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

Margaret Tobin, Sarah Jane Connelly, Lisa Hertwig, Dr. Michael Basquill, Susie Meehan,

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

Brendan Murphy, Margaret Byrne, Toni Stolarek, Agnes Conlan, John Craig,

Kathy McLaughlin and all those in the various nursing homes.

St. Bernadette ’s RC Church Tu l l ibody Parish Newsletter

17th Sept 2017 + 24th 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…

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

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

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

NO SERVICES ON TUESDAY Friday Evening Mass: 7.00pm

ALSO SEE DIARY INSIDE FOR HOLY DAYS AND FUNERALS ETC.

Parish Website: http://www.catholic-church.org/stbernadettes/ For news let ters , not ices , in format ion f rom groups , h istory ,

l inks to schools , o ther cathol ic organisat ions and publ icat ions.

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

Remember those who have recently died… Frank Stolarek, Margaret Foye, Josie Smith, Mary Sweeney, Elizabeth Rowe and Brian Hall.

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

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL: Meet 2 weekly in hall at 10.30am before Sunday mass. Next meetings: 24th Sept & 1st October

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

Brazil Jar

Gift Aided

£326.00

Non

Gift-Aided

£184.02

Collections 10th Sept

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.

BRAZIL JARS

NEXT WEEKEND IS OUR MARY’S MEALS EVENT We’ll have speakers from the charity at the vigil and Sunday morning masses and sale of annual raffle tickets.

The hall will be open from 7.00am to 7.00pm on Saturday and from 7.00am to 11.30am on Sunday for collection of clothes etc. The lorry leaves at 11.30am on Sunday so don't bring anything after that.

LIBERIA: Liberia’s children suffered greatly as a result of the brutal 14-year civil war, which forced most of the country’s children out of the classroom and destroyed the majority of schools. Despite a decade of unbroken peace, Liberia still faces huge challenges to re-establishing its education system. 60% of children don’t go to school. We provide daily meals across the Bomi, Bong, Grand Cape Mount, Gbarpo-lu, and Montserrado counties. We have been present in Liberia since 1994 (initially as Scottish International Relief) delivering shipments of emergency medical aid, before starting to provide school meals in 2006.

MALAWI: Malawi is home to our largest school feeding programme. It remains one of the poorest countries in the world and faces huge challenges in education, access to healthcare and widespread child malnutrition. We reach hundreds of thousands of primary aged children across the country, where we work closely with schools and community volunteers who help prepare and serve the nutritious meals every school day. We provide meals to 30% of primary school aged children across the country. Mary’s Meals began in Malawi in 2002 when our founder met a 14-year-old boy who told him: “I want to have enough food to eat and to be able to go to school one day.”

INDIA: We work in both formal and non-formal education centres – such as railway platforms – providing a daily meal to children who are disadvantaged by caste, disability, gender, or HIV status. We offer these children, who may never otherwise see the inside of a classroom, the chance to learn in a safe and welcoming environment. We work in some of the poor-est, north-eastern states of India including Bihar, Orissa, Kolkata, Chattisgarh, and Jharkhand, and have a number of projects in the Delhi area. India’s caste system assigns people to a class depending on the occupation of their ancestors, meaning those born into poverty have very few opportunities.

93p of every £1 donated goes

direct to help on the ground.

We can feed a child at school

for a year for as little as £13.90p.

Current ly dai ly feeding near ly

1 1 /4 mil l ion chi ldren worldwide.

MORE AT https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/ “Reproduced with permission from Mary’s Meals. All rights reserved.”

Mary's Meals works in 14 countries, in Africa, Asia, Latin America

and the Caribbean.

Saturday 16th September

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

SUNDAY 17th September

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

Monday 18th

September

9.30am - Morning Mass, St. Bernadette’s. 12 Noon - Deanery Meeting, St. John Vianney’s, Alva 7.00pm - Parish Advisory Education Committee, Parish House.

