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St John the Baptist's, Perth
SUNDAY MASS in St JOHN’S
WEEKDAYS
Monday-Saturday
at 10am, Tuesday 7pm
6.30pm (Saturday Vigil)
& on Sunday
9am, 11am, 6.30pm
MSZA ŚW.
PO POLSKU
Niedziela 3pm
Pojednania 14.30pm
RECONCILIATION
in St John’s
Saturday
5-6pm
Priests: Rev. Dr.Tom Shields PhB STL PhD VE, St John’s Presbytery, 20 Melville Street, Perth, PH1 5PY (01738 622241) Youth Office (01738 635074)
Fr Bogdan Palka SDS 16 Melville Street Perth PH1 5PY (01738 564182)
Deacon: Len Moir
5th Sunday Ordinary Time
Year B
8th February 2015
THE ONLY HOPE
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
Remember that my life is like the wind; I shall not see happiness again.” —Job 7:6-7
J
ob was both rich and
secure in that he had
diversified
investments. However, in three
unrelated catastrophes,
Job’s financial empire
crashed in one day (Jb
1:14ff). Job’s bankruptcy
was not the worst thing
that happened to him that
day.
In another unrelated
incident, Job’s ten children were killed when
the house in which they
were gathered collapsed
(Jb 1:2, 18-19). Later,
Job contracted an extremely painful illness
“with severe boils from
the soles of his feet to
the crown of his head”
(Jb 2:7). Job had reason
to say: “Is not man’s life
on earth a drudgery?” (Jb
7:1) He considered life
to be hopeless, joyless
“months of misery” (Jb
7:3ff).
Job’s life was not that
unusual. Although few
people have had so much
hit them so fast, multiple
tragedies are the rule of
life and not the exception. Look at the billions
of sick, dying, aborted,
persecuted, oppressed,
divorced, bereaved, exiled, starving, lonely, and
rejected people.
Job’s assessment of
life is true, but it is not
the whole truth. In Jesus,
and only in Jesus, there
is hope. Jesus loves us
infinitely, forgives us
our sins, saves us, heals
the sick, frees us from
demons, raises the dead,
For this Sunday’s liturgy
Responsorial Psalm
Praise the Lord
who heals the broken-hearted.
Welcome
to all
our
visitors
Teas after
the 11am
Mass on Sunday
and
10am Mass
on Tuesdays
Priests for
Scotland
A LIFE
WORTH
LIVING
works together everything for the good (Rm
8:28), and takes us to
be with Him forever in
heaven. Jesus is our only
Hope, and the only Hope
we need. Whether or not
people know Jesus, “everybody is looking” for
Gospel Acclamation
I am the light of the World,
says the Lord,
anyone who follows me
will have the light of life.
Diocese of Dunkeld - Scottish Charity No. SC001810
Him (Mk 1:37) because
everyone has to have
hope and Jesus is our
only Hope. Therefore,
“should anyone ask you
the reason for this hope
of yours, be ever ready to
reply” (1 Pt 3:15).
Parish
Shop
Open after all Sunday Masses
stock includes
Sunday Missals,
greetings cards, rosaries
and much more
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Prayers
Please pray for the
repose of the souls of
Thomas Hughes, Cissie
Houston, Madge McFadden, Dorothy Faint, Jane
Ward and Poala Delpippo and the souls of all the
faithful departed.
May their souls and
the souls of all the faithful departed rest in
peace. Amen.
www.dunkelddiocese.org.uk
NIEDZIELNA REFLEKSJA NAD SŁOWEM BOŻYM ...
Chcac doznac pelni szczescia,
trzeba je dzielic z kims drugim. (Mark Twain)
Chrzescijanin pouczony przez Ewangelie widzi
zycie takim, jakim ono
jest: “rajem”, a jednoczesnie i “dolina lez”, wiencem splecionym z roz i
cierni. Zycie jest słońcem
i ciemnością, poludniem
i polnoca, radością i lzami, zdrowiem i choroba,
czasem szczescia i cierpienia… Dzisiejsze czytanie z ksiegi sprawiedliwego Hioba podkresla
wlasnie te bolesna strone
zycia. Czlowiek jest skapo wynagradzanym najemnym robotnikiem.
Prowadzi zycie niewolnicze, nędzne, bez
radości i odpoczynku.
Dni i lata sa wypelnione
bieda i cierpieniem. Zycie jest jedynie „podmuchem wiatru”, ktory
szybko przemija. Tak
mowi Hiob. Ewangelia
opowiada, ze Jezus był
nieustannie
oblegany
przez chorych: “Gdy
slonce zaszlo, przynosili
do Niego wszystkich
Zapraszamy do
Spowiedzi i regularnego uczestnictwa we Mszy sw.
