Parish Priest: Fr. Mike Freyne MHM

Email: stbernadette@dunkelddiocese.org.uk

Tel: 01259 213274

Baingle Brae, Tullibody. FK10 2SG Diocese of Dunkeld Scottish Charity No.SC001810

St. Bernadette’s RC Church Tullibody Parish Newsletter 22nd September 2019

25th Sunday in Ordinary time

NORMAL MASS TIMES: Saturday Vigil 5.30pm. & Sunday Morning Mass: 11.30am

Weekday Morning Masses: Mon, Wed, Thurs &Saturday at 9.30am.

Friday evening mass at 7.00pm - NO SERVICES ON TUESDAYS

See Parish Diary for Holy Days and other services / events.

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…

Col lect ions 15th September

Gift Aided £358.25 Non Gift Aided £221.14

£285.36 Ecclesiastical Students Fund Special collection.

Knights of St. Columba: Meet at 7.30pm on first Wednesday of each month in the church hall at St. Mungo’s Alloa.

Please remember in your prayers those who are sick: Margaret Mc’Intyre,

Margaret Byrne, Kathy Mc’Lauglin, Carly Mournian, Nellie Gallon, Sarah Jane Connelly,

Dave Kerr, Brendan Murphy, John Woods, Maurice Di Duca, Duncan Mc’Gregor,

Roger Bray, (Kathlean Clarke & Family, Peter-James, Gerard and Shaun-Joseph),

Vincent McDaid, Drs. Dianne & Mike Basquill, Peter & Margaret Stark, John Mc’Niven,

Mary Gordon, Fr. Brian Doran, Charles Roberson, Helen & Tommy Mc’Menemy, John Smith,

Fr. John Callaghan, Alex Byrne, Moira Malkiewicz and all those in the various nursing homes.

R em em b er th o se wh o h ave r ecent l y d ied: John Craig, Carol Anne Conlan,

Minnie Zola, Michael Moore, Mary Giovo and Hugh Haggerty

and those whose anniversaries of their death occur at this time. Fr. Jim Wallace, William Forsyth, Archie McNiven, Bridie Lamb,

Grace & Archie Dickson and Sandy Soave.

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

For newslet ters , not i ces, in format ion f rom par ish groups, h is tory , l inks to schools , o ther cathol ic organisat ions and publ icat ions.

SVDP: Meet 2 weekly at 10.30am before Sunday morning mass in the hall. Next meetings: 22nd Sept, 6th & 20th October

PARISH DIARY

Saturday 21st September

5.30pm - Vigil Mass - St. Bernadette’s

Sunday 22nd September

11.30am - MORNING MASS - ST. BERNADETTE’S

Monday 23rd September

9.30am - Morning Mass, St. Bernadette’s 10 am Dunkeld Mission Group, Dundee 6.30pm - Education Meeting.

Tues 24th Sept NO PARISH SERVICES

Wednesday 25th September

9.30am - Morning Mass, St. Bernadette’s. 1.00pm - National SCES meeting, Stirling 7.00pm - All Sacraments preparation meeting for Parents/Carers.

Thursday 26th September

9.30am - Morning Mass, St. Bernadette’s 7.00pm - Amazon Synod lecture, Edinburgh

Friday 27th Sept 7.00pm - Evening Mass, St Bernadette’s

Saturday 28th September

9.30am - Morning Mass & Confessions, St Bernadette’s

5.30pm - Vigil Mass, ST. BERNADETTE’S

Sunday 29th September

9.45am - Morning Mass - Doune 11.30am - MORNING MASS - ST. BERNADETTE’S

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

5 + 6 Oct Enrolment mass for all 3 Sacraments

6 to 13Oct Poverty week. Special mass on Friday 11th Oct.

R e g u l a r M e e t i n g s

Mobile phones, iPads & tablets etc. must be switched off or put to Airplane mode in the church as they interfere with the speaker system. SURELY 1HR. WITHOUT YOUR MOBILE IS NO HARDSHIP. Many people, including regulars, are still not turning their mobile phones or other electrical devices off.

