knight, Anne Marie Bevan, Colin Wills, Isobel Henderson, Lona McCardle and Kevin Fitzsimmons. Anniversaries: Fr John Cassidy, Lawrence McMillan, Annie Ritchie, Patrick Gauson, Charles Fraser, John McGhee Snr, Christina Gray, Mary Higgins, Nette McQueen, Janet Hay, Isa Murray, Patrick Dixon and Margaret Finnigan. Recently Deceased. Tom Peters RIP

Choir Practice Wednesdays after Stations of the Cross

Sacramental Enrolment

First Confession & First Holy Communion Advent Sunday at 11.00am Mass

Archbishop’s Letter - in the porch

Change is on the way. The Archbishop tells us that this is so - but does not tells us what the changes are and how they will affect us! I have the feeling however that they will affect us and sooner than I hoped. Fr B

No Mass etc. Next Saturday 3rd March My apologies for this but one of my new roles is to sit on the National Commission for Justice and Peace presided over by Bishop Bill Nolan of Galloway Diocese. These meetings take place 4 times per year and mostly at a distance. This time the meeting is in Glasgow and begins at 11.00am. The next will be on 9th of June. I will do my best to get cover for that Saturday.

Gin Tasting Evening – Friday 9th March, 7.30 – 11pm, Church Hall

£10 per ticket – G&T on arrival, quiz, raffle, prosecco bar, bottle tombola, supersonic

G&T’s.

All proceeds to fund Ruth’s Tanzanian hospital placement.

For tickets please contact agold1903@gmail.com or Ruth - 07454222004

St Patrick’s Family Night Doors Open 7.00pm after Mass

Irish Dancing & Traditional Music

Adult £5.00 Child £2.00 Family of 4 £12.00 BYOB and Snacks

Tickets on sale now.

MUSSELBURGH CHURCHES TOGETHER LENT REFLECTIONS 2018

MONDAYS 26 February: speaker’s theme ‘Recycling’ 5 March: speaker’s theme ‘Homelessness’ 12 March: speaker’s theme ‘Christian Aid’

19 March: speaker’s theme ‘Eco Congregations’ In ST ANNE'S CONVENT 7.30PM

(enter through Ashgrove)

Friday March 2nd 2.30pm

St Clement’s Church Wallyford

LENTEN ALMSGIVING

Many thanks to those of you who donated food in the last week. It is always heartening to see your generosity to those who are less fortunate than ourselves. Each week members of the SSVP take the donated goods to the foodbank – my thanks to them for their time.

“Who do you say that I am? Reflecting on the question in our lives today.”

Join us for a quiet day during Lent, reflecting on the question posed by Jesus to his apostles and to us in our lives today.

Saturday 17th March, 10am – 4pm. £25 /£20 (conc) Lauriston Hall, 28 Lauriston Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DJ

Tea/ coffee provided, please bring your own lunch.

Miriam McHardy is an experienced spiritual director and retreat giver. She was previously coordinator for Justice and Peace in the archdiocese of St Andrews & Edinburgh, and has a particular interest in how faith supports and encourages our action in social justice. For more information email: just.folk@mmchardy.org.uk

Carbon Fast Suggestions

Give up bottled water and use a recyclable bottle from home

Donate old magazines, empty cereal boxes etc to your local nursery or school (check they would appreciate it first!)

# 47 When media and the digital world become omnipresent, their influence can stop people from learning how to live wisely, to think deeply and to love generously. Luadato Si

Brunton Hall

Sun. 25th Feb 10.30 – 12.30 & 2.00 – 3.30 Mon. 26th Feb 2.30 – 4.30 & 5.15 – 7.30

Lent Reflections

Anthony Gielty author of

Out of the Darkness The Transformation of one of

Scotland’s most violent prisoners

Tuesday 13th March 7.00pm

Saturday 21st April Further information to follow

Passover Meal

Sunday 25th March

6.00pm Tickets £4.00

On Sale Now

OLOLYP would like to thank Father Basil, all the Parishioners and their friends and family, that came along to see our production of Little

Shop Of Horrors at The Brunton theatre. The show was a huge success and we look forward to celebrating our 30th year in 2019.

OLOLYP gives all our children a chance to showcase their talent and couldn’t continue without your support. Our next show will be

announced soon. Please get in touch if you wish to become a Friend of OLOLYP, or if your child is aged between 10 and 18 and would like

to join us.