• SUNDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• MONDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• TUESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• WEDNESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am Mass 7.00 pm
• THURSDAY Mass 10.00 am Mass and Novena7.00 pm
• FRIDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• SATURDAY: Mass 10.00 am Vigil Mass 6.00 pm

The Blessing of St Blaise will be given immediately after Mass today

Notices

Collections: The Offertory collection realized £488.01, and the second collection, £137.19 Grateful thanks to all contributors.

The Christmas Crib Collection, which will be distributed among charities of the Cardinal’s choice, amounted to £201.50.

200 Club: The following numbers are still available:- 34 41 66 68 83 106 110 120 159 174. Will one of them be lucky for you?? Please see Julia Cameron for details.

Please note that subscriptions for all who pay annually (£13) are now due.

In your charity, please remember: David Clelland, Rona Forrest, Michelle Orr and all the sick and housebound. Bessie Darrien, Alex Davie, Anne Haggerty, Hannah Kelly, John & Mary Kilgallon, Margaret Liddle, Philomena McGleave and John Wright, whose anniversaries occur about this time. Sheena Ross and Alex deSaram, who died recently

Mass Intentions

• VIGIL: John McAllister (Jnr)
• SUNDAY: People of the Parish
• MONDAY: Bessie Darrien
• WEDNESDAY: Philomena McGleave
• THURSDAY: Hugh & Unity Mulraney (morning) Sheena Ross (evening)
• FRIDAY: John Kilgallon
• SATURDAY: Mary Kilgallon

• SUNDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• MONDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• TUESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• WEDNESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am Mass 7.00 pm
• THURSDAY Mass 10.00 am Mass and Novena7.00 pm
• FRIDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• SATURDAY: Mass 10.00 am Vigil Mass 6.00 pm

Notices

Collections: The Offertory collection realized £560.06, and the second collection, £120.24 Grateful thanks to all contributors.

200 Club Winners:

• 11.12.11: no. 95 – L. Beebie
• 18.12.11: no.173 – Dorothy Brankin
• 25.12.11 (£200 draw): no 63 – J. Cameron
• 8.1.12: no. 89 – M. Scobie
• 1.1.12: no. 22 – Richard Mulholland

The following numbers are available:- 34 41 66 68 83 106 110 120 159 174.     Will one of them be lucky for you?? Please see Julia Cameron for details. Prize money consists of a quarterly draw of £200 and a weekly draw of £10…….. all for just 25 pence a week! Subscriptions for everyone who pays annually (£13) are now due.

In your charity, please remember: David Clelland, Rona Forrest, Michelle Orr and all the sick and housebound. Margaret Buchan, John Carlin, Margaret & Patrick Darrien, John Dunn, James Joynes, Peter Maguire, Isabella McLaughlin, George Mitchell, Hugh & Unity Mulraney, Mary Ramanes, George Scobie Jnr and Kate Tooey, whose anniversaries occur about this time.

Mass Intentions

• VIGIL: George Scobie (Snr & Jnr)
• SUNDAY: People of the Parish
• MONDAY: Peter Maguire
• WEDNESDAY: Mr & Mrs Jack McReynolds
• THURSDAY: Lucy Anderson (morning) Mr & Mrs Alan Turner (evening)
• FRIDAY: Mr & Mrs Stephen Barkins
• SATURDAY: Eddie Bloe

Services for the week

• SUNDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• MONDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• TUESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• WEDNESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am Mass 7.00 pm
• THURSDAY Mass 10.00 am Mass and Novena7.00 pm
• FRIDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• SATURDAY: Mass 10.00 am Vigil Mass 6.00 pm

Notices

Collections: The Offertory collection realized £574.22, and the special collection, for the work of Justice and Peace, £281.40 Grateful thanks to all contributors.

Enrolment Dates for St Mary’s School, for children due to start school in August:-

• Monday 16 January: 1.00 pm to 3.30 pm
• Tuesday 17^th January: 9.00 am to 12 noon
• Thursday 19^th January: 9.00 am to 12 noon

 Please bring proof of address, the child’s birth certificate, and baptismal certificate (if the child is a baptised Catholic).

In your charity, please remember:  David Clelland, Rona Forrest, Michelle Orr and all the sick and housebound.  Ritchie Blair, Patrick Darrien, Kitty Hodge, Mary Lourie, Margaret Martin and Isabella McAvoy, whose anniversaries occur about this time.

