Find some important information from the parish, below. <\/p>\n
Collection Gift Aid: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a310<\/span><\/p>\n Collection Non<\/span>–<\/span>Gift Aid: \u00a0 \u00a3118<\/span><\/p>\n Gift Aid Building Fund: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a365<\/span><\/p>\n Sick & Retired Priests: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a3200<\/span><\/p>\n Vocations: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a310<\/span><\/p>\n Communications: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a330<\/span><\/p>\n St Anthony\u2019s: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a314.49<\/span><\/p>\n Monthly Standing Orders<\/span>:<\/span> \u00a31677<\/span><\/p>\n \n We pray for those who have died recently:<\/span><\/p>\n Kenny Mc Cartney, Jimmy Mc Ewan.<\/span><\/p>\n We pray for those whose anniversary occur around now<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n Margaret Birrell, Catherine Furie, Daniel Furie, Sandra Gorrie, John Mooney, Kathleen Mc Guire, Maria Newbigin, Cath Speirs.<\/span><\/p>\n Primary 7 Leavers Mass<\/b><\/span>: <\/span>Fr Joe will celebrate Mass for Primary 7 online<\/span>,<\/span> via the Parish Facebook on Tuesday at 10am. We pray for God\u2019s blessings upon them all<\/span>,<\/span> as they take the next step on their <\/span>educational <\/span>journey towards <\/span>High School. We thank them for their contributions to St Thomas\u2019s <\/span>P<\/span>rimary <\/span>School C<\/span>ommunity<\/span>,<\/span> who have been enriched by their giftedness and presence. I hope to see those going to St Luke\u2019s <\/span>High School <\/span>in August<\/span>,<\/span> as your new school chaplain. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Happy Father<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s<\/span> Day<\/span><\/b>: May all Fathers have a wonderful day<\/span>.<\/span>B<\/span>e the Father <\/span>that <\/span>God intended you to be<\/span> by asking for the Graces to carry out such a privileged and special vocation. Pray also for your own Father Priests.<\/span><\/p>\n Re-opening of Churches<\/b><\/span>: <\/span>We would hope to re-open St Thomas Church on Sunday the 28<\/span>th<\/span> June for private prayer. More details to follow. However, there are some guidelines from the Bishop\u2019s Conference. All those entering must wear a mask or face covering, covering your mouth and nose at all times. On entering the church, please use the Sanitary Hand Gel to clean your hands. You must exit by the back door via the sacristy, as we will follow a one-way system. Please follow the instructions on entering and exiting the Church by the stewards who will guide you to your seat. The two- metre distance will be followed at all times.<\/span><\/p>\n Please refrain as best possible from touching your surroundings. The stewards will disinfect your seating space after you vacate it. You cannot use votive candles or the toilet.<\/span><\/p>\n Volunteers<\/b><\/span>: <\/span>In order to open the church, we firstly need volunteers to clean it and volunteers to act as stewards during the opening times of the Church. You can watch the video uploaded<\/span> on the Parish Facebook<\/span> to <\/span>see <\/span>what is required. All PPE will be provided by the Parish. Those who cannot be a Volunteer are anyone under 18, anyone who has underlying health conditions which require shielding and anyone who has a long-term health condition which requires the annual flu vaccination<\/span>. <\/span>We should still be mindful that the over 70\u2019s are one of the categories of people who should follow Scottish Government advice about whether or not to come to Church, as are women who are pregnant and those who receive the flu jab for medical reasons<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n If you are interested please call Margaret Gillies on 07870404344.<\/span><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Find some important information from the parish, below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-3003","format-standard","category-parish-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-Mr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}