ST ANDREW’S ST PETER’S ST PHILIP’S ST THERESA’S

Admin Office:

126 Victoria Street 9 Carmondean Centre The Lanthorn Kilronan Park

Craigshill Deans Kenilworth Rise 41 Main Street

Livingston Livingston Dedridge, Livingston East Calder

EH54 5BJ EH54 8PT EH54 6NY EH53 0ES

T: 01506 432141 T: 01506 438787 T: c/o 01506 880918 T: 01506 880918

Pastoral Team:

Fr Kenneth Owens, Fr Simon Hughes, Fr Peter Krakowiak SAC

Email: catholic126@gmail.com PPC Email: catholic126@gmail.com

Fr Peter Mobile: 07460 676 278 (text only) Email: katolicylivingston@gmail.com

Facebook: Livingston and East Calder Catholic Parishes

Website: www.livingstoncatholicparishes.co.uk

SVDP Contact Numbers:

St Andrew’s & St Theresa’s: 07342 793611 St Peter’s: 07796 662264

St Philip’s: 07502 031701

26th Sunday of the Year - Year A

Sunday 27 September 2020

First Holy Communion: Over the next two weekends in St Andrew’s, St

Philip’s and St Theresa’s we will complete the celebration of the sacrament of

First Communion. In St Peter’s, the dates are: Sunday 4 October 9.30am &

5.30pm; Thursday 8 October 6.30pm; Thursday 22 October 6.30pm; Sunday 25

October 9.30am & 5.30pm; Thursday 29 October 6.30pm; Sunday 1 November

9.30am & 5.30pm. Please note, people must book in for these Thursday

evening Masses. After the October break, we will begin the enrolment for the

new sacramental programme.

Parishioner Contact Details: We are keen to update our database using the

contact details you have provided for track and trace. If you don’t want us to

keep your details, please contact Karen in the parish office as soon as possible.

If we don’t hear from you we will assume you are happy for your details to be

held on the parish database.

Personal Care Support: A local family are looking for

someone to help care/support an elderly lady with

dementia. She lives at home in the Eliburn area. Duties

may include personal care, preparation of meals and

visits. Please contact Teresa Salvage (Tel: 07765007680)

if interested in finding out more information.

St Andrew’s ...

St Andrew’s Car Park - There is

now a second hole in the car

park as we attempt to isolate

the drainage problem with a

pipe in the car park. More

updates when we know more!

Thank you to everyone for their

weekly offering - £683.55; SCIAF

Wee Box £13.85; 2020 Donation

£150.00; Church Stall £21.88

St Philip’s …

The main hall in the Lanthorn

opens today at 9.30am. Please

enter by the main door only and

parishioners will be allowed in

after 9.20am. Please also

remember to wear a face covering.

Having agreed the new terms of

let, completed a risk assessment

and undergone training, we can

have a Sunday Mass for up to 50

people. Look forward to seeing

some of those who have been

missing!

Thank you to everyone for their

weekly offering - £335.50

St Theresa’s …

Plant Sale: Thanks to

everyone who supported

the recent plant sale at St

Theresa’s. The sum of £174

was raised. Thanks to Tom

Grieve, our gardener, for

his good work.

Thank you to everyone for

their weekly offering -

£552.00

St Peter’s ...

First Holy Communion: We look

forward to welcoming six of our

children to share with us in

Holy Communion next Sunday

at both Sunday Masses. We will

also welcome three children the

following Thursday evening.

SCIAF: I have issued a cheque to

SCIAF on your behalf for £1,000.

I am conscious that SCIAF have

really missed out this year and

we still have an obligation to

help out those who are poor and

vulnerable. A further cheque

for £169.87 has also been sent to

SCIAF for the most recent count

of Wee Boxes.

This week has brought new restrictions

and new fears among us. My gut instinct

was to search for the Vatican’s advice,

and I did find two interesting articles

which I would like to share with you. I

hope you can read them in your spare

time as there is a lot of hope in both – Fr

Peter

Vatican News, 20.09.2020: Coronavirus: the storm that is

toppling the façade; Pope Francis is certain of this and

is repeating it to everyone: we will emerge either

better or worse after the pandemic. The global crisis

requires that the parameters of human co-existence

be rethought through the lens of solidarity. On this

foundational idea, "Covid19: Building a Healthier

Future" has been created to offer a vision that might

lead to the beginning of a new fraternity after the

pandemic. From a "common evil" such as the

pandemic, we have rediscovered the "common

good", a value that contains every other value:

solidarity, helping one another, the need for

community. Two of these experts, economist Luigino

Bruni and Marie Dennis of Pax Christi International,

express their viewpoints regarding the construction

of a post-Covid world and the role of both the

Church and religion. The first objective, they stress,

is to form a "robust conscience" in young people

which will help them face the new situation.