Mass Intentions

• VIGIL: Ritchie Blair
• SUNDAY: People of the Parish
• MONDAY: Jean & Patrick Darrien
• WEDNESDAY: Mary Lourie
• THURSDAY: Isabella McAvoy & Kitty Hodge (morning) Margaret Martin (evening)
• FRIDAY: Sheila Rodgers
• SATURDAY: Colin & John Wardrop

• SUNDAY: Mass Midnight 8.30 am 10.00 am
• MONDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• TUESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• WEDNESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am Mass 7.00 pm
• THURSDAY Mass 10.00 am
• FRIDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• SATURDAY: Mass 10.00 am Vigil Mass 6.00 pm

Notices

Collections: The Offertory collection last weekend realized £553.63, and the second collection, £114.13. Grateful thanks to all contributors.

My best wishes to you all for a very happy and holy Christmas.

My sincere thanks to each and every one of you for your kind

remembrance of me – one way or another – this Christmas.

Such kindness is very much appreciated!

In your charity, please remember: David Clelland, Rona Forrest, Michelle Orr and all the sick and housebound. Fr Doherty, Lillian Barber, Margaret Clelland, Thomas McGeachan, William McLaughlin and Alice Raeburn, whose anniversaries occur about this time.

Mass Intentions

• SUNDAY: Private Intention (Midnight);
• Ignancy Nawrocki (8.30);
• People of the Parish (10.00)
• WEDNESDAY: Lillian Barber
• THURSDAY: Margaret Murray
• FRIDAY: Rona
• SATURDAY: Jane & Sadie Mulraney

On Sale Today:

• The Diocesan Directory for 2012…… Price £2

• Special Christmas edition of the Scottish Catholic Observer also costs £2

• SUNDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• MONDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• TUESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• WEDNESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am Mass 7.00 pm
• THURSDAY Mass 10.00 am Mass and Novena 7.00 pm
• FRIDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• CHRISTMAS EVE: Mass 10.00 am. Carols at 11.30 pm. followed by Midnight Mass

Please note there will be NO Vigil Mass at 6.00 pm on Christmas Eve and Masses on Christmas Day (next Sunday) will be at 8.30am and 10.00 am

CONFESSIONS: Christmas Eve, from 11.00 to 12 Noon

Notices

Collections: The Offertory collection last weekend realized £525.43, and the second collection, £84.75. Grateful thanks to all contributors.

Thank you to the Music and Movement Group for a further donation of £25

Congratulations to Sarah-Jane Williams and Craig Paterson, who were married here last week. May they enjoy many years of happy married life.

In your charity, please remember: David Clelland, Rona Forrest, Michelle Orr and all the sick and housebound. Margaret Thomson, Jim Vallance, Jimmy White and Elizabeth Williamson, whose anniversaries occur about this time.

Mass Intentions

• VIGIL: Elizabeth Williamson
• SUNDAY: People of the Parish
• MONDAY: Jim Prior
• WEDNESDAY: Annette Dunn
• THURSDAY: Kathleen O’Kane (morning) Fr Prior (evening)
• FRIDAY: Jim Vallance
• SATURDAY: Paddy Duffy

On Sale Today:

• The Diocesan Directory for 2012…… Price £2
• Special Christmas edition of the Scottish Catholic Observer also costs £2

The following is an extract from Pope Benedict’s speech, after lighting the Christmas Tree at Gubbio on 7^th December:-

“ My first wish, therefore, is that our gaze, that of our minds and our hearts, not rest only on the horizon of this world, on its material things, but that it in some way, like the Christmas tree that tends upward, be directed toward God. God never forgets us but He also asks that we don’t forget Him. The Gospel recounts that, on the holy night of Christ’s birth, a light enveloped the shepherds, announcing a great joy to them: the birth of Jesus, the One who brings us light, or better, the One who is the true light that illuminates all.

My second wish is that we recall that we also need a light to illumine the path of our lives and to give us hope, especially in this time in which we feel so greatly the weight of difficulties, of problems, of suffering, and it seems that we are enshrouded in a veil of darkness. But what light can truly illuminate our hearts and give us a firm and sure hope? It is the Child whom we contemplate on Christmas, in a poor and humble manger, because He is the Lord who draws near to each of us and asks that we receive Him anew in our lives, asks us to want Him, to trust in Him, to feel His presence, that He is accompanying us, sustaining us, and helping us.

My final wish is that each of us contribute something of that light to the spheres in which we live: our families, our jobs, our neighbourhoods, towns, and cities. That each of us be a light for those who are at our sides; that we leave aside the selfishness that, so often, closes our hearts and leads us to think only of ourselves; that we may pay greater attention to others, that we may love them more. Any small gesture of goodness is like one of the lights of this great tree: together with other lights it illuminates the darkness of the night, even of the darkest night”.

• SUNDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• MONDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• TUESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• WEDNESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am Mass 7.00 pm
• THURSDAY Mass 10.00 am
• FRIDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• SATURDAY : Mass 10.00 am Vigil Mass 6.00pm

Notices

Collections: The Offertory collection last weekend realized £702.82, and the second collection, £107.78. Grateful thanks to all contributors.

SVP Christmas Party: This will take place next Friday (16^th….meet at 6.00 pm for 6.30 dinner). Please let us know your choice of menu ASAP !

In your charity, please remember: David Clelland, Rona Forrest, Michelle Orr and all the sick and housebound.  David Burns, John McGarry and Patrick McRea, whose anniversaries occur about this time. Kathleen O’ Kane, who died recently.

Mass Intentions

• VIGIL: People of the Parish
• SUNDAY: Annette Dunn
• MONDAY: David Burns
• WEDNESDAY: Jack Lyons
• THURSDAY: Helen Paterson
• FRIDAY: George Duthie
• SATURDAY: Tommy & Bridie Allan

• SUNDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• MONDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• TUESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• WEDNESDAY : Communion Service 10.00 am Mass 7.00 pm
• THURSDAY (The Immaculate Conception) Mass 10.00 am Mass & Novena 7.00 pm
• FRIDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• SATURDAY : Mass 10.00 am Vigil Mass 6.00 pm

Notices

Collections: The Offertory collection last weekend realized £413.55, and the second collection, £95.41. Grateful thanks to all contributors.

Teas and Coffees – in the Hall, after Mass today… Everyone welcome (particularly newcomers to the Parish!)

Advent Praise Service today in Craigmailen Church at 6.30pm. Everyone welcome!
Salvation Army Carol Service Wednesday, 7th December in the Town Hall at 7.00pm. All welcome

In your charity, please remember: David Clelland, Rona Forrest, Michelle Orr and all the sick and housebound. Margaret Cummings and Moira Hutchison, whose anniversaries occur about this time.

Eddie Bloe, George Duthie, Jack Lyons and Mary O’Neil, who died recently.

Mass Intentions

• VIGIL: Peter Croxford
• SUNDAY: People of the Parish
• MONDAY: Robert Murrray
• WEDNESDAY: Mary O’Neil
• THURSDAY: Tommy Carlin (morning) Fr Prior (evening)
• FRIDAY: Special Intention
• SATURDAY: Asa Summerville

• SUNDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• MONDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• TUESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• WEDNESDAY (St Andrew’s Feast) Communion Service 10.00 am Mass 7.00 pm
• THURSDAY Mass 10.00 am Mass & Novena 7.00 pm
• FRIDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• SATURDAY : Mass 10.00 am Vigil Mass 6.00 pm

Notices

Collections: The Offertory collection last weekend realized £423.61, and the special collection for the Pastoral Formation Fund, £209. 26. Grateful thanks to all contributors.

St Andrew’s Day Mass will be celebrated with pupils from our Primary School, guests from the Churches in Bo’ness and members of the Community. 

In your charity, please remember: David Clelland, Michelle Orr and all the sick and housebound. Monsignor Brennan, Tommy Carlin, Peter Croxford, Elizabeth Hamilton, Margaret Murray and Isabel Savage, whose anniversaries occur about this time.

Dom McCann and Ian James Scott Russell, who died recently.

Mass Intentions

• VIGIL: Mgr. Brennan
• SUNDAY: People of the Parish
• MONDAY: Frances Wilson
• WEDNESDAY: Agnes & Tommy Carlin
• THURSDAY: Nellie Maguire (morning) Anne Hancock (evening)
• FRIDAY: Michael McAvoy
• SATURDAY: Bishop Rafferty

Music and Movement Group

Thanks to their recent raffle, Colleen Malarky’s group raised £100, which has now been forwarded to CHAS……. Grateful thanks to everyone who helped and contributed to this success.

Volunteer Driver

We are appealing for a driver to join the 5/6 weeks rota to pick up Mrs Coward (from her home in Blackness), for Sunday Mass, and take her home afterwards.

Teas and Coffees next Sunday – instead of today, as the Hall is being used to celebrate a family Christening

SVP Christmas Treat for senior parishioners…..

The Christmas Dinner will take place in the Church Hall on Friday 16 December at 6.30 pm (meet at 6.00 pm) If you wish to join us, please add your name to the list in the Hall and also, please indicate your choice of menu.

Christmas Toy Appeal: The Salvation Army is still appealing for new children’s toys/games, to distribute among needy and vulnerable families in the area, at Christmas time. If you can contribute, please either hand your donations directly into the Salvation Army, or leave them with one of our Pass Keepers and we will forward them. Please help if you can!

