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Here is a link to this week’s newsletter: 3rd Sunday of Easter (Year B) Sacrament of Reconciliation: available on Thursdays during Adoration and on request. Thank you: to the McKay family for their kind donation of £100 following the funeral of Rosie McKay RIP. RCIA: Please continue to pray for our new members, who we welcomed into full communion at the Easter Vigil: Stephanie McPhee, John Mitchell and Keith Cruickshank. World Day of Prayer for Vocations – Sunday 21st April, (Good Shepherd Sunday). There will be a 2nd collection for the promotion of vocations and the support of seminarians within the Diocese of Aberdeen. Please pray for our seminarians: Anh Tuan Nguyen, Rene de los Reyes, Richard Webster and Aidan Matheson. Aiden (from Elgin) was ordained to the transient diaconate on 13th April, and, God willing, will be ordained as a priest for our diocese next summer. Second collections in April: 14/15: Maintenance Fund; 21/22: Diocesan Bursary & Vocations Fund. Coffee Morning URGENT: volunteers required to help organise this in advance and help out on the day. Saturday 1st June, including music by the Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra. All hands on deck, the more volunteers we have the less each will have to do, so please, speak to Margaret Farrell as soon as possible! Any ideas for stalls and donations very welcome. Prayer Group: Monday evenings, 7pm in the hall. Contact Elizabeth Danby for information. Tea & coffee in the hall after Sunday Mass. All welcome. St Thomas’ Church is open each day from 9am to 3pm for private prayer. Pluscarden Pentecost lectures: “Scottish Catholic Literature and the ‘transfiguration of the commonplace’” 4 talks by Dr Linden Bicket. 21st - 23rd May 2024, including the works of George Friel, Muriel Spark, George and Ann Scott-Moncrieff and George Mackay-Brown. No charge, register with Pluscarden Abbey or by emailing guestmaster@pluscardeabbey.org  Collection: Last week: £255 SCIAF £4.21 Attendance 59 Pope’s prayer intention: April: For the role of women: Let us pray that the dignity and worth of women be recognised in every culture, and for an end to the discrimination they face in various parts of the world. Safeguarding: The Parish Safeguarding Coordinator is Elizabeth Danby, and she can be contacted as shown on the Contacts page.   The diocesan Safeguarding page can be found at Safeguarding – Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen (rcda.scot) and the text of In God’s Image (V2) is accessed by clicking on https://www.bcos.org.uk/LinkClick.aspx?link=131&tabid=124& portalid=0&mid=584  PRAYER FOR THE SICK & HOUSEBOUND AND ALL THOSE IN NEED Father in Heaven; grant them comfort in their suffering. When they are afraid, give them courage, When afflicted, give them patience, When dejected, afford them hope, And when alone, assure them of the support of your holy people.  We ask this through Christ our Lord.  Amen.