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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 Boniface Akpoigbe MSP
Contact: Tele: 0113 245 4545
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.leedscathedral.org.uk
Deacons: Rev Deacon John Lythe
Rev Deacon Michael Mkpadi
Sisters: Sr Beatrice Ogbonna DMMM
Sr Angelina Osuagwu DMMM
Sr Valentia Chikwendu DMMM
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Day Feast Liturgy Times
Mass Intentions
Sun Vigil Mass Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
6.00pm 9.30am 11.00am 6.00pm
Thelma Henderson, RIP Mary Easton, RIP Margaret Freer, RIP
Mon The Holy Innocents
12.30pm
David Cowell, Intentions
Tues St Thomas Becket 12.30pm
Our Lady and St Anne, Thanksgiving
Wed 12.30pm
Thanksgiving, (MW)
Thurs 12.30pm
5.30pm
R Stewart, Stuart, Kipper & Family, I Carwood, Christmas Intention
Thanksgiving
Fri Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 12.30pm Donors Intention
Sat 12noon
F & H Gray, Intentions
Your offerings last week £ 1304.57 (including standing orders) Received with thanks
PLEASE REMEMBER LEEDS CATHEDRAL IN YOUR WILL
LES LECTURES DE LA MESSE sont disponsibles en
francais. LAS LECTURAS DE LA MISA están
disponibles en Español
COFFEE IS SERVED in Wheeler Hall after 11.00am Mass each Sunday. All welcome.
Music Department:
Director of Music: Benjamin Saunders
Secretary: Claudine Tat
Contact: 0113 244 8634
Email [email protected]
Website: www.dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk
Wheeler Hall:
Administrator: Mrs Geraldine Manfredonia
Contact: 0113 243 6871
Email: [email protected]
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Monday - Friday
12noon - 12.15pm
Saturday
10.30am - 11.45am
4.30pm - 5.30pm
Vespers
Thursday 5.10pm
(Sung Tuesday & Wednesday in
choir term time)
Angelus Monday - Friday 12noon Rosary Monday - Friday 12noon
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Resumes Monday 4th January
Feast of the Holy Family - 27th December 2009
The Cathedral choirs are on holiday until Sunday 10th January
11.00am cantor
Hymns 151, 141
MASS INTENTIONS: Ruth Tate, Anniversary; Patsy &
Margaret McKeown; Elizabeth Twohey, Intention; Charity
Kingston, Thnaksgiving; June McQueen, Thanksgiving; Fr
Solomon Bulus, Intentions; Frank Pickles, Anniversary.
Christmas Intentions: Anna Keenan & Family; O’Connell
Whittle Family.
WE WELCOME INTO THE CHURCH Audrey
Clementine Hayman, who will be baptised
after 11.00am Mass today.
THE CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS are traditionally for the
priests of the Cathedral and we are most grateful for your
generous contributions. Thank you also for the many gifts
and cards we have received.
THANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOUTHANK YOU: : : : The Cathedral clergy would like to express a huge thank you to everyone who has supported the Cathedral so generously during the last twelve months. In particular they would like to thank the servers, the musicians and choristers, the doormen, the readers, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, sacristans, members of the SVP, flower ladies, bell ringers, the counters and the many people whose work is always in the background. Your support is greatly appreciated.
THETHETHETHE EPIPHANY EPIPHANY EPIPHANY EPIPHANY PARTY PARTY PARTY PARTY in Cathedral House for all who help in any way with the life, work and worship of the Cathedral is next Sunday, 3rd January (feast of the Epiphany) after the evening Mass, around 7.00pm. Please collect a form from the sacristy and return the lower portion, as soon as possibleas soon as possibleas soon as possibleas soon as possible, so that we can gauge numbers.
WE WELCOME TO THE CATHEDRAL Fr Felix Au, of the diocese of Kuching, Malaysia, currently studying in Rome, who is spending the Christmas holiday with us.
ON NEW YEAR’S EVE (Thursday 31st December), there
will, in addition to the 12.30pm Mass, be Mass at
5.30pm (preceded by Vespers at 5.10pm): a further
opportunity to give thanks to God for the blessings of the
year. Afterwards, all are welcome to share mulled wine
& mince pies in Wheeler Hall.
THE ORGAN APPEAL stands at £62,721.23. The total cost is €700,000. You may still sponsor a pipe. THE CHRISTMAS HAMPER RAFFLE raised £535.00! The winning ticket
is no. 756-760 (AV781892). Many thanks.
JOURNEY INTO FAITH resumes on Thursday 7th January 2010 at 6.30pm
THE COLLECTION taken at the West Yorkshire Association of Chartered Accountants’ Carol Service raised £163.89. THE COLLECTION FOR
FLOWERS realised £194.10. Thank you.
