St.

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

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

Registered Charity no. 249404 Mass Times

Monday 14th January 10.00 a.m Mass

Tuesday 15th January 10.00 a.m Holy Souls

Wednesday 16th January 10.00 a.m Mass (Louis Murphy)

Thursday 17th January 10.00 a.m Eucharistic Service

Friday 18th January 10.00 a.m Mass (Elvia & Glen Waterhouse)

Saturday 19th January 6.00 p.m Vigil Mass (Mary & Martin Graham)

Sunday 20th January 9.30 a.m Mass (Pro Pop)

11.00 a.m Mass (D’d Members McDermott &

McElroy Families)

Collection £861 Many Thanks

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 We are still receiving much needed supplies which are delivered to the food bank in
Rothwell every Thursday. If you haven’t yet been able to donate, could you perhaps add an extra item
to your weekly shopping for those who are experiencing the great poverty of hunger in our
community.
CEILI The final social event in our winter programme will be a Ceili to be held on Saturday 23rd
February @ 7.15 p.m onwards. Tickets will be available shortly. As floor space will be at a premium to
allow dance numbers will have to be limited to 60-70. Therefore, if you are interested and would like to
come, please let me know asap.

RED MISSION BOX If anyone has a Red Mission Box which needs emptying, please bring it into church
at your convenience.

S.V.P COFFEE The SVP coffee morning raised £103.89. Whilst the Sudan Crib Appeal raised £151.18.
Many thanks to everyone who contributed.

PARISH COUNCIL
The next Parish Council Meeting will be on Thursday 17th January in the Presbytery.

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD SHOEBOX APPEAL All shoeboxes collected from our region
for 2018 were sent to Belarus. –A total of 8600. Total from the UK was 509,055. Many thanks to all
concerned.

CONCERT Olivier Messiaenen’s La Nativité du Seigneur. Leeds Cathedral Sunday 13th January 7 p.m.
free admission with retiring collection. This is a launch event of the Leeds International Organ Festival
2019.

LAY CHAPLAIN VACANCY All Saints Catholic College Huddersfield seek to recruit a Lay Chaplain.
24 hrs/week, (Term time plus 1 day only), grade 7 (£11,960 p.a), Closing date for applications 14th
January. Start date Feb 2019. See www.aschc.com/vacancies

A RETREAT WITH A DIFFERENCE A Foyer de Chanté retreat will be held at Hinsley Hall, the
Diocese of Leeds Pastoral Centre, from Sunday 21st July (6 p.m) – Saturday 27th July (2 p.m). The theme
is ‘God’s plan for the Fullness of Time’ and the preacher will be Mgr Keith Barltrop. Foyer retreats are
held mainly in silence, with 3 talks/day – and offer an holistic way of deepening our faith.
keithbarltrop@redow.org.uk or 07879 953 953.

The Greek language distinguishes between Chronos, which means measurable clock time,
or calendar time, and Kairos, which has a variety of meanings including the opportune or
favourable time. Kairos can mean also a time that is made special and gracious by a sense
of one’s presence to oneself, to creation and to the Creator; we can think of this as God’s
time.
Our age is obsessed with chronus. Our daily lives are ruled by schedules and it is a
constant battle to keep things on time. But we need also to make room in our lives for
Kairos, or holy time. And to do that, we need to listen to the voice within us that is
reminding us to stop, the voice that is trying to reveal to us when it is time to sow or reap,
to wait or to go.
Health requires this relaxation
The aimless life,
This life in the present.
Henry David Thoreau