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

Monday 28th Jan 10.00 a.m Mass

Tuesday 29th Jan 10.00 a.m Mass (Paul Brady)

1.00 p.m Requiem Mass (Bienvenida Dunwell)

Wednesday30th Jan 10.00 a.m Mass (Steven Walsh)

Thursday 31st Jan 10.00 a.m Eucharistic Service

Friday 1st Feb 10.00 a.m Mass (Betty Greenslade)

Saturday 2nd Feb 6.00 p.m Vigil Mass (Pro Pop)

Sunday 3rd Feb 9.30 a.m Mass (Dan Kelleher)

11.00 a.m Mass (Antonio Abatiello)

Collection £860. 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.

SVP COFFEE MORNING After both masses Sunday 3rd February.

Pews - Please try to leave the pews tidy after Mass. Thank you.
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 now available. 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.

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.

CATECHISTS MEETING Saturday 9th March. Hinsley Hall 10.00 a.m – 1 p.m. The Diocese
invites all catechists and those included in faith formation to a meeting at Hinsley Hall. – there will
be the chance to meet the new catechesis co-ordinators Gregory Stacey and Kieran Hughes.

REFUGEE RESPONSE The Diocesan Refugee Support Group invites you to attend their event on
Tuesday 12th February 7 p.m – 9 p.m. St Williams Church Hall, Ingleby Road Bradford. BD8 9AJ.

PARISH HELPERS We are graced to enjoy a beautiful and thriving parish at St Mary’s in
Rothwell. All goes well but it does so because of the many hands who give of themselves selfishly
in so many ways. We would like to invite many more parishioners to perhaps consider getting
involved with either the parish council or parish social committee. Neither of these present an
onerous challenge, meeting as they do 3 to 4 times per year. Please contribute to your parish. Fr È.

YOUTH 2000 YOUNG ADULTS RETREAT WEEKEND 15th – 17th February. Leeds Trinity
University – Aged twixt 16-30 years? You are invited to a weekend of talks, workshops, liturgy,
worship and friendship for young Catholic adults. See www.facebook.com/pg/youth2000/events.

DAY OF REFLECTION Caring for the Earth – Our common home. The Justice and Peace
Commission have organized a day of reflection on 30th March @ St John Fisher & Thomas More
Burley in Wharfedale LS29 7PX. It will start with community mass @ 10.00 a.m and finish around
4 p.m.

RETREAT DAY We have provisionally booked a retreat day at Ampleforth monastery on

Saturday 18th May. The cost per head is £31.00, which includes refreshments in the
morning/afternoon and a light lunch. I will need to confirm this within the next 3-4 weeks. So if you
are interested, please see me by the 17th February.

Our experience of feeling powerless, wounded or broken is part of what

it means to be human. Often it is our wounds that lead us into the deeper
places of interchange. We go through our wounds to the places of
purification and repentance, where we are opened to the way of recovery
and greater wholeness.

Pain is life, the sharper the pain the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB