"Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last."
Update - Clergy visits and St Nicholas’ Updated guidance has been issued from the Scottish Government and sent to both parishes by St Nicholas’. Due to the current ongoing local restrictions in EDC and the surrounding areas, visits to the school, including by clergy, are now being put on hold, for the time being. The school is content for the outside visit / short liturgy for P1 still to go ahead. Plus, both parishes are working on live streaming first Friday of the month liturgies to pupils and staff in their classes.
Happy retirement - Our very best wishes to Mrs Cowie for every peace and happiness in her well earned and richly deserved retirement. We thank her for all her many years of hard work, dedication and commitment as teacher principal and deputy head teacher in St Andrew’s and St Nicholas’. From all of us in St Andrew’s Parish, we wish you nothing but every happiness, good health and joyous days in your retirement, Mrs Cowie. Take care and stay safe.
This week is Vocations Awareness Week ~ Discerning a Vocation to the Priesthood? If you think God may be inviting you to such a vocation, pray hard about it, and have a chat with one of the parish clergy. The archdiocesan Vocations Director, Fr Ross Campbell, is also more that happy to be contacted for a chat - [email protected] (339 4315) Pray for priests. Pray for more priests for our archdiocese. Pray for our seminarians.
First Confession & First Holy Communion in St Andrew's – the boys and girls have been waiting so patiently over these past months for First Confession and First Holy Communion.
First Confession (Saturday 3rd or 10th Oct 10am – 11am). A video of the rehearsal for First Holy Communion will be sent out soon to all families. Please make sure that your video consent form for First Communion Mass has been handed in. Please let us know, as well, if you would like to purchase a video. These Masses can be live streamed, but would require the consent of all, and we will be writing to parents soon to seek this. Many thanks.
These First Holy Communion Masses at 2pm on 1st, 8th& 15th November, as I am sure you will appreciate, will be very different from what we are normally used to, but they will be no less special occasions of celebration for the boys and girls. We keep them all in our prayers.
Remember, face coverings will need to be worn for both First Confession and First Holy Communion.
Confirmations – the archdiocese is currently working on arrangements for Confirmations of last year’s P7s (this year’s S1s), and as soon as we learn what they are we will write to all the families.
For all P3 and P4 Families The intended dates for First Confession for the current P3s will be sometime during the Season of Lent 2021. The intended dates for First Communions for the current P4s will be sometime after Easter 2021.
Parish Confessions have now resumed - Saturdays 4.15pm – 4.45pm; and Sundays 9.15am – 9.45am.
October Devotions will be live streamed on Sundays at 4.30pm.
RCIA - If you or someone you know isn’t baptised or baptised in another Christian tradition and would like to enquire about becoming Catholic, please get in touch. Email [email protected]
Catholic Social Teaching Thought for the Week - 20 September (Nearest Sunday to UN International Day for Peace (21 September))
The only path is to renounce violence, to begin anew with dialogue, with the attempt to find peace together, with a new concern for one another, a new willingness to be open to one another. Pope Benedict XVI, Good Friday 2011
As seating capacity in the church is much reduced due to current social distancing guidelines, a booking system is required. To register to use the booking system, please go to www.standrewsbearsden Please note that the obligation to attend Sunday Mass continues to be suspended. It is still fine not to go to Mass during these circumstances.
Here's some helpful guidance from the Bishops' Conference of Scotland
Please familiarise yourself with it ahead of attending Mass.
➡️ Read: bit.ly/BackToMass (includes video)
➡️ Phase 3 guidance: bit.ly/Phase3ScotGov
Drumchapel Foodbank - Thanks to all of our Parishioners who are donating food and toiletries to our collection point in the Chapel House porch to be delivered to Drumchapel Food Bank. Regularly your donations are dropped off at the foodbank. Thanks for continuing to help.
Our parish’s soup-run volunteers continue to collect food donations form M&S Byres Road for delivery to Drumchapel and St Gregory’s Foodbanks and the Wayside Club.
With our piety stall remaining closed, we are offering individual cards for posting, or collection from the chapel house porch. We have a full range of cards for almost every occasion, all £1 or 40p each. P&P is £1 per order (up to 4 cards) or free if collected from the chapel house porch. Email Annamaria ([email protected]) to place an order. Payment is by bank transfer or cheque.
Parish Website – Bulletin - Just to say that on the latest page and the bulletin page, a subscribe button has been added which allows users to have a daily summary sent each morning with the previous day's posts. If you don't use social media, but would like to be kept posted, then all that's asked for is your email address – you can unsubscribe at any time – it's all clearly marked.
Parish Bulletin: Any items for inclusion in the bulletin (including names for recently dead, month's mind and anniversary lists) should be put through the letter box of the Chapel House or sent by email: [email protected] by12noon on the Wednesday before publication. Copies of the bulletin are available on Facebook, Twitter and on the parish website.
