“You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
LUNCH CLUB: The first lunch event of 2025 will take place this coming Thursday 16th January from 12:30-2:30p.m. in the Upper Hall. Why not come along, enjoy lunch in a nice cosy & friendly environment with friends old and new. A nice way to start the new year
PARISH COLLECTIONS: Christmas 2024- £2,011. £800 of this collection went towards the Diocese and the Christmas Quarterly (Ecclesiastical Students) Collection. 29/12/ 2024 Collection - £790. 5/1/2024 Collection - £655. Special Collection for Justice & Peace - £905. Many thanks for what you hand in. This is a new idea and will take time to make it perfect! Thanks for your patience.
St Mungo Festival 2025 The upcoming St Mungo Festival, celebrating Glasgow’s patron saint in a series of free events, talks and concerts throughout the city, takes place from 6th to 25th January 2025. Full details and booking on their website: https://stmungofestival.co.uk/ This Sunday 12th January there will be an Ecumenical Service in Glasgow Cathedral, starting at 4pm celebrating the feast of St Mungo and Glasgow 850, at which Archbishop Nolan is doing the reflection.
SACRAMENTS: The following meetings will take place in St. Nicholas Primary School all beginning at 6.30p.m.
FIRST COFFEE MORNING OF 2025: NEXT SUNDAY 19th JANUARY
Please come along and join us in the Upper Hall, after 10 a.m. Mass, for tea, coffee and some delicious home baking. This month the Caritas Group will be joining us and will be raising funds for SCIAF. £134.20 was raised at December’s Coffee Morning for St Nicholas Care Fund, many thanks.
The Association of Bearsden Churches Unity Lunch will take place on Saturday, 8th February 2025 at 12 Noon in Boclair Community Church, Killermont. More details from the poster at the back of the church. If you wish a ticket, call Margaret Sanders on 0141 942 7519.
PARISH COLLECTIONS: Christmas 2024- £2,011. £800 of this collection went towards the Diocese and the Christmas Quarterly (Ecclesiastical Students) Collection. 29/12/ 2024 Collection - £790. 5/1/2024 Collection - £655. Special Collection for Justice & Peace - £905. Many thanks for what you hand in. This is a new idea and will take time to make it perfect! Thanks for your patience.
St Mungo Festival 2025 The upcoming St Mungo Festival, celebrating Glasgow’s patron saint in a series of free events, talks and concerts throughout the city, takes place from 6th to 25th January 2025. Full details and booking on their website: https://stmungofestival.co.uk/ This Sunday 12th January there will be an Ecumenical Service in Glasgow Cathedral, starting at 4pm celebrating the feast of St Mungo and Glasgow 850, at which Archbishop Nolan is doing the reflection.
SACRAMENTS: The following meetings will take place in St. Nicholas Primary School all beginning at 6.30p.m.
- Thursday, 16th January for parents of children making their First Confession/Reconciliation.
- Thursday, 30th January for parents whose children are receiving Confirmation
- Thursday, 6th February for children making First Holy Communion.
- Saturday, 29th March from 10a.m to 11a.m. First Confession/Reconciliation Service.
- Tuesday, 29th April at 7p.m.The Sacrament of Confirmation.
- Sunday, 11th May at 12 Noon. First Holy Communion
FIRST COFFEE MORNING OF 2025: NEXT SUNDAY 19th JANUARY
Please come along and join us in the Upper Hall, after 10 a.m. Mass, for tea, coffee and some delicious home baking. This month the Caritas Group will be joining us and will be raising funds for SCIAF. £134.20 was raised at December’s Coffee Morning for St Nicholas Care Fund, many thanks.
The Association of Bearsden Churches Unity Lunch will take place on Saturday, 8th February 2025 at 12 Noon in Boclair Community Church, Killermont. More details from the poster at the back of the church. If you wish a ticket, call Margaret Sanders on 0141 942 7519.
Catholic Social Teaching Thought for the Week – Sunday 12th January 2025 The Christian is exhorted to offer his body and all his being to practice only good, mutual love, and justice; he is called to consecrate himself entirely to the service of God for the benefit of others. Baptised and Sent: The Church of Christ on Mission in the World, Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Pontifical Mission Societies
Laudato Si’ - On Care for our Common Home – The rich and the poor have equal dignity, for “the Lord is the maker of them all” (Prov 22:2). “He himself made both small and great” (Wis 6:7), and “he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good” (Mt 5:45). (#94)
JUSTICE&PEACE-SCOTLAND-NEWSLETTER-DEC24-FEB25 to view and download the latest newsletter with updates on recent activities and information about upcoming events of interest and campaign actions you can support, please use the following link: https://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/
PROPOSALS TO AMEND THE LEGISLATION ON RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS: https://consult.gov.scot/education-reform/religious-observance-education-legislation-schools/consultation/subpage.2016-07-07.1474135251//
This consultation seeks views on proposed changes to the current legislation on religious observance (RO) and religious and moral education (RME) in schools. NB Closing date is 26th January 2025. More information to follow.
