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

Contact: Tele: 0113 245 4545

Email: cathedral@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

Website: www.leedscathedral.org.uk

Deacons: Rev Deacon John Lythe

Rev Deacon Michael Mkpadi

Sisters: Sr Beatrice Ogbonna DMMM

Sr Martin Raphael Akpan DMMM

Sr Angelina Osuagwu DMMM

Day Feast Liturgy Times

Mass Intentions

Sun Vigil Mass 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

6.00pm 9.30am 11.00am 6.00pm

Thelma Henderson. RIP Mary Easton, RIP Margaret Freer, RIP Walter Tarpey, Anniversary

Mon St. Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist

8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

Yorkshire Brethren John Lynch, RIP November Dead List

Tues 8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

November Dead List Antonio Geronimo, RIP Elizabeth Younger, RIP

Wed St. Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest (Padre Pio)

8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

November Dead List Deceased Barker Family Sarah Shadid, Birthday

Thurs Our Lady of Walsingham 8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

Bridie McCullogh, RIP November Dead List Sanctification of Priests and Vocations

Fri 8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

Ken Hawley, RIP November Dead List Fr Austin O’Neil, RIP

Sat

12noon Mark, Natalie & Natashia, Intention

LES LECTURES DE LA MESSE sont disponsibles en francais. LAS LECTURAS DE LA MISA están

disponibles en Español

COFFEE IS SERVED in Wheeler Hall each Sunday after 11.00am Mass.

THE CATHEDRAL 20 THE CATHEDRAL 20 THE CATHEDRAL 20 THE CATHEDRAL 20 ---- 35 GR 35 GR 35 GR 35 GROUP OUP OUP OUP meets regularly for spiritual and social activities. If you would like to join, search for ‘Leeds Cathedral 20-35 group’ on Facebook. or tel: 07816 891872 or 07759 591233 or e-mail: leedscathedral20-35@hotmail.co.uk

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

choir term time)

Angelus Monday - Friday 12noon Rosary Monday - Friday 12noon

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament:

Monday - Friday 3.00pm - 5.00pm

Your Offerings last week; £1284.33 Received with thanks.

PLEASE REMEMBER LEEDS CATHEDRAL IN YOUR WILL

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time - 20th September 2009

Hymns: 801, 663 Credo III (hymn no. 503)

9.30am: girls Messe d’Escalquens Langlais Mater gratiae Faure

O Esca viatorum Anon

11.00am: boys Be still my soul Sibelius Panis angelicus Franck

MASS INTENTIONS: Clare Carroll, Anniversary; Gavina,

Felino, Satronio & Aralar, RIP; Donars Intention; Deceased

members of the Barker Family; Thanksgiving; Annie Joyce,

RIP; Sr Anna Smith, Healing; Keith Lumb; Mgr Peter

McGuire, Birthday; Marie Fair, Healing.

TODAY IS HOME MISSION SUNDAY There will be a retiring collection for the work of the Catholic Agency to Support Evangelisation. There are leaflets explaining the work of CASE for you to take.

WE WELCOME INTO THE CHURCH

Maria Florence Krugielka, who will be baptised after the 11.00am Mass today.

THE 2009 CATHEDRAL LECTURES - the next is on Wednesday, 7th October in Wheeler Hall at 7.00pm, with Canon John Redford speaking on ‘The historical Jesus was God’ Admission free; retiring collection.

THE TIME when we shall receive St Thérèse’s relics in the Cathedral grows closer (3rd - 5th October). Timetables are available to take home. When planning your visit, please bear in mind that weekend Mass times are as normal and open to all, but the Opening & Departure services are, in the first instance, ticket only. VOLUNTEERS are still needed for 5 important tasks during the visit: stewarding, welcoming, book stall, watching before the relics/Blessed Sacrament. To help with stewarding, contact Tony on (0113) 2494707, fax (0113) 235 9070 or e-mail: edwinbritten@aol.com, or Brian on (0113) 2618057; to join any of the other teams, contact Mrs Josephine Stow at e-mail: josephine.stow@dioceseofleeds.org.uk or on (0113) 261 8057 or visit the website for further details http://saintthereserelicsleeds.webeden. co.uk A LITANY to St Thérèse will be recited in front of her icon each day from next Thursday (24th) after the 12.30pm Mass (Mon - Fri), 12noon Mass (Sat), 6.00pm Mass (Sun). A copy is available to take.

THE CATHEDRAL MARRIAGE PREPARATION

COURSE is in Wheeler Hall on the following Saturdays from 10.30am - 3.30pm: 31st October, 28th November & 5th December. For details and bookings, contact Deacon Michael Mkpadi on 07884 197 261; e-mail: mcmkpadi@yahoo.co.uk (Before booking, please ensure you have discussed your wedding arrangements with your priest)

THE WALSINGHAM PILGRIMAGE is next

Saturday, 26th September. The pilgrims will

remember you and your intentions in their

prayers; please remember them in yours. The Coach

leaves the Cathedral at 6.15am

THE ANNUAL BATLEY TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION in honour of Our Lady is on Monday 5th October, beginning at 7.30pm in the Market Square and ending with Benediction in St Mary’s Church. Bishop Roche will preside; Bishop Drainey of Middlesbrough will preach. Pie & Pea supper in the parish hall will follow.

BOYS & GIRLS BOYS & GIRLS BOYS & GIRLS BOYS & GIRLS who have made their First Communion, and who would like to serve at the Sunday 9.30am Mass, are invited to an initial meeting in the Cathedral after the 11am Mass THISTHISTHISTHIS Sunday, 20th September. For details, contact Fr McLaughlin.

