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 9th December 9.30 a.m Mass (David Turner)

10.15 a.m Funeral Service

Tuesday 10th December 10.00 a.m Mass (Herbert & Sarah Craven)NDL

Wednesday 11th December 10.00 a.m Mass (John MaClean) NDL

Thursday 12th December 10.00 a.m Eucharistic Service

Friday 13th December 10.00 a.m Mass (Norman Hart) NDL

Saturday 14th December 6.00 p.m Vigil Mass (Graham Family) NDL

Sunday 15th December 9.30 a.m Mass (Nowel & McNicholas Families) NDL

11.00 a.m Mass (Tom Marshall) NDL

Last week’s Collection Total £1120. 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.
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

JOYCE MARSHALL would like to thank everyone for their contribution to the beautiful Requiem Mass for
Tom. – It would have been his Silver Jubilee of Ordination to the Diaconate on 8th December. Joyce also
thanks the many people for their good wishes, kindness and support that meant so much to her and her
family at this difficult time.

SVP COFFEE MORNING Raised £150.45. Thank you to everyone who contributed.

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

ROTHWELL ST MARY’S – PARISH AFTERNOON Thursday 12th December 1.30 p.m. All welcome. Relieve
the stress of General Election Day and come and meet and be entertained by our children.

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.

Our inner beauty flows through our eyes, our smile, our expression, our gestures, our peacefulness, our warmth,
our joy, our concern. We stultify our own beauty by trying to model ourselves on the images that are set for us by
others about the way we think we should look, the way we should feel, the way we should dress, walk and talk.
Instead of being dissatisfied ourselves, we will be more joyful if we honour the sacred garment that is given to us
for our journey, a garment that is beautiful and a work of art.

What you want is profoundly expensive

And difficult to find,
Yet close by.

LALLA