NEXT SUNDAY (the feast of the Epiphany, transferred), we shall welcome the Choir of St
Austin’s, Wakefield, to sing at 11.00am Mass
A CAR FULL of goodies was delivered to St Anne’s Community Services just before Christmas, thanks to your generosity. Well done!
AFTER 11.00AM MASS TODAY (27th December) you are invited to join the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal for carols on the steps of the Cathedral: a fun and festive way to tell all Leeds Christ is born! All welcome; all voices accepted!
IF YOU OR ANYBODY YOU KNOW is suffering the
consequences of pregnancy loss through abortion or miscarriage, they may like to know that from 8th - 10th January 2010, ‘Rachel’s Vineyard’ is running a powerful healing retreat in the Leeds area for women and men who are struggling. For
information and to book, call 07505 904 656.
PASTORAL REORGANISTATION IN LEEDS Many thanks to those who came to the meeting in Wheeler Hall on 29th November. Notes taken at that meeting are on the notice board. There will be a meeting for parishioners in the proposed North Leeds Pastoral Area (which includes us) at 7.00pm on Tuesday 19th January at Immaculate Heart Church Hall. All welcome. The convenor for our area is Mr David Jackson.
THE NEXT SVP MEETING is at 7.00pm on
Monday 4th January 2010, in Wheeler Hall.
ON SUNDAY 17TH JANUARY (the day prior to the beginning of Church Unity Octave) the Choir of Leeds Parish Church will join our Boys’ & Adults’ Choirs to sing Vespers at 3.00pm, here in the Cathedral. Canon Tony Bundock, Rector of the Parish church, will preach.
THE CATHEDRAL 20 - 35 GROUP 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: [email protected]
THE DIOCESAN DIRECTORY FOR 2010 is now on sale, priced £2.50, also A SOUVENIR BOOK of the visit of St Thérèse’s relics to our country is on sale at £3.50 per copy and, at £5, a pictorial record of POPES OF THE 20TH CENTURY
FIRST HOLY COMMUNIONS 2010 If your child is in year 3 or above at school and is ready to join the preparation class, please ask for an application form from the sacristy after Mass. The initial meeting for parents will be held on Saturday 23rd January at 10.00am in Wheeler Hall. The First
Holy Communion Mass will be celebrated on
Sunday 30th May
CONGRATULATIONS to Patrick Eugene & Ann Durkin, who celebrate 50 years of marriage on 26th December.
DO TAKE CARE of bags & personal belongings
whilst going to Holy Communion, lighting a
candle, etc.
MAY YOU HAVE MAY YOU HAVE MAY YOU HAVE MAY YOU HAVE
A JOYOUS A JOYOUS A JOYOUS A JOYOUS CHRISTMASCHRISTMASCHRISTMASCHRISTMAS
& A HAPPY NEW YEAR& A HAPPY NEW YEAR& A HAPPY NEW YEAR& A HAPPY NEW YEAR
More items may be found on the Cathedral website
Green ticket AV781892 NO.756 -760 535.
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 COLLECTION II - CD’s on sale from the Cathedral Music Office. Cheques should be made payable to "Leeds Cathedral Choir Support Group” - price £11.50 each. 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 lit for you when there is space.
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 former chorister, why not
join this newly-formed group? Contact Simon Lee on e-
mail: [email protected]
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
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.
THE CATHEDRAL MARRIAGE PREPARATION COURSE
has now begun. Enquries about this or
future courses should be addressed to
Deacon Michael Mkpadi on 07884 197 261; e-
mail: [email protected]
THE ‘CARE NOT KILLING’ ALLIANCE (which
promotes palliative care and opposes euthanasia) has
organised an e-petition to the Prime Minister, opposing
the legalisation 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 dedicated
2009-2010 as 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.” During this year, the 5.30pm Mass each Thursday will be offered
for the sanctity of priests and priestly vocations.
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: [email protected]. Some members of
our congregation have already signed up to this initiative.
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.
THE LOOP INDUCTION SYSTEM is now working in the nave, aisles and transepts of the Cathedral
THE EXTENSION TO KILLINGBECK CEMETERY is now consecrated and opened. If you have previously notified the cemetery of your wish to purchase a plot, you should now confirm this with the cemetery direct.
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS has published guidelines governing the prosecution of cases of assisting suicide. It is very important that Catholics should know what these guidelines say and make their views known to the DPP. A short briefing note, “Having your say on assisting suicide” can be found at the back of the Cathedral explaining what this is all about and what you can do about it. There are also details online at www.catholicchurch.org.uk
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 www.catholicsingles.org.uk; email: [email protected]