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 21st Jan 10.00 a.m Mass (M Rigby)

Tuesday 22nd Jan 10.00 a.m Eucharistic Service

Wednesday 23rd Jan 10.00 a.m Mass (Eileen Grey)

Thursday 24th Jan 10.00 a.m Mass

11.15 a.m Funeral Service (Austin Moorcroft)

Friday 25th Jan 10.00 a.m Mass Special Intention (M)

Saturday 26th Jan 6.00 p.m Vigil Mass (Hannah Heany)

Sunday 27th Jan 9.30 a.m Mass (Angela McKeown))

11.00 a.m Mass (Doreen Crosthwaite)

Collection £1081. 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

By the Round Pond

You watch yourself. You watch the watcher too –

A ghostly figure on the garden wall.
And one of you is her, and one is you,
If either one of you exists at all.

How strange to be the one behind a face,

To have a name and know that it is yours,
To be in this particular green place,
To see a snail advance, to see it pause.

You sit quite still and wonder when you’ll go.

It could be now. Or now. Or now. You stay.
Who’s making up the plot? You’ll never know.
Minute after minute swims away. Wendy Cope