June: this month is dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
We ask the intercession St Columba of Iona, who is remembered, today, 9th
June.
Vigil Mass (Saturday) 5.00pm. Holy Mass at 9.30 & 11.00am on Sunday.
Weekday Mass: Tuesday, this week, at 7pm.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9.30am.
Rosary before each weekday Mass at 9.10am.
Confessions (Sacrament of Reconciliation & Penance) on Saturdays at 4.30pm.
Your prayers, please for our parish family: Grace Parsons, Ryan Mulholland, Maisie Reed, Ann
Trimble and Paul Kearney - their carers, all those in hospital and our residential homes and for all
suffering in mind and body today: Lord, bless them with your grace and peace.
FAITHFUL DEPARTED: Jim McGlynn and Andrew Mimnagh (Toronto, Canada)
ANNIVERSARIES: Henry & Rose Tiffen and Mgr William Diamond
grant them eternal rest, Lord.
SPECIAL COLLECTION next weekend for the vital work of the Pro-Life work.
GARDEN FETE in aid of for St Fillan’s School, organised by our Parents Council, will take place on
Friday 21
st June from 6.00pm – 8.00pm. All welcome. Donations for the home baking stall would be
appreciated.
THANK YOU for your continued generosity which make the recent-works and rest of the restoration
project possible. Essential pointing and painting around the new windows are being completed this week.
Special envelopes to support the Restoration Fund are available at the door. Please, consider Gift-Aid
and remember to make any cheque payable to St Fillan’s RC Church, Houston.
VOCATIONS: on Thursday, 12th September, we will celebrate the Diocesan Vocations Mass at St.
John’s Church in Port Glasgow (6.30pm). Bishop John invites you to attend this Mass and to pray each
day between now and the 12th of September for an increase in Vocations to the Priesthood, Diaconate
and Consecrated Life. Bishop John asks that between now and the 12

th September (National Vocations
Awareness Week) Pray daily for an increase in vocations. You may find it suitable to offer a daily Rosary
or a visit to the Blessed Sacrament for this intention.
PRO-LIFE REP: could you be a parish rep working in a diocesan PRO-LIFE group against the Assisted
Suicide Bill before the Scottish Parliament? Reps will write to MSPs and encourage others to do the
same; they will meet MSPs in their surgeries; they will call public meetings in Inverclyde, Renfrewshire
and East Renfrewshire, inviting local councillors, MSPs and MPs.
Email Marianne at curia@rcdop.org.uk for more info.
JUNE PRAYER: Most Sacred Heart of Jesus: I place all my trust in Thee. AMcF