Catholic Women's League

The next CWL meeting is on Wednesday, 28th May (because of the Bank Holiday) in the Newman Room at 2 pm.  Please feel free to join us.

PARISH FUNDRAISING

Thank you to everyone who supports the Parish 200 Club. This month’s winners are:

1^st prize           £150                  106                          Mrs L Wall

2^nd Prize           £100                  115                          Mr G Allard

3^rd Prize             £75                    85                          Mr D Gurney

4^th Prize             £50                  157                          Mrs E Pazda

5^th Prize             £25                    13                          Mrs B Blaker

Rotas

June Rotas for Eucharistic Ministers & Readers and also Coffee rotas are now available at the back of the Church.

Money Matters

Offertory:  Thank you for the generous offerings received last weekend, which amounted to £1,095.94 with £770.00 collected for the Promotion of Vocations.

Counters are Linda Wall, Sheila West & Mary Kennedy.

Newsletter Folders are Tom O’Callaghan & Rita O’Callaghan .

Pray for the repose of the soul of Vera Fogarty

Pray for the repose of the soul of Vera Fogarty who died on 11th May.  Her Requiem Mass will be held at 10 am on Thursday, 29th May followed by committal at Sutton Road Cemetery.

Pray for the repose of the soul of Vera Fogarty

Pray for the repose of the soul of Vera Fogarty who died on 11th May.  Her Requiem Mass will be held at 10 am on Thursday, 29th May followed by committal at Sutton Road Cemetery.

We pray for the departed on their anniversaries

Henrietta Bartley, Mary Pearce, Michael Farmer, Ruggiero Eleanora, Francis Bull, Kathleen Reynolds, Frances Florence, Elizabeth Newton, Thomas O'Malley, Richard Bird, Leonard Brockhurst, Neil & Joan Macmillan, Mildred Jackson, Angela Edwards, Edith Young, Dr Denis O'Riordan, Clarice Wheeler, Michael McHattie, Vera Waelend, Sebastian De Souza, Mabel Hooper, Joseph Mullins & Odilia Duhig.

Sixth Sunday of Easter

Year A

First Reading Acts 8:5-8,14-17,  
Second Reading Peter 3:15-18
Gospel John 14:15-21
Preface of Easter 6
The Roman Canon

Saturday 24th May
5.30pm Mass Christopher Adams, RIP

Sunday 25th May
8.00am Mass Ian Shallis, RIP
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Eugene & Vito Siani, RIP
5.30pm  Vespers & Benediction

Year 2, Psalter Week 1

Monday 19th St Dunstan, Bp

9.15am Mass Pauline Kidney, RIP

Tuesday 20th St Bernadine of Siena, Rr, Rel

9.15am Mass Emily Elizabeth March, RIP

Wednesday 21st St Christopher Magallanes, Pr, and Comps, Mn
9.15am Gwendoline Underwood, RIP

Thursday 22nd St Rita of Cascia, Rel
9.15am Dec’d Members Holland Family

Friday 23rd Feria

12Noon Dec’d Members Siana Family

2.15pm Requiem Mass: Bertha Nesnas, RIP

Saturday 24th Feria
10.30am Ints O'Keefe Family

Confession – the Sacrament of Penance – is also available on request
Holy Rosary is said after morning Mass during the week

 Reblog

Fifth Sunday of Easter

Dear friends in Christ

During Eastertide, everything in the liturgy and the Readings speaks to us about an upbeat early Christian community; it speaks to us of hope and optimism and how despite all of the difficulties the first Christian communities experienced, they persevered with strong faith in Christ.  Our Lord says that there are many rooms in my Father’s house.  This itself is a reassurance to us.  Everything that goes wrong in the world and in our individual lives can be traced to an absence of God.  Not that God is absent - He is always present everywhere – but that he is not brought into where we are and what we do.  When God is made present by us, when faith is lived and made manifest, things change because hope and optimism become present.  As members of the Christian Faith - the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ - we are all of us, interdependent on one another.

For the first Christians, the place where Jesus was encountered, and the place where others were introduced to Him was in the groups of believers that existed after Easter.  It was always through this personal contact with the Risen Jesus.  Today this has to be the same, except that a lot of people have difficulties equating the presence of Jesus with the institution we call Church.   We have to believe that in spite of her many blemishes and  imperfections, the Church is the Body of Christ, not just symbolically, but virtually biologically, since we are bound to one another through the Sacraments in ties deeper than blood-relationships.   As Blessed John Henry Newman wrote in his hymn:   And I hold in veneration, for the love of Him who died, Holy Church as His creation, and Her teachings as His own.

