 "This is my chosen Son; listen to him." DURING LENT
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.
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:
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]  BOOK NOW FOR LOURDES PILGRIMAGE 2025 Wednesday 16th to Wednesday 23rd July 2025 To express an interest, please contact the Pilgrimage Office before 31st March 2025 on 0141 226 5898 or email: [email protected] The Tablet Magazine - From time to time a number of back issues of the magazine will be left in the porch for anyone who might be interested. They are free of charge. The Beginning Experience is holding a weekend for those who find themselves suffering bereavement through divorce, separation or widowhood. The weekend will take place from 4th-6th April at Conforti Centre, Coatbridge. For details call Louise on 07926 571004 or e-mail: [email protected]. Completed Applications must be returned by 21st March. 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. Please remember in your prayers those in need, those who are sick and housebound and those in hospital. Recently Dead: Robert Alexander, Mrs Baisilis, Anne Connor, John Dewar, Michael Fergus, Gloria Lindsay and Ernie Lynn. Anniversaries: Patricia Fearon, Martha Adam McAllister, Margaret McCann, Janet McCarron, Dorothy McDermott, Terry McGahan, Michael O'Gorman, May Porter, Belinda Sands and Chris Shevlane. 
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