St.

Mary's Church
40 Park Lane
Rothwell
Leeds LS26 0ES Telephone 0113 282 4453
Web Site www.scribd.com/user/2399056
Clergy Father Éamon McGeough Registered Charity no. 249404

MASS TIMES
Monday 9th March 10.00 a.m Mass

Tuesday 10th March 10.00 a.m Mass (Tom Marshall)

Wednesday 11th March 10.00 a.m Mass (Martin Porritt)

Thursday 12th March 10.00 a.m Eucharistic Service

Friday 13th March 10.00 a.m Mass (Pauline Power)

Saturday 14th March 6.00 p.m Vigil Mass

Sunday 15th March 9.30 a.m Mass (Health and Wellbeing)

11.00 a.m Mass (Pro Pop)

Collection £847 Many Thanks

CHILDREN’S SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday 21s March. 9 a.m St Mary’s.

PARISH COUNCIL The next parish Council meeting will be held on Thursday 12th March 7 p.m in the
presbytery.

RED BOXES If anyone has a red mission box that needs emptying, please bring this to church at your
convenience,

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.

NEW WEB SITE Please note that the web site for the parish is now - www.scribd.com/user/2399056

Pews - Please try to leave the pews tidy after Mass

 WELCOME
to Erin May Gallagher who will be baptised in our Catholic Community this weekend and
James Holgate who was baptised last Sunday.

CORONOVIRUS The current advice is to wash hands (while singing either the National Anthem
or Happy Birthday) and carry on regardless. We adhere to this. However, if you don’t feel so
well, we do advise you to stay at home for safety sake.

EASTER In addition to the normal Easter services we will be having a walk of witness beginning
at various sites in Rothwell before joining in the centre of the town. We start here at St Mary’s at
9.30 a.m. On Easter Sunday we will have an Easter Sunrise Service at Springhead Park –
Sunrise on 12th April is at 6.12 a.m.

ECUMENICAL SERVICES We will be having quarterly Ecumenical services in the community

over the next year. This will be a great opportunity to get together with our fellow Christians in
Rothwell. The schedule will be:

3rd May Holy Trinity

17th July St Mary’s
11th October Rothwell Methodist
24th Jan 2021 Rothwell Baptist
All services will begin at 6 p.m.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

March 15th Lourdes Coffee Morning –After Mass.
June 7th Spring Garden Party. LS26 who sang and entertained last summer will be with us
again in 2020. Further details will follow.

LENT This period of 40 days is an essential part of our spiritual preparation and development. It
is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on where exactly we are in life and in what direction (if any)
we are travelling. We may also consider our relationship with God and with each other. In other
words,- this time is a chance to see what is wrong and make the much needed changes.
REMEMBER – If we go on doing what we’ve always done, we are going to keep on getting what
we’ve always got.

CAR PARK We are hoping in the next few weeks to resurface the car park. This will inevitably
mean closure for probably a week, to allow to be undertaken and for the new surface to settle. I
will advise details shortly and offer apologies for any inconvenience which this temporary
situation may cause.

JESUS, JUSTICE AND JOY 4th April 10.15 – 16.15. Leeds Trinity University does going to
church seem disconnected from the rest of your life? Come along to this inspiring day led by
John Bell of Iona Community. Please register jandp@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

When we feel the pain of the constriction between the perfect love in our hearts and the
obstacles to its complete realisation, it breaks our heart. When the heart breaks open we hurt,
and in this pain we feel raw and tender — but we are, at that point, in touch with the very
essence of who we are.

I have known shadow

I have known sun
And now I know
These two are one.

RUDYARD KIPLING