Prayer at the sending out of the Eucharistic Ministers to the sick and housebound

Priest: Almighty and loving Father, as we have received your Son in this Holy Eucharist, we ask you to hear our prayer for our brothers and sisters:

All: Give your healing, Lord, to those who are sick and housebound. May those who take the Body of Christ to them also be a loving sign of our prayers and thoughts. Keep us united with them in all their sufferings so that we will grow together as one community with the presence of Christ among us.

Please Pray For SICK Alison Coogan; Margaret Bachiller, John Colquhoun, Jim Traynor; Hugh Devine, Maria Walker; Maureen Boyle; John Hunter, Simon Logan, Ellen Madden, Ann Woods, John O’Donnell, Les Mathew; Cathie McConnachie, Brian Nolan, Rachel McGhee, Ellen Brown; Robert Houston; Harry Docherty; Jane Cameron; Alec Kirson; George O’Hara; David Govan; Silvio Clemente; Mary Cairney; William Campbell; Anna McStay; Margaret Hackett; John Kerr; Gordon Law; Linda Quinn; Ashley Law; Frank Slavin; Jim Simmons, Maria Findlay, James Burns, Tony Perkins; Ann Knight; Rosemary Wotherspoon; Teresa Clark; Mandy Dobbie; John McKenna; Sr Mary Inglis; Margaret Russell; Esther McKillop; Chrissie Rafferty; Barry Duncan, Kevin Duffy; Sandra McGuire; Bill Grey; Marie Laird; Sara Porcelli; Gordon Roberts; Fiona McCor-mick; Fiona McCall, Margaret Craigwell Charles Quinn; June Byrne, Rena McGarvey, Santuccia Cence; Lynne Waters; Patricia Pearson Eileen Widdicombe; Jim Burns Children: Laila Hunt, Connor Simpson, Zak Matthew Thomson; Peter Convery; Corran Davidson; Megan Macauley; Jade Law; Chloe Docherty; Caoimhe Lamb

RECENTLY DIED Ellen Cullen; Sheelagh Muirhead; Mark Darroch;

ANNIVERSARIES Phyllis Christie; Maisie Delaney; Margaret & Joseph Duddy; Bernard Bradley;

Edward Cahill; Frank McQuade; James Connell;

MONTHS MIND James Murphy

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, hail, our life, our sweetness and our hope.

To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve: to thee do we send up our sighs,

mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us,

and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus,

O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! Amen.

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SUNDAY MASSES: Vigil: 5:30 pm (Sat), 10 am, 12 noon 6pm WEEKDAY: Mon-Fri 9:30am; Sat 10am Thurs Exposition till 4pm

CONFESSIONS: Saturday 9:30am and after the Vigil Mass Church open till 1pm Mon; Fri; till 4pm Tues, Wed, Thurs

Parish Priest Fr. Gerard Maguiness Pastor Emeritus: Mgr Michael Conway Website: www.saintignatiuswishaw.org.uk

Lord, teach me to be generous. Teach me to serve you

as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost,

to fight and not to heed the wounds,

to toil and not to seek for rest, to labour and not to ask

for reward, save that of knowing that I do

your will.

Please turn off mobile phones and remove chewing gum

YEAR OF

MERCY

Donations for flowers most welcome. Box at Our Lady’s Altar

Last Week’s Collection £1566 2nd for SCIAF £2281

No winner New Lotto Total £4033 Many thanks for your generosity

2ND Collection next Sunday HCPT SVDP Tel: 07840142894 for help.

Furniture Collection 07773731123 Or 07749467335

A wee reminder to bow your head just before receiving Holy Communion

Wishaw Hospital Chaplain Fr Michael Brown; for emergency/visit please ask

nurse to contact chaplain or call 264448

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Feats this Week Thurs 17th St Patrick

Sat 19th St Joseph

YEAR OF MERCY

Give as you Live. Search for Saint Ignatius’ and register. A percentage of

purchases will go to parish funds.

Lent 2016 Mass during Lent at 8:30am espe-

cially for school children This Mass is open to parents & Parishioners.

