Welcome to St. Peter and St Paul’s

Byron Street - Dundee

Sixth Sunday of Easter 13 May 2007 Next Sunday is the Seventh Sunday of Easter - Year C

Sunday Mass Times Anticipated Mass on Saturday at 6.00pm Mass on Sunday at 9.30am & 11.30am

Children’s Liturgy of the Word is celebrated at the 11.30am Mass

The Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday from 10.15am to 10.45am

Saturday from 5.00pm to 5.30pm

Mass this Week:

Monday at 11.00am

Tuesday at 11.00am

Wednesday at 11.00am

Thursday at 11.00am and 6.30pm

NO Mass on Friday

Saturday at 11.00am

Parish Priest: Mgr Joseph Creegan E-mail: j.creegan@btinternet.com

Postal Address: 29 Byron Street, Dundee DD3 6QN Tel 825067

Parish Website: www.stpeterandstpaul.co.uk Webmaster: Andrew Kelly

Deacon: Rev Charles Hendry Tel 818183

Parish Sister: Sister Mary Rose Tel 322304

The Charity Shop and Repository

within the Parish Centre in Milton

Street are open Monday, Tuesday

and Wednesday from 10.30am till

2pm.

Visitors to the Parish Centre are

always welcome and workers are

always needed.

Contact John Mackie, the Manager

of the Parish Centre, for all bookings

and enquiries: tel 858942 or

email john.mackie4@btinternet.com

Let us pray for Jean McInally, Margaret Smith, Audrey Soares, Ellen Boland,

Caleb Gardiner, who are seriously ill,

the sick and housebound: John Dorward, David Donnet, Alex Kane,

also Ina Hogan, James Harvey who died recently,

A Blessing

on those

who greet us

at the church door . . .

Yours is the first of Christ’s faces

to greet God’s people

as they assemble for Mass.

Your greeting of welcome

is the first wish that

“The Lord be with you!”

Yours is the word

that welcomes the stranger to be at home.

Let your welcome and your smile

be for all who enter.

Remember that you will have time later

to see your own close friends.

Seek out the lost and confused,

the stranger and the curious,

Do not wait for them to come to you.

When appropriate,

lend a hand or an arm to the disabled,

remembering your own infirmities.

Greet each person as the Lord,

for that is precise whom you meet.

Congratulations to the young people

who received the Sacrament of

Confirmation last Sunday and took a

further step towards full belonging in the

Catholic Church:

Lia Byrne

Jennifer Henderson

Kirstie Hoskins

Lucy Kerr

Kara McHugh

Brodie Mulholland

Neve O’Leary

Rebecca Liddell

Jamie Skelly

Kendal Whelan

Cianna Young

Sandra Wysocki

Jack Bennett

Blair Flight

Jack Gowans

Jake Hunt

Robbie Telford

We look forward to the celebration of

their First Holy Communion on Sunday

3rd June at the 11.30am Mass.

The Samuel Chorus

Presents

William Byrd’s

Mass for Four Voices &

A Choral Miscellany

Saturday 19 May at 7.30pm

Saint Salvador’s Church. Admission £5. Light refreshments served

Access to Fresh Water

for a Village costs £500 The group who organise the Tea/Coffee after

each Sunday Mass at the back of the church is

using the money donated for the Coffee each

week for a SCIAF project to bring fresh water to

a village. They want to increase the money so

far collected to the £500 needed for this project.

For this purpose they have organised a

PRIZE BINGO to be held in the Parish Centre at 7pm on

Sunday 13 May.

Tickets cost £1 - includes refreshments Tickets are available from

Pat Gray and Brida Tennant

Wednesday 16 May At 12noon a

Fundraising Lunch

for FARA - in aid of the gypsy children

of Romania

Food, clothing, shoes, school

A future to look forward to?

Will you help FARA help them?

Sister Barbara will speak on behalf of this

Walsingham based Charity

Tickets £5 - from the Parish Centre.

The Prayer Group invites you to second talk in

the series preparing for Pentecost.

