Parish Priest: Mgr Joseph Creegan E-mail: j.creegan@btinternet.com

Postal Address: 29 Byron Street, Dundee DD3 6QN Tel 825067 Fax 812636

Parish Website: www.stpeterandstpaul.co.uk Webmaster: Andrew Kelly

Deacon: Rev Charles Hendry Tel 818183

Parish Sister: Sister Mary Rose Tel 322304

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity 3 June 2007 Next Sunday is the Feast of Corpus Christi - Year C

Sunday Mass Anticipated Mass on Saturday at 6.00pm Mass on Sunday at 9.30am & 11.30am

Children’s Liturgy of the Word at the 11.30am Mass

The Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday from 10.15am to 10.45am

Saturday from 5.00pm to 5.30pm

All are welcome to attend the

Diocesan Youth Mass hosted by the Perth Youth Team at St John’s,

Melville Street, Perth.

Sunday 3rd June at 6.30pm

Refreshments will be provided in the hall

after Mass. For more information contact

the Youth Office: tel 225453

Email: youth.office@dunkelddiocese.org.uk

Welcome to St. Peter and St Paul’s

Byron Street - Dundee

Weekday Mass

This Week NO Mass on Monday

Tuesday at 11.00am [Funeral Mass]

Wednesday at 11.00am

Thursday at 11.00am

Friday at 11.00am

Saturday at 11.00am

Let us pray for Caleb Gardiner, Audrey Soares, John Linehan, John Dorward,

Helen Traynor, Paul Winton, Kenny Macdonald, who are seriously ill,

the sick and housebound: Winnie Reilly, Peter Devlin, Nan Brady, Janet Thomson,

Bella Devlin, John Devlin, Hector Devlin, Bert Devlin, David Donnet,

Chris Donoghue, Joan Robbins, John Dolan, Carol Dolan, Liz Donnelly,

Marie Fagan, Andy Adams, May Boyle, Alex Kane,

also Ellen Boland, who died recently,

and Joseph Finnigan, Helen Chapple, Brian Sweeney, Ann Devlin, Frederick Herman,

James McGaughay, whose anniversaries fall at this time.

Reaching out to Children Whatever we may teach children about Jesus and about the Church and however effectively we teach them, however good our plans and resources, they will be influenced even more by their whole experience of belonging to our Church, our community. So we must attend to being the best possible experience of Church for the children who are initiated and who take their places with us at the Table of the Eucharist this Sunday.

The one unique contribution of the Church to the world is its activity and life in the worship of God. Liturgy is the original and distinctive task, the primary responsibility of the Church. Everything else may be conceded, compromised, shared and even relinquished. However, as long as the Church invites, calls, persuades and pulls us to worship God and provides a credible vehicle for liturgy, it need never question its place, mission and influence in the world. Evangelisation is simply this: to tell the world by every means at our disposal that God carries everyone he creates in his heart and to invite them to draw near, to know their God, to worship him and find themselves in him. If we lose faith in Liturgy, if we are thoughtless in the ordering of Liturgy, or careless in its conduct, we need not look elsewhere to find strength; for it is the foundation and

source, the secret of our life. So let us attend to our Sunday gathering with such wholehearted commitment, enthusiasm and energy, with such attention and devotion, that our children will be marked by the experience for the rest of their lives. The following words were said by an old Red Indian, speaking of his formation in his tribe and the experience of our children should make no less of an impression: I am sure now that I was then too young to understand it all and that I only felt it. It was the pictures I remembered and the words that went with them, the sights, the sounds, the people around me; for nothing I had ever seen with my eyes was so clear and bright as the vision showed me; and no words that I have ever heard with ears were like the words I heard. I did not have to remember these things; they remembered themselves all these years. It was as I grew older that the meanings became clearer and clearer and even now I know that more was shown to me than I can ever tell.

A couple of hunters are out in the forest when one

of them falls to the ground. He doesn't seem to be

breathing; his eyes are rolled back in his head.

Terrified, his friend whips out his mobile phone

and calls the emergency services.

"My friend is dead! What can I do?" he cries over

the phone.

In a calm, soothing voice, the operator says,

"Just take it easy. I can help. First, let's make

sure he's dead."

There is a moment of silence, and then a single

shot is heard.

The guy's voice comes back on the phone: "Okay,

now what?"

Actual notes from hospital records : • Patient has left white blood cells at another

hospital.

• Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side

for over a year.

• On the second day, the knee was better, and on

the third day it disappeared.

• The patient has been depressed since she began

seeing me in 1993.

• She is numb from her toes down.

