Sunday 17th August 2025 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

"I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever."
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Mass & Confession Schedule Changes (Due to Fr. Lyons’ Sick Leave)
Weekend Masses

• St. Andrew’s, Bearsden
  • Saturday Vigil: 6:00pm
  • Sunday: 10:00am (Confessions from 9:10am)
• St. Joseph’s, Milngavie
  • Saturday Vigil: 4:30pm (Confessions from 4:00pm)
  • Sunday: 11:30am

Weekday Masses

• St. Joseph’s: Monday, 10:00am
• St. Andrew’s: Thursday & Friday, 10:00am

Holydays of Obligation

• St. Joseph’s: Vigil Mass at 7:00pm
• St. Andrew’s: 10:00am

For the Diary - from 16th to 31st August

• Fr. McNulty will say the weekend Masses, cover Sick Calls and Funerals.
• There will be no weekday Masses during this period barring funerals.
• Weekday Mass will resume on Monday, 1st September at St Joseph's, Milngavie.
• Eucharistic Services will take place in St Andrew's, Monday through to Friday at 10:00 a.m. and St Joseph's, Wednesday and Friday at 9:30 a.m.
• If you need to arrange a Funeral at this time, call the Chapel House and you will be directed.

COLLECTIONS:

• 9th/10th August-£680

The figures for July.

• Gift Aid-£5,001.33
• Standing orders-£342.
• As always, many thanks for what you hand in.
• Later on, we will run off the Parish Income/Expenditure for 2024/2025.

THERE WILL BE A SECOND COLLECTION this weekend, 16th/17th August for Assisted parishes.
 
PVG UPDATES:

• Due to new legislation, from this month it is illegal to work with children or protected adults if your PVG is out of date.
• If your most recent PVG was issued on or before 2020 it is now required to be updated.
• Please contact Clare, the Parish Safeguarding Co-Ordinator, at [email protected] to find out what you need to do.

 
The Apostolate of the Queenship of Our Lady:

• The annual Mass for the Apostolate of the Queenship of Our Lady will be held in St Anthony's RC Church, Mar Gardens, Rutherglen, G73 5JE.
• The celebration will take place on Friday 22nd August 2025, the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, and will commence with the Rosary at 7:00pm and Mass at 7:30pm.
• More info at [email protected]

 
URGENT-St A 29 Club-TSB Bank Account Closure St Andrew’s Church: The 29 Club –
TSB a/c 06021274 (87-37-39)

• Important to please note August 2025 will see the end of subscriptions etc. to our existing 29 Club above.
• All subscriptions/ donations to the above account should be cancelled with immediate effect please.
• Thanks once again for 40 years of support.
• Holy Mass will be offered for your personal intentions.
• Further news on new Parish Fundraising will be announced by our Finance Team soon.
• Don’t forget to cancel all payments to the above account!

Thank You and God Bless!!

• Brian (Donnelly) on 07484 707750/0141 942 6085
• Fr Michael on 942-4635.

The Requiem Mass for Kris Adams will take place on Thursday 21st August at 10:00 a.m. in St Andrew's Bearsden and will be livestreamed on our YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@standrewsbearsden/streams
 
Coffee Morning - Sunday 24th August. Hope you’ve all had a great summer.

• Please come along and join us after 10a.m.Mass in the Upper Hall next Sunday 24th August.
• This month we are raising funds for Caritas International which is a confederation working in almost every country in the world, reaching out to the poor, vulnerable and excluded, regardless of race or religion, to build a world based on justice and fraternal love.

 
All P7 parents intending to present their child for the Sacrament of Confirmation should collect an enrolment form from the sacristy at St Andrew’s or St Joseph’s church before Mass.

• All forms are to be returned to either church by Sunday, 14th September 2025 please.
• The Sacrament of Confirmation will take place in Bearsden on Thursday, 4th December at 7p.m. for P7 children from both parishes.

