During the holiday months there will be no exposition or Novena. Also, there will be no

Parish Bulletin for the remainder of July.

We wish everyone a peaceful summer!

THANK YOU Thank you for your generosity in last week’s collection for Peter’s Pence. The total was £622

WELCOME FR. ISACCO We welcome Father Isacco from Milan back to the parish. He will be with us for a few weeks while Monsignor Paul is on holiday.

PARISH BARBECUE As always, a big thank you to the barbecue team for yet another very successful and enjoyable parish barbecue. Check out Facebook for photos and videos!

PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL A Minutes of the most recent meeting is available to read on the parish website.

REBOOT LIVE An unmissable chance to have your faith revitalized by acclaimed Catholic writer and speaker, Chris Stefanick brings REBOOT LIVE to Scotland on 27th July 2017 at 7.00 pm in the Bute Hall of the University of Glasgow. Tickets (£10/£8). More information at

www.rercglasgow.org or book at www.rebootlivescotland.eventbrite.co.uk

CATHOLIC YOUTH SURVEY Are you 11-35 years of age? The Catholic Church wants to hear from you. In 2018 Pope Francis and the bishops of the Church will be meeting to talk about you! They want to know what your life is like, the ways that you engage with the Church, and what you think of God’s plan for your life. In order to give them something to work with you are invited to take a survey. As well as making your contribution to the discussion, when you participate you have the chance of winning £100 – take the survey at http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/CYSSYS/

NET MINISTRIES SCOTLAND We have already expressed the deep gratitude of the team for the warm welcome and the generous financial support they received on their recent visit to Saint Helen’s. If you would like to continue to support this wonderful youth ministry, remember that there are wall boxes at the back of the church for anything that you can spare. Over the last year this has amounted to a donation of £100 every six weeks or so – every little helps!

400TH ANNIVERSARY The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SSVP) was founded in Paris in 1833 by Frederic Ozanam, and is named after one of France’s greatest saints, Saint Vincent de Paul. He was born in 1581, ordained in 1600 and in 1617 he formed the Congregation of the

Mission, and other organisations, collectively called the “Vincentian Family”. He died in 1660 and was canonised in 1737. This year is therefore the 400th anniversary of the Vincentian family and it is being celebrated at home and abroad with a range of events on the theme: “Welcome the Stranger”. Our own SSVP Conference meets on a Monday evening at 7.30pm in the Meeting Room, where we discuss and arrange our current activities. New members are needed in our conference so, please contact Mgr. Paul, or one of the members of the SSVP or just come along to one of our meetings on a Monday evening, even just to find out a bit more.

VOLUNTEER TRAINING It is mandatory that all our PVG registered volunteers participate in regular Safeguarding Awareness Sessions. Level 1 Safeguarding training is being held in the Curial Offices, Clyde Street on Monday 28th August from 7pm until 9pm. Any new PVG members or any existing PVG volunteers who have not attended a training session are strongly encouraged to attend this session. Those volunteers who work with children and vulnerable adults need to undertake this training. Please make a note of the date.

WHEELCHAIRS AVAILABLE You are reminded that there are a few wheelchairs available which you are welcome to borrow if it might help you get a less able friend or relative out and about for a bit. Please speak to Mgr. Paul or a member of the SSVP

CALLING ALL READERS! Readers are kindly asked to be prepared over the summer to step in and cover for those Masses which

have ‘Volunteer’ on the rota, or when the scheduled reader has perhaps not turned up. Please check just before Mass to see if you can help.

On the second Wednesday of each month you are invited to come along to the 10.00 am Mass and into the hall afterwards for tea/coffee and

cake to celebrate with everyone who has a birthday that month – the next party will be on Wednesday 12th July

Sick Kathleen Peoples, Rosie Doherty, Kay Fernandez, Neil Boyle, Michael Gallacher, Mary Kelly, Mary Marley, Paul Magee, Alice Gilgannon, Paddy McCole, Margaret Cochrane, Vanessa Young, Theresa Metcalfe, John Metcalfe, Michael Howden, Edward Jack

Recently Deceased Janice McIvor, Betty Dawson, Eileen Skelly, ,

Anniversaries James Mooney, Bill Dunn, Fred and Jane O’Neill, James Hart,

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First reading Zechariah 9:9-10 The Lord says this: Rejoice heart and soul, daughter of Zion! Shout with gladness, daughter of Jerusalem! See now, your king comes to you; he is victorious, he is triumphant, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. He will banish chariots from Ephraim and horses from Jerusalem; the bow of war will be banished. He will proclaim peace for the nations. His empire shall stretch from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth. Responsorial Psalm Psalm 144(145):1-2,8-11,13b-14

TIMES OF SERVICES SUNDAY MASSES:

Vigil (Saturday) 5.30 pm; 9.00 am, 11.00 am and 5.00 pm

MONDAY TO FRIDAY Mass at 10.00 am preceded by Morning Prayer at 9.50 am. The Rosary is prayed

every day after Mass.

CONFESSION: Saturday 10.30 – 11.00 am Saturday 6.15 – 6.45 pm Thursday 7.00 – 7.30 pm

ADORATION: To give our key-holders a well earned break,

Exposition is suspended for the summer months

ROSARY FOLLOWED BY NOVENA: Suspended for the summer months

HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION: Masses on holy days of obligation are at

7.30 am, 12.30 pm and 7.30 pm

CONTACT DETAILS

Saint Helen’s Presbytery 165 Camphill Avenue, G41 3DR

Phone: 0141 632 2626 E-mail: sthelenslangside@btinternet.com

Parish Priest Monsignor Paul Murray

Permanent Deacon Rev. Kevin Kelly

www.sthelenslangside.org.uk The Archdiocese of Glasgow is a Religious Charity

Number SC018140

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R/ I will bless your name for ever, O God my King. I will give you glory, O God my king, I will bless your name for ever. I will bless you day after day and praise your name for ever. The Lord is kind and full of compassion, slow to anger, abounding in love. How good is the Lord to all, compassionate to all his creatures. All your creatures shall thank you, O Lord, and your friends shall repeat their blessing. They shall speak of the glory of your reign and declare your might, O God. The Lord is faithful in all his words and loving in all his deeds. The Lord supports all who fall and raises all who are bowed down. Second reading Romans 8:9,11-13 Your interests are not in the unspiritual, but in the spiritual, since the Spirit of God has made his home in you. In fact, unless you possessed the Spirit of Christ you would not belong to him, and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you. So then, my brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to the

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misdeeds of the body you will live. Gospel Acclamation Mt11:25 Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom to mere children. Alleluia! Gospel Matthew 11:25-30 Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’

Saint Helen’s, Langside

PARISH BULLETIN14th Sunday of the Year: 9th July 2017