Before receiving Holy Communion, we are asked to make some act of reverence such as a bow.
The Church is open until 5p.m. Monday to Saturday. Call in and enjoy the peace and quiet and take time to sit in the stillness in the silence of God.
Tea is served in the hut after daily Mass/Services Monday to Thursday. All most welcome.
THE PARISH IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO HELP OUT in a number of ways e.g. Children's Liturgy, Messengers. See all 6 notices below. If any of this appeals to you, why not chat to someone who is already helping out and ask them what is involved. Your parish is always in need of volunteers.
PIETY STALL ROTA Sincere thanks to everyone who has assisted with running the stall during 2024 – thanks to your help, we raised £1,200 for Church funds during this period. The rota sheet for January, February and March is on the door of the Piety Stall. We would really appreciate some more volunteers – if you could occasionally spare 15 minutes after Mass to help, we’d be most grateful. Any questions please call Anne MacIntosh 07866 009078 or Annamaria Strachan 07749 715514.
VOLUNTEER - needed to join a team for locking up the Church during the week at 5p.m. ideally on a Monday. Please text Moira on 07751 851927 or email Geoff at [email protected] if you think you can help. Many thanks, Geoff Harrison.
Children's Liturgy ~ We are looking for more volunteers to help with running the Children's Liturgy. This will involve being on a rota to take the children during the Liturgy of the Word at 10a.m. Sunday Mass. If you are interested in joining our team, please speak to one of the members or Fr Michael.
Appeal for More Messengers - We are now short of Messengers for most of our Reachout delivery areas, so if you would like to volunteer as a Messenger, it would be most appreciated. Please contact [email protected] or speak to Fr Michael.
ST ANDREW’S BEARSDEN BULLETIN TEAM ~ We are still looking for an additional volunteer to join our small team which operates on a rota to enable holiday cover etc. Computer word processing skills are essential. If you are interested/to find out more, please contact us at [email protected]
Our volunteers collect donations every evening from M&S Milngavie and deliver to St Gregory’s, Wyndford Foodbank and Aspire West End which helps people get back on their feet. If you are interested in volunteering or even providing occasional holiday cover, please get in touch with Veronica McLaughlin by email at: [email protected]
Support Group for Catholic Women Affected by Separation and Divorce The meeting of our support group for women affected by separation and divorce will take place on Friday, 21st February, 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.
Thank you to our amazing supporters on #easyfundraising. Your online shopping makes a real difference to us! If you're not supporting us, you can in just a few clicks. Sign up to #easyfundraising to raise free donations for us when you shop with your favourite retailers for all your online shopping. Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/StAndrewsBearsden2023
Support for Drumchapel Foodbank. Non-perishable food items are always gratefully received and can be placed in the box in the Church porch during our usual opening times. Donations can also be taken straight to the Foodbank at Ladyloan Pl Unit 9, G158LB. We regularly use cash donations to purchase food items for delivery straight to the foodbank. Our rota is always looking for more foodbank volunteer drivers. If you can help, please get in touch. Thanks for continuing to give the foodbank your support.
Parish Bulletin: Items for inclusion should be sent to [email protected] by 5p.m. on the Tuesday before publication and should not exceed 80 words. The Parish Bulletin is available weekly on our website/by email for all those on our Parish database and on the noticeboard in the Church porch.
Laudato Si’ - On Care for our Common Home – The rich and the poor have equal dignity, for “the Lord is the maker of them all” (Prov 22:2). “He himself made both small and great” (Wis 6:7), and “he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good” (Mt 5:45). (#94)
JUSTICE&PEACE-SCOTLAND-NEWSLETTER-DEC24-FEB25 to view and download the latest newsletter with updates on recent activities and information about upcoming events of interest and campaign actions you can support, please use the following link: https://www.justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk/
PROPOSALS TO AMEND THE LEGISLATION ON RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS: https://consult.gov.scot/education-reform/religious-observance-education-legislation-schools/consultation/subpage.2016-07-07.1474135251//
This consultation seeks views on proposed changes to the current legislation on religious observance (RO) and religious and moral education (RME) in schools. NB Closing date is 26th January 2025. More information to follow.
