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 18th Mar 10.00 a.m Mass

Tuesday 19th Mar 10.00 a.m Eucharistic Service

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Wednesday 20 Mar 10.00 a.m Mass

Thursday 21st Mar 10.00 a.m Mass

Friday 22nd Mar 10.00 a.m Mass

Saturday 23rd Mar 6.00 p.m Vigil Mass (Pro Pop)

Sunday 24th Mar 9.30 a.m Mass (Margaret Taylor)

11.00 a.m Mass (C Kelly Thanksgiving)

Welcome to Henrietta Mildred Mitchell-Boyer who will be

baptised into our Catholic Community this weekend.
Collection £1028 Many Thanks
All things seem possible to us when we are young. All the world’s problems look solvable. It all seems so
simple to us as children – if people would just love each other.
As we grow older we discover the complexities of the world and learn something we did not know as a child
– that everything in the world is interrelated and interconnected, and that if we are to change any of these
features we thought of as problems we have to be prepared for everything to change, for good or for ill.
As we grow older we need to hold on to the hope, the vision, the enthusiasm of childhood. We can’t solve
the world’s problems, but we need to believe that by changing even one thing for the good of another, we
are in fact affecting every other part of the world in a way that we cannot comprehend.

When we try to pick out something by itself, we find

it hitched to everything else in the universe.

JOHN MUIR
HARBOUR PRAYER GROUP St Pio Friary, 7 p.m – 9 p.m Fridays. This is an adult prayer group run by
the Franciscan Friars of the renewal every Friday @ St Pio Friary, 1 Sedgefield Terrace, Bradford
BD1 2RU.

DAY OF RECOLLECTION:- CARING FOR THE EARTH! OUR COMMON HOME The Justice and Peace
Commission have organised a day of reflection on 30th March 2019. It will take place at St John
Fisher and Thomas More, Burley in Wharfedale. LS29 7PX. It will start with community mass @
10.00 a.m and finish around 4 p.m. the day is free to attend but please email
jandp@dioceseofleeds.org.uk to book a place.

LENT This is a time of renewal – of abstinence, of reconnection with God and ourselves. Please
take advantage for God’s sake and for your sake.

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.

ROTHWELL MUSIC FESTIVAL Please support this festival on your doorstep. 20/21/23 March 2019.
Blackburn Hall and Methodist Church. Programmes now on sale £3.00 Olwyn Fox. Admission £3.00 on the
door. – Contact Margaret Wilkes 0113 293 2960.

Red Box Mission £378.87 was sent to the Mill Hill Missions. Thank you to everyone with a red box. Toni
McElroy.

1st Confessions Just a quick reminder that 1st Confessions will be held next Saturday at 9.00 a.m

THE RE-DEDICATION OF ENGLAND AS THE DOWRY OF MARY

The Catholic bishops of England have decided upon the rededication of England as the ‘Dowry of Mary’.
This is to take place on March 25th, the feast of the Annunciation 2020.
In preparation for this great event there will be a two-year spiritual preparation during which the statue of
Our Lady of Walsingham will be taken to every cathedral in England for a three-day triduum of prayer. This
is being done under the banner of the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom, in partnership with the Catholic
National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, and with the support of Youth 2000.
Each triduum will begin on a Thursday evening, all day Friday, Friday evening with a possible ‘night fever’
style adoration event, and conclude on Saturday with mass around midday.
What exactly is the ‘Dowry of Mary’?
Unique among all the nations, the Catholics of England have believed for centuries that their nation is in a
special way the ‘Dowry of Mary’
The word ‘dowry’ (from the Latin dos, meaning ‘donation’) is sometimes understood as the donation
accompanying a bride. In medieval English law, however, the meaning is reversed – a husband would set
apart a portion of his estate designated for the maintenance of his wife, should she become a widow. The
historical understanding of England as ‘Mary’s Dowry’ is understood in this sense – that England has been
‘set apart’ for Mary.

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