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 Samuel Ofia MSP

Deacons: Rev Mr John Lythe

Rev Dr Michael Mkpadi

Contact: Tele: 0113 245 4545

Email: cathedral@dioceseofleeds.org.uk

Website: www.leedscathedral.org.uk

Sisters: Sr Beatrice Ogbonna DMMM

Sr Martin Raphael Akpan DMMM

Sr Angelina Osuagwu DMMM

Day Feast Liturgy Times

Mass Intentions

Sun Vigil Mass 2nd Sunday of Easter Divine Mercy devotions & Mass

8.30pm 9.30am 11.00am 2.00pm 6.00pm

McHale & McKenna Deceased Mary Easton, RIP Thelma Henderson, RIP Private Intention Priest’s Intention

Mon 8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

Margaret Freer - RIP Fr Charlie Holmes, RIP November Dead List

Tues 8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

Gerald Reddington, RIP November Dead List Priest’s Intention

Wed 8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

Anne Vause, RIP Priest’s Intention November Dead List

Thurs St George, martyr, patron of England

8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

Priest’s Intention McLaughlin & Clarke, deceased

November Dead List

Fri 8.00am 12.30pm 5.30pm

John Rodgers, RIP Priest’s Intention Georgina Dawson, RIP

Sat St Mark, evangelist 12noon Bridget Pearce, RIP

LES LECTURES DE LA MESSE sont disponsibles en

francais. LAS LECTURAS DE LA MISA están disponibles

en Español

PLEASE REMEMBER to switch off your

mobile phone when you enter the

Cathedral.

Music Department:

Director of Music: Benjamin Saunders

Secretary: Claudine Tat

Contact: 0113 244 8634

Email office@dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk

Website: www.dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk

Wheeler Hall:

Administrator: Mrs Geraldine Manfredonia

Contact: 0113 243 6871

Email: cathedralhall@btinternet.com

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Monday - Friday

11.00am - 12.15pm

4.30pm - 5.00pm

Saturday

10.30am - 11.45am

4.30pm - 5.30pm

Vespers

Monday - Friday 5.10pm

(Sung Tuesday - Thursday in

term time)

Regina coeli Monday - Friday

12noon

Rosary Monday - Friday

12noon

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Monday - Friday

3.-00pm - 5.00pm

Thanks for your Easter Offerings:

PLEASE REMEMBER LEEDS CATHEDRAL IN YOUR WILL

2nd Sunday of Easter - 19th April 2009

Music

Hymns: 267, 287, 368

11.00am Solemn Mass Cantor The choir returns tomorrow, Monday 20th April

MASS INTENTIONS: Bob Kendell, RIP; Marie Michelle,

RIP; Betty McPherson, RIP; Eileen Hall, Birthday

Anniversary; A & F Special Intentions; AV Special

Intentions; John Kirrane, RIP; Martha Enwright, 2 x

Healing; Catherine Russell, Special Intentions; M & Mrs

Hourigan, 25th Wedding Annivesary; Mr J Muscatali;

Arthur Cross 2 x RIP; Donor’s Intentions; Ted Devers,

Anniversary; Sisters of Notre Dame 2 x Easter Intentions;

Anne Doocey, RIP; Sandy Grove, 2 x RIP; Mary Theresa

Handley, Birthday Anniversary; Christopher Croake,

Anniversary; Fr Brendon Soane, RIP; Baby Nioamh

Patricia.

WE WELCOME INTO THE CHURCH Lila Pearl Cooke, Arianna Sian Degillo & Ryan Jeffers Manulid who were baptised last week, and Jessica Claire Lees & Chloe Isabel Gutierrez Paredes who will be baptised after 11.00am Mass today.

DAY OF DIVINE MERCY

in the Cathedral, today Sunday, 19th April:

2.00pm Prayers & Readings with opportunity for

Confession

3.05pm Mass & veneration of the image of

Divine Mercy

4.30pm Refreshments in Wheeler Hall

AS YOU KNOW, the Cathedral pipe organ is being rebuilt by Klais Orgelbau in Bonn, Germany. Its return to the Cathedral is a major piece of work, which will begin at the end of June and continue until November. To enable this to happen, scaffolding will be erected in the sanctuary area from tomorrow, Monday 20th April. Disruption will be kept to a minimum, and liturgies celebrated as normal, but please do be patient whilst the work is in progress.

THE CATHEDRAL 20 THE CATHEDRAL 20 THE CATHEDRAL 20 THE CATHEDRAL 20 ---- 35 GROUP 35 GROUP 35 GROUP 35 GROUP meets for prayer at 7.00pm next Wednesday, 22nd April, in Cathedral House. For details go to the group’s Facebook site.

MANY THANKS for your generous Easter offerings; for your cards and gifts; and for all that you do for the life and fabric of the Cathedral.

GOOD FRIDAY’S retiring collection for The Holy Places raised £592.16. Thank you.

THE RELICS OF ST THERESE OF LISIEUX will

be in the Cathedral from 3rd - 5th

October.

