Last weekend’s income was: Offertory Collection: £369.00; 2nd Collection: £227.00 (Sick & Retired Priests). Many thanks to all parishioners for your continuous financial help to the parish and to the Archdiocese. Most appreciated.

 

The March edition of The Flourish, the Archdiocesan newspaper is available. Please collect your copy from the back of the church.

 

---Tuesdays and Fridays at 7.00pm.

 

P3 Reconciliation sessions for children only: 21st and 28th March at 10.30-12.00 in the sacristy of the church with the Sacrament of Reconciliation being conferred on 31st March at 6pm.

 

During the weekends of Lent our second collection after each Mass which forms part of our ‘Lenten Alms’, and also taken up throughout the Archdiocese, helps support our sick and retired clergy throughout the diocese. I thank all parishioners sincerely for your concern and goodness to my brother priests.

 

We once again congratulate our P7 schoolchildren of St Martin’s School, who were enrolled last Sunday for the Sacrament of Confirmation. We thank the teachers, parents, and sponsors for their invaluable support. Thanks also to the parishioners. We keep these children in our prayers.

 

The Board of Directors of St Nicholas Care Fund thanks all the parishioners for their kind donation of £335.70 collected during last year’s Caring Sunday. As we know, the Fund supports the most disadvantaged groups and individuals in the Archdiocese.

 

Available in porch—please return boxes for SCIAF Sunday, which is next Sunday 22^nd March 2020.

 

Once again see Archbishop’s Letter in the porch. {In addition: follow the government's latest travel advice for people travelling back to the UK from affected areas, including whether to self-isolate. Don't go to the GP or hospital, stay indoors and call NHS 111.

 

There will be Prayer and Pizza night in St Kessog's parish, Balloch on Monday 16th March from 6.30pm-8.30pm. Open to children in P7 and S1 from across the deanery.

 

Wednesday 18^th March 6pm – 9pm St Paul’s Shettleston. The Shalom Catholic Media Ministry are celebrating another Healing Retreat in St Paul’s Shettleston on Wednesday 18th March. This includes Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, Preaching and Divine Music and will be led by Father George Antony (CPS) who has conducted retreats in Canada, USA, Australia as well as the UK and Ireland.

 

This year’s Day of Confession during Lent will take place in Saint Andrew’s Cathedral on Thursday 2nd April. Priests will be available from 7.45am until 5.45pm. 

 

This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the 1980 BEd class at Notre Dame College. In order to make 2020 special it is proposed to arrange a gathering of classmates. If interested please contact Mike Carroll by email at mikecarroll556@gmail.com

 

Would like to thank the parish priest and parishioners for the donation of £229.60 made to St Margaret’s through the annual Christmas Crib collection last year. It is of great encouragement to us that we continue to be supported by the Catholic Community