Please remember in your prayers those who are sick:

Margaret Mc’Intyre, Dave Kerr, Margaret Tobin, Sarah Jane Connelly, Lisa Hertwig,

Dr. Michael Basquill, Margaret Foye, Susie Meehan, Brendan Murphy, Margaret Byrne,

(Kathlean Clarke & Family, Peter-James, Gerard and Shaun-Joseph), Lynne Malkiewicz,

Toni Stolarek, Cath McLaughlin, John Craig, Agnes Conlan

and all those in the various nursing homes.

St. Bernadette’s RC Church Tull ibody Parish Newsletter

25th June 2017 + 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Parish Priest: Fr. Mike Freyne MHM Email: mafreyne@btinternet.com

Tel: 01259 213274

Baingle Brae, Tullibody. FK10 2SG

Are you visiting our Parish or have you just moved into the area? Please feel very welcome..... Introduce yourself to the Parish Priest or welcomers at the back of the church.

There are no strangers here just new friends you haven’t yet met…

Gift Aided

£282.60

Non Gift-Aided

£268.77

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL: Meet every 2 weeks in Church hall at 10.30am before Sunday mass. Next meetings: 2 July / 16 July

KNIGHTS OF ST. COLUMBA: Meet on first Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm in the Church Hall at St. Mungo’s Alloa.

Collections 18th June R e g u l a r M e e t i n g s

MASS TIMES: Saturday Vigil 5.30pm. Sunday Mass11.30am

Weekday Masses: Mon, Wed, Thurs & Sat mornings at 9.30am. Tuesday - No Services Friday Evening at 7.00pm

Parish Website: http://www.catholic-church.org/stbernadettes/ For newsletters, notices, information from groups, history, links to schools, other catholic organisations and publications.

Diocese of Dunkeld Scottish Charity No.SC001810

Mobile phones must be switched off or put to Airplane mode

in the church as they interfere with our speaker system

“Love requires a creative, concrete response….

Good intentions are not enough. The other is not a statistic,

but a person to take care of.” - ( POPE FRANCIS @Pontiflex )

Feed the Hungry : Please place non-perishable & tinned items etc. in the basket/ box at the back of the church. Members of SVDP & KSC will distribute the goods to the needy in our area and also support “The Gate” Foodbank in Alloa.

(25kg donated in May)

Remember those who have recently died… Theresa Conlan and Anne Smith

and those whose anniversaries of their death occur at this time.... Charles Glendinning and Cristina Earns

Fr. Mike’s

Brazil Jar

BRAZIL COINS AND CLOTHES….. Please take a jar from the back of the church to collect spare coins for Brazil. This money helps small projects that get very little and often no other support. We also send 2 cases of clothes to Brazil in September and December. People have been very good in the past, instead of throwing out children’s clothes they handed them in to send to Brazil.

We are looking for clothes for boys/girls from 2 year of age to early teens.

A Catholic Social Teaching message from Pope Paul VI:

For victims of torture "Whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as.... torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself.... are infamies indeed. They poison human society but they do more harm to those who practise them than those who suffer from the injury. Moreover they are supreme dishonour to the Creator." - (Gaudium et Spes para.27 )

More at:

http://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/

NO NEWSLETTER NEXT WEEK 2nd JULY - NEXT ISSUE 9th JULY

Thanks & goodbye from John Lynch & family.

The family are leaving early in July to start a new life beside the White sands of Morar. Thanks for all your friendship & support over the last 30 or so years….

We all wish them well in their new home.

COMPUTER PROBLEM !!!!

Microsoft did a major Windows 10 update which deleted Fr. Mike’s main programs….

Technology is great when it functions well but went it goes wrong creates so many

problems as we have come to take it for granted…. While we try to fix things some

notices may not be published or the diary up to date as it was all on the computer.

SUNDAY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS IN JULY 2nd JULY PETERS PENCE & 9th JULY IS SEA SUNDAY

PARISH DIARY

Saturday 24th June

9.30am - Mass & Confessions, St. Bernadette's.

5.30pm - Vigil Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

SUNDAY 25th June

11.30am - Morning Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

Monday 26th June

9.30am - Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

Tues 27th June NO SERVICES IN PARISH

Wednesday 28th June

10.30am - Mass celebrated by Bishop Stephen, school mass for retirement of Elizabeth Philliben and Anne Allen.

