St Mirin’ Feast Day – Patron of the Diocese of Paisley. 15 th September 2024
St Fillan’s Houston TheBulletin
24 th Sunday of Year (B)
Vigil Mass (Saturday) 5.00pm. Holy Mass at 9.30 & 11.00am on Sunday.
Weekday Mass: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: Mass 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: Tony Brown, Bernadette McMurray and Paul
Kearney - their carers, all those in hospital and our residential homes. For all suffering in
mind and body today: Lord, bless them with grace and peace.
FAITHFUL DEPARTED: Ann McEwan, Moira Reynolds, Ann Fullarton and Ina
Jackson.
ANNIVERSARIES: Geraldine Doherty, Rose Gilchrist, Fr Donald Bonnar and Fr James
Morrow - grant them eternal rest, Lord.
PARISH GARDEN FETE: today Sunday (15 th Sept) 12 – 4pm. A huge amount of planning
and work has gone in to the preparation for this important day for our parish family. We are
expecting a number of visitors from the villages and beyond. 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 Prize Draw. This Prize Draw will take place at c.3.15pm. So
please stick around, make all our visitors welcome and enjoy the afternoon together. We
hope for dry weather. Forecast - looking good.
THANK YOU to the Fundraising Group and the others who together helped make last
Saturday’s Open-Doors Day a great success. Not only was there a steady stream of visitors,
interested in our church, it’s history and ongoing restoration, but also many of them stayed
on to enjoy hospitality in our beautiful gardens, all day between 10am and 4pm, bathed in
the unexpected warm and glorious late-summer sunshine. Over £697 was spontaneously
donated to the tea/coffee basket! Thanks, also, to others this week for their continued
generosity to the restoration fund which make our phases of building works possible. The
Hall and stairway will be the focus of such works in the next few weeks. 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.
Parish Meetings to explain the Assisted Suicide Bill: how to stop it? The real facts about
the Assisted Dying Bill and how it will change health care in Scotland for good- for you, your
elderly and vulnerable ones- this should concern you. The Bill is before Parliament and
could pass the critical Stage One by the end of the year which will effectively ensure State
sanctioned euthanasia in Scotland. So, action is urgent. If our MSPs hear nothing from us as
citizens, they will feel free to vote it in. Meetings around our diocese will help parishioners
build local momentum to make MSPs sit up, take notice and vote against it. Please come to
this meeting and invite anyone concerned about this watershed moment. Bishop John will
attend this meeting: Wednesday 25th September at 7.00pm. St. Mirin’s Hall, Paisley. PA1 1HR.
May St Mirin, Patron of our Diocese, intercede for us all on this his feast-day. AMcF
24 th Sunday of Year (B)
Vigil Mass (Saturday) 5.00pm. Holy Mass at 9.30 & 11.00am on Sunday.
Weekday Mass: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: Mass 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: Tony Brown, Bernadette McMurray and Paul
Kearney - their carers, all those in hospital and our residential homes. For all suffering in
mind and body today: Lord, bless them with grace and peace.
FAITHFUL DEPARTED: Ann McEwan, Moira Reynolds, Ann Fullarton and Ina
Jackson.
ANNIVERSARIES: Geraldine Doherty, Rose Gilchrist, Fr Donald Bonnar and Fr James
Morrow - grant them eternal rest, Lord.
PARISH GARDEN FETE: today Sunday (15 th Sept) 12 – 4pm. A huge amount of planning
and work has gone in to the preparation for this important day for our parish family. We are
expecting a number of visitors from the villages and beyond. 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 Prize Draw. This Prize Draw will take place at c.3.15pm. So
please stick around, make all our visitors welcome and enjoy the afternoon together. We
hope for dry weather. Forecast - looking good.
THANK YOU to the Fundraising Group and the others who together helped make last
Saturday’s Open-Doors Day a great success. Not only was there a steady stream of visitors,
interested in our church, it’s history and ongoing restoration, but also many of them stayed
on to enjoy hospitality in our beautiful gardens, all day between 10am and 4pm, bathed in
the unexpected warm and glorious late-summer sunshine. Over £697 was spontaneously
donated to the tea/coffee basket! Thanks, also, to others this week for their continued
generosity to the restoration fund which make our phases of building works possible. The
Hall and stairway will be the focus of such works in the next few weeks. 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.
Parish Meetings to explain the Assisted Suicide Bill: how to stop it? The real facts about
the Assisted Dying Bill and how it will change health care in Scotland for good- for you, your
elderly and vulnerable ones- this should concern you. The Bill is before Parliament and
could pass the critical Stage One by the end of the year which will effectively ensure State
sanctioned euthanasia in Scotland. So, action is urgent. If our MSPs hear nothing from us as
citizens, they will feel free to vote it in. Meetings around our diocese will help parishioners
build local momentum to make MSPs sit up, take notice and vote against it. Please come to
this meeting and invite anyone concerned about this watershed moment. Bishop John will
attend this meeting: Wednesday 25th September at 7.00pm. St. Mirin’s Hall, Paisley. PA1 1HR.
May St Mirin, Patron of our Diocese, intercede for us all on this his feast-day. AMcF