Please come along Mass Mon - Fri at 9:30am

No Stations on Monday this week due to First Confession

Stations After 9:30am Mass on Tues and at 1pm on Fridays led by

the school Exposition of the Blessed

Sacrament Mon to Fri after Mass till 4pm (Divine Mercy 3-4pm Thurs) Please make a regular time to be

with the Lord every week Rosary 9:10am

Please take a SCIAF Wee Box from the porch for your Lenten Alms.

Parish Passover Meal followed by Galilean Supper on 18th march

RCIA: Please pray for David, Janice & Gemma as they prepare for Easter

Retail Therapy: Gretna Green on Wed 6th April.Names on list at back of Church

Parish trip to Donegal Town 10th Oct for 5 nights. List at back of Church. £269

Deposit £20. Single Supp £55

We welcome First Confession Children to 10am Mass as they prepare for First

Confession on 14th March And also Confirmed pupils for Mass of

Thanksgiving

GIFT AID: the new books are available at the back of the Church. Thanks to all who are part of the scheme. Please sign-up if you are not a part of it. Hand in any completed forms to Fr Gerry. Be a part of

our campaign to increase our money back from HMRC.

Easter Cards now on sale

Meeting of Altar Servers 6:30pm on Tues in the Church to

arrange serving for Holy Week/Easter and weddings

Congratulations to Holly Robertson baptised this Sunday and to her family

Congratulations to Stephanie Kelly & Philip McCrossan married this weekend

Opera Night Rusalka– song to the Moon. Tues 5th April. 10 Tickets at £25 rear stalls, 10 tickets at £15 in the balcony (lift now avail). Bus will be about £7. List in porch

Church Cleaning for Easter Mon 21st Mar after 9:30 Mass Volunteers please!

GIFT AID– please use white envelope in porch for 2nd collection.

Loyola Centre: booking and enquiries tel: 07939606107 10am-2pm Mon-Fri, Bin-go Sunday 7:15pm; Tea Room Mon– Fri after Mass Beavers/Cubs/Scouts Mon 5:45

Covering of Statues and Crucifixes: At this stage in Lent we cover up the saints and Je-sus on the cross as a recognition that we are separated from them by our sinfulness. This sep-aration is overcome by the resurrection of Jesus Christ at Easter

HOLY WEEK 2016

Monday Mass 8:30am 9:30am exposition until 4pm Stations 7pm

Tuesday Mass 8:30am 9:30am Lenten Penance Service 7pm

Spy Wednesday Masses 8:30am 9:30am

Holy Thursday Office and Morning Prayer 10am

Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7pm (tea/coffee after Mass)

Night Prayer at the Chapel of Repose at 9pm

Good Friday Office and Morning Prayer 10am

Children’s Stations and Adoration of the Cross 12noon

Solemn Passion of the Lord 3pm (Day of FAST/ABSTINENCE)

Stations of the Cross and Adoration of Cross 7pm

Holy Saturday Office and Morning Prayer 10am followed by

Preparatory Rites for our Catechumens

Solemn Easter Vigil Mass 7:30pm followed by celebration in hall to

welcome our new parishioners and to which everyone is invited

Easter Sunday Masses 10am, 12 noon NO EVENING MASS

Easter Monday Mass 12 noon (no 9:30 Mass)

Are you called to the priesthood? You are invited to a discernment evening on Wed 16th March 7:30pm at the Holy Ghost Fathers in Carfin. Contact Fr Lamb for more info 01698 823896

A taxi passenger tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question. The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the footpath, and stopped inches from a shop window. For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driv-er said, "Look mate, don’t ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!" The passenger apologized and said, "I didn’t realize that a little tap would scare you so much." The driver replied, "Sorry, it’s not really your fault. Today is my first day as a cab driver – I’ve been driving a funeral van for the last 25 years."

It is not easy to entrust oneself to God's mercy, because it is an abyss beyond our comprehen-sion. But we must! ... "Oh, I am a great sinner!" "All the better! Go to Jesus: He likes you to tell him these things!" He forgets, He has a very special capacity for forgetting. He forgets, He kisses you, He embraces you and He simply says to you: "Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more" Pope Francis 17th March 2013