200 Club:The Christmas draw for £200 will take place shortly – and the good news is that there are still a few spare numbers! One of them could be the lucky number……….. Not a bad return for 25 pence! – Please see Julia Cameron for details.

Dates for Your Diary:

Advent Praise
Next Sunday, (4th December) in Craigmailen Church at 6.30pm. Everyone welcome!
Salvation Army Carol Service
Wednesday, 7th December in the Town Hall at 7.00pm. All welcome
Salvation Army Shop
The Salvation Army shop in South Street will now open in January, not December, as was previously announced. 

• SUNDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• MONDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• TU ESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• WEDNESDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am,
• THURSDAY Communion Service 10.00 am
• FRIDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am
• SATURDAY : Communion Service 10.00 am Vigil Mass 6.00 pm

WAY OF THE CROSS (short version): After Friday Service throughout November

Notices

Collections: The Offertory collection last weekend realized £461.96, and the second collection, £85.76. Grateful thanks to all contributors.

Special Collection today for the Pastoral Formation Fund.

Thank you! to Fr Boyd, who is once again looking after our spiritual needs this weekend.

St Andrew’s Day Mass will be celebrated at 7.00pm on Wednesday, 30^th November in St Mary’s Church with pupils from our Primary School, guests from the Churches in Bo’ness and members of the Community. 

Volunteer Driver We are appealing for a driver to join the 5/6 weeks rota to pick up Mrs Coward (from her home in Blackness), for Sunday Mass, and take her home afterwards.

In your charity, please remember: David Clelland, Dom McCann, Michelle Orr and all the sick and housebound.

Nellie Maguire, Maisie Tooey and John Ure, whose anniversaries occur about this time.  Helen Paterson, who died recently.

• SUNDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• MONDAY: Mass 10.00 am
• TUESDAY: (Feast of All Saints) Mass 10.00 am & 7.00 pm
• WEDNESDAY: (All Souls’ Day) Mass 10.00 am, 10.25 am. and 7.00 pm
•  THURSDAY Mass 10.00 am
• FRIDAY: Communion Service 10.00 am Mass 7.00 pm
• SATURDAY : Mass 10.00 am Vigil Mass 6.00 pm

Tuesday, 1^st November is the Feast of All Saints and is a Holyday of Obligation

Wednesday is All Souls’ Day.

Plenary Indulgences may be gained for the Holy Souls on 1^st and 2^nd November, if you go to Confession and Holy Communion and pray for the Holy Father’s intentions and also from 1^st – 8^th November by visiting a cemetery and praying for those buried there.

WAY OF THE CROSS (short version): After Friday Mass throughout November

Notices

Collections: The Offertory collection last weekend realized £637.27, and the second collection, £111.14. Grateful thanks to all contributors.

In your charity, please remember: David Clelland, Michelle Orr, and all the sick and housebound. James Dunn, Teddy Gilbert, Ewan Hamilton, Peter Hempstead and Josephine McAllister, whose anniversaries occur about this time. Martin Gordon and Hugh Quinn, who died recently.

Mass Intentions

• VIGIL: People of the Parish
• SUNDAY: Private Intention
• MONDAY: Martin Gordon
• TUESDAY: People of the Parish (morning). Hugh Quinn (evening)
• WEDNESDAY: Faithful Departed (10.00). Pope’s Intentions (10.25). Eddie Candler (7.00)
• FRIDAY: Hugh Quinn
• SATURDAY: Special Intention

S.V.P.News:

The ‘Fr. Sukpe Pick-Up Truck Appeal’, Ghana. Many thanks to St Mary’s parish for donating the proceeds of a recent Second Collection to this Appeal. This amounted to £350. A further £100 was donated from the SVP Box Collection, making a total giving of £450 from St Mary’s. Several other parishes in West Lothian also contributed and nearly £1,400 was collected.

Christmas Toy Appeal:

The Salvation Army is urgently appealing for new children’s toys/games, to distribute among needy and vulnerable families in the area, at Christmas time.

If you can contribute, please either hand your donations directly into the Salvation Army, or leave them with one of our Pass Keepers and we will forward them.

Please help if you can!

Children’s Liturgy …..

All children between the ages of 3 and 12 are invited to attend – and very young children are welcome to sit at the back of the Hall with accompanied adults.

We have a number of religious books that are suitable for young people – and would be grateful of any relevant donations of unwanted books, games or jigsaws in good condition.

Finally- and very urgently – more Leaders are required. Full training will be given.

If you can help us with this, please contact Maria Ford.

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