“Let the one among you who is without sin
cast the first stone.”
cast the first stone.”
LENTEN BLESSING: When I come to my senses, like the prodigal Son, I am all the more a blessed instrument of the Lord's mercy for others. My life is a blessed journey back to the Father, the journey back and the time to reflect is never time wasted.
DURING LENT
HOLY WEEK
PARISH COLLECTIONS of 30/3/2025 - Plate - £1,245. SCIAF Collection - £1,005. Many Thanks.
REQUIESCAT IN PACE ~ The Funeral Mass for Kay Dick will take place on Tuesday, 22nd April at 10a.m. Thank you for remembering Kay and her family in your prayers.
EASTER HAMPER. There is an Easter Drinks Hamper being raffled off in the church beginning this weekend. 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.
Lenten Confessions. A day of Confessions will take place in St. Andrew's Cathedral on Friday, 11th April from 9a.m. - 5p.m.
Lenten Challenge Sheet Week 5 (on this link) - Monday 7 April is World Health Day - and this week’s J&P Lenten challenge sheet presents some ideas on what we might do to challenge Water Poverty, a major factor causing poor health among children in particular, as our response to the Jubilee 2025. Justice & Peace
Remember Vocations in your Lenten Devotions 6th April-Fifth Sunday of Lent: “Thanks to men and women obedient to the Holy Spirit, many forms of charitable work intended to promote development have arisen in the Church: hospitals, universities, hospices, and schools. Such initiatives demonstrate the genuine humanitarian concern of those moved by the Gospel message, far in advance of other forms of social welfare.” (A new Evangelisation) Let us pray for vocations as God seeks holy men and women to minister to His flock.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION- Please keep in your prayers the 23 young people from St Andrews parish who received the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time last weekend. Thanks to all of the Parents, class teacher Mrs Wilson and the wider school and church family who helped them prepare.
ASSISTED DYING BILL. There is a card that you are asked to take away and post to your MP. They are at the back of the church.
SACRAMENTS IN 2025:
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.
This is an invitation to join the scratch choir at the Easter Vigil on 19th April at 8p.m. There will be a couple of rehearsals in church before the event and a short rehearsal before the service. Rehearsal dates will be posted in the Bulletin. Music is available now on request. You are welcome to contact Annamaria Strachan by email: [email protected] or by text/phone 07749715514 for more information.
M&B Historical Society. Archaeology of the Clyde Valley by Paul Murtagh. This talk will take place tomorrow, Monday 7th April at 7.30p.m. in the Lower Hall of the church. Visitors - £5.
Book Launch at Gavin’s Mill Milngavie, Thursday 10th April at 6.30p.m. - 8p.m. Smugglers’ Midnight Escape by Maura McRobbie, inspired by true stories of Ayrshire smuggling in the 1760s. Register through Gavin’s Mill Events website for this free event. Refreshments served.
St Andrew’s Ecclesiastical Embroidery Group has been commissioned by Glasgow Cathedral to create an altar frontal and lectern fall to celebrate Glasgow 850. The group currently meets on a Monday afternoon at the Lower Church Hall. The embroiderers will be making a study visit to Glasgow Museums Resource Centre to look at an altar frontal created by Anne Macbeth, a leading Glasgow Girl, during the Easter holidays.
Maria Smillie is starting a WhatsApp group for the new Primary Ones starting in August. If interested contact her on 07927 091759.
DURING LENT
- Rosary – Monday – Friday 9.30a.m.
- Stations of the Cross - Fridays at 6p.m.
- Saturday Adoration – 10 – 11a.m.
- Sunday Confessions – 9.15 – 9.40a.m.
- Alms Giving Second Collection – for sick and retired priests. Many thanks
- During Lent, we are asked to pray for all who have been abused by the church.
HOLY WEEK
- Monday 14th April at 7.30p.m. Way of the Cross - with our friends from the Association of Bearsden Churches followed by tea and biscuits in the Upper Hall. All most welcome.
- Tuesday 15th April - Lenten Confessions 6p.m. – 7p.m.
- Holy Thursday-Morning Prayer 10a.m. (Mass of the Chrism at St Andrew's Cathedral 11.00a.m.)
- Mass of the Lord's Supper at 7.00p.m. Night Prayer 10p.m.
- Good Friday - Morning Prayer 10a.m.
- Good Friday - Solemn Liturgy of the Passion 3p.m.
- Good Friday - Stations of the Cross 7p.m.
- Holy Saturday- Morning Prayer 10a.m.
- Easter Vigil – 8p.m followed by refreshments. (No 5p.m Vigil)
- Easter Sunday Masses.10a.m. and 12 Noon
- Easter Monday – No Morning Mass
PARISH COLLECTIONS of 30/3/2025 - Plate - £1,245. SCIAF Collection - £1,005. Many Thanks.
REQUIESCAT IN PACE ~ The Funeral Mass for Kay Dick will take place on Tuesday, 22nd April at 10a.m. Thank you for remembering Kay and her family in your prayers.
EASTER HAMPER. There is an Easter Drinks Hamper being raffled off in the church beginning this weekend. 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.
Lenten Confessions. A day of Confessions will take place in St. Andrew's Cathedral on Friday, 11th April from 9a.m. - 5p.m.