Tuesday 19th September

NO PARISH SERVICES 11.00am - Meeting, Kircaldy

Wednesday 20th Sept

9.30am - Morning Mass, St. Bernadette’s. 6.30pm - AGM St. Bernadette’s School

Thursday 21st September

9.30am - Morning Mass, St. Bernadette’s. 7.00pm - Diocesan Vocations Mass, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Dundee

Fri 22nd Sept 7.00pm - Evening Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

Saturday 23rd September

9.30am - Morning Office & Holy Communion, St. Bernadette's. 5.30pm - Vigil Mass, St. Bernadette’s.

SUNDAY 24thSeptember

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

24th Sunday in

Ordinary Time

25th Sunday in

Ordinary Time

“Charity helps us to know the truth and truth calls for acts of kindness.” - (POPE FRANCIS @Pontiflex)

PARISH

DIARY

Please note big noticeboards in front of Our Lady’s Altar: Left hand side: SCHOOL + Middle: PPC + Right side: MISSION NEWS

Please remember we do not celebrate baptism during Advent and most of January. Parents looking for baptism see Fr. Mike in October.

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

We collected 18.6kgs. of food in August. "The Gate" is currently giving out far

more than they are receiving and stocks are extremely low. PLEASE HELP !

“The Gate” August ’17 newsletter is on parish website Links page

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

9/10 Oct Pr iests ’ Counci l , K innoul , Perth

10/11/12 Oct Bib l ical Course for pr iests , Perth

21 Oct 10am - St . Bernadet te ’s Dunkeld Miss ion Group wi th SCIAF

25 Nov 9.30am Morning Of f ice & Holy Communion – NO CONFESSIONS 10.00am - Diocesan Of f ices: Dunkeld Miss ion Group

3 Dec First Sunday of Advent

HELP - ADVICE - PROFESSIONAL HELP One of our greatest challenges is to look after our church - the building! Most parishes let the years go by and when there is a major problem the parishioners unite to solve the problem and usually, because the problem has been allowed to progress so long - with enormous cost.

Our Fabric and Maintenance Committee has a more proactive outlook and believe in con-stant maintenance and this continuous anticipation prevents and avoids major problems and enormous costs. So far we have been extremely competent, vigilant and we have already carried out an enormous amount of repairs and improvements. Many people have shared their time and gifts and we are extremely grateful to them.

However, we still constantly have to call in professionals for advice on what we need to do and this often at today’s prices is very costly. We really need to build up a parish list of profes-sionals: qualified electricians, plumbers, joiners, painters, gardeners, IT technicians. We are not going to ask you to work a weekend for nothing. However, we need to call on you, at times with little notice, for expert advice what to do, to evaluate possible actions. If the repair is quick and not too demanding we may ask for your professional expertise but you can al-ways gracefully refuse.

If you are one of these experts, experienced or qualified people, who may be retired or not, and are willing to contribute please let us know who you are. We may never call on you or it may be a quick consultation in 2 years time but at least we know you exist and are willing to help. Just hand in your name and in which field you may be able to help and some way we can contact you - a phone or email number.

Do not hesitate to come forward as we have plenty of paper to note the names!

SEPTEMBER - MONTH OF THE BIBLE

Mary’s Meals weekend - See back page

PASSKEEPERS…. PLEASE!!! As was agreed at our meetings Fr. Mike would do a draft rota which would go up for a week. Please score out dates you know you are unable to serve the community and a final rota will be put up. Once the final rota is put up it is the responsibility of the person “on duty”, if unable to attend to ask a substitute to stand in for them… Many thanks for all your cooperation.

NIGHTFEVER The Nightfever evenings of adoration and outreach at St Andrew's Cathedral are now in their 3rd year, with the next one scheduled for Saturday 7th October.

There is an open meeting on Sunday 17th September at 3pm in the Cathedral hall, for all who would be interested in hearing a little more about Nightfever.

Nikki Munro, one of the organisers of Nightfever in Dundee writes that Nightfever is "always a grace-filled evening of adoration and outreach on the streets and is an endeavour which hopes to respond to the Holy Father's desire for a 'missionary' church which is not closed in on itself but reaches out to all. Nightfever has a role for everyone who is interested."

Meeting on Sunday 17th September at 3pm all welcome to attend in the Cathedral Hall.