Leeds Cathedral

Catholic Cathedral Church of St Anne

Cathedral House

Great George Street Leeds LS2 8BE

Cathedral Staff:

Priests: Rev Mgr Philip Moger

Rev Fr Michael McLaughlin

Rev Fr Samuel Ofia MSP

Deacons: Rev Deacon John Lythe

Rev Deacon Michael Mkpadi

Contact: Tele: 0113 245 4545

Email: cathedral@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

Website: www.leedscathedral.org.uk

Sisters: Sr Beatrice Ogbonna DMMM

Sr Martin Raphael Akpan DMMM

Sr Angelina Osuagwu DMMM

Day Feast Liturgy Times

Mass Intentions

Sun Vigil Mass 3rd Sunday of Easter

6.00pm 9.30am 11.00am 6.00pm

Private Intention Thelma Henderson, RIP Private Intention Pro Populo

Mon 8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

Mary Easton, RIP Florence Bartle, Anniversary Margaret Freer, RIP

Tues 8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

November Dead List Secular Franciscans Int. Hudson Green, RIP

Wed St Catherine of Siena, virgin & doctor, co-patron of Europe

8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

Sheila Allen, RIP November Dead List Eileen Grey, Anniversary

Thurs 8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

Sarah Vardy, RIP Anson Shepherd, RIP November Dead List

Fri St Joseph the Worker 8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

November Dead List Special Intentions Aloysius Conlan, RIP

Sat St Athanasius, bishop & doctor 12noon Anne Brickland

YORKSHIRE BOYS’ CHOIR FESTIVAL - will take place on Sunday 3rd May at 4.00pm. The Harrogate, Huddersfield and Bradford Boys' Choirs join the boys of Leeds Cathedral in music by Langlais, Elgar and Roberts

PLEASE REMEMBER to switch off your

mobile phone when you enter the

Cathedral.

Music Department:

Director of Music: Benjamin Saunders

Secretary: Claudine Tat

Contact: 0113 244 8634

Email office@dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk

Website: www.dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk

Wheeler Hall:

Administrator: Mrs Geraldine Manfredonia

Contact: 0113 243 6871

Email: cathedralhall@btinternet.com

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Monday - Friday

11.00am - 12.15pm

4.30pm - 5.00pm

Saturday

10.30am - 11.45am

4.30pm - 5.30pm

Vespers

Monday - Friday 5.10pm

(Sung Tuesday - Thursday in

term time)

Regina coeli Monday - Friday

12noon

Rosary Monday - Friday

12noon

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Monday - Friday

3.-00pm - 5.00pm

Your Offerings last week: £ 1468.14 Received with thanks.

PLEASE REMEMBER LEEDS CATHEDRAL IN YOUR WILL

3rd Sunday of Easter - 26th April 2009

Music

Hymns: 267, 275 9.30am Mass Cantor

11.00am Solemn Mass Adults

6.00pm Mass Organ and Cantor

MASS INTENTIONS: Anne Doocey, RIP; George

Quirke, Birthday Anniversary; Donars Intention x 3;

Greek Doctor; Florie Staples; Arthur Paul, RIP; Florence

Bartle; Srs Helen and Angela, Return to Health; Canon

Hester, Return to Health; Garry Budden.

WE WELCOME INTO THE CHURCH Abigail Semuswi and Jay Francis Shimwe who will be baptised after 11.00am Mass today.

THE CATHEDRAL 20 THE CATHEDRAL 20 THE CATHEDRAL 20 THE CATHEDRAL 20 ---- 35 GROUP 35 GROUP 35 GROUP 35 GROUP meets at 7.00pm next Wednesday, 29th April, in Cathedral House. For details go to the group’s Facebook site.

MANY THANKS for your generous Easter offerings; for your cards and gifts; and for all that you do for the life and fabric of the Cathedral.

Consultation On Parish Structures In The Leeds Area

Last October, I issued a DVD presentation which accompanied my Pastoral Letter, and which invited you to address a number of questions and considerations which face our parish structures in the city, and the environs of Leeds. I asked you to let me know your views by March 31st, and I am delighted to have received your counsel.

At this stage, I have taken a preliminary look at your submissions. It is immediately clear to me however, that many of you have entered into a process of collaborative discussion and debate as parish councils or other groups, in order to make your responses. I am very encouraged by your commitment to the process we have entered into.

I now need time to digest the observations, concerns, and suggestions you have put before me for my consideration and, at the same time, to reflect and pray about my response, in order to bring to you a plan for future pastoral structures in the area. Meanwhile, I wish first of all to thank you for your contribution so far and, secondly, to let you know that I hope to bring forward my proposal in the early part of the autumn. Please keep me in your prayers. Devotedly and with my blessing, �Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds

JOURNEY INTO FAITH continues at 6.30pm next Thursday, 30th April

when we will be discussing

“Praying the Mass - Part Two”.

Good Shepherd Sunday: Next Sunday 3rd May, we celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday. Jesus Christ, as the Good Shepherd, entrusted this role of care and leadership to the apostles. This ministry continued today by the bishops, priests and deacons who are called to serve God and his people in a special way. We are invited to join the universal church in praying for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life. To assist in the financing of those studying for the priesthood and to enable the work of appealing for vocations to continue, a second collection will be taken at all Masses next weekend for the Priest’s Training Fund.

