​DURING LENT

• Rosary – Monday – Friday 9.30a.m. 
  
• Stations of the Cross - Fridays at 6p.m. 
  
• Saturday Adoration – 10 – 11a.m.
  
• Sunday Confessions – 9.15 – 9.40a.m. 
  
• Alms Giving Second Collection – for sick and retired priests. Many thanks 
  
• During Lent, we are asked to pray for all who have been abused by the church.

 
Funeral arrangements for Michael Fergus - Friday, 28th March at 10am.
 
PARISH COLLECTION:
9/3/2025 Plate Collection – £1021.
Second Collection for the Sick & Retired Priests of the Archdiocese - £1065. As always, many thanks.
 
White Flower Appeal. We had a thank you letter from S.P.U.C. thanking all of you for the collection of £935.
 
Coffee Morning - Sunday 16th March. Please come along and join us after 10a.m. Mass in the Upper Hall. This month we are raising funds for Fr Mathew Parumoottil’s parish school in India. He runs the school to improve the children’s employment prospects and, in India, every penny counts for them. Many thanks to all who came along and helped us to raise £328 for St Margaret’s Hospice at February’s coffee morning.
 
Lunch Club The next meeting of the lunch club is this Thursday, 20th March, 12.30-2.30p.m. in the Upper Hall. As always everyone is very welcome. Come along bring a friend, a neighbour, a family member and enjoy lunch “in a warm friendly environment".
 
Lenten Challenge Sheet Week 2 - This week’s J&P Lenten challenge sheet present some ideas on what we might do to challenge food poverty as our response to the Jubilee 2025. Don’t forget to collect yours or downlooad here, accept the challenges and offer them up as your pilgrimage through Lent.
Sheets availabe on this link.
 
Children's choir dates: 16th March, 11th & 18th May, 8th & 15th June. If your child is not in St Nicholas and would like to join, please contact Annamaria Strachan ([email protected]) 07749715514 for details.
 
FORTY HOURS ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Pop the dates in your diary. Do drop in for some quiet prayer time. Can you commit to spending 30 minutes in the Real Presence of Christ? Adorers Rota on the notice board in the porch to sign up.

• Sunday 30th March. Evening Prayer 5p.m. Night Prayer 9p.m.
  
• Monday, 31st March Holy Hour 7p.m. with Deacon Frank Flynn. Night Prayer 9p.m.
  
• Tuesday, 1st April Mass 7p.m.

 
Aid to the Church in Need: Scottish Conference 'Courage to be Catholic'. Saturday 29th March, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 9:30a.m. - 4:00p.m. Hear from inspiring speakers, meet representatives of Catholic organisations from around Scotland, and help build Catholic community.
Go to https://www.trybooking.com/uk/EHSR to register.
 
The Missio Scotland (We Are Mission) newsletter is at the back of the church for you to take away. It's free of charge.
 
SACRAMENTS IN 2025:

• First Confession/Reconciliation Sacramental Preparation Session - will take place in St. Joseph's Church Hall, Milngavie, today Sunday, 16th March from 2:00p.m to 4:00p.m.for all candidates from St Andrew's and St Joseph's parishes.
  
• First Confession/Reconciliation Service will take place in St. Andrew's Church on Saturday, 29th March from 10a.m to 11a.m.
  
• The Sacrament of Confirmation will take place in Bearsden on Tuesday, 29th April at 7p.m.
  
• First Holy Communion Sacramental Preparation Session - will take place in St Andrews Church Upper Hall on Sunday 23rd March from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm for all candidates from St Andrew's and St Joseph's parishes.
  
• First Holy Communion will take place on Sunday, 11th May at 12 Noon.

 
Jubilee of Youth, Rome, Summer 2025 – Final Places (Only five places left!) All young people, aged 18 to 30, are invited to make a pilgrimage to Rome this summer: 28th July - 4th August 2025. RCAG Youth are taking a group!  If you want more information, check out the info pack when you follow this link: http://www.tinyurl.com/rcagjubileeregistration
 
Blessing at Lent - When my relationship with God is not straightforward for me, I am blessed to search more deeply for him. When my attempts to pray seem dry and sterile, I am blessed to share the struggle that many of the greatest saints knew. When I can give hope to others who struggle because I can empathise, I am blessed.
 
Remember Vocations in your Lenten Devotions
March 16—Second Sunday of Lent:  Jesus Christ, who during his earthly life called many to consecrated life, is still doing so in today's world .... Knowing the Church's needs, he continues to extend the invitation, "Follow me," especially to young people.  Let us pray that those whom he invites will accept the call.

Catholic Social Teaching Thought for the Week – Sunday, 16th March 2025 Our world has a grave social debt towards the poor who lack access to drinking water, because they are denied the right to a life consistent with their inalienable dignity. Laudato Si’ para. 30
 
Laudato Si’ - On Care for our Common Home – From the beginning of the world, but particularly through the incarnation, the mystery of Christ is at work in a hidden manner in the natural world as a whole, without thereby impinging on its autonomy. (#99)
 
Support Group for Catholic Women Affected by Separation and Divorce The next two meetings of our support group for women affected by separation and divorce are: Friday, 28th March and Friday, 25th April, in The Immaculate Conception Church Hall, Maryhill, from 6.00p.m. to 8.00p.m. All new members are welcome to this confidential support group, which is run by women who have come through this experience themselves. For further information email: [email protected]