St
Joseph’s Church
Cowdenbeath Road, Burntisland,
Fife KY3 0LJ
Parish Priest: Canon James G. Tracey Tel: 01592 872207
e-mail: priest.stjosephsburntisland@staned.org.uk www.stjosephsburntisland.co.uk
Newsletter – 22nd November
Services: |
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Saturday 23rd
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10.00am
Mass 5.00pm
Vigil Mass |
Jim Speirs Thanksgiving |
Sunday
24th (Our Lord Jesus
Christ, King of the Universe) |
10.00am
Mass |
Robert Duncan |
Monday 25th
|
No Mass |
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Tuesday 26th
|
7.00pm Mass |
Special Intention |
Wednesday 27th
|
10.00am
Mass |
Thomas
Tracey |
Thursday
28th |
9.30am
Adoration 10.00am
Mass |
James
Tracey |
Friday 29th |
10.00am Mass |
Neil McGrath |
Saturday 30th
(St Andrew) |
10.00am
Mass 5.00pm
Vigil Mass |
DiTano & Ceresa Families Tommy
& Susan Doyle |
Sunday
1st (First
Sunday of Advent) |
10.00am
Mass |
Bill McElhinney |
Teas and Coffees
available after Mass on Sunday and Thursday.
Thank You: Last week’s collection for
World Day of the Poor raised £858.20.
Special Collection next
Sunday for
the Scottish Catholic Education Service.
Thank You to the Knit & Knatter Group and to all who supported their recent Coffee
Morning & Christmas Fayre. £1121.14 was raised; a lot of hard work coming
to fruition!
Visit of Latin Patriarch of
Jerusalem: Cardinal
Pierbattista Pizzabella
will be at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh on Sunday 1st December.
His Eminence will preach at the evening Mass that will be presided at by
Archbishop Cushley. Mass begins at 7.30pm. All are welcome.
Parish Social Event,
Friday 27 December 2024, 7.00 pm to 10.30 pm in Church Hall - all
welcome. The cost is £15 per
person and will include a buffet. Sara’s Italian Deli in Kirkcaldy are catering
for this event. There will be gin and tonic available on arrival and a
whisky after the meal (for those who wish to drink). You are also welcome
to bring your own bottle to enjoy on the night. A sign-up sheet is
available in the church porch and it would be
appreciated if names could be added by Sunday 1 December 2024 so that the
catering can be finalised.
St Andrew’s High School:
You are warmly invited to celebrate
the Vigil of the Feast Day Mass at St Marie’s, Kirkcaldy on Friday
29th November at 7.00pm, followed by light refreshments in the hall
afterwards.
Nativity Blessing: Archbishop
Cushley will bless the Nativity Scene at Mound Place, Edinburgh, at 3:00pm on
Sunday 1 December.
SSVP Seniors Christmas Party - Sunday 15th
December: If you wish to attend please add your names to the sheet on the table in
the porch. Thank you.
Save the Date: Children’s Christmas Party – Saturday 21st
December 2pm-4pm
Zoom series on new
Lectionary: The Archdiocese is hosting a series of 45 min. talks
on Zoom to take a closer look at the new Lectionary which is being introduced
in Advent. Join Fr Jamie McMorrin at 7:00pm on Wednesday 4 December,
Wed 11 Dec, and Wed 18 Dec. The sessions are free to attend. Register at bit.ly/lectionaryadvent
East
Fife Male Voice Choir Christmas Concert: Saturday 7 December at 2.00pm at the Old Kirk,
Kirkcaldy. Tickets £12 at the door (under16’s free).
From
Pope Francis’ recent Encyclical Letter Dilexit
Nos, On the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of Jesus Christ: Whenever Jesus healed someone, he preferred to do
it, not from a distance but in close proximity: “He stretched out his hand and
touched him” (Mt 8:3). “He touched her hand” (Mt 8:15). “He
touched their eyes” (Mt 9:29). Once he even stopped to cure a deaf man
with his own saliva (cf. Mk 7:33), as a mother would
do,
so that people would not think of him as removed from their lives. “The Lord
knows the fine science of the caress. In his compassion, God does not love us
with words; he comes forth to meet us and, by his closeness, he shows us the
depth of his tender love”.
Anecdote:
Christ has conquered, Christ now rules, Christ reigns supreme”: In the middle
of St. Peter’s Square in Rome, there stands a great obelisk. About four and
half thousand years old, it originally stood in the temple of the sun in the
Egyptian city of Heliopolis. It was bought to Rome by the dreaded Emperor Caligula and it was set right in the middle of the equally
dreaded Circus of Nero, on Vatican hill. It was in that Circus that St. Peter
was martyred, and the obelisk may well have been the last thing on this Earth
that Peter saw. On top of the obelisk there now stands a cross. In ancient
times, there was a gold ball representing, of course, the sun. Now there is a
cross — the cross of Christ, and on the pedestal
of the obelisk there are two inscriptions. The first of them is in Latin, “Christus
vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat”,
which translated means, “Christ has conquered, Christ now rules, Christ now
reigns supreme.” The other inscription is, “The Lion of Judah
has conquered.” Here we have the language of victory! Christianity has
triumphed by the power of the cross over the greatest power that the ancient
world had known, the Roman Empire, and here, in the middle of St Peter’s
square, stands the obelisk bearing those triumphant inscriptions.
(Mark
Coleridge Archbishop of Brisbane) (https://frtonyshomilies.com/).
Have a good week. Take care. Fr James