Before receiving Holy Communion, we are asked to make some act of reverence such as a bow.
The Church is open until 5p.m. Monday to Saturday. Call in and enjoy the peace and quiet and take time to sit in the stillness in the silence of God.
Tea is served in the hut after daily Mass/Services Monday to Thursday. All most welcome.
THE PARISH IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO HELP OUT in a number of ways e.g. Children's Liturgy, Messengers. See all 6 notices below. If any of this appeals to you, why not chat to someone who is already helping out and ask them what is involved. Your parish is always in need of volunteers.
PIETY STALL ROTA Sincere thanks to everyone who has assisted with running the stall during 2024 – thanks to your help, we raised £1,200 for Church funds during this period. The rota sheet for January, February and March is on the door of the Piety Stall. We would really appreciate some more volunteers – if you could occasionally spare 15 minutes after Mass to help, we’d be most grateful. Any questions please call Anne MacIntosh 07866 009078 or Annamaria Strachan 07749 715514.
- The 2025 edition of the Western Catholic Calendar is available in the Piety Stall priced £3.70
- If you placed an order for the new Missal, it is now available to collect from the Piety Stall.
VOLUNTEER - needed to join a team for locking up the Church during the week at 5p.m. ideally on a Monday. Please text Moira on 07751 851927 or email Geoff at [email protected] if you think you can help. Many thanks, Geoff Harrison.
Children's Liturgy ~ We are looking for more volunteers to help with running the Children's Liturgy. This will involve being on a rota to take the children during the Liturgy of the Word at 10a.m. Sunday Mass. If you are interested in joining our team, please speak to one of the members or Fr Michael.
Appeal for More Messengers - We are now short of Messengers for most of our Reachout delivery areas, so if you would like to volunteer as a Messenger, it would be most appreciated. Please contact [email protected] or speak to Fr Michael.
ST ANDREW’S BEARSDEN BULLETIN TEAM ~ We are still looking for an additional volunteer to join our small team which operates on a rota to enable holiday cover etc. Computer word processing skills are essential. If you are interested/to find out more, please contact us at [email protected]
Our volunteers collect donations every evening from M&S Milngavie and deliver to St Gregory’s, Wyndford Foodbank and Aspire West End which helps people get back on their feet. If you are interested in volunteering or even providing occasional holiday cover, please get in touch with Veronica McLaughlin by email at: [email protected]
Support Group for Catholic Women Affected by Separation and Divorce The meeting of our support group for women affected by separation and divorce will take place on Friday, 21st February, 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.
Thank you to our amazing supporters on #easyfundraising. Your online shopping makes a real difference to us! If you're not supporting us, you can in just a few clicks. Sign up to #easyfundraising to raise free donations for us when you shop with your favourite retailers for all your online shopping. Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/StAndrewsBearsden2023
Support for Drumchapel Foodbank. Non-perishable food items are always gratefully received and can be placed in the box in the Church porch during our usual opening times. Donations can also be taken straight to the Foodbank at Ladyloan Pl Unit 9, G158LB. We regularly use cash donations to purchase food items for delivery straight to the foodbank. Our rota is always looking for more foodbank volunteer drivers. If you can help, please get in touch. Thanks for continuing to give the foodbank your support.
Parish Bulletin: Items for inclusion should be sent to [email protected] by 5p.m. on the Tuesday before publication and should not exceed 80 words. The Parish Bulletin is available weekly on our website/by email for all those on our Parish database and on the noticeboard in the Church porch.
The Funeral of Patrick (Pat) Whalin will take place on Friday, 17th January at 10:00 a.m. and will be live streamed on our YouTube Channel.
Please remember in your prayers those in need, those who are sick and housebound and those in hospital.
Recently Dead: Daniel Beard, Dick Beattie, Lars Hansen, John Hopkins, Kieran McDonald, Jo Martin, Hugh Thumath, Father Bill Tollan and Patrick Whalin.
Anniversaries: Peter & Doreen Gormley, John Kelly and Robert & Kathleen Teague.
Recently Dead: Daniel Beard, Dick Beattie, Lars Hansen, John Hopkins, Kieran McDonald, Jo Martin, Hugh Thumath, Father Bill Tollan and Patrick Whalin.
Anniversaries: Peter & Doreen Gormley, John Kelly and Robert & Kathleen Teague.