THE RELICS OF ST THERESE OF LISIEUX will

be in the Cathedral from 3rd - 5th

October.

THE LADY CHAPEL It is hoped that the next phase of

refurbishment will start at the beginning of May. Thanks to

two generous donors, the wall paintings of the angels, either

side of the reredos, will be restored. During this time, the

Blessed Sacrament will be reserved in the Chapel of the

Sacred Heart.

TREASURES REVEALED IN LEEDS is a festival to

make places of worship in the city better known. The

Cathedral is participating in this project, which runs

from 2nd - 10th May. Some festival leaflets are

available at the back of the Cathedral.

FLORES DE MAYO & SANTACRUZAN (A Filipino devotion & procession in honour of Our Lady & the Holy Cross) will be held in the Cathedral on Sunday 31st May, at 12.30pm, including Mass in Tagalog and refreshments.

THE NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF UNFAILING

HELP will be from Friday 19th June until Saturday 27th June.

A SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING to mark the Churches’

support of local and city-wide community projects in

Leeds, will be held in the Cathedral at 3.00pm on Sunday

10th May. The preacher will be Rt Rev John Packer,

Bishop of Ripon & Leeds.

THIS YEAR’S DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES runs from 3rd - 10th July. Anyone interested in helping the sick and less able should contact Sheila Ambler to enable appropriate training. Financial help is available to support the 18 - 25 age group. See poster, or � Sheila on 01937 845835 for details

FAITH IN A TIME OF CRISIS - a talk

under the auspices of Aid to the Church

in Need given by Fr Samer Nassif about

the challenges that confront Christians in

Lebanon and the Holy Land at English Martyrs

Church, Dalton Terrace, York YO24 4DA, on

Saturday 16th May following Mass at 12noon.

Admission free; refreshments provided.

LES LECTURES DE LA MESSE sont disponsibles en

francais. LAS LECTURAS DE LA MISA están disponibles

en Español

COFFEE IS SERVED in Wheeler Hall (next door

to the Cathedral, accessed via St Anne’s Street) each Sunday after the 11am Mass. All welcome

HOLY COMMUNION In order to assist in the orderly

procession of communicants, please allow those in the transepts (the side-facing benches) to go before

those in the nave. This is especially important at busy Masses

HEALTH & SAFETY TIP Lighting a candle is a symbol of our prayer and a way of extending it when we can no longer be there. But, please place lighted candles only in the sockets provided. If there isn’t room, leave your unlit votive candle on the tray beneath the lighted candles. It will be lighted for you when there is room.

More items may be found on the Cathedral website

LEEDS MUSEUM in Calverley Street, is currently holding an exhibition 'Faith in the City' showing the

variety of faith communities in Leeds. There’s a

display of artefacts (including some from the

cathedral) and a short film

A RETREAT FOR THE EASTER SEASON The Pentecost Holy Spirit Weekend is from Friday 19th - Sunday 21st June 2009 at Hinsley Hall. The cost is £145 which includes full board, en-suite rooms. For more information contact Mrs Janine Garnett on � 261

8040; e-mail: Janine.garnett@dioceseofleeds.org.uk or www.comeandsee.org.uk

PRAYER The Jesuits run a very useful website called “Sacred Space”, which gives a prayer for each day and a simple method of meditation. Could be useful for those few spare minutes you may have at lunchtime! www.sacredspace.ie

OFFERTORY ENVELOPES ARE STILL AVAILABLE * For those who currently use envelopes; * For those who do not currently use envelopes If you attend the Cathedral reguarly, please consider supporting it by regular giving, either with envelopes or by Bankers’ Standing Order (forms are available after Mass). If you are a UK taxpayer, completing a GAD form (Gift Aid Donation) increases your contribution - at no extra cost to you ! - by 28p in every £1.

CATHOLIC SINGLES is an organisation which helps single practising Catholics meet up, either one to one or through social events. For more information please tel. 0161 941 3498, visit the website www.catholicsingles.org.uk or email info@catholicsingles.org.uk

IF YOU ARE an Extraordinary Minister of Holy

Communion in a parish other than the Cathedral,

and would be willing to exercise your ministry at a

weekday Mass here (especially the 12.30pm Mass),

please contact one of the priests.

VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED to work as ‘Street Chaplains’ in Leeds city centre, from 10.00pm -

2.00am on one Friday per month. This is an ecumenical response to the needs of people using the

city centre. People are needed to work on the streets in small groups or to staff the base at Holy Trinity

Church. If you can help, contact Rev Dr Adrian

Burdon on 0113 2752793, or e-mail: street.chaplains@btinternet.com. Some members of

our congregation have already signed up to this initiative.

LEEDS DIOCESAN YOUTH SERVICELEEDS DIOCESAN YOUTH SERVICELEEDS DIOCESAN YOUTH SERVICELEEDS DIOCESAN YOUTH SERVICE - has opportunities for young people to go to LOURDES. If you are not already booked on the Leeds Diocesan Pilgrimage, you can do this in one of three ways: 1) Those over 18yrs of age can go as a helper in the hospital. 2) You can book on as an ordinary pilgrim - no work and no responsibility other than praying hard, etc! (Please contact the pilgrimage director, Fr. Chris Irving on 01484 866669 for options 1 and 2) 3) Those in school years 10 & 12 who do not attend a Catholic School, can apply via the Youth Office. Contact Anna Cowell or Fr. Stephen on 0113 2618058