Vatican News – interview with two experts: Luigino

Bruni and Marie Dennis See answer for this and

other questions: You are part of the Vatican COVID

19 Commission, Pope Francis’ response mechanism

to an unprecedented virus. What do you personally

hope to learn from this experience? The world has

spent trillions on weapons and preparations for war,

stealing resources from providing for healthy,

resilient, well-educated communities that can slow

the spread of disease and more quickly recover from

serious threats like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Authentic security in which the whole earth

community can thrive will emerge only from serious

attention to meeting basic human needs, including

education, on a global scale. COVID-19 has exposed

deep social injustices, among them lack access to

high quality healthcare and education. Moving

money from military spending to education seems an

obvious way to invest in a just, peaceful and

sustainable future. See more online:

www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2020-09/

project-covid-building-healthier-future-bruni-dennis

-pandemia.html

The Tablet also shows that the Catholic Church is

actively involved: The Covid-19 commission

established by Pope Francis has five working

groups and is looking at both how the Church can

respond practically to the Covid crisis while offering

proposals in fields of economics, health and security.

To this end, the Holy See is working with universities

across the world including Georgetown in

Washington DC in the United States and University

College London, UK. “Coronavirus is challenging our

ideologies: our political ideologies, our economic

ideologies and our religious ideologies (…) What is

essential? This is the question. What is essential for

the Church to resume, to regenerate and to allow

the Holy Spirit to ignite the essential dimension of

Christianity? If Christ is walking with us in this tragic

moment, where does he want to lead us?” Read

more from the interview with Fr Augusto Zampini

Davies: www.thetablet.co.uk/news/13069/vatican-

pushing-for-rethink-of-financial-system-post-covid

Of your charity please pray for the repose of the soul of John Canning

Anniversaries (October): Ellen Shiels, Vincent Moran, Helen ‘Eileen’ Mellia, Helen

Donnelly

Date St Andrew’s St Peter’s St Philip’s St Theresa’s

Sun 27 Sept 9.30am Polish PK 11.30am Mass KO Theresa Devlin

9.30am Mass SH Michael Markey

5.30pm Mass SH People of the Parish

9.30 am Mass KO People of the Parish

Confession on request

11.30am Mass PK Confession after Mass

Mon 28 Sept 9.00am Mass PK

Tue 29 Sept 2.00pm Mass SH

9.30am Mass KO Mabel Madden RIP

Wed 30 Sept

Thu 1 Oct

6.30pm Mass SH Fr Brian Halloran

9.30am Mass KO

Fri 25 Oct

9.00am Mass KO George Rarity

Sat 3 Oct 5.00pm - 5.20pm Confession 5.30pm Vigil Mass PK Ingrid Okell

Sun 4 Oct 9.30am Polish PK 11.30am Mass PK Mary McParland RIP

9.30am Mass SH People of the Parish

5.30pm Mass SH

9.30 am Mass KO Confession on request

11.30am Mass KO People of the Parish

Confession after Mass

Drodzy, [Jezus] istniejąc w postaci Bożej, nie skorzystał ze sposobności, aby na równi być z

Bogiem, lecz ogołocił samego siebie, przyjąwszy postać sługi. (…) Dlatego też Bóg Go nad

wszystko wywyższył i darował Mu imię ponad wszelkie imię(…) aby wszelki język wyznał, że

Jezus Chrystus jest Panem – ku chwale Boga Ojca. Ten Jezus jest Dobrym Pasterzem i

cierpliwie mówi do nas: Moje owce słuchają mego głosu, Ja znam je, a one idą za Mną.

Przypowieść o dwóch synach i pracy w winnicy jest mocna. Pierwszy deklaruje „Idę, panie!”,

ale nie pracuje, drugi mówi „Nie chcę”, ale się opamiętał i podjął pracę. Czy moja wiara to

pozory, udawanie i niezrealizowane obietnice, czy jednak ciężka praca nad moim życiem

osobistym, rodzinnym, zawodowym, wspólnotowym – ważna nawet mimo moich

upadków, buntów i oporów. Fakty się liczą, a nie deklaracje i pozory, co nam dzisiaj Jezus

potwierdził nam słowami: Celnicy i nierządnice wchodzą przed wami do królestwa

niebieskiego. Bóg zaprasza do pracy w jego winnicy – każdy z nas jest powołany, by służyć i

pracować w naszej wspólnocie. Pamiętajmy, że nasza wiara bez uczynków jest martwa-ks.

Piotr

W każdej sprawie (rezerwacje mszy nie!) piszcie do mnie:

katolicylivingston@gmail.com