Sunday Bulletin
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SUNDAY MASSES:
10.45am and 6pm
In St Conal’s, Kirkconnel (served from here) there is a Vigil Mass celebrated at 2pm
on a Saturday afternoon. (Location for Sat Nav: DG4 6LY).
SERVICES EACH WEEK:
Monday-Saturday: Daily at 10am. All welcome.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Friday and Saturday after 10am service till 11am.
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturdays after 10am service till 11am.
The Rosary: Every Wednesday after 10am service.
Stations of the Cross: Fridays in Lent after 7pm Mass.
Baptisms:
On Sundays during Mass or at 1pm please contact Father directly.
Weddings:
At least six months notice is normally required.
Wedding ceremonies can take place here in St Teresa's Church
or in St Conal's, Kirkconnel.
They may also take place in St Joseph's College Memorial Chapel
or at The Crichton Chapel. Please note both these Chapels need to be
booked through their appropriate authorities.
Please contact Father to discuss your arrangements.
USEFUL CONTACT NUMBERS:
St Andrew’s Parish: 254281
St Teresa’s Primary School (our parish RC primary school): 255732
St Joseph’s College (our local RC Secondary School): 252893
The Diocesan Offices (Ayr): 01292 266750
The Royal Infirmary: 246246.
ST TERESA'S PARISH HALL
The Parish Hall, Glasgow Street, Dumfries. DG2 9DE
To book the hall please contact Mrs Peggy Marshall on 261373
AWARENESS AND SAFETY
The safety of all but especially, children, young people and adults at risk is of great concern to the Church. It now has some of the best procedures and checks in place to provide a good, safe and wholesome environment for all.
All members of the clergy, religious and those lay faithful involved in work with children, young people and adults at risk, must obtain a Disclosure Check from the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO) before they can take up their position.
They must also complete a diocesan volunteer procedure which includes an interview and the support of two references.
Once all three areas have been processed successfully the volunteer will be able to take up and enjoy their position within the parish. Following a period of approximately six months they will have a further meeting to discuss how things are going and then a permanent contract will be offered.
All volunteers must take part in on-going training offered at deanery or diocesan level.
All users of Church property must show that they too have this check done if they are using the facilities to work with children, young people or adults at risk.
The Parish Priest is ultimately responsible for ensuring all procedures are in place and working but he is to be assisted by at least one other person appointed from the parish or area. This person is called the "Care Co-ordinator".
The Care Co-ordinator for our parish is:
Mr John Lawson.
John may be contacted on: 01387 252737 or on 07 980 635 345.
If in doubt to any child, young person or adult at risk's safety in a church property or activity please call the police.
Father or John will be able to assist you with the volunteer procedure. Please contact either of them and they will be happy to assist.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
1 I am the Lord your God; you shall have no other gods before me.
2 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
3 Remember to keep holy the Lord's day
4 Honour your father and your mother.
5 You shall not kill.
6 You shall not commit adultery.
7 You shall not steal.
8 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
9 You shall not covet your neighbour's wife.
10 You shall not covet your neighbour's goods.
THE PAPAL VISIT
16-19 September 2010
OUR HOLY FATHER. Pope Benedict XVI was born Joseph Alois Ratzinger in Marktl am Inn, Diocese of Passau in Germany on 16 April 1927 (Holy Saturday) and was baptised the same day. His father was a policeman and his mother, Maria, before marrying worked as a cook in a number of hotels. He spent his childhood in Traunstein, a small village near the Austrian border. His early years were not easy but the faith and education received at home prepared him for the harsh experience of those years during which the Nazi regime was hostile towards the Catholic Church - the young Joseph saw how some Nazis beat the Parish Priest before the celebration of Mass. It was during this difficult and complex situation that he discovered the beauty and truth of faith in Christ.
For more details and info please log on to www.thepapalvisit.org.uk
GETTING TO KNOW POPE BENEDICT
Fundamental to the early years of his faith journey were the Holy Father’s family, who always gave a clear witness of goodness and hope rooted in a faithful attachment to the Church.
His family moved around quite often and we are told that these relocations were directly related to Joseph Ratzinger seniors’ continued resistance to Nazism, which resulted in demotions and transfers. This did not stop the young Joseph and his school friends being enlisted in the Hitler Youth when they reached aged 16, doing various security guard type duties at important factories etc and during the last months of the war he was sent to work in the auxiliary anti-aircraft corps.
From 1946 to 1951 he studied philosophy and theology in the Higher School of Philosophy and Theology of Freising and at the University of Munich. He received his priestly ordination on 29 June 1951 in the Cathedral in Freising. At aged 35, he was appointed chief theological advisor for the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joseph Frings, for the four-year duration of the Second Vatican Council from 1962-1965.
- The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI was elected the 265th successor of St Peter on 19 April 2005.
- His Holiness is only the second non-Italian pope since 1522 - the other being his much-loved predecessor Pope John Paul II.
- Pope Benedict has visited 17 countries in his Pontificate including Malta and Portugal this year already in April and May before his UK four-day visit in September.
- Benedict XVI is the first Pope to carry an Organ Donor card. He has described organ donation as “an act of love”.
- Benedict XVI will be the 99th Head of State to visit this country during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II
- Benedict XVI is the oldest man to have been elected Pope since Pope Clement XII in 1730
- Pope Benedict has written three Encyclical Letters in his pontificate: Deus Caritas Est, Spe Salvi and Caritas in Veritate
HABEMUS PAPAM
...Qui sibi nomen imposuit…
At his first Wednesday Audience following his election as Bishop of Rome the Holy Father explained the reason for choosing to be known as Benedict XVI. He said, “I chose to call myself Benedict XVI ideally as a link to the venerated Pontiff, Benedict XV, who guided the Church through the turbulent times of the First World War.
He was a true and courageous prophet of peace who struggled strenuously and bravely, first to avoid the drama of war and then to limit its terrible consequences. In his footsteps I place my ministry, in the service of reconciliation and harmony between peoples, profoundly convinced that the great good of peace is above all a gift of God, a fragile and precious gift to be invoked, safeguarded and constructed, day after day and with everyone's contribution.
The name Benedict also evokes the extraordinary figure of the great 'patriarch of western monasticism,' St. Benedict of Norcia, co-patron of Europe with Cyril and Methodius.
The progressive expansion of the Benedictine Order which he founded exercised an enormous influence on the spread of Christianity throughout the European continent. For this reason, St. Benedict is much venerated in Germany, and especially in Bavaria, my own land of origin; he constitutes a fundamental point of reference for the unity of Europe and a powerful call to the irrefutable Christian roots of European culture and civilization."
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