23rd Sunday of Year (B) 8th September 2024
St Fillan’s Houston TheBulletin
Vigil Mass (Saturday) 5.00pm. Holy Mass at 9.30 & 11.00am on Sunday.
Weekday Mass: Tuesday, this week, all invited to St Conval’s, Linwood for the 10.00am Mass. Tea andcoffee in hall afterwards marking the end of summer programme. All welcome.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: Mass at 9.30am.
Vocations Mass – St John the Baptist Church, Port Glasgow, Thursday, 6.30pm.
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: Tony Brown and Ryan Mulhollland in Thanksgiving -
their carers, all those in hospital and our residential homes. For all suffering in mind and body
today: Lord, bless them with your grace and peace.
FAITHFUL DEPARTED: Winnie McGachy, Renee McColl (Australia) Mary McGuire.
ANNIVERSARIES: James Coutts, Annamma Abraham and Canon John O’ Dwyer.
grant them eternal rest, Lord.
SPECIAL COLLECTION today for the training of seminarians, our future priests.
OUR GARDEN FETE: next Sunday (15
th Sept) 12 – 4pm. I am impressed by the amount of effort and
work which has gone into preparation for this great day for our parish family. However, more hands are
needed! Can you volunteer for a few hours to help with stalls/activities, etc? Please help and be in touch
with the Fundraising Group to inform them of your availability; all their names and contact details are on
the main noticeboard at door of church. Lucky Programmes/ Entrance Ticket (£3 are on sale at the
porch. Free Entry for under 14’s. This programme is also a ticket for the Lucky Programme Draw. This
Prize Draw will take place at c.3.15pm. So please stick around and enjoy the afternoon together. Please,
pray, also for good weather for next Sunday afternoon.
DOORS OPEN DAY – a great success, with many visitors from near and far coming to view our historic
little church, it’s beautiful gardens and to meet our parish family. Thanks to our Fundraising Steering
Group and all other helpers for their time and considerable effort in making everyone so welcome and the
whole day so successful.
THANK YOU for your continued generosity over the summer months which make the recent-works and
the continuation of the restoration project possible. 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.
It is, indeed, very good to be back among you after the summer-break and it has been a busy few days since my
return on board. I am so very grateful to Canon Michael McMahon (Linwood) for his friendship and his continued
help and care of St Fillan’s and for all of you who have really worked-away in my absence to help with events in
connection with the restoration project. Today (8
th Sept) is Our Lady’s Birthday: we are asked by Bishop John to
redouble our prayers for vocations this week. On this special feast, therefore, we pray for our parish family and our
diocese in union with the Mother of Christ, the Good Shepherd, the Queen of Apostles: “Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us now...”
Vigil Mass (Saturday) 5.00pm. Holy Mass at 9.30 & 11.00am on Sunday.
Weekday Mass: Tuesday, this week, all invited to St Conval’s, Linwood for the 10.00am Mass. Tea andcoffee in hall afterwards marking the end of summer programme. All welcome.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: Mass at 9.30am.
Vocations Mass – St John the Baptist Church, Port Glasgow, Thursday, 6.30pm.
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: Tony Brown and Ryan Mulhollland in Thanksgiving -
their carers, all those in hospital and our residential homes. For all suffering in mind and body
today: Lord, bless them with your grace and peace.
FAITHFUL DEPARTED: Winnie McGachy, Renee McColl (Australia) Mary McGuire.
ANNIVERSARIES: James Coutts, Annamma Abraham and Canon John O’ Dwyer.
grant them eternal rest, Lord.
SPECIAL COLLECTION today for the training of seminarians, our future priests.
OUR GARDEN FETE: next Sunday (15
th Sept) 12 – 4pm. I am impressed by the amount of effort and
work which has gone into preparation for this great day for our parish family. However, more hands are
needed! Can you volunteer for a few hours to help with stalls/activities, etc? Please help and be in touch
with the Fundraising Group to inform them of your availability; all their names and contact details are on
the main noticeboard at door of church. Lucky Programmes/ Entrance Ticket (£3 are on sale at the
porch. Free Entry for under 14’s. This programme is also a ticket for the Lucky Programme Draw. This
Prize Draw will take place at c.3.15pm. So please stick around and enjoy the afternoon together. Please,
pray, also for good weather for next Sunday afternoon.
DOORS OPEN DAY – a great success, with many visitors from near and far coming to view our historic
little church, it’s beautiful gardens and to meet our parish family. Thanks to our Fundraising Steering
Group and all other helpers for their time and considerable effort in making everyone so welcome and the
whole day so successful.
THANK YOU for your continued generosity over the summer months which make the recent-works and
the continuation of the restoration project possible. 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.
It is, indeed, very good to be back among you after the summer-break and it has been a busy few days since my
return on board. I am so very grateful to Canon Michael McMahon (Linwood) for his friendship and his continued
help and care of St Fillan’s and for all of you who have really worked-away in my absence to help with events in
connection with the restoration project. Today (8
th Sept) is Our Lady’s Birthday: we are asked by Bishop John to
redouble our prayers for vocations this week. On this special feast, therefore, we pray for our parish family and our
diocese in union with the Mother of Christ, the Good Shepherd, the Queen of Apostles: “Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us now...”