Parish Administrator: Father Malachy Larkin
Parish Secretary: Judith Glover (01943-863179)
Web Site: www.rc.net/uk/leeds/ssfishermore
e-mail: [email protected]
Parish of SS John Fisher and Thomas More
Burley-in-Wharfedale, Burley Woodhead, Menston, Tranmere Park, Hawksworth
The Presbytery, Bradford Road, Burley-in-Wharfedale, ILKLEY, W Yorks., LS29 7PX
[Diocese of Leeds: www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk Registered Charity No. 249404]
20TH/21ST DECEMBER 2014
Welcome to our parish, especially if you are visiting.
Feel free to stay for a cup of tea or coffee after the
11.00am Mass so we can get to know you.
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
In case of emergency contact:
Canon Lawrie Hulme on 01943 462146
email: [email protected]
ADVENT DAY OF RECONCILIATION – Thursday 18th
SERVICES
December, Leeds Cathedral from 7.00am until 7.00pm.
6.00pm Mass For Bishop Marcus
Individual confessions will be available throughout the
9.00am Mass Dec’d of the Elvidge Family
THIRTIETH
SUNDAY
INMiddleton
ORDINARY TIME
whole day. Prepare a way for the Lord.
11.00am
Mass Kathleen
& May
There will not be any Tuesday Gospel Study until Tuesday,
CHRISTMAS CARDS: Just to remind everybody, there is a
6th January 2015TIME
box in the foyer in which you can place any Christmas
Diocese of Leeds: registered Charity No. 249404
cards for the Parish. This is the preferred method as it
Christmas Eve at SS John
Fisher & Thomas More
saves the letter-rack from becoming blocked and
Wednesday 24th December
overflowing.
6.00pm
Family Mass – Miss Eunice Gill
12.00pm
Midnight Mass – Larkin Family & Friends
CHRISTMAS MINISTRIES: With the Christmas celebrations
imminent, could those who are involved in any of the
Christmas Day Solemnity
Ministries (Readers, Eucharistic Ministers, Altar Servers,
Thursday 25th December
etc.) please check your rotas to ensure we have ample
10.00am
Mass – Ann & Michael Knowles
coverage at all Masses.
Boxing Day
THE BURLEY-TERELI FRIENDSHIP TRUST 2015
Friday 26th December
CALENDAR will still be available after Masses (until early
10.00am
Mass
January) at £6 (the same as for the last few years). This is
November Dead List (At Bishop’s House)
an important part of our annual fund raising and enables u
to continue to help some of the poorest people in the World.
New Year’s Day
This edition features two photographs which will bring
Thursday 1st January
back memories of the ‘Tour de France’ in Burley.
10.00am
Mass
If anyone would like to help our Charity please ask Sue
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION:
Jopling or John Wood and we will let you have five
Saturday:
5.15pm – 5.45pm
Calendars on a ‘Sale or Return’ basis.
John Wood
ECUMENICAL MORNING PRAYER during December will be
on Wednesday mornings at 9.00am at Menston Methodist
MARRIAGES 2015 – all who wish to book a date for
Church.
marriage please contact Rev Canon Lawrence Hulme, Our
Lady and All Saints’ Presbytery, 4 Bridge Street, Otley,
LAST WEEK’S COLLECTION: £1,052.48 (£769.50 in 72
LS21 3AZ. Tel: 01943 462146; Email: lawrence.hulme@
envelopes; £282.98 loose).
The collection for Christmas
dioceseofleeds.org.uk
flowers raised £208.62. Many thanks.
NB:
Please make all cheques payable to DOL.
JUSTICE & PEACE COMMISSION survey about food
Fisher/More Acc., not to individuals or the name of
poverty. Have you donated food to a food bank in the last
appealing Charities etc.
year, or helped to collect or distribute food to people in the
Saturday
Sunday
FAIRTRADE STALL available after all Masses this weekend,
20th and 21st December. Tea and coffee will be available.
PENITENTIAL SERVICE at Our Lady & All Saints Catholic
Church, 4 Bridge Street, Otley on Wednesday 17th
December at 7.00pm.
local area (or do you regularly give money towards such
things)? The Justice & Peace Commission are doing a
survey in the diocese about this and forms will be available
to fill out very soon. If you have done anything like this
then you are encouraged to take part. If you require any
further information and would like to take part please
contact Julia Findlay, Lay Chaplain/Learning Menston on
01943 883026 or j.findlay:stmarysmenston.org
ITEMS FOR THE BULLETIN: Please remember that all items
for the Bulletin must be e-mailed to Judith at
[email protected] at the very latest by 12 noon
on WEDNESDAYS. Please keep notices as brief as possible!
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION
SS John Fisher and Thomas More – ‘I Belong’ Dates &
Lesson Plans – all lessons in the Lady Chapel at 10.00am
Sunday 14.12.14 Enrolment Mass
Week 1 Sunday 11.1.15 In the name of the Father
Week 2 Sunday 18.1.15 Lord, Have Mercy
Week 3 Sunday 25.1.15 Celebrating our Rescue
Week 4 Sunday 1.2.15 God Helps Me Get it Right
Week 5 Sunday 8.2.15 Glory to God in the Highest
Week 6 Sunday 1.3.15 This is the Word of the Lord
Week 7 Sunday 8.3.15 Bread to offer
Week 8 Sunday 15.3.15 Fruits of the vine
Week 9 Sunday 29.3.15 Do this in Memory of Me
Week 10 Sunday 29.3.15 Revision of God Helps Me Get it
Right
Sacrament of Reconciliation – Date to be confirmed
Easter Day 5th April 2015
Week 11 Sunday 26.4.15 Body of Christ
First Holy Communion – Sunday 3rd May 2015
I am taking two weeks off for Christmas and the
New Year. In addition the Parish laptop has
been refusing to send or receive emails for the
last week! Hopefully the problem is now
resolved but I would be very grateful if you don’t
send any e-mails until I return to work on 5th
January.
Many thanks and best wishes for Christmas and
the New Year.
Judith
COFFEE MORNING at the Burley Parish Centre organised
by The Women’s World Day of Prayer Committee –
Saturday 10th January from 9.30am to 11.30am. The
Coffee Morning will be in aid of projects run by Christian
charities worldwide. Please come along and support this
worthy cause.
Thank you. Rosalia Roberts
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
During….. The forty-second year of the reign of Octavian
Augustus, the whole world being at peace, Jesus Christ,
eternal God and Son of the eternal father, desiring to
sanctify the world by his most merciful coming, being
conceived by the Holy Spirit, and nine months having
passed since his conception, was born in Bethlehem of
Judea of the Virgin Mary.
A fervent Deo Gratias for all that has been achieved during
this time and looking forward to the coming year of 2015.
PEOPLE WHO NEED OUR PRAYERS
SICK:
Elsa Allott, Gordon Bateman, Jim Clark,
Christopher Gilliland, Susan Gordon, Pauline Graham, Fr
Barrie Holmes, Anne Judge, Vera Leddy, Julien Leroux,
Peter Longstaff, Mgr Peter McGuire, Fr John Phillips,
Janina Pitcher, Daniel Price, Anna Smith, John Sullivan.
THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED: Fr Michael Powell, all
those who have died recently and whose anniversaries
occur about this time, all our deceased relatives and friends
and all the faithful departed.