On Monday, over forty of us of the Parish Family, will depart on pilgrimage to Lourdes.  We carry all of you with us as we go to spend time in that place where Mary leads us to Jesus.  God bless you all and please pray for us too!

Fr Kevin Hale

Important Job Vacancy at Brentwood Cathedral

With the forthcoming retirement of the present Cathedral Personal Assistant, the Cathedral Dean, Fr Martin Boland, is looking for a PA to support him in running both a large, busy parish and the many diocesan events that take place at the   Cathedral.  

Among other qualities, this position requires someone with:  

- excellent secretarial and computing skills

- good social skills and an ability to deal in a pastoral manner with a wide range of people and situations

- an understanding and commitment to the life and work of the Catholic Church 

The successful candidate will be trustworthy, discreet, reliable and hardworking

For more information including a detailed job description and salary details, please contact Fr Martin Boland by June 15th at cathedralbrentwood@gmail.com or at Brentwood Cathedral, Clergy House, 28 Ingrave Road, Brentwood, Essex CM15 CM15 8AT telephone: 01277 265235

Important Job Vacancy at Brentwood Cathedral

With the forthcoming retirement of the present Cathedral Personal Assistant, the Cathedral Dean, Fr Martin Boland, is looking for a PA to support him in running both a large, busy parish and the many diocesan events that take place at the   Cathedral.  

Among other qualities, this position requires someone with:  

- excellent secretarial and computing skills

- good social skills and an ability to deal in a pastoral manner with a wide range of people and situations

- an understanding and commitment to the life and work of the Catholic Church 

The successful candidate will be trustworthy, discreet, reliable and hardworking

For more information including a detailed job description and salary details, please contact Fr Martin Boland by June 15th at cathedralbrentwood@gmail.com or at Brentwood Cathedral, Clergy House, 28 Ingrave Road, Brentwood, Essex CM15 CM15 8AT telephone: 01277 265235

Dates for the Diary

Sunday 22nd June 4pm:  Procession of The Blessed Sacrament

Monday 23rd June 7.30pm:  Mass of Thanksgiving for Priesthood

Sunday 6th July 9.30am:  Mass of Thanksgiving for First Communicants 

Sunday 13th July 6.00pm: Annual Parish Meeting and Garden Party

Money Matters

Offertory:  Thank you for the generous offerings received last weekend, which amounted to £1,095.94 with £770.00 collected for the Promotion of Vocations.

Counters are Linda Wall, Sheila West & Mary Kennedy.

Newsletter Folders are Tom O’Callaghan & Rita O’Callaghan .

Helping hand to get to Lourdes

Hi. My name is Joe Kwasnica and I am a member of the Parish. In July, I will going to Lourdes with the Brentwood Catholic Youth Service. It is an opportunity for me to serve others as I will be supporting disabled pilgrims throughout my time there.  I need to fund my own travel, accommodation and food. To this end, I have organized an ‘all you can eat’ meal at East in Southend on the 27th May. Arrival time is 7:15pm.  Tickets cost £13 and for each ticket sold East will donate £4 to the fundraising. Donations of raffle prizes are most welcome. Tickets can be purchased from the Parish Office or Our Lady of Lourdes school office. Thank you in anticipation of your support.  Joe

Helping hand to get to Lourdes

Hi. My name is Joe Kwasnica and I am a member of the Parish. In July, I will going to Lourdes with the Brentwood Catholic Youth Service. It is an opportunity for me to serve others as I will be supporting disabled pilgrims throughout my time there.  I need to fund my own travel, accommodation and food. To this end, I have organized an ‘all you can eat’ meal at East in Southend on the 27th May. Arrival time is 7:15pm.  Tickets cost £13 and for each ticket sold East will donate £4 to the fundraising. Donations of raffle prizes are most welcome. Tickets can be purchased from the Parish Office or Our Lady of Lourdes school office. Thank you in anticipation of your support.  Joe

Mothers’ Prayers

Wednesdays 10.30am in the Newman Room.  All welcome.

Repository

The Repository will be open after the Vigil Mass on Saturdays 24th & 31st May, but closed on Sundays 25th May & 1st June.

Coffee Duty Rotas

These are now available at the back of the Church.

Coffee Duty Rotas

These are now available at the back of the Church.