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 Tommy Nevans, Margaret Bachiller, John Colquhoun, Jim Traynor; Hugh Devine, Maria Walker; Maureen Boyle; John Hunter, Simon Logan, Ellen Madden, Les Mathew, Cathie McAleavey; 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; Joe Friary; Sr Mary Inglis; Margaret Russell; Esther McKillop; Chrissie Rafferty; Barry Duncan, Kevin Duffy Sandra McGuire; Bill Grey; Marie Laird; John McCaffrey; Patricia Docherty; Sara Porcelli; Hugh Jordan; Gordon Roberts; Fiona McCormick; Fiona McCall, Margaret Craigwell Charles Quinn; June Byrne, Michael McConnachie Children: Laila Hunt, Connor Simpson, Zak Matthew Thomson; Peter Convery; Corran Davidson; Megan Macauley; Jade Law; Chloe Docherty; Lennon McAvoy; Caoimhe Lamb

RECENTLY DIED

Morag Smyth; Katie Ryan; Colin Traynor; Tommy Murphy; Monica Bonner

ANNIVERSARIES William Cook snr; John & Charlotte Duddy;

For the souls thou holdest dearest Let prayers arise The voice of love is mighty And shall pierce the skies Waste not in endless weeping one precious day but speed thy love to heaven Good Christians pray requiescant in pace, requiescant in pace

Final Hymn

They are waiting for our petitions, silent but calm their lips no prayer can utter, no suppliant psalm We have made them all too weary with long delay for the souls in their still agony Good Christians pray requiescant in pace, requiescant in pace

Service of Remembrance at Duchess Park Motherwell Sunday 8th Nov at 3pm

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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 labor and not to ask for reward,

save that of knowing that I do your will.

Please turn off mobile phones and remove chewing gum

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

Last Week’s Collection £1580 2nd for Hall Extension £764

No winner New Lotto Total £3478 Many thanks for your generosity

SVDP Tel: 07582075890/07976179277 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

Year of Consecrated Life 2014-15

Facebook for parish now at

St. Ignatius’ RC Church 962 likes Have a look and comment!

Feasts this Week Mon 9th The Lateran Basilica Tues 10th St Leo the Great Wed 11th St Martin of Tours Thurs 12th St Josaphat

Fundraising for Ave Maria Parish To give online thro shopping you have to register on Give as you live. Search for Saint Ignatius’ and then register. 1.5% of purchases goes to us.

Parish Concert for Ave Maria Parish Cameroon on Fri 20th Nov at 7:30pm Primary School Choir, the Church choir, St Aidan’s High School Band, the Verse Speaking Choir and the Scouts, Cubs and Beavers. Tickets £5 adults £1 child on sale now. Donations for raffle greatly appreciated.

Stall Christmas Cards Calendars/Diaries Day by Day November on sale

Raffle of 2015 Signed Celtic Top on sale now. £1 Draw will take place at the

Christmas Fete on 5th Dec.

Fri 13th Nov Prize Bingo 7:30pm Entry £1 in aid of Sr Citizens Christmas Lunch

SVdP– KEEP WARM IN WINTER Loyola Centre 14th Nov 10am-4pm

Advice on cutting your heating bills; free goody bags, tea/coffee, prize draw

November Lists Are available in the porch to write down the names of your loved ones who have died. Please place your sealed envelopes in the box at the front of the Church. The

names will be placed in our Book of Remembrance on the sanctuary and Holy Mass during November will be offered

for all those mentioned.

Bus to Caldwell Garden Centre leaves after Mass. Returns at 3:45 Pay in Loyola Centre before boarding

Christmas Fayre Sat 5th Dec 1-3:30pm

Box at back of Church for Donations

Many thanks to all who joined us for the annual Mass for the dead

and to all who helped, with music, SVP and Loyola Centre

Marys Meals thank you for 166 bags of clothes and £940 raffle money

FHC children can uplift Catechetical Sheet 1 and return it next Sunday

Congratulations To Cara Elizabeth Hudson Kerys Roberta Mulrine baptised this weekend and totheir families

Innocents Raffle tickets on sale in stall. Please support young mums and babies.

SVDP collecting for Wishaw Food Bank next 2 Sundays– Tin potatoes/soup/pasta

Senior Citizens Christmas Lunch list at back of the Church

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

Purgatory: What about the big, bad furnace? Some modern theologians suggest that the fire of Purgatory is an intense, transforming encounter with Jesus Christ and his fire of love. They also speak of Purgatory as an "instant” purification immediately after death, varying in intensity from soul to soul, depending on the state of each individual. According to this view, the refining fire of Purgatory is only a relic of medieval imagery. It is actually the fire of Divine love. It may, in fact, be a form of "blazing enlightenment" which penetrates and perfects our very being. God can anticipate and apply the merits of our present and future prayers for the dead, in favour of the souls we pray for, at the time of their purification. Pope Benedict considered Purgatory as an “existential state” and hence it is not necessarily accurate to speak of a location or duration of Purgatory. Ac-cording to Pope Benedict XVI, "the souls that are aware of the immense love and perfect justice of God consequently suffer for not having responded correctly and perfectly to that love." It is the suffering of the holy souls. He continues that Purgatory is thus “the fringe of heaven, a state where heaven's eternal light has a refining effect on the “holy souls” (not 'poor souls'), who are held in the arms of Divine Mercy.” What is the best thing you can do for a loved one who has died? A funeral to talk about them? A nice grave and headstone? A tree, plant or a beautiful flower? Have a wonderful recep-tion? Yes all those things are nice. But the best gift is prayer because that is the only thing that can help them on their journey to the Lord. “Please don’t spend time talking about me, spend time praying for me!”

St Ignatius Primary are looking to give a good home to a Piano. If you have a piano, no longer used, in the way, still functioning, let us know tel 352 565

HUSBAND: When I get mad at you, you never fight back. How do you control your anger? WIFE: I clean the toilet. HUSBAND: How does that help? WIFE: I use your toothbrush. Marriages are made in Heaven but then again so are thunder and lightning. Marriage is when a man and a woman become as one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one. Before marriage a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage he will fall asleep before you finish

Mercy is the very foundation of the Church’s life. All of her pastoral activity should be caught up in the tenderness she makes present to believers; nothing in her preaching and in her witness to the world can be lacking in mercy. The Church’s very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love. The Church “has an endless desire to show mercy”.[8] Perhaps we have long since for-gotten how to show and live the way of mercy. The temptation, on the one hand, to focus exclusively on justice made us forget that this is only the first, albeit necessary and indispensable step. But the Church needs to go beyond and strive for a higher and more important goal. On the other hand, sad to say, we must admit that the practice of mercy is waning in the wider culture. In some cases the word seems to have dropped out of use. However, without a witness to mercy, life becomes fruit-less and sterile, as if sequestered in a barren desert. The time has come for the Church to take up the joyful call to mercy once more. It is time to return to the ba-sics and to bear the weaknesses and struggles of our brothers and sisters. Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instils in us the courage to look to the future with hope. Pope Francis, The Face of Mercy– Letter for the Holy Year