Sunday 24th August 2025 Twenty First Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

"You have the words of eternal life. 
We have come to believe
and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”​

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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 !0:00 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.

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• Due to new legislation, from this month it is illegal to work with children or protected adults if your PVG is out of date.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.

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.

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 this 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.

 
Remember Vocations. 

• The annual Vocations Mass will take place tomorrow, 25th August 2025 at 7p.m. in St Andrew’s Cathedral.
• Please join the Archbishop, Priests, and Religious of the Archdiocese in praying for vocations to the priesthood.
• The feared vocations crisis has now arrived with some priests now looking after three parishes, and a number of retirals imminent.
• We currently have four seminarians and one applicant this year. 
• The need to pray for more vocations has never been greater.

 
St. Andrew’s Whist Drive will take place on:

• Wednesday 27th August in the Lower Hall, from 2p.m. – 4p.m.
• Tea and coffee will be served.
• Entry £3.
• Looking forward to seeing everyone.
• New members always welcome.

 
Flooring - The Upper Hall corridor, church foyer, and piety stall will be having the floor covering replaced after Mass on Sunday 7th September and Monday 8th September.
​The Halls Committee apologises for any inconvenience this may cause.

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.

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Catholic Social Teaching Thought for the Week – 24th August 2025 (International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition)
"Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed."
Gaudium et Spes
 
Laudato Si’-On Care for our Common Home
An inadequate presentation of Christian anthropology gave rise to a wrong understanding of the relationship between human beings and the world. Often, what was handed on was a Promethean vision of mastery over the world, which gave the impression that the protection of nature was something that only the faint-hearted cared about. Instead, our “dominion” over the universe should be understood more properly in the sense of responsible stewardship. (#116)
 
Season of Creation -1st September to 4th October. This year’s theme is “Peace with Creation”, inspired by Isaiah 32:14–18.
Liturgical Events:

• Fr Michael has agreed to mark the beginning of the Season of Creation for both parishes in Milngavie and Bearsden with Mass for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation on Monday 1st September at 10:00a.m in St Joseph’s Church, Milngavie.
• Archbishop Nolan will also celebrate Mass on Sunday 7th September at 12 Noon in St Andrew’s Cathedral using the new text of the Mass for the Care of Creation.
• Zoom Sessions: There will be a series of 4 conference sessions each Thursday, 7.00 - 8.30 p.m.
• For more info and to register please use the link: https://forms.gle/pcpKhPVtz6ekckP89

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.

 
RCIA PROGRAMME: THINKING OF JOINING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?  WELL, COME AND SEE!

• Our RCIA programme (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) is a warm and welcoming space to explore the Catholic faith, ask questions and discover what it means to follow Jesus.
• The programme begins in Autumn through to Easter.
• If interested, email [email protected] to arrange an informal, no obligation chat.

We would be very pleased to hear from you. RCIA Team.
 
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.

 
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.
 
EASYFUNDRAISING 

• St Andrew's RC Church Bearsden has raised £756.86 so far.
• You can raise FREE donations for the parish every time you shop online.
• Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/StAndrewsBearsden2023

 
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: Kristoffer Adams, Brian Cooper, Anne Marie Henshaw, Essam Eldin Bakr Mohamed Ibrahim, John Anthony Mclaughlin and Joan Helen Spalding.
Anniversaries: Edward Donohue, Samuele Guidi and Frank Ward.