• She stated that she had been constipated for

most of her life, until she got a divorce.

• Skin: Somewhat pale but present.

• Patient has two teenage children, but no other

abnormalities.

Bingo for SPUC There will be a Bingo in aid of the Society

for the Protection of Unborn Children in the

Parish Centre on Sunday 10 June at 7pm

THANK YOU for last Sunday’s special collection for Communications. You gave £409

Jean McInally : Michael and I thank you so very much for all

the prayers, cards and good wishes received

over the past few weeks. They have helped us

cope with my situation in a very positive way.

Results became official only last week and I

have to undergo 5 minutes radiotherapy for 5

consecutive days. This is due to start sometime

within the next 2 to 3 weeks.

Please keep me in your prayers.

St Peter and St Paul’s May Procession will take place this year at 3pm on Sunday 17th

June. It is the spirit not the day that is important

and perhaps the sun will shine in June !

Diocesan LOURDES PILGRIMAGE 2007

The dates for this year are 16 - 23 July.

Some places are available. For further

information contact Malcolm Veal at the

Pastoral Centre, tel 225453.

Half as

big:

Twice as

righteous

We welcome the first Communicants

this Sunday :

Lia Byrne Jennifer Henderson

Kirstie Hoskins Lucy Kerr

Kara McHugh Brodie Mulholland

Neve O’Leary Rebecca Liddell

Jamie Skelly Kendal Whelan

Cianna Young Sandra Wysocki

Jack Bennett Blair Flight

Jack Gowans Jake Hunt

Robbie Telford

The very idea of God as a trinity of equal persons whose very existence is their relationship to each other as gift to each other, is difficult to grasp. We respond in the way that the glitzy girl commented in the TV ad: “I totally don’t know what that means, but I want it!” In everything we desire and want, we essentially want God. From our merest preference to our deepest desire, behind or ahead of it all, is the desire for God. Our primal urge is for God, even if we do not usually acknowledge or even know it. All our separate wants get mixed up in a blender of desires until we can hardly tell one from the other. It is like the experience of being children, constantly changing our mind from this thing to that, till our mother sighs: “You just don’t know what you want!” We want God the way a river unknowingly seeks the sea, the way a sunflower unwittingly follows the sun, the way a drowning man gasps for air, a parched man craves water and a moth is lured to the light. We want God instinctually: the way a lamb follows its mother, an infant cries for a parent. We want God the way a lonely person aches for companionship. We want God the way a lover yearns for her beloved, suffering people crave comfort, a stranger longs for the familiarity of home, an addict steals for a fix. How do we want God? Count the ways, for they are all around us - the world is full of the many expressions of our need. We want God with the depth, breadth and height our soul can reach. We want God with the breath, tears and smiles of our entire life…..and we will want God even more acutely after death. Of course Miss Barrett was talking about her love for Mr Browning, but all love is one piece, every love is an expression of that Love that moves the sun and stars. No wonder St John worries about those who are unable to love; such unfortunate people can wander through life, unable to know God.

But in spite of our universal attraction to God, we also experience aversion to God. We fear God the way a moth fears the flame. We avoid the glance of God the way lovers look away lest they spy a hint of rejection in the eyes of their beloved. We avoid the word of God the way lovers go silent when they have been hurt. We flee from God the way the poet fled the “Hound of Heaven” because we fear that if we open our fist to receive the gentle touch of God, then everything else we love will tumble out of our hands. We want truth: the truth about ourselves, about different people, about the world we live in. Deep within us we yearn for what is true and authentic; we seek integrity. We want goodness: to be good

ourselves, to bring goodness to others, to promote the good of creation and to praise the goodness of others and of God. We want beauty: the unique beauty of self, the different ways in which people are beautiful, the wonderful beauty of creation and the radiant beauty of God. The Gospel - good news - this Sunday is that it is safe to want this God, because being absorbed into God, we remain ourselves, so that we can relate to God, person to person. That is the meaning of the relationship of the three persons - the Trinity of God: three distinct persons in one nature. Our little truth is part of God’s larger truth, our goodness is part of God’s perfect holiness; we see our beauty in the eyes of God. Jesus teaches us never to despise or disregard our little needs and wants. The appetite within us for goodness, beauty, truth, happiness, is the trigger in our hearts for that perfection to which we aspire. Sometimes our appetite is misplaced, sometimes it goes astray and gets us into troubled water, but the restlessness and need in our hearts run deep. We are restless, as Augustine says and always will be till we find God. Everything we ever wanted is contained in God. We absolutely do not know what this means - but we want it! We want God!

We want what God IS