Apologies for delay
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Role, Person(s)
Readers, Catriona MacKinnon/Gerry McCloskey
Eucharistic Ministers,Philip Dorrian/Anna Fraser/Fergus Christie
Bidding Prayers,Nancy & Fiona McDermott
Passkeeper,Andrew & Rosemary Milligan
Flowers, Pat Hernandez
Tea/Coffee, Gillian Alexander & Caroline Reid
Cleaning, Team 5
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Anne McEvoy, Youth Ministry Coordinator at the Archdiocese, is passing on a request from a French student called Violette who will be studying in Edinburgh from Sep until Feb 2015. She is looking for accommodation with other Christian/Catholic Young People/ Family for that time. Please see her message below and contact Anne if you can help
Dear Claire,
My name is Violette. I am French, and will study at Ediunburg from September 2014 to February 2015.
I am a Catholic, and would be serving in a parish with other young people. (Like mass animation, prayer group organization, church maintenance …)
For me, it is very important to find, during my studies aboard, a community that shares my faith, to live time and sharing services around Christ!
I am also looking for a home. If you know some young Christians looking for a roommate, can you send them my details (or give me theirs)?
In France, we have, in many cities, parishes which offer accommodation for young people who are in service to the church. Did you also this kind of offer?
Thank you very much in advance for your answer.
Fraternally,
In Christ,
Violette
Fr. George has been appointed to become Parish Priest of the Holy Cross & St. Margaret Mary’s parishes from 7th Sept. 2014. Mgr Patrick Burke, VG – Vicar General will be the Administrator and Fr. Victor Adigboluja a priest in residence in St. John the Baptist’s.
Fr. Jamie Boyle will become temporary Administrator of St. Andrew’s parish, Ravelston. The changes are announced on the Archdiocesan website. They can also be checked on the parish notice boards.
Fr. George should be back from the summer break next week. In the meantime Fr. Lukasz Dudkiewicz is supplying in St. John’s and St. Andrew’s parishes.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and the Sacrament of Reconciliation will be held after 10.00am Mass on Sat. 2 Aug. 2014 in St. Andrew’s.
Regular Sacrament of Reconciliation at St. John’s from 5.15pm till 5.45pm, before 6pm Vigil Mass every Saturday.
This Sunday (27 July 2014) is the Seventeenth Sunday of the Year “A”
Next Sunday (3 Aug. 2014) is the Eighteenth Sunday of the year “A”
A message from the ArchDiocese about Gap Year opportunities …
Dear Father, Sister and Friend,
Please see the message below from Sr Bernadette Cassidy, a member of the Salesian Community in Glasgow re Volunteer Opportunities that are on offer from UR Space in Glasgow in the coming year.
I would be very grateful if you would pass it on to anyone you think might be interested or would benefit from it.
Many thanks.
God bless.
Anne
Anne McEvoy
Youth Ministry Coordinator
Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh
We have just finished a very successful first year of an exciting project that offers amazing opportunities for young people. We have a very full diary for the coming academic year and still have a couple of spaces for gap year volunteers.
I would be very grateful if you could advertise this opportunity to the young people of your diocese. You may know of some young people you work with who would really benefit from this. As the exam results come out it could be the ideal opportunity for someone who did not manage to get the course they had hoped for.
Please find a summary below of what being a volunteer for the project would entail.
I am also attaching a poster for the UR Space project which has contact details for anyone who requires more information.
Many thanks for helping us to share this opportunity with the young people of Scotland,
Sr Bernadette Cassidy FMA
UR Space Project Director
A message from the ArchDiocese …
Dear Fathers and Friends,
I am sending out forward notice of a new programme we will be offering after the Summer break focusing on Evangelisation.
We hope that this will support all the efforts in our parishes to spread the Good News.
It will be particularly suitable for parish catechists, RCIA leaders, Parish Council Members and others who are interested in encouraging new life and new leadership in the Church.
Please bring this to the attention of your parishes.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Patricia
Pastoral Resources
Gillis Centre
100 Strathearn Road
Edinburgh EH9 1BB
0131 623 8942
Krzysztof Sniadoch (Christopher) and Krzysztof Freitag (Chris), both the students ready to be ordained Deacons in the Pallottine Seminary in Poland, are staying here in St. John’s for a month and to study the English Language in Edinburgh College.
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Role, Person(s)
Readers, Fergus Christie/Teresa Howison
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, Nancy McDermott/Ian McGregor/George Paluchowski
Bidding Prayers, Fey Family
Passkeepers, Maureen McGregor
Flowers, Maggie McCloskey
Tea/Coffee, Geraldine Rooney & Marie McQuillan
Cleaning, Team 4
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Fr. George is away, for the summer break. Fr. Lukasz Dudkiewicz is supplying in St. John’s and St. Andrew’s parishes.
Fr. George has been appointed to become Parish Priest of the Holy Cross & St. Margaret Mary’s parishes from 7th Sept. 2014. Mgr Patrick Burke, VG Vicar General will be the Administrator and Fr. Victor Adigboluja a priest in residence in St. John the Baptist’s.
Fr. Jamie Boyle will become temporary Administrator of St. Andrew’s parish, Ravelston. The changes are announced on the Archdiocesan website. They can also be checked on the parish notice boards.
This Sunday (20th July 2014) is the sixteenth Sunday of Year
“A”
Next Sunday (27 July 2014) is the seventeenth Sunday of the
year “A”
Dear Fr George and Everyone at St. Andrew’s,
It was good being with you all; thank you so much for the as always warm welcome and generous donations, the £1000 cheque from the parish plus quite a few others that were given to me. Donations of this kind make an enormous difference to the wellbeing of the neediest in Zambia.
Whilst I’m keeping as much as possible to take back with me I had an urgent request from my SVP special helpers to send help for 3 girls doing their final exam year at secondary school who had been sent away from school because of non-payment of fees and one of them had turned to prostitution as the only means to find the money. I have sent help for those 3 as for other several other urgent cases that I know the SVP have to deal with, but that was just a small part of what you gave me.
I should be returning to Zambia the last week of July, but have been offered the possibility of the removal of the cataract in my eye, having to report for the examination on 6th August and am sure that our powers of be would prefer I delay going back in order to get that done. I will keep you up with the news once I return to Zambia.
Thanking you all once more for your on-going very precious support and asking the Lord to bless and be with you who so generously share his compassionate concern for the poor.
Yours sincerely,
Father David