Recently Dead – Adrian Budas, Mary Murphy, Grace Jackson, Wilf Cook, Tony O’Malley, Agnes MacLeod
Anniversaries – Annie McCallion, Paul Donnelly, Philip Porter, Samuele Guidi
Happy retirement - Our very best wishes to Mrs Cowie for every peace and happiness in her well earned and richly deserved retirement. We thank her for all her many years of hard work, dedication and commitment as teacher principal and deputy head teacher in St Andrew’s and St Nicholas’. From all of us in St Andrew’s Parish, we wish you nothing but every happiness, good health and joyous days in your retirement, Mrs Cowie. Take care and stay safe.
This week is Vocations Awareness Week ~ Discerning a Vocation to the Priesthood? If you think God may be inviting you to such a vocation, pray hard about it, and have a chat with one of the parish clergy. The archdiocesan Vocations Director, Fr Ross Campbell, is also more that happy to be contacted for a chat - [email protected] (339 4315) Pray for priests. Pray for more priests for our archdiocese. Pray for our seminarians.
First Confession & First Holy Communion in St Andrew's – the boys and girls have been waiting so patiently over these past months for First Confession and First Holy Communion.
First Confession (Saturday 3rd or 10th Oct 10am – 11am). A video of the rehearsal for First Holy Communion will be sent out soon to all families. Please make sure that your video consent form for First Communion Mass has been handed in. Please let us know, as well, if you would like to purchase a video. These Masses can be live streamed, but would require the consent of all, and we will be writing to parents soon to seek this. Many thanks.
These First Holy Communion Masses at 2pm on 1st, 8th& 15th November, as I am sure you will appreciate, will be very different from what we are normally used to, but they will be no less special occasions of celebration for the boys and girls. We keep them all in our prayers.
Remember, face coverings will need to be worn for both First Confession and First Holy Communion.
Confirmations – the archdiocese is currently working on arrangements for Confirmations of last year’s P7s (this year’s S1s), and as soon as we learn what they are we will write to all the families.
For all P3 and P4 Families The intended dates for First Confession for the current P3s will be sometime during the Season of Lent 2021. The intended dates for First Communions for the current P4s will be sometime after Easter 2021.
Parish Confessions have now resumed - Saturdays 4.15pm – 4.45pm; and Sundays 9.15am – 9.45am.
October Devotions will be live streamed on Sundays at 4.30pm.
RCIA - If you or someone you know isn’t baptised or baptised in another Christian tradition and would like to enquire about becoming Catholic, please get in touch. Email [email protected]
Catholic Social Teaching Thought for the Week - 20 September (Nearest Sunday to UN International Day for Peace (21 September))
The only path is to renounce violence, to begin anew with dialogue, with the attempt to find peace together, with a new concern for one another, a new willingness to be open to one another. Pope Benedict XVI, Good Friday 2011
As seating capacity in the church is much reduced due to current social distancing guidelines, a booking system is required. To register to use the booking system, please go to www.standrewsbearsden Please note that the obligation to attend Sunday Mass continues to be suspended. It is still fine not to go to Mass during these circumstances.
Here's some helpful guidance from the Bishops' Conference of Scotland
Please familiarise yourself with it ahead of attending Mass.
➡️ Read: bit.ly/BackToMass (includes video)
➡️ Phase 3 guidance: bit.ly/Phase3ScotGov
Drumchapel Foodbank - Thanks to all of our Parishioners who are donating food and toiletries to our collection point in the Chapel House porch to be delivered to Drumchapel Food Bank. Regularly your donations are dropped off at the foodbank. Thanks for continuing to help.
Our parish’s soup-run volunteers continue to collect food donations form M&S Byres Road for delivery to Drumchapel and St Gregory’s Foodbanks and the Wayside Club.
With our piety stall remaining closed, we are offering individual cards for posting, or collection from the chapel house porch. We have a full range of cards for almost every occasion, all £1 or 40p each. P&P is £1 per order (up to 4 cards) or free if collected from the chapel house porch. Email Annamaria ([email protected]) to place an order. Payment is by bank transfer or cheque.
Parish Website – Bulletin - Just to say that on the latest page and the bulletin page, a subscribe button has been added which allows users to have a daily summary sent each morning with the previous day's posts. If you don't use social media, but would like to be kept posted, then all that's asked for is your email address – you can unsubscribe at any time – it's all clearly marked.
Parish Bulletin: Any items for inclusion in the bulletin (including names for recently dead, month's mind and anniversary lists) should be put through the letter box of the Chapel House or sent by email: [email protected] by12noon on the Wednesday before publication. Copies of the bulletin are available on Facebook, Twitter and on the parish website.
Recently Dead – Adrian Budas, Mary Murphy, Grace Jackson, Wilf Cook, Tony O’Malley, Agnes MacLeod
Anniversaries – Annie McCallion, Paul Donnelly, Philip Porter, Samuele Guidi