CONFIRMATION Bishop David Konstant will celebrate the sacrament of Confirmation here in the Cathedral during the 6.00pm Vigil Mass on Saturday 24th October. This is especially for those who, for some reason, have been unable to receive the sacrament on an earlier occasion. If this applies to you, please see one of the priests.

THE PRESENTATIONS TO FR SAM OFIA MSP & SR

MARTIN RAPHAEL DMMM will be made at the

11.00am Mass next Sunday, 27th September. Any

offerings should be placed in the envelopes provided and

be in by tonight (20th September). Please make any

cheques payable to St Anne’s Cathedral.

SEE UP TO DATE PHOTOGRAPHS of the work

in progress on the organ. So far, we have raised

£34,500 towards the €700,000 cost. Many thanks

to our generous donors. If you have ideas for

raising money, please contact Luke Mee on � (0113) 240

2902; e-mail: lukecaledonian@yahoo.co.uk You can still

donate by sponsoring a pipe.

JOURNEY INTO FAITH

There will be an initial meeting for anyone interested in learning more about the Catholic faith on Thursday 29th October at 6.30pm, in Wheeler Hall. All welcome. (The course runs from

October to June).

IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE CATHEDRAL - WELCOME! If you are able to contribute to the offertory collection by envelope or bankers’ order, please have a word with one of the priests or deacons. Tax-payers can increase the value of their giving by signing a Gift Aid Declaration. The Cathedral needs your support!

CATHOLIC CARE is holding its AGM at 4.00pm on Tuesday 29th September at Mt St Joseph’s Home, Headingley. The speaker is Dr Adrian Treloar, specialist in Old Age Psychiatry, who will speak on The Church, Life and the Dignity of Elderly People. All welcome.

THERE’S A HARVEST APPEAL for St George’s Crypt

(currently housed in former St Michael’s College). The

Crypt is hoping to replenish its storage cupboards with

tins and packets of non-perishable foods. There’s a box

in the Martyrs’ chapel in which you may put appropriate

items.

THERE WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL

information meeting with a view to restarting the St Vincent de Paul Society in

the Cathedral. There’ll be an initial meeting for those who are interested in joining at 7.00pm on Sunday 11th October, in the Chapter Room.

ST GEMMA’S HOSPICE Annual Flag Day in Leeds is

next Saturday, 26th September. If you can help in the city

centre or in your local area, please contact Anne on

(0113) 218 565; e-mail: annem@st-gemma.co.uk

More items may be found on the Cathedral website

AGE TO AGE CONCERT - Contemporary Catholic song writing duo Boyce & Stanley, together with their band, will be performing a concert of contemporary Christian music on Saturday 31st October at 7.30pm in Wheeler Hall, featuring tracks from their recent release “Age to Age II” containing many of the well-loved, classic hymns. Tickets cost £7.50 for adults, £5.00 for concessions (only available in advance) available from the Cathedral (0113 2454545) Requests for tickets to be sent by post, must be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope.

CATHOLIC CARE currently has several vacancies for care workers/social workers. Please contact Janet Flynn on (0113) 3885400, or see poster on notice board.

‘GOD’S CREATION IS UNDER THREAT!’ See poster

about two talks in the Assumption Parish Centre, Spen

Lane, Leeds on 22nd September & 6th October.

IF YOU ARE an Extraordinary Minister of Holy

Communion or Reader 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.

PLEASE REMEMBER to switch off your

mobile phone when you enter the

Cathedral.

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.

LEEDS CATHEDRAL FORMER CHORISTERS’

ASSOCIATION If you are a fomer chorister, why not join this newly-formed group? Contact Simon Lee on e-mail: leedscathedralformerchoristers@googlemail.com.

THE ‘CARE NOT KILLING’ ALLIANCE (which

promotes palliative care and opposes euthanasia) has

organised an e-petition to the Prime Minister, opposing

the legalistation of assisted suicide. No person’s life is

without worth in God’s eyes. Sign the petition on-line,

go to: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/notolegalsuicide

YEAR OF PRAYER FOR PRIESTS: The Pope has

inaugurated a special year of “Prayer for Priests”. During this

year, the 5.30pm Mass each Thursday will be offered for the

sanctity of priests and priestly vocations. There is a leaflet on

Indulgences to take home. The following prayer has been issued

by the Congregation for Clergy. “Dear Lord, we pray that the

Blessed Mother wrap her mantle around your priests and

through her intercession, strengthen them for their

ministry. We pray that Mary will guide your priests to

follow her own words, “Do whatever He tells you” (Jn

2:5). May your priests have the heart of St. Joseph, Mary’s

most chaste spouse. May the Blessed Mother’s own pierced

heart inspire them to embrace all who suffer at the foot of

the cross. May your priests be holy, filled with the fire of

your love, seeking nothing but your greater glory and the

salvation of souls. Amen. St John Vianney, pray for us.”

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

THE CATHEDRAL’S SAFEGUARDING representatives are Angela Hilton, Pam Lythe, Roddy Minogue and Janet Perman. Their details are displayed on the noticeboard at the back of the cathedral, and elsewhere on the premises.

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 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

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.

DO TAKE CARE DO TAKE CARE DO TAKE CARE DO TAKE CARE of bags and personal belongings whilst

going to Holy Communion, lighting a candle etc. Thieves

have been operating recently!