W każdą niedzielę
Spowiedz sw. od godz.
2:15pm. Zapraszamy do
regularnej spowiedzi św.
i do pelnego uczestnictwa w niedzielnej Mszy
św. o godz 3:00pm.
Nowosc
W dalszym ciagu
zapraszam
doroslych
mezczyzn do otwarcia
sekcji
ministranckiej
przy naszej parafii na
polska Msze sw. Proszę
wszystkich zainteresowanych - ojcow rodzin,
nie zonatych, starszych
lub młodszych kto tylko
ma dobra wole i ochote
zaangażowania się w liturgie do zgłaszania się do
Ks. Bogdana. Tel: 01738
564182
chorych i opętanych;
cale miasto było zebrane
u dzrwi” (Mk 1, 31n).
Ci biedacy z marginesu
społeczeństwa i zycia,
bezradni i odepchnieci,
cisnęli się do Chrystusa,
a On żeby im pomoc
czynil cuda i uzdrawial
ich. To jednak nie było
celem Jego zycia. Jezus
nie był, ani nie chciał być
dyplomowanym lekarzem
ani znachorem – samoukiem, chociaż czynil cuda.
On był i jest przede
wszystkim lekarzem ludzkich dusz. On przyszedł
glosic królestwo Boze,
aby człowieka wyleczyc
z najciezszej chronicznej
choroby – grzechu. Inne
sprawy załatwiał “przy
okazji”, ale nie były
one dla Niego pierwsze
i najważniejsze. Jezus
przyszedł, żeby wywołać
trudna, swieta rewolucje,
która nikogo nie zabije
ani niczego nie zburzy, oprocz zla w sercu
człowieka i grzechu na
swiecie.
W tym wielkim i nigdy nie kończącym się
dziele musimy wszyscy pomagac Chrystusowi. “Biada mi gdybym
njie glosil Ewangelii”
(1Kor 9,16). Kosciol i
wszyscy w Kosciele sa
zobowiązani na wszelkie
możliwe sposoby glosic
Ewangelie i pracowac
nad wyzwoleniem od
największej choroby, od
zla w naszym sercu.
Drugim obowiązkiem
jest pomagac biednemu
i
cierpiacemu
człowiekowi, ułatwiać i
upiększać jego zycie, bo
“cokolwiek uczyniliście
jednemu z tych moich
najmniejszych mnie to
uczyniliście.” Kontynuujmy zatem to dzielo
Chrystusa w naszym
codziennym
zyciu
pamiętając ze: “Chcac
doznac pelni szczescia,
trzeba je dzielic z kims
drugim.” (Mark Twain)
‘White Flower’
Wielki Post
Wielki Post w tym
roku
rozpoczynamy
18 lutego i jak to zawsze bywa zaczynamy
świętowaniem Srody
Popielcowej.
Polska Msza sw. będzie
w tym dniu o godz.
7pm na która już teraz
serdecznie zapraszam.
Zapraszam tez do uczestnictwa w Nabozenstwach Drogi Krzyzowej
które będą odprawiane w każdy piątek o
godz. 7pm. W ramach
naszego
przygotowania do Swiat Wielkiej Nocy będziemy
tez bezpośrednio po
Mszach
niedzielnych śpiewać Gorzkie Zale i w ramach
tego
nabożeństwa
wysłuchamy rozważań
pasyjnych. W cza-
W niedziele 15 Lutego Abortion Recovery&Care
będzie przeprowadzona Helpline), zapewniając
w naszej parafii akcja telefon zaufania dla osob
“White Flower”, która cierpiacych wskutek
ma na celu wsparcie du- dokonanych aborcji.
chowe i materialne dla SPUC dziala również a
Stowarzyszenia na Rzecz parlamencie szkockim
Ochrony Dzieci Nien- i brytyjskim, które zaarodzonych (ang. SPUC). jmuja się obecnie kwestJest to organizacja wspol- iami legalizacji eutanazji.
pracujaca z Kosciolem Ta szeroka działalność
katolickim, nastawiona wymaga także zaplecza
na edukowanie i promow- finansowego, dlatego w
anie wartości zycia, od naszej parafii będzie zbi- Zaproszenia
Schola dzieci i chór
jego początków, az do erana specjalna kolekta
zapraszają
nowych
konca, a w szczegolnosci po wszystkich Mszach
członków
do
wspólzycia dzieci nienarodzo- sw., również po Mszy sw.
nego
chwalenia
Pana
nych. W Szkocji organi- polskiej w niedziele 15
Boga.
