St.

Mary's Church
40 Park Lane
Rothwell
Leeds LS26 0ES Telephone 0113 282 4453
Web Site www.scribd.com/user/2399056
Clergy Father Éamon McGeough Registered Charity no. 249404

MASS TIMES
Monday 2nd March 10.00 a.m Mass

Tuesday 3rd March 10.00 a.m Mass (Martha McElhatton)

Wednesday 4th March 10.00 a.m Mass

11.00 a.m Requiem Mass (Ellen McGrath)

(St Mary’s Derby)

Thursday 5th March 10.00 a.m Eucharistic Service

Friday 6th March 10.00 a.m Mass (Pat Whitney)

Saturday 7th March 6.00 p.m Vigil Mass (Pro Pop)

Sunday 8th March 9.30 a.m Mass (Patrick & Jane Kilgallon)

11.00 a.m Mass (Pro Pop)

Collection £793 Many Thanks

RED BOXES If anyone has a red mission box that needs emptying, please bring this to church at your
convenience,

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.

NEW WEB SITE Please note that the web site for the parish is now - www.scribd.com/user/2399056

Pews - Please try to leave the pews tidy after Mass

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
March 15th Lourdes Coffee Morning –After Mass.
June 7th Spring Garden Party. LS26 who sang and entertained last summer will be with us again
in 2020. Further details will follow.

LENT This period of 40 days is an essential part of our spiritual preparation and development. It
is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on where exactly we are in life and in what direction (if any)
we are travelling. We may also consider our relationship with God and with each other. In other
words,- this time is a chance to see what is wrong and make the much needed changes.
REMEMBER – If we go on doing what we’ve always done, we are going to keep on getting what
we’ve always got.

CAR PARK We are hoping in the next few weeks to resurface the car park. This will inevitably
mean closure for probably a week, to allow to be undertaken and for the new surface to settle. I
will advise details shortly and offer apologies for any inconvenience which this temporary situation
may cause.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS APPEALS SERVICE is seeking volunteers to sit a school admission

appeals panel for catholic schools throughout the Leeds Diocese. No previous experience is
necessary as training will be given. Training will be held on Tuesday 10 th March 9.30 – 12.30 at
Hinsley Hall Leeds for further info please see Fr È.

JESUS, JUSTICE AND JOY 4th April 10.15 – 16.15. Leeds Trinity University does going to
church seem disconnected from the rest of your life? Come along to this inspiring day led by John
Bell of Iona Community. Please register jandp@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH Growing old gracefully is joining with the Leeds Church
Institute and Faith in Elderly People to organise a one-day event on Wednesday 18th March at
Leeds Church Institute under the title ‘A Matter of Life and Death’. A day to talk more openly
about dying, death and bereavement.

NEW READERS/EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS List now at back of church.

LENTEN LUNCH Tuesday 3rd March. 12 Noon in the hall.

HARRY POTTER NIGHT February 29th (3/4) Tickets on sale after weekend masses. Prize for
quiz winner and prize for best Harry potter fancy dress. All proceeds to our Young People’s trip to
Lourdes this summer.

Creativity is a way of living that is open to us all, because it arises from the spirit within us. This is
one of the best-kept secrets in the Western world. In fact, we have been taught the opposite: that
creativity is only for the elitist few.
Of course there are in every generation some very specially talented artists, whose work brings
great pleasure and joy. But if we put these great artists on a pedestal, to the exclusion of
everyone else, we can kill off the creative gifts in the rest of us. And if we do that, we destroy our
vitality as a people.

Not every artist is a special kind of person but every person is a special kind of artist.

ERIC GILL