IntimationsAbundant Baptismal Blessings recently bestowed on Connor Barry Campbell and on Sean Paul McLean Corner. “…the one who began this good work in you will see that it is finished when the day of Christ Jesus comes” (cf Phil 1:6).

Your charitable prayers are requested for

Sick: Stephen Nash, Ian Shand, Gillian Martin, Jane Martin, Michael Griffin, Noel & Mary Brady, Carlo Fazzi, Eileen Forsyth, Patsy (née Livingstone) Durkin, Jeanette McDonald, Terry Meighan, Thomas Taggart…

And for the happy repose of the souls of

Recently Dead: William (Willie) Brannan [Balloch-Eastfield; Receive: Sunday at 6.30pm; Funeral Mass: Monday at 10am], John (“Jockie”) Bennett [Croy; Rosary: Tuesday at 8pm, in Weldon Place; Receive on Wednesday at 6.30pm; Funeral on Thursday at 10am], Mons J Noel Woods [St Joseph’s, Tollcross, Glasgow, Receive: Wednesday at 6.30pm; Funeral Mass: Thursday 12 noon], Anne Pierard [Croy], Sheila (née Murray) Mullen [Balloch- Eastfield], Margaret Wallace [Cumbernauld], Anne Anderson, Elizabeth Conway [Kilsyth], Norman Phillips, Philip Healy, Amelia Templeton [Walsall], Anne Anderson, Donna Reid [Blackwood], Peter Crainie [Paisley formerly Croy], Donna Reid [Blackwood], Petsey McAtee [Kilsyth formerly Croy; Receive at St Patrick’s on Monday at 6pm; Funeral Mass on Tuesday at 9.30am]

Month’s Mind Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Jean (née Linning) McGivern, William McTiernan

Anniversaries: Eddie Weldon, Rev Fr Francis Xavier Barry, Jay Livingstone, James Kiernan, John Waters, Pat Boyce, Patrick Friel, Jeff Paterson, Petsey Higney, Hugh & Cathy Fitzsimmons, Robbie Millne, Brian Walsh, James McVey, Margaret (née Currie) Livingstone, Agnes (née McManus) Doolan, Katrina McSharry

Special Remembrance Thomas Shiels, William, Alice & Liam Fowler, Peter Waters

In Good Company

Feast days Monday: St Florian; Tuesday: St Flannan; Wednesday: St Fachanan, Blessed Scubilion; Thursday: St Ammon; Friday: St Peter Canisius; Saturday: St Hunger; (Sunday: 4th Sunday of Advent [C])

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Holy Cross15th / 16th December 2018

Third Sunday of Advent “Gaudete Sunday” [C] Zeph 3: 14-18; Ps 12; Phil 4: 4-7; Lk 3: 10-18

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“The Chapel House”, Holy Cross, Constarry Road, Croy, Crothaidh, G65 9JG Tel: 01236- 822 148

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Clergy: Rev Fr Joseph Sullivan PVG Scheme renewed July 2017 Holy Mass Saturday Vigil: 6pm; Sunday: 9.30am & 11.40am Monday to Saturday: 10am Sacrament of Reconciliation/ Confession Saturdays after 10am Mass, after 6pm Mass & usually any day on request; aussi en français, anche in italiano Holy Rosary Monday to Saturday at 9.30am; & after Mass on Fridays Novena in honour of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal at Mass on Tuesdays Divine Mercy Devotion after Mass on Wednesdays 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 approved by USCCB (or Chalice reception) available: see Fr Sullivan Hearing: Loop System is present

Hall Bookings See Website for details, then email: hall@holycrosscroy.com or Booking Secretary, Tel 07833 544250, Monday- Thursday between 8-9pm

Caring Sunday St Nicholas Fund Boxes available. Special Collection today. What SCIAF is to the Third World, St Nicholas Fund is to more local Needs.

Confessions Sacrament of Reconciliation with extra Priests Tuesday 18th Dec at 7.30pm.

Finance Last weekend’s Second Collection for Re-pointing raised= £464. Next week’s Second Collection will be for Re-pointing. New Gift Aid Envelopes are available for uplift in Sacristy. You also have the opportunity to join the Gift Aid Scheme.

Christmas Quarterly is now due. Please place in Quarterly box. Proceeds will go to the Ecclesiastical Students Fund of the Archdiocese- helping to fund seminarians.

Well done the Anonymous Donor of chocolates for the Altar Servers!

Safeguarding in the Catholic Church The Bishops’ Conference has published new materials for safeguarding. These can be accessed on the Bishops’ Conference Website at: www.bcos.org.uk/Safeguarding/tabid/124/Default.aspx. Copies of the new Code of Conduct are available for every person in the parish who has undergone PVG registration (Special Ministers of Holy Communion, Catechists, anyone who works with children or vulnerable people) & others who work with these groups but do not need PVG.

Advent Carol Service led by Holy Cross Primary on Friday at 1.15pm, here.

Interested in Becoming an RC? RCIA will r e s u m e o n Tu e s d a y 8 t h January 2019. We take this opportunity to congratulate all these in “the RCIA Team!”

C a t a r a c t P a t i e n t s i n Kenya. Letter of thanks (for our donation of £445) available for perusal in p o r c h . We l l done to A & J McDonald for their visit there.

Christmas Monday 24th Dec 10am Mass 5pm First Mass of Christmas 8.30pm Carols with Croy Silver Band 9pm Night Mass of Christmas Tuesday 25th Dec 10am Christmas Morning Mass

Christmas is a Holyday of Obligation. You may receive Holy Communion at a second Mass.

Christmas Card to the whole parish. If you are willing & able, please uplift a set of cards and deliver to your or a neighbouring street or odd- or even-numbers of the street. Just write “2018” on the sheet with the street name and take the required number of cards.

Christmas Nativity Tableau Rehearsals after 9.30am Mass. Finishes by 11.15am. All children welcome to volunteer.

H C Ladies Guild will resume on Thursday 10th January 2019. We take this opportunity to congratulate those who organise this fine initiative.

YOUCAT a decent Catechism for teenagers available in the Piety Stall. From a Godfather or Godmother it may well be a great Christmas Present = £8.

Pro-Life Mass Wednesday 19th December in Bl. John Duns Scotus, Ballater St, Glasgow G5 0YT. Adoration at 6pm followed by Rosary at 7pm and Mass at 7.30pm.

Used Stamps for the Missions: please place in box in porch area.

Fabric x 2 New anti-weed matting has been put down around the Shrine to the Fallen. New carpets have been placed at Sacred Heart Altar and at Our Lady’s Altar. Well done the Workers & well done those who are willing & able to support the parish financially.

St Thérèse A Number of Parishioners asked for the Quotation by this great Doctor of the Church: “My dear Mother, I may perhaps appear to you to be exaggerating my trial. In fact, if you are judging according to the sentiments I express in my little poems composed this year, I must appear to you as a soul filled with consolations and one for whom the veil of faith is almost torn aside; and yet it is no longer a veil for me, it is a wall which reaches right up to the heavens and covers the starry firmament. When I sing of the happiness of heaven and of the eternal possession of God, I feel no joy in this, for I sing simply what I WANT TO BELIEVE. It is true that at times a very small ray of the sun comes to illumine my darkness, and then the trial ceases for an instant, but afterward the memory of this ray, instead of causing me joy, makes my darkness even more dense.”