Spotkania
scholi
zacja ta dziala na wielu Lutego. Dziękujemy za
płaszczyznach, ponadto wsparcie duchowe i finan- dziecięcej odbywaja sie
prowadzi program “Edu- sowe tej jakze szczytej i we srody o godz. 5:00
cation4life”, organizując potrzebnej akcji by nasze PM, a próby chóru we
lekcje na temat kwesti zycie mialo wartość prio- czwartki o godz. 7:00
początku i konca zycia, rytetowa i nikt nie mogl PM. W przypadku scholi
ubogacając w ten sposób nim manipulowac. Bog dziecięcej proszę kontakp r o g r a m n a u c z a n i a zaplac!!! (Wiecej na ten towac się z Pania Magda
w szkockich szkolach. temat można przeczytac 07821 826556, a przyOrganizacja prowadzi na gazetce polskiej z tylu padku Choru Pana Leszka 01738 564153.
także usługę ARCH (ang. kościoła).
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sie wielkiego postu
Msze sw. będą już bez
kazania.
Przypominam i zachęcam do
powstrzymania się od
potraw miesnych w
każdy piątek Wielkiego Postu a szczególnie w Srode popielcowa i Wielki Piątek.
W te dwa dni w roku
obowiazuje nas post
zarówno
jakościowy
jak i ilościowy. W
nabozenstwa
Drogi Krzyzowej będą
zaangażowane dzieci ze
scholi parafialnej, chor
dorosłych, „Domowy
Kosciol” i Fr. Bogdan.
Po każdej drodze krzyzowej wystawienie
Najswietszego Sakramentu i adoracja do
godz. 9pm.
Parish
Library
Borrow from our
extensive range
Collections
Many thanks for your
generosity; last week’s
income was Offertory
£1,567.90, Papers £17.91,
Votives £65.40, SCIAF
£7 and Hall Rent £90.
Brownies
Pancakes
St John’s Brownies are
holding a coffee and pancakes morning on Saturday 14th February from
10.30am until 12.30 pm.
Come along and enjoy
pancakes with cream and
jam to celebrate ValenLunch Club
tines day. Raffle and cake
Our Lunch Club con- and candy stall. Cost £1
tinues on Mondays at 12 for adults and 50p for
noon - all welcome.
children.
Bishop’s
Newsletter
Bulletin notices
Faith Sharing
Please note that the
Copies of the Dunkeld
deadline
bulletin notices
News are available at
to
be
with
Fr Tom is
the back of the church,
12noon
on
Thursday.
please help yourself.
The very heartening number of 40 parishioners, and others, has
signed up for the Faith Sharing House Groups. Out of that number, we have created eight outreach groups, of which six meet
in people’s homes, one meets in a Care Home and a group of
teachers meeting in St John’s Academy.
Adoration and
Benediction
Each group plans to have six one hour meetings during six weeks
of Lent. Faith Sharing will be the object of these discussions as
we try to draw on our own experiences, to support each other
and to strengthen our faith.
Please note that Benediction is back to its
normal time, 6.30pm,
ton Mondays until March
30th inclusive (Monday
of Holy Week) when we
shall take a break for the
Easter Holidays. Perhaps
we could rededicate ourselves to worship of the
Most Holy Eucharist.
At times there seems
only to be one person in
the church for long periods of time, especially
around the lunch hour
when one might have
thought that an invaluable opportunity for people to nip in for half an
hour or so to spend some
time with the Blessed
Sacrament.
RCIA meeting
Parish Pastoral
Council
There will be a brief
PPC meeting on Tuesday
10th February at 7.30 pm
– a fuller meeting will be
arranged for later in the
year.
Hall hire
There will be a meeting for all groups who
wish to hire the Hall at
any time during the year,
on Tuesday, 24th February at 7.30pm to discuss
further letting.
At the end we will evaluate the effort with a view to repeating the process hopefully in Advent and in Lent next year. There
may be parishioners who wish to experience Faith Sharing more
frequently than that.
For more detail please look at other faith sharing notices at the
back of the church.
Deacon Len
Gift Aid
These will be ready for
distribution within the
next few weeks. They
may not have the same
number on the envelopes
that you had in the past
but your name will be
on the box of envelopes
allocated to you.
Carnevale
RCIA meeting on
Thursday this week at At 7pm, for 7.30pm, on
7pm, and continues each Tuesday 17th February,
Shrove Tuesday (Martedi
week until Easter.
