THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER 26th APRIL 2020

MASSES TO BE SAID BY PRIESTS IN PRIVATE CONTINUING TO BE OLK!

Amanda is working from home during this period but SUN 26th will check the answer phone in the SM office daily. People of the Bernard Scott Su will be in the HN office daily but may work reduced hours. You are welcome to contact us by MON 27th phone or email. Special Int. (Maureen) Nancy Sweeney & Ellen Mulkeen

LIVE-STREAMING OF OLK MASSES TUES 28th Mass will be streamed live from Holy Name church Int. Fr Pat Smythe Frank Cummings each day, including Sundays, at 9.30am. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCseuNherPuS WED 29th St Catherine of Siena WGqF7midZIGw Mary Henenghan Int. Pugh & Smith families Fathers Emmanuel & Victor would like to thank everyone for their kind comments. THURS 30th Please do continue to send in your Mass Intentions. Mavis Jenkinson Special Intetnion (MB) For those who have internet banking, Masses can be requested by phone or email & the stipend paid into FRI 1st MAY our account. Ask either office for further detail. Mary Cairns Int. Mill family

LATELY DEAD SAT 2nd St Athanasius For all those who have died from Coronavirus. May Mathew Mace Peter Churley they all rest in the peace of Christ.

SUN 3rd OFFERINGS People of the Parish Anne Morgan The Parish is very grateful to all those who regularly give by monthly standing order and also to those people who have kindly been in touch to set up new standing orders during these difficult times for the Parish. OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT OUR PARISH Several people have also been in touch about their Online Giving is now up and running for all . regular donations by numbered envelopes. If you We now have a link available on the front page of our have envelopes please save these each week so you website. Many thanks to those of you who have can put them in the collection basket once the church already donated via the Diocesan website, we’re truly reopen. If you normally give cash in the basket please grateful. Or you can text Church OLK to 70500 to save your collection to put in the basket when the contribute £5 to our parish offertory. There is no way church reopens. You don’t necessarily have to save to change the amount donated, but you can use this as this in cash, just make a note of what you would frequently or infrequently as you wish. usually have given. You can write a cheque (payable to Our Lady of Kirkstall) for that amount when things A REMINDER: return to normal. Alternatively, you could post them IF YOU NEED HELP WITH SHOPPING we have through the HN Presbytery or SM Office door if you volunteers willing to help with this. Just phone HN pass by whilst out on your daily walk. office and leave your name & your phone number & someone will call you back.

YOUR PRAYER INTENTIONS NATIONAL WEEKLY MASS FOR NHS AND CARE HOME While we’re all missing meeting together each week WORKERS for Mass, if you’d like to send us your prayer Each Thursday at 7pm, one of the of and intentions, Fathers Emmanuel & Victor will place Wales will celebrate & live-stream Mass from his them in a basket in front of the altar & light a candle , for NHS front-line and Care Home workers, for you before Mass each morning. the sick and their families. The current schedule is: Please email your intentions to Su at: Thursday 30th April – [email protected] , Cathedral For your privacy, we won’t publish them anywhere Thursday 7th May – & they will be destroyed at the end of each week. Bishop Marcus Stock, Thursday 14th May – DAILY ONLINE PRAYER GROUP Bishop Robert Byrne CO, Newcastle Cathedral Father Emmanuel is keen to set up a daily prayer Thursday 21st May – group, just for 10 or 15 minutes each day. Bishop Mark Davies, If you would be interested in joining in, please Thursday 28th May – contact Amanda on: Bishop Terence Drainey, [email protected] Links for the live-streaming of these Masses can be found and perhaps suggest a good time for you. by visiting each cathedral’s own webpage or from https://www.cbcew.org.uk/ BUTTONS Su would like to say a huge thank you to everyone WINDOW ON THE WORD who sent buttons for her knitting group – they’ve As we self-isolate and stay at home during the made several ladies very happy! coronavirus lockdown, we may find ourselves more attentive to whatever we see out of our SVP DONATIONS BIN AT ST MARY’S windows. “Window on the Word” is a challenge for all Please do not leave any bags outside the bin. If you members of the Diocese to match what they see to a line have a donation, put your items in small bags so from the Bible. Simply take a digital picture (or draw and they can be loaded through the pull down draw. If scan one!) of whatever you can see through your the bin is full please take your items home with you window, with a verse from the Bible, together with your as we have yet to establish if the bin will be emptied first name and area where you live and email it to at the moment. Thank you. Diocese of Leeds Year of the Word Scripture Champion Rev. Henry Longbottom at: CATHOLIC UNIVERSE AND CATHOLIC TIMES [email protected]. If you wish, these papers can be delivered direct to Here are entries received so far: your home every week, POST FREE. Please go to https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/education/window- www.thecatholicuniverse.com or call them on 0161 on-the-word/ 820 5722 and they will arrange for you. FREE DOWNLOADABLE PUBLICATION OF POPE’S LIVE- STREAMING FROM WALSINGHAM PRAYERS & HOMILIES In addition to the regular programme the Shrine are A free book entitled “Strong in the Face of Tribulation”, very grateful to Father Stephen Wang for allowing containing prayers, supplications and the Pope’s homilies his Sycamore Program to be used. The Shrine will as “a sure support in time of trial” is now available. Visit: be showing the 20 half hour videos, which may be of www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2020- interest to any Catechists starting on Monday 27th 04/downloadable-publication-popes-prayers-and- April. They will be shown at 10.30am and 4.00pm homilies-now-avai.html and click the link at the bottom each day. Visit the website: of the page. www.walsingham.org.uk

THE GOD WHO SPEAKS

You will show me the path of life, the fullness of

joy in your presence, at your right hand

happiness

for ever.

Ps15:11