Thursday 12 November
10.30am Midweek Service
Sunday 15 November – Second Sunday before Advent
8am BCP Communion
10am Communion with children’s group
Monday 16 November
9am Morning Prayer on Zoom
7pm PCC Meeting
Tuesday 17 November
2pm Greenholme Care Home Communion
Wednesday 18 November
12noon Midweek Midday Prayer
6pm for 6.30 Quiz & Supper Evening at the Parish Centre
Thursday 19 November
10.30am Midweek Service
Sunday 22 November – Christ the King
8am BCP Communion
10am Communion with children’s group
Link to This week’s readings
St Mary’s is usually open 9.30am until 5pm each day for private prayer and reflection. There are various acts of prayer and worship being led via our Facebook Page
Please pray this week for: Peter Cooke, whose funeral will be at St Mary’s Church on Friday 27 November at 12 noon with the reception afterwards at the Wheatley Arms. Pat Croft, widow of Colin, died peacefully on Tuesday 10 November.
Sick: Irene Fowler, Judith Charnley, Annette Hattersley, Carol O’Connor, Mike Robinson, Tom Sumner, Graham, Keith
Praying for Burley Street by Street: The Copse, Hanover Way and Hanover Gardens
Notices:
All Age Worship – we would like to put together a team of people to develop and deliver our All Age Worship services. If you would like to be involved in anything from helping / leading / music and technology or simply thinking creatively about these services, please come along to a meeting at 7pm (venue TBC) on Monday 23 November, and/or let Phil, Zoe or Mary know.
Katiyo School: For the next few weeks Annette is selling raffle tickets in aid of Katiyo school in Zimbabwe. The tickets cost £1 and there will be lots of prizes.
Churches Together Advent Groups: We’ll be studying ‘Waiting for Aslan – A Literary Advent Journey’ by Mike Green, using C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia to reflect on Advent.
Mothers’ Union diaries, calendars and Christmas cards are now available to order. Pam Sowman has the designs to show. Please contact her if you are interested, either at church, at the Parish Office on Thursday mornings or by phone 07976 125690. Also, Thank you from MU for donations of old coins which are no longer legal tender. Old foreign money is also of use and can be changed and used for Mothers’ Union projects at home and abroad. We are still collecting! Please take to the Parish Office or pass on to Pam Sowman.
Burley Tereli Friendship Trust calendars are now printed and ready for sale. They are still only £6! Available from Janet Squire 01943 862582 or 07967565809.
Food and Fellowship are organising a Quiz and Supper evening on Wednesday 18 November, 6pm for 6.30 at the Parish Centre. The quiz will be the Big Quiz which Tearfund run every year. Tearfund is a Christian charity working in more than 50 countries to tackle extreme poverty and injustice. We will be serving food and drinks along with the quiz including a lovely Winter Stew. The tickets are £5 each all of which we will be sending to Tearfund. Tickets are available from Kath, Val, Sue, Judith and Paul, and Jane. We hope there will be lots of support from you all.
Ilkley & Otley Choral Societies will perform Haydn Nelson Mass & Durufle Requiem on Saturday 14 November, 7pm at All Saints Church, Otley. Tickets available from Bookshop on the Square, Otley, Grove Bookshop, or online from our website: www. IOCHORAL.ORG
Have your say: The village Accessibility and Inclusion survey is still open and the goal is to collect at least 700 responses, reflecting as wide a range of experiences and perspectives as possible. tally.so/r/1A05LO If you are not able to complete it online, paper copies are available in Church, Open Door and the Parish Office. Your opinion is important!