Lenten Challenge Sheet Week 5 (on this link) - Monday 7 April is World Health Day - and this week’s J&P Lenten challenge sheet presents some ideas on what we might do to challenge Water Poverty, a major factor causing poor health among children in particular, as our response to the Jubilee 2025. Justice & Peace
Remember Vocations in your Lenten Devotions 6th April-Fifth Sunday of Lent: “Thanks to men and women obedient to the Holy Spirit, many forms of charitable work intended to promote development have arisen in the Church: hospitals, universities, hospices, and schools. Such initiatives demonstrate the genuine humanitarian concern of those moved by the Gospel message, far in advance of other forms of social welfare.” (A new Evangelisation) Let us pray for vocations as God seeks holy men and women to minister to His flock.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION- Please keep in your prayers the 23 young people from St Andrews parish who received the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time last weekend. Thanks to all of the Parents, class teacher Mrs Wilson and the wider school and church family who helped them prepare.
ASSISTED DYING BILL. There is a card that you are asked to take away and post to your MP. They are 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
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.
This is an invitation to join the scratch choir at the Easter Vigil on 19th April at 8p.m. There will be a couple of rehearsals in church before the event and a short rehearsal before the service. Rehearsal dates will be posted in the Bulletin. Music is available now on request. You are welcome to contact Annamaria Strachan by email: [email protected] or by text/phone 07749715514 for more information.
M&B Historical Society. Archaeology of the Clyde Valley by Paul Murtagh. This talk will take place tomorrow, Monday 7th April at 7.30p.m. in the Lower Hall of the church. Visitors - £5.
Book Launch at Gavin’s Mill Milngavie, Thursday 10th April at 6.30p.m. - 8p.m. Smugglers’ Midnight Escape by Maura McRobbie, inspired by true stories of Ayrshire smuggling in the 1760s. Register through Gavin’s Mill Events website for this free event. Refreshments served.
St Andrew’s Ecclesiastical Embroidery Group has been commissioned by Glasgow Cathedral to create an altar frontal and lectern fall to celebrate Glasgow 850. The group currently meets on a Monday afternoon at the Lower Church Hall. The embroiderers will be making a study visit to Glasgow Museums Resource Centre to look at an altar frontal created by Anne Macbeth, a leading Glasgow Girl, during the Easter holidays.
Maria Smillie is starting a WhatsApp group for the new Primary Ones starting in August. If interested contact her on 07927 091759.
Catholic Social Teaching Thought for the Week - Sunday, 6th April 2025 It is essential to draw near to new forms of poverty and vulnerability, in which we are called to recognise the suffering Christ, even if this appears to bring us no tangible and immediate benefits. I think of the homeless, the addicted, refugees, indigenous peoples, the elderly who are increasingly isolated and abandoned, and many others. Evangelii Gaudium
Laudato Si’ - On Care for our Common Home – Each age tends to have only a meagre awareness of its own limitations. It is possible that we do not grasp the gravity of the challenges now before us. (#105)
Boarbank Hall Retreats: This year the Jubilee coincides with the tenth anniversary of Laudato Si’. Can we become Pilgrims of Hope also in our celebration of, and care for, God’s Creation? Join us at Boarbank Hall for the following retreats-come-holidays: Two Wings and Some Prayers 12th-17th May; Celebrating Creation: The Joy of Limits 27th-31st May and 4th-10th October. For more information, see https://boarbankhall.org.uk/ and https://journeyto2030.org/events/. Some may find this of interest.
The Knights of Saint Columba (KSC) are organising the KSC National Youth and Young People’s Competition 2024-2025. All youth and young people (4 -18 Years) are specially invited and encouraged to participate actively in these competitions:
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Laudato Si’ - On Care for our Common Home – Each age tends to have only a meagre awareness of its own limitations. It is possible that we do not grasp the gravity of the challenges now before us. (#105)
Boarbank Hall Retreats: This year the Jubilee coincides with the tenth anniversary of Laudato Si’. Can we become Pilgrims of Hope also in our celebration of, and care for, God’s Creation? Join us at Boarbank Hall for the following retreats-come-holidays: Two Wings and Some Prayers 12th-17th May; Celebrating Creation: The Joy of Limits 27th-31st May and 4th-10th October. For more information, see https://boarbankhall.org.uk/ and https://journeyto2030.org/events/. Some may find this of interest.
The Knights of Saint Columba (KSC) are organising the KSC National Youth and Young People’s Competition 2024-2025. All youth and young people (4 -18 Years) are specially invited and encouraged to participate actively in these competitions:
- Easter Scene Painting
- Easter Photography
- Prayer Composition
- Essay Writing.
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Our volunteers collect donations every evening from M&S Milngavie and deliver to St Gregory’s, Wyndford Foodbank and Aspire West End which helps people get back on their feet. If you are interested in volunteering or even providing occasional holiday cover, please get in touch with Veronica McLaughlin by email at: [email protected]
Support for Drumchapel Foodbank. Non-perishable food items are always gratefully received. Please place in the box in the Church porch during usual opening times. Donations can be taken straight to the Foodbank at Ladyloan Pl Unit 9, G15 8LB. We regularly use cash donations to purchase food items for delivery straight to the foodbank. Our rota is always looking for more foodbank volunteer drivers. If you can help, please contact [email protected]. Thank you for continuing to give the foodbank your support.
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.
Support for Drumchapel Foodbank. Non-perishable food items are always gratefully received. Please place in the box in the Church porch during usual opening times. Donations can be taken straight to the Foodbank at Ladyloan Pl Unit 9, G15 8LB. We regularly use cash donations to purchase food items for delivery straight to the foodbank. Our rota is always looking for more foodbank volunteer drivers. If you can help, please contact [email protected]. Thank you for continuing to give the foodbank your support.
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: Hugh Anthony Aitken, Kay Dick and Patrick Shevlane.
Anniversaries: Bernard Cooper, Bernard McNelis and Peter Trayner.
Recently Dead: Hugh Anthony Aitken, Kay Dick and Patrick Shevlane.
Anniversaries: Bernard Cooper, Bernard McNelis and Peter Trayner.
