NOTICES FOR THE WEEK
St. Peter's Church
26th April 2009

  1. An Inter-denominational Prayer meeting to prayer for our Elections will be held at our  Mini Hall on 26th April at 6 p.m.
  2. The Senior Citizens will be having their Annual Mass and get-together this Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Enrolled Members kindly obtain your cards from your Area Representatives or the Church reception counter on Monday and Tuesday at  6 p.m.
  3. We will have our “Searching the Scripture” session this Tuesday.
  4. In the month of May, masses at our church on weekdays will be at 6:30 a.m., 7:30 a.m. & 8:30 a.m. St. Andrews Church has masses at 6:00, 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. The evening mass at our church will be at 7:15 p.m. as unusual.  Mass intentions offered for the 6:00 a.m. and 6:45 a.m. mass in May will be offered at the 6:30 a.m. Mass.
  5. For admission to the Holy Family School, Chakala N.I.O.S., please look up the notice board.
  6. We would like to inform you that an Election list has been kept in our parlour for you to check your name and which polling booth you are enlisted in.
  7. Do look up stpetersbandra.com for photographs of Disha 2009; Zonal masses, the Gethsemane programme  and the youth camp beneath the stars.
  8. We are very happy to announce and pray for any school-going girl or boy celebrating their Birthday. For this please meet our Sacristan with details before that particular mass.
  9. The St. Theresa’s parish invites you to their Vacation Bible Joy programme for Children and Youth  from the 5th May. The topic is Adventures of St. Paul.
  10. God bless you for our last weekend collection of Rs 56,035.

First Death Anniversary mass:
  Mon. 6:45 a.m.  for the Soul of Joseph Mascarenhas
  Sat.   6:45 p.m. for the Soul of Dorothy Rodrigues

 

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NOTICES FOR THE WEEK
St. Peter's Church
19th April 2009

  1. Senior Citizens will have their ‘Fun and Fellowship Housie’ this Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in Our Lady’s Room.
  2. As you are aware, our Charismatic, English Prayer group meets every Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Mini Hall. We now have a ‘Hindi’ Charismatic Prayer group that will meet every Thursday, at 7:30 p.m at the Mini Hall. All are invited.
  3. In the month of May, masses at our church on weekdays will be at 6:30 a.m., 7:30 a.m. & 8:30 a.m. St. Andrews Church has masses at 6:00, 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. The evening mass at our church will be at 7:15 p.m. as unusual.  Mass intentions offered for the 6:00 a.m. and 6:45 a.m. mass in May will be offered at the 6:30 a.m. Mass.
  4. ALPHA - a programme aimed at a renewal in the basics of the Christian faith leading to a deeper relationship with Jesus - invites you  to a presentation on Transformation & Evangelisation of Society, by Nicky Gumbel, leader of the world-wide Alpha Movement. This programme will be held this Thursday, 23rd April at 5:30 p.m. at the Birla Auditorium, New Marine Lines
  5. Our Medical Centre will be holding a Bone Density camp on the 26th April. For details please look up the notice board.
  6. The total collection for the Holy Week services was Rs. 3,31,140.
  7. Our Sunday evening Movie at the St. Peters square will be Alfred Hitchcock’s “To Catch a Thief”

First Death Anniversary mass:
Mon.  7:15 p.m. for the  soul of Barbara Amaral

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NOTICES FOR THE WEEK
St. Peter's Church
12th April 2009

SPECIAL NOTICES
  1. The Masses on Easter Sunday will be as of Sunday. There will be no evening mass.
    * If you do not have the Easter Family prayer, you may pick up a copy from the Sacristy.
    * Eucharistic Ministers are requested on Sunday to pick up ‘Easter Eggs’ from the Sacristy to distribute to the House-bound. 
  2. Next Sunday being the feast of ‘Divine Mercy’, we will have a three day preparation from Wednesday to Friday at the 7:15 p.m. mass. The recitation of the Chaplet will be held immediately after mass. The Divine Mercy feast mass will be at the 9:00 a.m. mass. 
  3. To evaluate and plan our parish course ahead, we will have a half day session - ‘Disha 2009’ next Sunday morning. About a 100 of us will meet according to our Key concerns, Age group focus and other priority groups. We request you to pray for the success of this meeting. 
  4. This year our Parish Summer fiesta ‘Splash’ will be held on Fri. 29th and Sat. 30th May. 
  5. We would like to inform you that we now have placed “Prayer Request” forms in the Emmaus Chapel i.e. our Blessed Sacrament Chapel. Intentions placed in the box will be prayed for at the Eucharist every Friday at the 7:15 p.m. Mass. 
  6. Next year the confirmations will be held at our Church on Sunday, 14th Feb. 2010. 
  7. Like last year, in the month of May, masses at our church will be at 6:30 a.m., 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. We would like to remind you that St. Andrews which is just down the road, has masses at 6:00, 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. So you have 6 masses to choose from. The evening mass at our church will be at 7:15 p.m. as unusual. Mass intentions offered for the 6 and 6:45 a.m. mass in May will be offered at the 6:30 a.m. Mass.