Thursday 29th June

Morning Mass 9.30am & Evening Mass 7.00pm - St. Bernadette’s

Friday 30th June

7.00pm - Evening Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

Saturday 1st July

9.30am - Mass & Confessions, St. Bernadette's.

5.30pm - Vigil Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

SUNDAY 2nd July

11.30am - Morning Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

15 Sept Friday. Wedding St. John Vianney’s

23/24 Sept Mary’s Meals weekend

9/10 Oct Priests’ Council, Kinnoul, Perth

10/11/12 Oct Biblical Course for priests, Perth

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Parish Website: http://www.catholic-church.org/stbernadettes/

Diocesan Youth Mass Sunday 25th June 2017 5pm - 7.30pm In St Andrew’s Cathedral, Nethergate, Dundee

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ANY OF OUR FIRST COMMUNICANTS

WISHING TO SERVE ON THE

ALTAR PLEASE TURN UP AT

9.30am SATURDAY

MORNING

MASS TO LEARN.

Fr. Mike Freyne MHM

FR. MIKE’S 40TH ANNIVERSAY TO THE PRIESTHOOD.

Fr Mike wishes to thank the organising committee, parishioners and all who helped celebrated the 40th anniversary of his ordina-tion to the priesthood. With Bishop Stephen and 22 priests from the Dunkeld Diocese, Mill Hill Missionaries, Missio and Archdiocese of Edinburgh with a large crowd of friends and parishioners a very joyful, well sung mass was celebrated. Informality, mission and thanksgiving was

the flavour of the evening. It was wonderful to see the participation from Kate who read the Reading at his ordination; Carly from our St. Bernadette’s school the second Reading, Fr. Mike’s sisters and parishioners in the offertory procession. Great thanks goes out to the other readers, altar servers, sacristans, choir, cleaners, flower arrangement, pass-keepers and many others who behind the scenes spent hours preparing sandwiches, baking and cooking to put on a wonderful spread. So much food was supplied people were being encouraged to take bags home!! It was a wonderful parish experience and celebration. Many thanks for all the gifts, cards and especially the very unexpected cheque from the parish of £1,440!

God bless all.

Monday 3rdJuly

9.30am - Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

Tues 4th July NO SERVICES IN PARISH

Wednesday 5thJuly

9.30am - Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

Thursday 6thJuly

9.30am - Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

Friday 7th July

7.00pm - Evening Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

Saturday 8th July

9.30am - Mass & Confessions, St. Bernadette's.

5.30pm - Vigil Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

SUNDAY 9th July

Sea Sunday - 11.30am - Morning Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

RETIREMENT MASS FOR LIZ PHILLIBEN & MRS ANNE ALLEN Wednesday 28 June NO 9.30am mass. Mass will be at 10.30am in the church.

This will be a concelebrated mass by Bishop Stephen and all the priests who have served In St. John Vianney’s and St. Bernadette’s during the last 40 years to celebrate the retirement of Liz Philiben and Anne Allen.

We invite all parishes to this mass and especially those who were taught by both teachers or their children were taught by them. After the mass the school invites everyone to the school for refreshments. Please join in and show your appreciation of the dedication and commitment of these teachers.

Feast o f Sain ts Peter and Pau l + Ho l iday o f Obl igat ion

Sea Sunday is on 9th July when the Church prays for all those who live and work at sea.

There will be a second collection for Apostleship of the Sea, the official maritime welfare agency of the Catholic Church in Britain. It provides prac-tical and spiritual support to seafarers visiting our ports. As it is wholly dependent on voluntary donations, please give generously.

For more information on the work of AoS please visit : www.apostleshipofthesea.org.uk

Peter’s Pence Special Collection

Apostleship of The Sea Special Collection

Peter’s Pence Collection on 2nd July

The focus of the collection is primarily for the pope’s charitable efforts to help the poor, the homeless and those in need. The annual collection gives parishioners every-where an opportunity to actively demonstrate unity with the pope, our personal support for his mission as Vicar of Christ and a way to help our needy brothers and sisters.

It is also worth remembering that the Catholic Church is the biggest aid agency in the world.