TODAY’S MASSES – Preface 1 of Lent and Eucharistic Prayer 1

COFFEE - Coffee will be served after the 9.30am Mass today.

CONFIRMATION – The candidates for Confirmation will take part in a ceremony of enrolment at the 9.30 am Mass, on today. They will take part in the confirmation preparation course also today, at 6.00 pm, in Clitherow House.

SVP – There will be a meeting of the members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society after the 7.30 pm Mass on Tuesday, 27^th February in Our Lady’s Chapel.  Anyone who would like to join our society would be most welcome.

MUSIC GROUP - will meet each Wednesday, from 6.45 - 7.45 pm, in the organ loft.  New members will be very welcome – experience is not necessary.

CHURCH CLEANING – The cleaners this week are: J Hughes, M Mitchell, F Roberto, B Simpson & P Wiley on Thursday 1^st March at 2.00 pm.

EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT – on Friday, 2^nd March, from 9.00 am, finishing with Holy Communion at 6.30 pm.  The Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be recited at 3.00 pm.  If you are able to spend some time before the Blessed Sacrament, please put your name on the list.

LENT FAST DAY – Friday, 2^nd March – Please take an envelope home with you and read some examples of how CAFOD spends our contributions.  We can help CAFOD to support our poor communities by sharing what we can.  Envelopes will be collected at Mass next week.  Please complete the gift aid slip if you are a taxpayer as this increases the value of your contribution to CAFOD.

SERVICE FOR THIRD WORLD– on Friday, 2^nd March at 11.30 am there will be a short service of readings and prayers for the poorer communities in the Third World.  This will be followed by –
SOUP LUNCH   - There will be delicious home-made soup served in Clitherow House on Friday 2^nd March from 12 noon to 1.30 pm.  Donations will go to CAFOD.  Everyone is welcome.

WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER– on next Friday, 2^nd March.  Two services have been arranged: 10.00 am at All Saints Parish Church and at 2.00 pm at the Salvation Army Hall.  Everyone welcome, especially women.

PRAYER BREAKFAST – The next ecumenical Prayer Breakfast will be held at the Salvation Army Hall next Saturday, 3^rd March, at 8.00 am.

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS HOUSEBOUND TEAM – Holy Communion will be taken out to the sick and housebound of the Parish after the 9.30 am Mass next Sunday 4^th March by Mary Vickers, Audrey Clissitt, Keith & Sheila Foster, Joe & Margaret McGuinness, Ian Monger, Doreen Nolan, Maggie Power & Peter Thompson.

‘EXPERIENCE IRELAND’ – Sunday, 4^th March 11 am – 6.00 pm at The Carriageworks Theatre, Millennium Sq., Leeds – a free one-day family event to celebrate Irish History Month comprising music, dance, workshops, Irish music sessions etc. and a performance by Irish music group ‘Ceide’.  For more information see www.irishhistorymonth.com

FOOTPRINTS – We will be meeting upstairs in Clitherow House, at 8.00 pm, on Monday 26^th February. We will be studying the beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-10.

If you have not attended before and would like to, then please come – you will be very welcome. Any queries, please contact Gareth Gadd (0113 2300092) or Linda Pennington (01943 464333).

JUMBLE SALE – St. Joseph’s R.C. Primary School will be holding its Annual Jumble Sale on Saturday, 10^th March at 10.00 am until 12 noon.  There will be plenty of jumble, bric-a-brac and cakes at the café, so please come along and support us! – Many thanks ‘The Friends of St Joseph’s’

YOUNG PEOPLE – The day of reflection for young people at Myddelton Grange on 11^th March has been cancelled due to lack of numbers.

WORLD CHALLENGE RAFFLE – a group of young people from our parish have organised a raffle to raise funds for their planned trip to the Himalayas in 2008.  They have collected some very good prizes and the tickets will be on sale after Mass over the coming weeks.  We hope that you can support them.

The raffle will be drawn at St. Joseph’s School at a QUIZ NIGHT on Friday, 23^rd March at 7.30 pm.  Tickets are £3-50 to include a hot supper.

LOURDES – The Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will take place from 6^th to 13^th July.  Booking forms are available from the Presbytery.  A DVD of last year’s pilgrimage may be borrowed from the church.

OFFERTORY ENVELOPES – Please pick up your packet of envelopes for the coming year, as you leave church today. If you haven’t got envelopes, and would like some, please let the doorman know.

THE BEGINNING EXPERIENCE – Divorced? Separated? Widowed?  The Beginning Experience Weekend offers a powerful and revitalising programme turning the pain of loss into and experience of positive growth, and will be held at Hinsley Hall Diocesan Pastoral Centre 9^th–11^th March.  Please call:

Maria 0113 2612732, maria@wynfordr.freeserv.co.uk, Kathryn 01274 402251, kathyestewar@yahoo.com, or Malcolm 01422 83192 clockdoc@hotmail.co.uk

COLLECTION – Last Sunday’s Offertory was £822-96, excluding Bankers’ Orders. Many thanks for your generosity.  Diocese of Leeds Registered Charity 249404.

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS

Emma Danskin, Katie Dennison, Celia Hennigan, Beatrice Harriman, Irene Oates, Kelly Bailey, Eleanor Brignell, Kathleen O’Donoghue, Joan Brumfitt, Anne Coveney, Martin Jeremy Scott, Patty Kelly, Margaret Harvey, Carole Ford, Patrick Cush, Michael Roche, Lil Moss, Eric Connolly, Fr Cornelius Finn, Terence Rafferty, John McDermott, Gabrielle Walls
and all the sick of the Parish.

Lately Dead:

John Greeley

Repentance of itself is not enough –
grace must be available.
But if grace is offered and not accepted,
then nothing comes of that either.
There is no point of putting up a sail
if there is no wind.
There is no point of planting a seed
if the garden is frozen.
There is no point of pruning the tree
if spring does not come.
It is not enough to cut into peoples’ hearts
in order to save them –
They must be touched by grace.
Lord, touch our hearts with your grace,
so that we may produce the fruits of repentance.