"This is the day the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad."
A Happy Easter to you and all your family. Thanks to everyone who helped out and took part in all our Services during Lent and Holy Week. We remember the three candidates who were brought into the church at the Easter Vigil- Caitlyn Stewart, David Gray and Justin Clowes. A word of thanks to their Sponsors and those in the R.C.I.A. Group who prepared them. Now go home and enjoy your Easter Eggs! Fr. Michael
EASTER SERVICES:
PARISH COLLECTIONS as of 13/4/2025 -
Second Collection - There will be a second collection the weekend of 26th/27th April for Assisted Parishes.
Reachout Easter 2025 is available on this link.
REQUIESCANT IN PACE ~
PLEASE NOTE: The rear car park area will be out of use tomorrow, Monday 21st April as workmen will be in the area to carry out a deep clean of the kitchen equipment of the upper hall.
EASTER HAMPER. There is an Easter Drinks Hamper being raffled off in the church. Raffle tickets are £1 per strip. Fr. Michael's niece is running in aid of Cancer Research. On the Second Sunday of Easter, there will also be a Coffee Morning in aid of this cause and the lucky winner will be drawn then. Many thanks and wouldn't it be funny if Fr. Michael won! - Only kidding.
LUNCH CLUB ~ REMINDER The Lunch Club will resume as usual on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month from 1st May to 19th June 2025
On Saturday 26th April, from 11am-1pm, on Lothian Road, Edinburgh, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) will be holding their annual Pro-life Chain. This event roughly coincides with the date which the Abortion Act (1967) came into effect. Pro-lifers will gather to commemorate the almost 11 million unborn children lost to abortion since that date. Please consider joining them, and standing shoulder to shoulder in defence of life.
A SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE FOR ANYONE WHO HAS LOST A BABY OR CHILD will be held in Glasgow Cathedral (Church of Scotland) on 10th May at 11a.m. More details from the poster at the back of the church.
SACRAMENTS IN 2025:
Before receiving Holy Communion, we are asked to make some act of reverence such as a bow.
SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION PREPARATION SESSION - will take place in St Andrews Church Upper Hall next Sunday, 27th April from 2:00p.m. to 3:30p.m. for ALL candidates from St Andrew's and St Joseph's parishes.
Easter Sunday - Walk, Cycle or Scoot to Worship - Spring has sprung, the schools are on holiday, and everyone is outdoors enjoying the great weather. So let’s take the opportunity to think about and give thanks for the air we breathe, and doing our bit to keep it clean by walking or cycling or scooting to Mass this weekend.
EASTER SERVICES:
- Easter Sunday Masses.10a.m. and 12 Noon
- Easter Monday – No Morning Mass
- Weekday Services - Eucharistic Services: Wednesday and Thursday.
PARISH COLLECTIONS as of 13/4/2025 -
- Plate £1085.
- Second Collection. Sick & Retired Priests - £785.
- Standing Orders - £430.
- Gift Aid - £5,080.33.
Second Collection - There will be a second collection the weekend of 26th/27th April for Assisted Parishes.
Reachout Easter 2025 is available on this link.
REQUIESCANT IN PACE ~
- The Funeral Mass for Kay Dick will take place on Tuesday, 22nd April at 10a.m. This Mass will also be live streamed on our YouTube Channel.
- The Funeral Arrangements for Evelyn McKenna: Evening Reception - Thursday, 24th April at 6p.m. Funeral Mass on Friday, 25th April at 10a.m.
- The Funeral Mass for Bridget Darragh will take place on Saturday, 10th May at 10am.
PLEASE NOTE: The rear car park area will be out of use tomorrow, Monday 21st April as workmen will be in the area to carry out a deep clean of the kitchen equipment of the upper hall.
EASTER HAMPER. There is an Easter Drinks Hamper being raffled off in the church. Raffle tickets are £1 per strip. Fr. Michael's niece is running in aid of Cancer Research. On the Second Sunday of Easter, there will also be a Coffee Morning in aid of this cause and the lucky winner will be drawn then. Many thanks and wouldn't it be funny if Fr. Michael won! - Only kidding.
LUNCH CLUB ~ REMINDER The Lunch Club will resume as usual on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month from 1st May to 19th June 2025
On Saturday 26th April, from 11am-1pm, on Lothian Road, Edinburgh, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) will be holding their annual Pro-life Chain. This event roughly coincides with the date which the Abortion Act (1967) came into effect. Pro-lifers will gather to commemorate the almost 11 million unborn children lost to abortion since that date. Please consider joining them, and standing shoulder to shoulder in defence of life.
A SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE FOR ANYONE WHO HAS LOST A BABY OR CHILD will be held in Glasgow Cathedral (Church of Scotland) on 10th May at 11a.m. More details from the poster at the back of the church.
SACRAMENTS IN 2025:
- The Sacrament of Confirmation will take place in Bearsden on Tuesday, 29th April at 7p.m.
- First Holy Communion will take place on Sunday, 11th May at 12 Noon.
Before receiving Holy Communion, we are asked to make some act of reverence such as a bow.
SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION PREPARATION SESSION - will take place in St Andrews Church Upper Hall next Sunday, 27th April from 2:00p.m. to 3:30p.m. for ALL candidates from St Andrew's and St Joseph's parishes.