Grasso) - the Italian Association are holding a a
Masked Ball in St John’s
Church Hall. Tickets £10
- three course meal (bring
Italian Classes your own bottle) and muClasses for those wish- sic by maestro Roberto
ing to learn or improve Enzo - contact 622661 to
their Italian - Saturdays book or add your name to
at 4.15pm, in St John’s the list at the back of the
Church Hall.
church.
White Mass
The White Mass for
Catholic Health Care
Workers and others engaged in pastoral care
of the sick will be celebrated in St Andrew’s
Metropolitan Cathedral,
Glasgow
on Sunday,
15th February at 12 noon
with refreshments in the
Eyre Hall after Mass.
SPUC Collection
There will be a retiral
collection for Society for
the Protection of Unborn
Children next Sunday at all Masses.
Beginning
Experience
The Beginning Experience are holding
a residential weekend
for those who find
themselves alone again
through divorce, separation or bereavement.
The weekend will
take place from 20 – 22
March, 2015 at the Conforti Centre, Coatbridge.
For further details
contact: Ros on 0131
669 0003 or e-mail:
rcm2524@yahoo.co.uk
Youth Group
3GY continues on
Wednesdays at 6pm. All
welcome.
The group is currently
making preparations for
its annual Peacemaker
Awards. Later this term
they will join with other youth from around
the diocese at Mass in
St Andrew’s Cathedral, Dundee (6pm, 8th
March) and the groups
next excursion will be to
Go-Karting at Cambuskland.
More
details
at
www.3gy.org.uk
Diocesan
Events
Celebrating
the Year
of Mark the
Evangelist
in the
Lectionary
and the
Liturgy
There are a number of
events being held in the
diocesan centre. Please
take note and see what
interests you. Most are
free and if there are problems of fees etc. please
feel free to approach Fr
Tom.
Please note the ‘Afternoon for Life’ on Saturday 28th February.
ASH WEDNESAY
18th February
Services and Masses
9am Mass
Kilgraston
10am Mass
St John’s
St John Ogilvie
Two evenings on Lectionary and
Liturgy will take place in the
McAuley Room of the Diocesan
Centre, Lawside Road, Dundee on
Thursdays 5th and 12th February
for 7-9pm.
These may be of interest to readers, cantors, leaders of the Children’s Liturgy of the Word and
whose involved in RCIA or catechetics, musicians and those who
choose the liturgical music.
Dunkeld Diocesan
2015 Pilgrimage
to Lourdes
10 – 17th July 2015
Any Sick or Disabled Pilgrims
interested in going should
contact
Mrs. C. Van Der Boon
01382 281 5292
vanderboon@tiscali.co.uk
for further information
This year marks the
four hundredth anniversary of the Martyrdom
of St John Ogilvie and
there will be a Mass in
St Andrew’s Cathedral,
Dundee, at 7pm. A special parish celebration of
the Feast Day could take
place on the Feast day itself at the 7pm Mass on
Tuesday 10th March
Synod on
Family Life
2pm service
St John’s Academy for teachers
6pm Mass in English
St John’s
7pm Mass in Polish
St John’s
The full Lenten programme will be
available next week.
Bishop Robson has
asked us to repond a
questionnaire
seeking
views about the Church’s
support for marriage and
family life.
Two documents are
now available on the diocesan website:
1. RELATIO is for
reading and study to inform our thoughts.
2. 40 questions is the
full text of the Vatican’s
questions.
Responding electronically through the website
is a simple exercise, with
clear instructions. The
questions are fewer and
more straightforward and
will take less time to answer.
www.dunkelddiocese.
org.uk
SCIAF materials will be available
from Ash Wednesday onward.
Preparing to
receive the
Sacraments
Would all those parents of children at non
denominational schools
due to celebrate their
First Reconciliation this
year please be in touch
with Fr Tom soon. We
shall have a session at
the beginning of March
to make sure everyone
is covering the material
provided. If you have not
yet received the material
from Fr Tom, please do
so a.s.a.p.
World Day
of Prayer
for the Sick
World Day of Prayer
for the Sick. Holy Mass
will be celebrated by
Bishop Stephen Robson
for World Day of Prayer
for the Sick on Wednesday, 11th February, at
7pm, in the Church of
Immaculate Conception,
Lochee, Dundee to which
everyone is welcome.
Transport has been arranged for those wishing to attend - leaving St
John’s at 6pm. Please call
01738 622661 to book.
ARE YOU GOING TO BE IN HOSPITAL? DO YOU KNOW OF SOMEONE WHO IS IN HOSPITAL?
Name_________________________ Hospital ___________________Ward _____
Please complete/ tear off and return with your collection - or hand to Fr Tom after Mass
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