Healing with Pentecost Experience

Given by Tom Mullen, National Leader of

Catholic Charismatic Renewal

The talk will be followed by Prayer Ministry for

Healing - Parish Centre 7.45pm on Tuesday

Thursday is the Feast of the Ascension of

the Lord. It is a holyday of obligation and

Mass will be at 11.00am and 6.30pm

The annual Procession in honour of Our

Lady - - will take place at 3pm on

Sunday 17 June.

Don't be irreplaceable.

If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

Always remember that you're unique

Just like everyone else.

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

If at first you don't succeed,

skydiving is not for you.

Everyone seems normal

until you get to know them.

There are two theories to arguing with women.

Neither one works.

A woman suspects her boyfriend of cheating on

her, so she goes out and buys a gun. She goes to

his house unexpectedly and when she opens the

door, she finds him in the arms of another

woman. Well, the is really angry. She opens her

bag to take out the gun, and as she does so, she

is overcome with grief. She takes the gun

and puts it to her head.

The boyfriend yells, "No, honey, don't do it!"

"Shut up, she replies, “you're next!"

LOURDES 2007: Dunkeld Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes,

16 – 23 July 2007. Places are available.

Contact Betty Docherty 01382 813363

I have a fascination for The Lord of the Rings especially since the cinema representation of the story. Tolkein told an inquirer in a letter that “The Lord of the Rings is, of course, a fundamentally religious and Catholic work, unconsciously so at first but consciously in the revision.” He continues: The theme is not so much about Power and Domination but about Death and Immortality: the mystery of the love of the world in the hearts of a race doomed to leave and seemingly lose it: the anguish in the hearts of a race doomed not to leave it until its whole evil-aroused story is complete. In the story Frodo volunteers to carry the Ring to Mordor to destroy it. He sets off with eight companions, faces many dangers, but soon there are disagreements about which route to take. In the end Frodo sets off alone to complete his mission. At the last moment Sam joins him, but Frodo is the leader, on his own at last. His motive for going alone is not pride; rather he feels the corrupting power of the Ring is responsible for the disagreements among the Fellowship. A great weariness was on him but his will was firm and his heart lighter. “I will now do what I must”, he says. “I will go alone. Some I cannot trust and those I can trust are too dear to me.” In many ways, Frodo’s journey to Mordor is an echo of Christ’s journey to Golgotha. On the way Frodo meets Gollum who accidentally found the Ring long years ago, killed a friend to possess it and has been obsessed by it ever since. Now he is tracking Frodo in the hope of getting the Ring again. When Frodo meets Gollum he treats him with kindness, so that Gollum is torn between a growing love for Frodo and his ravenous desire for the Ring. Then there is the final betrayal by Gollum when Frodo tastes the depths of suffering - betrayed by the one in whom he put his trust, as Christ was betrayed by Judas. Tolkein demonstrates that the romantic picture of evil (often seen on TV) is an illusion. The same is portrayed in Milton’s Paradise Lost: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. Tolkein makes the point which the Gospels insist on: reveal the truth and live in the truth even though it leads you to trouble; the approval of others and the appearance of integrity is not enough. Various characters are attracted by the power of the Ring, but that power is fatally evil. Even if the power were supposedly used for the good of others, its use would be evil: one cannot make others good by dominating their wills. It is tempting to gloss over a flawed integrity of the heart for the sake of harmony, for it will inevitably be revealed for what it is. It is true kindness to reveal the truth. Frodo was nearly victorious over the evil in Gollum by reason of his kindness, but Gollum chose not to be saved. Frodo failed with Gollum as Gollum bites off the finger on which Frodo wears the Ring and falls into the fires, destroying the Ring and himself. With the Ring gone, Frodo’s mind clears. “There was Frodo, pale and worn, but himself again and in his eyes there was peace, neither strain of will nor any fear. His burden was taken away, he was himself again, he was free.” Tolkein’s picture of a hero who fails in his mission of kindness , his willingness to take a chance on another person, is both subtle and profoundly true to life. It is Christ’s story but it is also the human story which is played out in every age and in many people. That peace which feeds and stills the human heart is not easily or cheaply won, as Tolkein demonstrates in his powerful myth. That peace is costly, as we know and see in Christ, for it is the often the fruit of raw courage to be the Truth.

Not as the world gives peace