St.

Mary's Church Clergy Father Éamon McGeough

40 Park Lane Rothwell Leed LS26 0ES
Registered Charity no. 249404

MASS TIMES

Monday 23rd December 12.30 p.m Requiem Mass (Pauline Power)

Tuesday 24th December 5.00 p.m Children’s Mass (Austin Emery)

Christmas Eve
7.30 p.m Readings & Carols

8.00 p.m Christmas Mass (Robert & Mary Cockerham)

Wednesday 25th December 10.00 a.m Mass (Dorothy & Tommy Collins)
Christmas Day

Thursday 26th December 10.00 a.m Mass (Winifred Hart)

St Stephen’s Day

Friday 27th December 9.45 a.m Funeral Service (Marie Griffiths)

Saturday 28th December 6.00 p.m Vigil Mass (Kathleen Linfoot)

Sunday 29th December 9.30 a.m Mass (Joe McDermott)

11.00 a.m Mass (Kevin McHugh)

Monday 30th December No Service

Tuesday 31st December 10.00 a.m Mass (Tom Marshall)

5– 5.30 p.m Exposition & Benediction

Wednesday 1st January 10.00 a.m Mass (Pauline Power)

2020
Thursday 2nd December 10.00 a.m Eucharistic Service

Friday 3rd December 10.00 a.m Mass (Nellie O’Donnell)

Saturday 4th December 6.00 p.m Vigil Mass (Maeve McCaul)

Sunday 5th December 9.30 a.m Mass (Herbert & Sarah Craven)

11.00 a.m Mass (Pro Pop)

CHRISTMAS SERVICES
READER/EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS’ ROTA
This is available at the back of church.
Christmas Eve Children’s Mass 5.00 p.m
Reading & Carols 7.30 p.m
OFFERTORY ENVELOPES/STANDING
Mass 8.00 p.m
ORDERS These are now ready for
collection. Please consider if you could,
Christmas Day Mass 10.00 a.m
placing your offerings on Standing order as
this makes the administration of the parish
St Stephen’s Day Mass 9.30 a.m
accounts so much easier and efficient.
Thank you.
New Year’s Eve 31st December
Last week’s Collection Total £963.
Mass 10.00 a.m Many Thanks!
Exposition & Benediction 5.00 p.m Pews - Please try to leave the pews
tidy after Mass

CHRISTMAS May I extend to everyone my wishes for a very happy and peaceful
Christmas. May 2020 be a year of joy and renewal for us, for our families and
friends and for our world.
HALL HIRE Our hall is available for parishioners to use for their social events should you wish. Please
contact the hall manager (Steph Power) for details on 07729761340.

FOOD BANK Thank you to everyone who contributed to the food bank, helping the many in our
community who suffer from food poverty. If you don’t, as yet – perhaps one extra item in your weekly
shop could be of such help.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT A big Thank-You to all who took part and made a contribution to what was a
wonderful afternoon of song, readings and fun, including a fab panto from our fantastic altar servers. It
was well attended and a good time was had by all. The money raised has been given to The Lourdes Fund
and a donation given to the Sudan Baby Appeal organised by the SVP. Many thanks from The Choir.

SVP COFFEE MORNING Sunday 5th January after both masses.

BRAS TO AFRICA / AGAINST BREAST CANCER. BRA BANK Ladies, what do you do with your old or unloved bras?
Recycle them? Or throw them away? We, here at St Mary’s have acquired a bra bank from the charity Against
Breast Cancer. By filling this bank repeatedly we will help two charities. Against Breast Cancer fund research into
secondary spread, the main cause of breast cancer related deaths. In addition to this, the bra recycling scheme
takes your bras and together with recycling partners, their textile recovery project gives the bras a new lease of life
by taking them to Africa. Countries such as Tonga, Ghana and Kenya still have a great deal of poverty and bras
remain too expensive to produce locally, but are desperately needed. For every ton of bras collected, Against Breast
Cancer receives £700 for their vital research.

Those without a home feel it very deeply at Christmas. There are people who pretend they go home at this time of
year rather than admit to themselves or others that they have no home to go to.
Home is the place where we discover who we are, where we are coming from and where we are going to. It is
where we are helped to establish our own identity. It is where we learnt to love and be loved. It is where our needs
of the mind, body and spirit are first recognised and met. It is where we learn to become whole, stable and yet
always open to change and surprise.

Home is the definition of God.

EMILY DICKINSON