Many thanks for last weekend's generous collections:

• Saint Joseph's Offertory: £2,637
• Saint Joseph's Building Fund: £1,626
• Saint Bridget's Offertory: £135
• Saint Bridget's Building Fund: £150

Thank you for your continued generosity to both the offertory and the Building Fund.

There is a second collection today for the National Day of Life.

If you are able to set up a standing order with your bank's online banking, this would be of great benefit to the volunteers who deal with the weekly collections. For bank details please email the Parish House.

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Double Money Summer Promotion! Over the past five years this has become the most successful parish lottery in Scotland, generating over £65,000 for the church building and grounds. This year there is more repair work to be done, and you can help by joining for just £5 per month.

As a special summer promotion, for every five new entries taken out during May and June we will add an extra £100 prize to the July draw — up to a maximum of eight £100 prizes (double the usual amount)! If you have been thinking about joining or taking out an additional entry, now is the perfect time.

Join on the parish website at stjosephclarkston.com/lottery/ or telephone/WhatsApp/SMS Chris McLaughlin on 07957644546.

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We offer our warmest congratulations and heartfelt thanks to Canon Oliver Freney as he celebrates 40 years of priestly ordination. Canon Oliver has dedicated four decades to the service of God and his people, and we are deeply grateful for his ministry and his continued presence among us. Please join us in offering him our prayers and good wishes on this wonderful milestone.

Fr Dan wishes to extend his deep gratitude to everyone who joined him for the Mass of Thanksgiving for his Silver Jubilee of Priestly Ordination. He writes:

I would like to thank everyone, in the parish and beyond, for their prayers and best wishes on the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of my Priestly Ordination. I was quite overwhelmed by your presence at the Mass on Thursday. I haven't been with you long, but your cards and messages have been especially heartwarming. A special thanks to all who helped organise the Mass and the reception in the Hall afterwards — I know there were many who helped in all sorts of different ways, from music to munchies.

I was deeply touched by the gift of the beautiful Sacred Heart statue and by your incredible generosity. It will help support a little project in Kenya run by the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception that looks after children born infected with HIV. I had the privilege of visiting them a few years ago and recent cuts in funding have put them under enormous pressure.

I am very grateful to all of you for your kind welcome and ask God to continue to bless our parishes and your families. Please take a little prayer card away with you from the doors today if you didn't get one on Thursday and pray for more vocations to the priesthood. Holy Mass will be offered for all your intentions in thanksgiving. Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

— Fr Dan

Please support our after-Mass coffee mornings:

• 1st Sunday of the month — after 10:15 Mass, with children's craft activities.
• 2nd and 4th Sundays — after 12 noon Mass, with lovely home baking.

On Sunday 28th June, donations from the coffee morning will go to Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières). Please come along and enjoy some fellowship!

Do you have one of our parish hymn books at home? If so, please bring it back to church at your earliest convenience. Thank you!

Bus drivers and escorts are needed for the bus that brings older parishioners to 12 noon Sunday Mass. If you are able to help, please contact Pat on 07876486121.

June is the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This week's prayer is offered for your private devotion:

Father, we honour the heart of your Son, broken by our cruelty, yet symbol of love's triumph, pledge of all that we are called to be. Teach us to see Christ in the lives we touch and to offer him living worship by love-filled service to our brothers and sisters. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

We offer our warmest congratulations to Fr Joe Burke, who has been named a Monsignor by the Holy Father. May God continue to bless him in his ministry.

Canon Desmond Berry celebrates his 50th anniversary of ordination with Mass at 6pm on Friday 26th June at Saint Andrew's Church, Greenock. All are most welcome to join this wonderful celebration of a golden jubilee of priesthood.

A huge thank you to everyone who sponsored the young people from across the Diocese on Sunday 7th June! More than £2,500 was raised to support the pilgrimage to Paris in September. All benefactors will be remembered in prayer on the pilgrimage.

You can still donate at justgiving.com/page/dpy-paris-26.

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The Holy Father is inviting young people from around the world to Seoul, South Korea in August 2027 for World Youth Day. The Diocese of Paisley is responding to Pope Leo's invitation.

Will you be aged 19–35 in Summer 2027? Do you want to know more? Visit rebrand.ly/DPY-WYD-2027 or email Fr Ryan at VE-Youth@rcdop.org.uk.

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In partnership with SPUC, you are invited to join Bishop John Keenan on his coach to London for March for Life UK 2026.

The coach departs midnight Friday 4th September from Paisley Saint Mirin's Cathedral, with a pickup at 12:30am from Glasgow Saint Andrew's Cathedral, arriving in London at Emmanuel Centre at approximately 7:30–8:00am on Saturday 5th September for the Exhibition, Mass, talks, and stall. Return departs approximately 6:00pm, with drop-offs at Glasgow and Paisley. Cost: £30 per person.

Details at rcdop.org.uk/marchforlife2026.

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The monthly pro-life Mass takes place on Wednesday 17th June at 7:30pm at Holy Cross Church, G42 8ER. This month's Mass also marks the 25th anniversary of Cardinal Winning's death — please join in prayer and thanksgiving for his legacy.

Adoration begins at 6:15pm, with a celebration afterwards. Celebrant: Fr Allan Cameron.

The Men of Saint Joseph invite all men aged 18 and over to join their monthly fellowship meetings, which include the Rosary and Lectio Divina. Meetings take place on the 1st Thursday of each month.

The next meeting is Thursday 2nd July, 7:30–9pm at the Ogilvie Centre, to the left of Saint Aloysius Church, 25 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RE.

For more information, email themosj.scotland@gmail.com.

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The Justice & Peace Scotland Newsletter for June–August is now available. Read it at justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk.

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If you are a new volunteer, or one who completed Part 1 training more than two years ago, please sign up for one of these sessions. Contact Sarah Jane Colhoun, Safeguarding Office, to register.

📞 0141 847 6138
✉️ safeguardingadmin@rcdop.org.uk

2026 Training Dates:

• Tue 9 June, 7pm — Diocesan Centre, Paisley
• Tue 25 Aug, 7pm — Diocesan Centre, Paisley
• Sat 19 Sep, 10.30am — St Mary's, Greenock
• Tue 6 Oct, 7pm — St Joseph's, Clarkston
• Sat 14 Nov, 10.30am — Diocesan Centre, Paisley

Safeguarding Thought for the Month of June: The Church seeks to restore the fabric of broken lives and heal the pain of survivors.

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For the values of sports. Let us pray that sports be an instrument of peace, encounter, and dialogue among cultures and nations, and that they promote values such as respect, solidarity, and personal growth.