St.

Mary's Church
40 Park Lane
Rothwell
Leeds
LS26 0ES Telephone 0113 2824453
Clergy Father Éamon McGeough
Third Sunday of Advent

Web site https://october18th.wixsite.com/stmarysrothwell

Registered Charity no. 249404

MASS TIMES NDL (November Dead List)
Monday 16th December 10.00 a.m Mass (Tom Marshall)

Tuesday 17th December 10.00 a.m Mass (Ella Pasenko)NDL

Wednesday 18th December 10.00 a.m Mass (Joe & Mane Shortt) NDL

Thursday 19th December 10.00 a.m Eucharistic Service

Friday 20th December 9.00 a.m Mass (End of Term Mass.

Rothwell St Mary’s) NDL

Saturday 21st December 6.00 p.m Vigil Mass (May McElroy) NDL

Sunday 22nd December 9.30 a.m Mass (David Shepherd) NDL

11.00 a.m Mass (T/G SS) NDL

Last week’s Collection Total £940. 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.

SPECTACLES We have acquired 3 more pairs of spectacles to add to the number already
left behind in the pews. Are these yours? Fr È.
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
St Stephen’s Day Mass 9.30 a.m
parish accounts so much easier and
efficient. Thank you.
New Year’s Eve 31st December

Mass 10.00 a.m

Exposition & Benediction 5.00 p.m

CONFESSION/SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION will be available on Saturday 21st December. 9.30 –

11.15 a.m. Please avail yourself of this precious sacrament.

PAULINE POWER As many of you are already aware Pauline died last week in Leeds General Infirmary.
Her funeral will be held with Requiem Mass on Monday 23 rd December at 12.30 with burial in Rothwell
Cemetery after.

MARIE GRIFFITHS Has also sadly passed away. A funeral service for her will be held on Friday 27 th
December at 9.45 a.m followed by cremation in Pontefract.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT Sunday 15th 2 p.m. An afternoon of carols and community and family.
Adults £2, Children £1. Festive refreshments!

SCHOOL ENTRY ROTHWELL ST MARY’S N.B. 15th January is the last date for applications for school entry
– September 2020.

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.

Living today is a challenge, a risk and an act of trust. Most of us grew up learning unconsciously that planning was
part of life. At school we learnt that the more prepared we are for exams, the better we would perform.
All that is true, but it is also true that we can live the here and now, and if we do live today fully it prepares us for
tomorrow. It takes courage to fully experience this day, this love, instead of regretting yesterday and planning
tomorrow.
To live fully now means we must trust it will be enough, because we are exactly where we are meant to be at this
time. Living in today makes us vulnerable, but it also brings peace and serenity. When we surrender tomorrow in
order to live today, we are happier and freer.

Every day, no matter how bad it may be,

I shall say from tomorrow on I shall be sad, not today.

CHILD IN A NAZI DEATH CAMP