JOURNEY INTO FAITH continues at 6.30pm next Thursday, 23rd April

when we will be discussing ‘Praying the Mass’.

THE YORKSHIRE BOYS’ CHOIR FESTIVAL CONCERT

will be in the Cathedral on Sunday 3rd May at 4.00pm. The Bradford, Huddersfield & Harrogate Boys Choirs will sing music by Langlais and Keith Roberts.

THE LADY CHAPEL It is hoped that the next phase of

refurbishment will start at the beginning of May. Thanks to

two generous donors, the wall paintings of the angels, either

side of the reredos, will be restored. During this time, the

Blessed Sacrament will be reserved in the Chapel of the

Sacred Heart.

‘BEING YOUNG CATHOLICS ‘BEING YOUNG CATHOLICS ‘BEING YOUNG CATHOLICS ‘BEING YOUNG CATHOLICS & MUSLIMS IN A & MUSLIMS IN A & MUSLIMS IN A & MUSLIMS IN A SECULAR AGE’SECULAR AGE’SECULAR AGE’SECULAR AGE’ - is this year’s theme of the spring gathering of the Diocesan Commission for Inter-religious Relations, which will take place at Doha Mosque, Claremont, Bradford, next Saturday, 25th April. The session is open to anyone, but will be of particular interest to Catholics aged 18-25. Further details on the notice board. If you wish to go, contact David Jackson on � 01274 581094; e-mail: dandt55@btinternet.com

FLORES DE MAYO & SANTACRUZAN (A Filipino devotion & procession in honour of Our Lady & the Holy Cross) will be held in the Cathedral on Sunday 31st May, at 12.30pm, including Mass in Tagalog and refreshments.

THE NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF UNFAILING

HELP will be from Friday 19th June until Saturday 27th June.

THE AFRICAN & CARRIBEAN MASS is next Sunday, 26th April at 1.00pm.

All are cordially invited.

COFFEE IS SERVED in Wheeler Hall (next door

to the Cathedral, accessed via St Anne’s Street) each Sunday after the 11am Mass. All welcome

A SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING to mark the Churches’

support of local and city-wide community projects in

Leeds, will be held in the Cathedral at 3.00pm on Sunday

10th May. The preacher will be Rt Rev John Packer,

Bishop of Ripon & Leeds.

THIS YEAR’S DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES runs from 3rd - 10th July. Anyone interested in helping the sick and less able should contact Sheila Ambler to enable appropriate training. Financial help is available to support the 18 - 25 age group. See poster, or � Sheila on 01937 845835 for details

FAITH IN A TIME OF CRISIS - a talk

under the auspices of Aid to the Church

in Need given by Fr Samer Nassif about

the challenges that confront Christians in

Lebanon and the Holy Land at English Martyrs

Church, Dalton Terrace, York YO24 4DA, on

Saturday 16th May following Mass at 12noon.

Admission free; refreshments provided.

CATCHING THE VISION - a day devoted to restoring a Catholic sacramental vision and imagination, with Fr Donal O’Leary, next Saturday, 25th April from 9.30am - 4.30pm, at Notre Dame College, St Mark’s Avenue. Details and bookings from Rose McCrave, � 07866 736067:e-mail rose.mccrave@btinternet.com

More items may be found on the Cathedral website

TREASURES REVEALED IN LEEDS is a festival to

make places of worship in the city better known. The

Cathedral is participating in this project, which runs

from 2nd - 10th May. Some festival leaflets are

available at the back of the Cathedral.

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

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

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 lighted for you when there is room.

A RETREAT FOR THE EASTER SEASON The Pentecost Holy Spirit Weekend is from Friday 19th - Sunday 21st June 2009 at Hinsley Hall. The cost is £145 which includes full board, en-suite rooms. For more information contact Mrs Janine Garnett on � 261

8040; e-mail: Janine.garnett@dioceseofleeds.org.uk or www.comeandsee.org.uk

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

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.

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 the website www.catholicsingles.org.uk or email info@catholicsingles.org.uk

IF YOU ARE an Extraordinary Minister of Holy

Communion 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.

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:

street.chaplains@btinternet.com. Some members of our congregation have already

signed up to this initiative.

LEEDS DIOCESAN YOUTH SERVICELEEDS DIOCESAN YOUTH SERVICELEEDS DIOCESAN YOUTH SERVICELEEDS DIOCESAN YOUTH SERVICE - has opportunities for young people to go to LOURDES. If you are not already booked on the Leeds Diocesan Pilgrimage, you can do this in one of three ways: 1) Those over 18yrs of age can go as a helper in the hospital. 2) You can book on as an ordinary pilgrim - no work and no responsibility other than praying hard, etc! (Please contact the pilgrimage director, Fr. Chris Irving on 01484 866669 for options 1 and 2) 3) Those in school years 10 & 12 who do not attend a Catholic School, can apply via the Youth Office. Contact Anna Cowell or Fr. Stephen on 0113 2618058