St Margaret’s & St Serf’s Parish Bulletin
5th Sunday of Lent Year A1 26th March 2023
Fr Raymond J Breslin PhB, STL Rev. Deacon George F. Frame Sr Mary McKeon RSC
96 Hallcraig Street, Airdrie ML6 6AW 01236 763370
Web: www.stmargaretsairdrie.org.uk www.stserfsfairdrie.org.uk
Please note that the Saturday evening Vigil Mass will be celebrated in St Serf's at 5pm.
Sunday Morning - 9am & 12 noon, Mass in St Margaret's - 10.30am, Mass in St Serf's
Weekday Mass
Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday 10am, St Margaret’s
Wednesday & Friday, 10am, St Serf’s
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Reconciliation, Thursday 7-8pm.
Very many thanks to all who contributed so generously to last weeks’ collection for SCIAF – a total of £2350 was raised. This Lent, your prayers and donations are making a big difference in Zambia – and around the world. As you prepare for Easter, SCIAF have created a number of prayers and reflections to use as part of your Lenten worship. Please visit sciaf.org.uk/resources to download your prayer resources today.
During Lent there will be an early morning Mass in St Margaret’s at 7.15am Tuesday - Friday. There will also be Stations of the Cross every Sunday at 4pm in St Margaret’s. If anyone would like to lead the Stations of the Cross please see either Fr Breslin or Sr Mary.
The Ignatian Spirituality Centre, Glasgow, is delighted again this year to run an online Lent retreat and to provide a free App and free booklets to those that would like them. Retreat details and how to get the booklets can be seen here: https://www.iscglasgow.co.uk/lent23.html (You can view the retreat on www.onlineprayer.net/saints).
Lent Confessions
There will be a day of confessions in St Margaret’s next Saturday, 1st April. The priests of the Deanery will take turns to be available for Confession from 10.30am until 4.30pm.
St Andrew’s Hospice – Make a Will Month – March 2023
Make or update your Will and support St Andrew’s Hospice during the month of March. Several Lanarkshire Legal Firms have agreed to write a basic Will or update an existing Will and waive their legal fee, in return for a donation to St Andrew’s Hospice. For further information please contact Lorna McCafferty, Trusts, Legacy and Individual Giving Manager at St Andrew’s Hospice on 01236 772087 or email lorna.mccafferty@standrews.scot.nhs.uk or visit the Hospice website :-www.st-andrews-hospice.com for details of the Solicitors taking part.
SPUC National Prayer Campaign: 10 Million Prayers for 10 Million Lost Lives
Our SPUC Church Representatives, Quentin & Rose Reynolds are organising a local Prayer Relay on Thursday 27th April 2023 in support of a National Prayer Campaign to pray for an end to the culture of death and for a flourishing of the culture of life in this country. Please speak to, phone or email Quentin & Rose if you are interested in taking part.
Tel: 01236 763827 email: quentinreynolds1946@yahoo.co.uk
We remember those who have died recently Mary Walker, Margaret Brown, Theresa McGuinness, Catherine Kane, Norma Fox, Bill Campbell, Elizabeth Linden, Michael Clarke, Helen Kerr.
We Pray for Those whose Months Minds & Anniversaries Occur Pat Lynch, Peter & John Coleman, Isabel Leitch, John Cochrane, Maureen Docherty.
We Pray for Healing, Peace and Contentment for our Sick John Rooney, Jacky Mullen, John McSherry, Tracy Horn, John Gallagher, Michael Gribben, Pauline Coyle, Jim Mulholland, Harry Spalding, Jessie Duncan, John Timmons, Gary McInnes, Anastasia Boyd, George Cassidy, Megan Wilson, Thomas Harty, Shannon Campbell, Emma Smith, Donna Marie Menzies, P McPake, M D Williamson, D McPake, F Toner, John Kane, Liam Calheur, Michael Tracy, William Wilson, Douglas Sweet, Jim Flynn, Hugh Bonnar, Rev Ross Murphy, James Campbell, Nora Cochrane, Elizabeth Easingwood, Anne Martin, Annette Coup, Sally Campbell, Andy Waite, Anna Danna, Hannah McGhee, James Fay, Laura Chalmers, Siena McVey, Jacob Canning, William Higgins, Kathleen Morgan, Stewart Hannah, John Keenan, Anne Logue, Marie Elizabeth Tucker, Esther O’Neil, Alex Jamieson, Tracy Dawson, Evan Smith, John Hamill, Geoffrey Hill, Hugh Carr, Nicola Cochrane, Kathleen Harold, Lucia Jane Gavin, Rayhan Mavid, Patsy Brannan, Myra Taylor, Liz McCall, Tom McPhail, Rena Tague, Leanne Marshall, Kathleen Johnson, Anne Marie Robertson, Catriona Paterson, Marie Robertson, Grace Clark, , Emily Grace Friel, Peter Sherry, Stephen Morgan, Anne Molloy, Brenda Burns, Mhairi Green, Claire Fox, Emma Higgins, Les Reilly, Martin Murphy, Mark Craig, Gerard Hamill, Patrick Hughes, Kathy Murphy, Mary Gorman, Allison Forrester, Eddie Welsh, Maureen Quinn, Stephen Moore, Margaret Toal, Lynn Arnott, Tom & Marie Boyle, Peter Sherry, Karen Hunter, Betty Muirhead, Anne Reilly, Morris Stewart, Margaret Mary Brown, Tom Roche, Patsy & Irene Boreen, John Miller, Desmond McKay, Margaret Duggan, Diane MacDonald, Margaret & George Goodall, Joseph McKay, Paul Burns, John Stronach, Sister Kathleen Owens, Ann-Patrica Kane.
Family Vocation Prayer
Dear Jesus, thank you for giving your life for us. Please help more young people to follow your example by giving their lives in service as priests and religious. If you are calling someone in our family to the priesthood or the religious life, please help them to say ‘yes’. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