Mitsidi Project. St Joseph's, Milngavie are having a fund raising Coffee Morning on Saturday, 13th September from 11a.m. to 2p.m. in the Church Hall. All are welcome to attend. More on poster in the porch.
 
Jubilee Service.

• Each Deanery in the diocese has been asked to take part in a Jubilee Service (not Mass) at the Cathedral this year.
• Our date is 15th September at 7p.m. along with St Joseph's, Milngavie.
• A bus should pick us up and take us back from the Cathedral round about 8.30pm.
• Tea will be served in the Curial offices for us after the Service.
• Further details will follow later.

 
The Beginning Experience is holding a weekend for those who find themselves suffering bereavement through divorce, separation or widowhood.

• This takes place from 26th-28th September at Conforti Centre, Coatbridge.
• Contact Maggie on 01389 851677 for more details.
• Completed Applications must be returned by 12th September.
• There is also a poster in the church.

 
Children's choir dates:

• 14th September, 21st September
• 9th November, 16th November
• 14th December. 21st December, 25th December.
• If your child is not in St Nicholas and would like to join, please contact Annamaria Strachan ([email protected]) 07749 715514 for details.

Catholic Social Teaching Thought for the Week – 17th August 2025
"We cannot uphold an ideal of holiness that would ignore injustice in a world where some revel, spend with abandon and live only for the latest consumer goods, even as others look on from afar, living their entire lives in abject poverty."
Gaudete et Exultate, para. 101
 
Laudato Si’-On Care for our Common Home.

• Modernity has been marked by an excessive anthropocentrism which today, under another guise, continues to stand in the way of shared understanding and of any effort to strengthen social bonds.
• The time has come to pay renewed attention to reality and the limits it imposes; this in turn is the condition for a more sound and fruitful development of individuals and society. (#116)

 
Welcome to August; a sacred month of quiet preparation and joyful expectation. Before we leap into the Season of Creation, we invite you to pause, breathe and root yourself in prayer, because before every great movement, there is a moment of stillness.
This month, the LSM Prayer Guide leads us into a deeper understanding of this simple truth:

• We are all God’s creatures - every human, animal river and forest. 
• Download the August Prayer Guide on https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hx0NYRN2fY37UJBegzOIxWiAd_7Elktj/view

 
Pilgrimage to pray for the Beatification of The Venerable Margaret Sinclair will take place on Sunday, 21st September in St Patrick's Church, Cowgate-Edinburgh. For more details please see the poster in the porch.
 
Later on in the year we will have 'Sign Up Sunday'. A chance for you to find out all the groups that are in the Parish and if you would like to help out. Details to follow.
 
Children’s Liturgy ~ To keep this valuable program going, we need more volunteers.

• No special skills—just enthusiasm and the desire to help the parish children.
• We'll provide all resources needed and guidance through the PVG (Protection of Vulnerable Groups) process. Please note that for the safety of our children, only those with PVG approval are permitted in the hall.
• For more information, please contact Fr Michael or Gillian Harkness or leave your details using the QR code displayed in the Church Porch.

 
Before receiving Holy Communion, we are asked to make some act of reverence such as a bow.
 
RCIA PROGRAMME: If you know of anyone who wishes to join the church, please see Fr. Michael.
 
FINAL YEAR AT SCHOOL?

• Like to do the Caritas Award?
• The Award celebrates the faith witness which Caritas candidates give within their home, school and parish.
• For more information, speak to Fr Michael and visit https://sces.org.uk/caritas-award/

 
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.
 
Parish Bulletin:

• Items for inclusion should be sent to [email protected] by 5p.m. on the Tuesday before publication, maximum 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: Essam Eldin Baker M. Ibrahin, Laurie McElroy, Margaret McLaughlin, Margaret Murphy, Kristoffer Adams - Funeral Mass on Thursday, 21st August at 10a.m.
Anniversaries: James Baillie and Paul Morton.
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