    GENERAL NOTICES 
  8. This year we will have our Summer ‘Vacation Bible Joy’ for children from the 20th – 25th April. Please register at the reception counter latest by 15th April. 
  9. Our Medical Centre will be holding a Bone Density camp on the 26th April. For details please look up the notice board. 
  10. Bulletin distributors are requested to collect your sets of Keystones from the Parish office for distribution 
  11. There will be no ‘Searching the Scripture’ Class this Tuesday. 
  12. Advocates will render Free Assistance this Tuesday from 7:30 p.m. in the Church Parlour. 
  13. Please look up the notice board for admission to the N.I.O.S. for Girls at St. Joseph Convent, Bandra; for Personality classes & the Andheri, Home for the Aged Fete.
  14. Thank you for our last weekend collection of Rs. 69,115.

First Death Anniversary mass:
Tue. 8:30 a.m. for the Soul of Fr. Berkie D’Souza sj
Thur. 7:15 p.m. for the Soul of Oscar D’Souza & for the Soul of Lena D’Souza
Sat. 6:45 p.m. for the Soul of Victoria Fernandes

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NOTICES FOR THE WEEK
St. Peter's Church
5th April 2009

  1. On Sunday morning a special family prayer card will be distributed to your homes along with a loaf of Blessed Bread. The Prayer tries to bring out the spirit of the different days of the Holy week with the hope that you may be able to enter better into the Week. We suggest that your family come together for this prayer before lunch. 
  2. Families of other parishes may pick up a prayer card and the blessed bread from the St. Peters parlour from 7 a.m. onwards. You may also download the prayer card from our parish website, stpetersbandra.com 
  3. A prayer card to help you prepare for confession, using the beatitudes as a guideline will also be sent to your homes. Others may pick up a copy when you come for confession. 
  4. There will be an informal pre-meeting at 11 a.m. on Sunday for all those who want to receive confirmation this year. 
  5. Today being Palm Sunday, the Veronica Service will be held on the Front Grounds at 6:45 p.m. 
  6. The Parish Ushers group will meet this Monday at 7:45 p.m. at the Church parlour. 
  7. Our Holy Week Programme is as follows:
    a. Confessions will be held from Monday to Wednesday from 5 – 8 p.m.
    b. Our Maundy Thursday services are as follows:
        i. 12:30 p.m. Blessing of Bread at the room used by the Youth Centre.
       ii. Service for the Sick will be at 5:30 p.m. on the Grounds.
      iii. The Lords supper will be at 7:30 p.m. on the Church Grounds.
      iv. An ‘Hour with Jesus’ at 11 p.m. in the Church.
    c. For the Good Friday and Easter services please look up your Lenten programme or the Church notice board. 
  8. The Sisters of St. Joseph along with our Parish youth group invite all Youth – this includes youth who have just finished their 10th Std exams - to a Mission Camp to Nagar Haveli on the 14th and 15th April. Please Register at the Parish reception counter not later than this Thursday. 
  9. This year we will be having our ‘Summer Vacation Bible Joy’ for children from the 20th – 25th April. Please register at the reception counter latest by 15th April. 
  10. Our Medical Centre will be holding a Bone Density camp on the 26th April. For details please look up the notice board. 
  11. The 1st and 2nd collection of every month always goes to the needs of the Archdiocese. Along with that every two or three months Archbishop's house requests us to make a second collection for various needs. At St. Peters, instead of making a second collection, we simply divide the regular church collection for the two needs, so today the collection will go to the Archdiocese and also towards the expenses of the ‘Indian Mission Congress’ to be held in October - for which we are told to make a collection. 
  12. Thank you for our Last Weekend collection of Rs. 55,830 

First Death Anniversary mass:
Tue. 7:15 p.m. for the Soul of Christabelle D’silva

 

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