Switch it off Please…

Children's Liturgy

“ “The Lord was moved with compassion" (Luke 7:13). Our God is a God of compassion. Compassion is the weakness of God, but also His strength.” #SantaMarta - Pope Francis@pontiflex

25th Sunday in

Ordinary time

Fr Mike’s Brazil Jar.

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.

Items for the newsletter should be sent to: st.bernadettes.tullibody@gmail.com

LOURDES YOUTH - 100 CLUB The next draw will be on 29th of September at St. John Vianney ’s Alva. Will all members please make sure their subscriptions are up to date .

26th Sunday in

Ordinary time

Sick: As a parish we remember our sick and pray for them at every mass. Hopefully those known

to us as sick receive the Sacrament of the Sick regularly. Every 3 months is good but we try for every 4 to 6 weeks. We ask you to remember just now Bishop Stephen in your prayers as his health is not very good and a cause for concern.

M A R Y ’ S M E A L S W E E K E N D

Hall open for Mary’s Meals clothes collection. Sat 28th: 8am to 5.30pm Sun 29th: 8am to 11am

PLEASE HELP!

22nd September (Sunday before World Day against the Trafficking in People (26 Sep))

“How I wish that all of us would hear God’s cry: “Where is your brother?” (Gen 4:9). Where is your brother or sister who is enslaved? Where is the brother and sister whom you are killing each day in clandestine warehouses, in rings of prostitution, in children used for begging, in exploiting undocumented labour? Let us not look the other way. There is greater complicity than we think”- (Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, para 211 )

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

Feed the Hungry: Place non-perishable & tinned items

etc in the box at the back of the church. Our SVDP /KSC will distrib-ute goods to the needy in our area and also support “The Gate” food-bank. August contributions from our parish to The Gate amounted to 18.6kg of food and £40 in cash

MARY’S MEALS: Annual clothes collection weekend will be Next Saturday & Sunday 28th+29th September 2019. (Only able to collect TEXTILES (any condition) e.g. clothes, household textiles, shoes, bags, etc.)

Volunteers from the charity will speak at masses and will be selling raffle tickets for their annual prize draw...

Just a few bin bags filled with textiles could generate enough funds to feed a child for a school year. £13.90 is all it costs to feed a child for a whole school year.)

So don’t throw out your old clothes keep them and bring to the church on the collection days… (SEE DIARY FOR HALL OPENING TIMES)

Mary’s Meals are feeding over 1.5million children in 18 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean.

For more about Mary’s Meals go to: https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/

Journeying Towards Caring for Our Common Home: Join us at the Lauriston Jesuit Centre in the last of the series of talks exploring Pope Francis' document Laudato Si in light of the forthcoming Amazon Synod. Lectures are at

the Lauriston Jesuit Centre 28 Lauriston Street Edinburgh. Thurs 26th Sept, 7.30pm - 'Has the Forthcoming Synod on the Ama-zon any Relevance to Us? - Paul Martin SJ, (Former Regional Superior for the Jesuits in Guyana) Entry by donation

See Fr. Mike if interested.

THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES CARFIN The new Scalan Altar at Carfin is due to be solemnly dedicated by Bishop Toal on Sunday 6th October at 3.00pm. All are welcome. www.carfingrotto.org

The SVDP are our parish based charity focussing on the needy and socially excluded locally...

The SVDP has recently donated £1008 worth of household items to The Gate’s Starter Pack Project. The aim of the project is to support individuals who are moving from homeless accommodation into their first tenancy. Packs are tailored to the needs of the individual and include crockery, cutlery, kitchen utensils, bedding, towels, kettles, toasters and other basic household items. Referrals for support are via a strict referral system from statutory providers. - See parish website. The ongoing support and generosity from parishioners is greatly appreciated. It is only through your ongoing support that we can contribute to support such important causes and help to make a difference to the lives of those in our community who need our help.... If you know of anyone in need in the parish please let the SVDP know

or just put a note of the name and contact details in the SVDP box in the church .

