We pray for our sick
We pray for the sick of our parish
“Father,
by the power of your Spirit
you have filled the hearts of your faithful people
with gifts of love for one another.
Hear the prayers we offer for our relatives and friends.
Give them health of mind and body
that they may do your will with perfect love.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.”
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Edmund Tyler, Fr Gerard Butcher, Fr Thomas Crowe, Fr John Gallacher, Fr Robert Mortimer-Anderson, Fr Thomas Carlin, Bertram Barrett, May Lobb, James McKeon, Edith Turner, Richard Charles Neagle, Laura Pauline Groves, Barbara Adams, Nora Murphy, Catherine Weston, Kathleen Lee, Ray Parascandolo, Irene Chessher, Caroline Geoghegan, James McCrimmon, Pamela Gafga, Annie Adelia Lawrence, Rose Whitehead, Walter Burrill, Marion Button, Gerald Melhuish, Gwendoline Underwood, George Houston, Theresa Yates, Raymond Morton, Harold Britt, Ken Bailey, Margaret Grenier, James George Fairchild, Janice Mary Turner, Jill Kinsley & Norita Fanning.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Kelly McMahon, who died on 26th May and was a member of staff in Our Lady Of Lourdes Primary School, much loved and appreciated.
Requiescat in pace
Dates for your Diary
Sunday 7 June
4pm Corpus Christi Procession
Saturday 11 July
Flower Festival
Saturday 11 July
3pm Mass of Thanksgiving for Marriage and Family Life, Brentwood Cathedral
Wednesday 15 July
9.30am OLOL Leavers Mass
Sunday 19-Friday 24 July
Lourdes Pilgrimage
Sick & Retired Clergy Fund
This weekend there will be the annual collection for the Sick & Retired Clergy Fund of the Diocese.
Donations can be made in the retiring collection, online via the Diocesan website or using any available contactless devices, selecting the second collection option.
This Fund helps Clergy who require assistance in their retirement after years of service, it also helps those who are in ill health at any age.
This is also an opportunity to thank Parishioners who have bequeathed legacies in their wills and we would welcome any who are about to make, or review existing arrangements, to consider this worthy cause.
The Administrators of the Fund would also like to express their gratitude to the families of deceased Parishioners who have gifted legacies in the past.
Memorial Garden
If you have left pots or flowers in the Memorial Garden, could you please move them to the side ahead of the Procession on Sunday afternoon. Thank you.
Mass of Thanksgiving for Marriage and Family Life
Bishop Alan Williams will preside at the annual Mass at Brentwood Cathedral on Saturday, 11th July at 15.00; followed by a Reception.
If any married couples—with their family—would like to participate in this celebration, please let fr Kevin know and he will give you a formal invitation. We would like to invite especially any couples who are celebrating a significant anniversary of Marriage this year.
Talks on the Gospels
Jesus opens the Scriptures to his disciples
Let Him do this for you through these inspirational talks from Brant Pitre
Monday mornings 10.30am in the Parish Centre
15th & 29th, July 13th The Gospel of Matthew
Wednesdays 7.30pm in the Parish Centre
June 24th, July 8th & 22nd The Four Gospels
Southend Catholic Pilgrims
7 Days Pilgrimage to Italy Roma, Greccio Province of Rieti & Assisi £1496.50 per person, from Thursday 8th October - Wednesday 14th October 2026. Organised by Salvatore Burzotta Tel: 07753 203129 for full details. We shall be in Assisi to celebrate the feast day of St Carlo Acutis.
Led by Father Jeff Woolnough, Parish Priest, St Peter, Eastwood Parish.
Repository News
Please feel free to come and browse our stock of religious items. We have a few copies of the 3 year Missal, plus a small selection of books for your spiritual reading. Our large selection of cards includes those special Wedding Anniversaries, Baptisms, Get Well etc.
Please ask one of the volunteers for help if you do not see what you are looking for.
Seniors Exercise & Balance Class
10am Tuesdays
Parish Centre
£6
You are invited to join the Exercise & Balance Class for Seniors which is held every Tuesday morning in the Parish Centre. The class starts at 10am and lasts one hour. Exercises are done to music and each session costs £6.
Flower & Crafts Festival 2026
Saturday 11 July
We ask for your help to make the day a success. The theme this year is The Beatitudes. There are 8 beatitudes and we would like each to be represented in flower displays, art work, crafts... Please consider taking part—especially if you have not before. If you can sew, knit, embroider, paint, draw, craft, arrange flowers—then we need you!
The Festival is a way of opening ourselves up to a wide group of people of various religious persuasions—or none! Each year we host some people who have never been in a church before… This is part of our Christian witness. If you would like to take part or would like to know more, contact me by email, or find Theresa or myself in the Lady Chapel after the Family Mass on Sunday.