Easter Sunday - Walk, Cycle or Scoot to Worship - Spring has sprung, the schools are on holiday, and everyone is outdoors enjoying the great weather. So let’s take the opportunity to think about and give thanks for the air we breathe, and doing our bit to keep it clean by walking or cycling or scooting to Mass this weekend.
Catholic Social Teaching Thought for the Week - Easter Sunday, 20th April 2025 When all seems to be dead, signs of the resurrection suddenly spring up. It is an irresistible force Evangelii Gaudium
Laudato Si’ - On Care for our Common Home – We have certain superficial mechanisms, but we cannot claim to have a sound ethics, a culture and spirituality genuinely capable of setting limits and teaching clear-minded self-restraint. (#105)
Remember Vocations in your Lenten Devotions
April 20—Easter Sunday: “A vocation is a fruit that ripens in a well cultivated field of mutual love that becomes mutual service, in the context of an authentic ecclesial life. No vocation is born of itself or lives for itself. A vocation flows from the heart of God and blossoms in the good soil of faithful people, in the experience of fraternal love.” (A New Evangelisation). We must reflect upon the need for enough priests to minister to the needs of the faithful by celebrating the mass.”
COFFEE MORNING - SUNDAY 27TH APRIL. Please come along and join us in the Upper Hall after 10 a.m. Mass for tea, coffee and some delicious home baking. As Fr Maloney’s niece and her family are doing the walk for Cancer Research, we’ll be raising funds in support of this amazing charity to add to their total. £455.50 was raised in March for Fr Matthew’s school in India and his ‘thank you’ is on the notice board in the porch.
Piety Stall Rota Could you occasionally help serving in the Piety Stall? We are particularly short of volunteers for the 10a.m. Sunday morning Mass –if you could spare 10 minutes after this Mass to help, we’d be most grateful. Rota sheet for April, May & June is on the door of the Piety Stall. Meantime, sincere thanks to everyone who regularly volunteers to assist with running the stall. Any questions please call Anne MacIntosh 07866 009078 or Annamaria Strachan 07749 715514.
Piety Stall There's a large selection of Easter cards and First Communion cards and gifts for sale in the Piety Stall.
Children's choir dates: 11th & 18th May and 8th & 15th June. If your child is not in St Nicholas and would like to join, please contact Annamaria Strachan ([email protected]) 07749 715514 for details
Lenten Challenging Poverty sheets - many thanks to all who took on the challenges over the last five weeks and especially to those who returned them each week. With thanks to the Liturgy group, these will be used in offering at the Easter Vigil to light the fire from which the Paschal Candle is then lit. J&P
Lenten Booklets. I hope you found these books useful and helpful. Unless anyone says directly to Fr Michael, we will order them again for the season of Advent.
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, 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]
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 – We have certain superficial mechanisms, but we cannot claim to have a sound ethics, a culture and spirituality genuinely capable of setting limits and teaching clear-minded self-restraint. (#105)
Remember Vocations in your Lenten Devotions
April 20—Easter Sunday: “A vocation is a fruit that ripens in a well cultivated field of mutual love that becomes mutual service, in the context of an authentic ecclesial life. No vocation is born of itself or lives for itself. A vocation flows from the heart of God and blossoms in the good soil of faithful people, in the experience of fraternal love.” (A New Evangelisation). We must reflect upon the need for enough priests to minister to the needs of the faithful by celebrating the mass.”
COFFEE MORNING - SUNDAY 27TH APRIL. Please come along and join us in the Upper Hall after 10 a.m. Mass for tea, coffee and some delicious home baking. As Fr Maloney’s niece and her family are doing the walk for Cancer Research, we’ll be raising funds in support of this amazing charity to add to their total. £455.50 was raised in March for Fr Matthew’s school in India and his ‘thank you’ is on the notice board in the porch.
Piety Stall Rota Could you occasionally help serving in the Piety Stall? We are particularly short of volunteers for the 10a.m. Sunday morning Mass –if you could spare 10 minutes after this Mass to help, we’d be most grateful. Rota sheet for April, May & June is on the door of the Piety Stall. Meantime, sincere thanks to everyone who regularly volunteers to assist with running the stall. Any questions please call Anne MacIntosh 07866 009078 or Annamaria Strachan 07749 715514.
Piety Stall There's a large selection of Easter cards and First Communion cards and gifts for sale in the Piety Stall.
Children's choir dates: 11th & 18th May and 8th & 15th June. If your child is not in St Nicholas and would like to join, please contact Annamaria Strachan ([email protected]) 07749 715514 for details
Lenten Challenging Poverty sheets - many thanks to all who took on the challenges over the last five weeks and especially to those who returned them each week. With thanks to the Liturgy group, these will be used in offering at the Easter Vigil to light the fire from which the Paschal Candle is then lit. J&P
Lenten Booklets. I hope you found these books useful and helpful. Unless anyone says directly to Fr Michael, we will order them again for the season of Advent.
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, 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]
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: Lydia Carty, James Cooper, Kathleen Corrigan, Bridget Darragh, Kay Dick, Tommy Kirkwood, Helen McGalpine, Evelyn Mckenna and Michael Sicgme.
Anniversaries: Stephen Hartley, Joseph McGrath and William McInulty.
Recently Dead: Lydia Carty, James Cooper, Kathleen Corrigan, Bridget Darragh, Kay Dick, Tommy Kirkwood, Helen McGalpine, Evelyn Mckenna and Michael Sicgme.
Anniversaries: Stephen Hartley, Joseph McGrath and William McInulty.
