Sunday 31st August 2025 Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

"Take up your cross and follow me."

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• Due to new legislation, from this month it is illegal to work with children or protected adults if your PVG is out of date.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

‘Here We Go Again' - The new season of Parish Lunch Club

• Thursday, 4th Sept in the Upper Hall 12:30-2:30p.m.
• No charge, small donation only!
• All most welcome.
• Bring a friend, a neighbour and enjoy lunch, mingle and have some good Craik in an enjoyable environment.
• Dates for future lunch clubs are posted on the church notice boards.

 
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.

Catholic Social Teaching Thought for the Week – 31st August
(Nearest Sunday to World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation (1 September))
The universe unfolds in God, who fills it completely. Hence, there is a mystical meaning to be found in a leaf, in a mountain trail, in a dewdrop, in a poor person’s face. The ideal is not only to pass from the exterior to the interior to discover the action of God in the soul, but also to discover God in all things.
​Laudato Si, para 223
 
Laudato Si’-On Care for our Common Home

• Neglecting to monitor the harm done to nature and the environmental impact of our decisions is only the most striking sign of a disregard for the message contained in the structures of nature itself.
• When we fail to acknowledge as part of reality the worth of a poor person, a human embryo, a person with disabilities – to offer just a few examples – it becomes difficult to hear the cry of nature itself; everything is connected. (#117).

The Season of Creation, Week 1

• Fr Maloney will mark the beginning of the Season of Creation for both parishes in Milngavie and Bearsden, with Mass 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 12.00 Noon, in St Andrew’s Cathedral using the new text of the Mass for the Care of Creation.  ​

The Season of Creation Zoom Sessions

• The first session, Climate Change and Just Peace, with Martha Ines Romero, takes place on Thursday 4th September at 7pm.
• She will address Pax Christi International's main messages related to Active Nonviolence, and the relation between Rearming and Biodiversity and Ecological Justice. 
• Register at: 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.

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.

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.

Support Group for Catholic Women Affected by Separation and Divorce

• The next meeting of our support group for women is Friday, 26th September, in The Immaculate Conception Church Hall, Maryhill, from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. 
• New members are welcome to this confidential support group, run by women who have come through this experience themselves, for The Archdiocese of Glasgow.
• For further information email: [email protected]

Sign Up Sunday

• After each Mass on the 4th and 5th of October 2025 in the Upper Hall.
• Our various groups will be at tables ready to chat through what the group does and any volunteer responsibilities.
• Please pop in! Tea and coffee will be available. 
• If you are a group leader and have not received an email about the event, please get in touch with Father Michael, Mary Teresa Coyle or Veronica McLaughlin. 

Children’s Liturgy

• To keep this valuable programme 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.

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.

Pilgrimage to pray for the Beatification of The Venerable Margaret Sinclair

• Sunday, 21st September in St Patrick's Church, Cowgate-Edinburgh.
• For more details, please see the poster in the porch.

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, Margaret McCauley and Joan Helen Spalding.
Anniversaries: Jean Henderson and Tricia Johnson.