SUNDAY MASSES – Preface 4 of Ordinary Time and Eucharistic Prayer 4.

COFFEE will be served in Clitherow House after the 9.30am Mass today.

SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION - Are you in Year 9 at school and curious about the Sacrament of Confirmation? If so, you and your parents are invited to our “Are you ready” taster session to help you decide if you are ready on today at 6.00pm in Clitherow House.

JOURNEY IN FAITH The next session will be held in Clitherow House on Wednesday 8^th February, at 7.30 pm.

CHURCH CLEANING – Cleaners this week on Friday 10^th February at 2.00 pm are J Hughes, P Wiley, N Brannelly and R Hickman.

YOUTH CLUB – on Friday 10^th February, 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm. Entry is 50p for members, £1 for non-members. The helpers this week are Monica Duke, Doreen Nolan, Juliann McGrath, Karen Lacy-Roberts and Ian Monger.

LOVE@LEEDS – Youth 2000 is organising a retreat for young people aged 15-25 (although slightly younger people are able to attend providing they are with a parent/guardian at Notre Dame 6^th Form College in Leeds, LS2 9BL on the 10^th – 12^th February.  Suggested donation is £40 and you are welcome to attend for all or just part of the retreat.  For more information see www.youth2000.org/

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS HOUSEBOUND TEAM   - Holy Communion will be taken out to the sick and housebound of the parish after 9.30 am Mass next Sunday 12^th February are Alan Swap, Liz Brown, Anne Cooney, Ann Jackson, Tim Morgan, Steve O’Neill, Arthur Parslow, Linda Pennington, Diane Todd and Ann Whitehead.

SHORT COURSES– at Hinsley Hall.  A number of 5 week courses begin on Tuesday evenings on Tuesday 28^th February.  The subjects included are Catechesis, Catholic Schools and Religious Education, Catholic Social Teaching and Interreligious Relations.  Everyone welcome.  For further information or to book please contact Janine Garnett on 0113 261 8040 or janine.garnett@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

YOUTH MINISTRY TRAINING DAY - there will be a day at Myddleton Grange on Saturday 10^th March from 9.30am - 4.00pm for anyone who works with young people in the Church including catechists, youth ministry coordinators, parish volunteers, school chaplains, school ethos staff, RE staff and parish clergy. For further information or to book please contact Mrs Janine Garnett, Hinsley Hall 0113 2618040 , e-mail       janine.garnett@dioceseofleeds.org.uk or book online at www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/evangilisation

OTHER NEWS

JOB VACANCY – Co-ordinator of the Diocesan Youth Service and Director of Myddleton Grange Youth Retreat Centre, Ilkley.  Salary £37,000.  Post to start 1^st August 2012.  Please contact Mgr John Wilson for further details – john.wilson@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

MESSAGE FROM FR ALFRED KOTOL – in our twin parish of Kakapiripirit Uganda.  “Thank you for the annual donation.  We are very grateful for your support.  We have not been able to roof the Church as yet.  The donation will help us fix some of the other things to be done in the parish and also the Church construction.”

COLLECTION – Last Sunday’s Offertory was £921.15. Retiring collection today for the Catholic Education Service. Many thanks. Diocese of Leeds Registered Charity 249404.  In January, 58 Standing Orders contributed £1,954 to the Offertory Collection.

YOUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR

Kelly Bailey, Joe Fitzpatrick, Margaret Harvey, Tim Quirk,
Christopher Foley, Celia Hennigan, Kathleen Layfield,
Margaret Horan,   Michael Hawley, Emma Danskin,
Owen Noriega, Martin Jeremy Scott, Hilary Paley,
Eve Connolly, Michael O’Donnell, Derek Hawley
and all the sick of the Parish

Lately Dead:

 

Catherine Goode, Sarah McMurray, Arthur Johnson, John Smith

A Lonely Place

Jesus often went off to a lonely place to pray.
Yet the same Jesus who prayed in lonely places said,
“When you pray, go into your room,
and pray to your Father in secret.”
This means that the lonely place
is not necessarily a place far away,
or that by “room” he means four walls
that separate us physically from others.
The room is the room of our innermost heart.
This room is with us at all times.
We should make it a place to which we can go
to find rest and spiritual recovery
when the world is too much with us.
Then we will discover that the inner room
is not empty after all, but is occupied
by the God of love who dwells in us all.