Mass will be celebrated on Sunday at 11:00. The heat is working, the coffee is hot. All welcome ~ but make sure you can travel safely.

Happy Birthday to us! All Souls’ [Hook Memorial] Church celebrates its 132nd birthday on January 29th with a BCP Mass at the High Altar and an All Souls’ (bring and share) Feast! Mass begins at 11:00, and everyone is Very Welcome!

After several years of work behind the scenes, the Diocese has created a new Team Parish, joining All Souls’ and St. Aidan’s churches to create the parish of “Leeds: All Souls and St. Aidan”. St. Aidan’s Church (www.staidan-leeds.org.uk) is a Grade II* listed building in Harehills, and the home of the Brangwyn Mosaics. It has a multi-national congregation and a warm, open Anglo-Catholic liturgy supported by a robed choir. The Eritrean Orthodox Church meets at St. Aidan’s on Sunday afternoons. On a practical level, many things will remain the same: To contact All Souls’ clergy, phone 0113 216 2674 or email vicar@allsoulsleeds.org.uk To contact St. Aidan’s clergy, phone 0113 248 6992/0113 267 5893 or email clergy@staidan-leeds.org.uk. Good news if you are planning your wedding! If you live in All Souls’ parish, you now “qualify” to be married at St. Aidan’s church, and vice versa. Beyond these practicalities, what is the point of the Team? Our prayer is that, moving away from the traditional “one church-one vicar” model, we will learn to work together—priests and people—and so be better able to serve the people of Leeds in our area. We ask for your prayers in the process!

The pattern of weekday services returns to normal this week with Mass said in the Lady Chapel on Monday at 19:30. All welcome.

Our worship for the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord continues with Mass at 10:00 – please note the Christmas time (10) NOT the Sunday time (11). All welcome. The next service will be the Mass of the Holy Innocents on Wednesday 28th December at 10:00 in the Lady Chapel (said).

Midnight Mass begins at 23:30 (11:30pm) on Saturday December 24th. We celebrate the mystery of the Incarnation with carols, hymns, prayers, incense, candles – and the silence of wonder. All welcome.

Christingle – the service with the oranges! – will be held in church on Wednesday 21st December at 2pm. The service will last 30-40 minutes, and is particularly suitable for children (of all ages). Parents/guardians should accompany their children, please. All welcome!

Mass will be celebrated on December 18th at 11:00. All welcome!

All Souls’ Sunday School and All Souls’ Church Lads’ and Church Girls’ Brigade will take part in the nativity tableau today at 11:00. All Welcome. After the service children young and old are invited to build the Crib. On a more prosaic note – the church toilet has frozen but you are welcome to use theVicarage facilities instead! Monica Richardson Sowe (Churchwarden) will have the key.

SUNDAYS: 2nd Sunday in Advent: Sung Mass at 11:00. 3rd Sunday in Advent: Nativity Play at 11:00. 4th Sunday in Advent: Sung Mass at 11:00. Christmas Day: Sung Mass at 10:00. WEEKDAYS: Wednesday 7th at 7:30pm: Carols in Blenheim Square with Blenheim Baptist Church. Wednesday 21st at 2pm: Christingle in Church. All welcome to everything!