St.

Mary's Church
40 Park Lane
Rothwell
Leeds
LS26 0ES Telephone 0113 2824453
Clergy Father Éamon McGeough
Web site https://october18th.wixsite.com/stmarysrothwell

Registered Charity no. 249404

MASS TIMES NDL (November Dead List)
Monday 25th November 10.00 a.m Mass (George & Claire Magee)

Tuesday 26th November 12.00 Noon Requiem Mass (Deacon Tom Marshall)
Crossgates

Wednesday 27th November 10.00 a.m Mass (Peter Frain) NDL

Thursday 28th November 10.00 a.m Eucharistic Service

7.00 p.m Confirmation – St Joseph’s Pudsey

Friday 29th November 10.00 a.m Mass (Friends & Family Jim &Toni McElroy) NDL

Saturday 30th November 6.00 p.m Vigil Mass (Brearley Family) NDL

Sunday 1st December 9.30 a.m Mass (S Martin Calee) NDL

ADVENT

11.00 a.m Mass (Murphy & Coffi Families) NDL

Last week’s Collection Total £1175. Many Thanks!

Pews - Please try to leave the pews tidy after Mass

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.

SVP COFFEE MORNING After both masses Sunday 1st December.

DEACON TOM MARSHALL Following the death of Deacon Tom Marshall on Thursday 7th
November, I can now confirm the funeral arrangements.
Monday 25th November 7.00 p.m - Reception of Deacon Tom’s Body into St Theresa’s
Crossgates.
Tuesday 26th November 12 Noon - Requiem Mass St Theresa’s, followed by burial at
Rothwell Cemetery 2.00 p.m.
NIGHTFEVER is a simple outreach initiative based on gentle invitation and prayer. It will
take place at Leeds Cathedral on Thursday 5th December, beginning with Mass at 5:30pm
and ending with Compline and Benediction at 10:30pm. Inside the Cathedral will be
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, music, prayer, and a warm welcome. Volunteers will
go out onto the streets to invite people into the Cathedral to light a candle, pray, or simply
to soak up the atmosphere. Priests will be available for conversations and/or confession.
For more information visit www.nightfever.org . To volunteer, find Nightfever Leeds on
Facebook/Twitter or contact nightfeverleeds@outlook.com

CHRISTMAS LUNCH AT THE BRIERY: Delicious Home-cooked Christmas Luncheons ideal for
family, friends or parish groups are being served at the Briery on either 10th or 12th
December. For more information about booking a table and a copy of the menu please
contact the Administrator on 01943 607287 or email: briery@btconnect.com.
CARITAS LEEDS: CAROLS FOR ALL: Saturday 14th December 2019, 3.00pm at Leeds
Cathedral, Great George Street, Leeds LS2 8BE. Prepared by Caritas Leeds Disabilities and
Dementia Groups. Featuring the students from Holy Rosary and St. Anne’s Catholic Primary
School. Refreshments will be served afterwards at Wheeler Hall. For further information,
please contact Rev. Dr. Joseph Cortis (Co-ordinator for Caritas Leeds) on:
joseph.cortis@dioceseofleeds.org.uk.
PAID WORK OPPORTUNITY WITH THE J&P COMMISSION: Do you want to make the world
a better place? Do you have the time and skills to help the Commission in its work of
celebrating what people do about social justice issues across the Leeds Diocese and to
build awareness of what more people could do? We need one or two self-employed
people who are available, on a flexible basis, to do in the region of 500 hours of work per
annum. Please email jandp@dioceseofleeds.org.uk for a set of the Terms of Reference
detailing out the activities that we need doing or see the home page of our website -
www.leedsjp.org.uk. Closing date: 18th December 2019.
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.