Jo Ronan
Young Vincentians
Our next meeting is on Monday 8th June from 5.15pm. Young Vincentians Committee.
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School & Nursery
We warmly invite families to visit our wonderful school and see first-hand the engaging and supportive learning environment we provide. Arranging a visit is a great opportunity to see the school in action, meet our staff, and experience our welcoming community.
If you would like to book a tour, please contact the school office who will be happy to arrange a visit.
The Most Holy Trinity
Dear friends in Christ
The summation of the entire Christian Faith is the Blessed Trinity.
Dear friends in Christ
The summation of the entire Christian Faith is the Blessed Trinity. God the Father loves his Son and the love between them generates the Holy Spirit. In Baptism we are brought into that life and the seed planted in Baptism, and nourished in the other Sacraments, is our pledge and hope of eternal life one day. The Christian hopes that after this earthly pilgrimage we will be sharing the family life of God for all eternity. Today we give thanks for our Christian faith and for the Sacraments, especially Baptism and Confirmation, that have brought us into an intimate communion with God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Last Sunday we celebrated Pentecost which was marked by the confirmation of a good number of our young people. Once again, it has been a joy and privilege to have prepared them and confirm them into this final stage of their initiation into the church, whereby they become adult Catholics and soldiers of Jesus Christ! I commend them and their families for the seriousness and joy with which they approached this outpouring of the Holy Spirit in their lives. May they be faithful to what has been given them, and what they have promised.
On Monday Our Holy Father, Pope Leo, published his first Encyclical Letter—Magnifica Humanitas—on the subject of Artificial Intelligence. Further on in this Newsletter I give a brief summary which I hope you will find helpful and encourage you to read the complete text which you can find at the link above.
Next Sunday is the great and beautiful feast of the Body and Blood of Christ—Corpus Christi. For one day in the year we make a public demonstration of our Catholic faith. As always, I make a request that you would attend the Procession in the afternoon by which we give public testimony of our faith in Jesus, present in his Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Our First Communion children lead this Procession accompanied by the brass band and all of us who walk with Jesus as a symbol of our pilgrimage to our eternal homeland. The Blessed Eucharist is the pledge and foretaste of eternal life. May we never take this for granted, and may we never hesitate to spread this belief in what is our most precious and adorable treasure.
God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
The Most Holy Trinity
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed is resumed
Preface of the Most Holy Trinity
The Most Holy Trinity
Saturday 30th May
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30pm—7.30 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 31st May
The Most Holy Trinity
8am Mass Gilberte Cook, RIP (MC)
9.30am Mass David Lesley, RIP (MD)
11.30am Gary Small, RIP (JB)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 1st June
Dedication of the Cathedral Church of St Mary and St Helen, Brentwood
9am Mass Intentions of Kath O’Connor (MI)
Tuesday 2nd
St Marcellinus and St Peter, Mm
9am Mass Holy Souls
Wednesday 3rd
St Charles Lwanga and Comps, Mm M
9am Mass Holy Souls
Thursday 4th
Feria of the Ninth Week of Ordinary Time
9am Mass Arthur & Granny Booth, RIP (LM)
Friday 5th—First Friday
St Boniface, Bp, M
12Noon Mass Intentions of Jim Hennessey (SW)
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass until Holy Hour 7—8pm
Saturday 6th June
St Norbert, B
10am Mass Holy Souls
10.30am—11.30 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30pm—7.30 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 7th June
The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
8am Mass Private Intention (JL)
9.30am Mass Deceased members of the Wall Family (K&LW)
11.30am Julie Emerson, RIP (Anniv) (GM)
4pm Corpus Christi Procession
No Vespers & Benediction
We pray for our sick
We pray for the sick of our parish
“Father,
by the power of your Spirit
you have filled the hearts of your faithful people
with gifts of love for one another.
Hear the prayers we offer for our relatives and friends.
Give them health of mind and body
that they may do your will with perfect love.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.”
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Bp John Petit, Canon Eric Goldingay, Fr Donald Clover, Canon Jerome Deady, Sebastian De Souza, Mabel Hooper, Joseph Mullins, Odilia Duhig, Angela Hughes, Stephanie Horwood, Kit Nafziger, Dr Nigel Warburton, Stella Mary Hale, Jonas Acton, Ida D’eath, Dorothy Winyard, Catherine Barewish, Terry Wilson, Charles Mann, Thomas Connolly, Elsie Hale, Lee Schiller, Joan Holdstock, Gladys Hanger, Anthony Cummins, Dr Jack Hesketh-Beasley, Alice Quinlan, Margaret Gibson, Mrs Ann Hughes, Mollie Cosgrove, Margaret Kenny, Kathleen Owen, Kathleen Denyer, John Mudd, Peter Gerald Sloan & Bridie Satelle. .