+ Stephen Robson

SHORT PASTORAL LETTER TO THE FAITHFUL ON SUNDAY, 22nd SEPTEMBER 2019

My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

As you are well aware, just a short while ago we had a four-day visit of the major relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux to our diocese. There were a few in our country who were sceptical about such a visit. In fact, last time this was proposed for our country in 2010, it was decided that the visit would have been a waste of resources and so the bishops decided not to sanction the visit here. What was the result? Our people in Scotland went by the thousands down to England to Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle where the visit of the relics to Eng-land had been planned and gone ahead. The visit to England then had been a great success, and I knew that our

people would respond to the once-in-a-lifetime visit of Thérèse this time round in great numbers. And so you did!

Why? Because Thérèse, in spite of being a cloistered Carmelite nun, cut off from ‘the world’, was a great Evangeliser. Through her spiritual teaching on humility, on her ‘Little Way’; in her letters to missionary priests, in her ‘Story of a Soul’ her spiritual autobiography and in her persistence in prayer she was able to reach out beyond the walls of the Monas-tery into the world which needed to hear the teaching of the Gospel trumpeted but with her characteristic gentleness. St Thérèse had also promised to ‘spend her heaven doing good on earth’. We are among the beneficiaries of this

promise fulfilled in our own time.

Over four wonderful days we prayed, venerated the relics, adored the Lord Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament,

participated in our masses and in our various other liturgies and devotions.

One of the greatest fruits of this Visit was how Therese drew people to Confession and brought many people back to the practice of their faith. In addition, many pilgrims came from other dioceses - even from other churches - and the

general impression was that we were greatly strengthened in our Catholic Faith by her presence among us.

What will be the legacy of this Visit? Perhaps the best gift we could give Thérèse in return is to keep that sense of enthusiasm and rejuvenation for our faith and to share it with others - with members of our families who are lapsed, or who feel perhaps alienated from the Church. That would be a wonderful lasting legacy to flow from our Visit of St Therese. Over these past few days we have been blessed with so many graces and blessings ourselves; so let our thanksgiving be to double our efforts and intentions to make the Lord Jesus known and loved and to bless and thank him for the Crowning of the Saints and for the intercession of the heavenly Church in support of our work of evangelisa-

tion here on earth - and especially for the intercession of St.Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face.

There are many people I would wish to thank for their hard work during the planning phase and during the Visit itself. I would like to thank in particular the General Secretary of the Bishops Conference, Fr Jim Grant, who masterminded the entire visit to Scotland from beginning to end; to Canon Kevin Golden who was our diocesan representative on the National Committee and to the constant presence of the Knights of Saint Columba who accompanied the relics from diocese to diocese and who kept guard over the relics during the Visit. Within our own diocese I would like to thank again Canon Kevin Golden, Administrator of the Cathedral, who managed the entire visit, printed and prepared all the Mass sheets, and rehearsed the Diocesan Choir and lead them during the liturgies. I would also like to thank Sheriff Kevin Veal who lead the music from the organ in the Cathedral; the cantors; the readers and the servers lead by our Cathedral MC Tom McPherson. I wish also to thank the many priests who heard confessions and brought their people by car and bus from the more far flung parishes in the diocese and to Eleanor McBride for her flower arrangements. A special thanks must go to the Diocesan Choir who excelled themselves in ‘Singing for the Lord’ during the four days of the visit and finally to the ladies of the Cathedral who provided hospitality for all those who were helping during the

Visit in various ways.

Finally I would like to thank all of you Faithful People who took part in this memorable visit; for your love for the Saint, for your faith in action and for your devotion to the Church. May the visit of Saint Thérèse be a real boost to our renew-al in Faith and as a spur to urge us on during this time of confusion and doubt. May the Little Flower bless all our ef-

forts at renewal and strengthen our Faith.

Yours devotedly in Christ. Bishop of Dunkeld

HELP! Next Saturday 28th, we will be looking for volunteers, if it is not raining, to help in the garden for an HOUR. From 10.30 to 11.30am. We want to prune the bushes for the winter. Please do come along just for an hour and not leave it to 2 or 3 retired and growing older people.