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Parish Fundraising

We are currently eight members short of our 200 target. Could you help
us reach our target? Subscription is £5 per month, either by cash, cheque
or direct debit. If you would like to join, please fill in a form which can be found at the back of the church or ring Linda Wall on 01702 558217.

This month’s winners are:
1st Prize £150 51 Mrs P Major
2nd Prize £100 110 Miss J Sullens
3rd Prize £ 75 7 Mr & Mrs A Carstairs
4th Prize £ 50 78 Mr Martin O’Brien
5th Prize £ 25 219 Mrs M Braun

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Money Matters

Offertory: Thank you for your generous offerings received last weekend, which amounted to £1,455.05. 

Counters: Bob Hall, Kitty Edwards & Bernadette Lane. Newsletter

Folders: Pauline Jordan & Maureen Ward.

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Pentecost

First reading Acts 2:1-11
Second reading Corinthians 1:17-23
Gospel John 20:19-23
The Roman Canon
Preface of Pentecost

Saturday 23rd May
5.30pm Mass Private Intention

Sunday 24th May
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Ints of Gerry Dillon
11.30am Mass of Confirmation
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction

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The Ascension of The Lord

Dear friends in Christ

The days of Jesus life following His Resurrection come to completion with the mystery of His Ascension into Heaven, celebrated this weekend.

Today we are not only made possessors of Paradise, but with Christ we have ascended, mystically but also really, to the heights of Heaven and have won through Christ a grace more wonderful than the one we had lost
– Pope St Leo the Great

Jesus is in Heaven with His glorified body, with the signs of His redemptive sacrifice, and with the marks of His Passion, which bring about our salvation.

Pope St Leo continues:

The Apostles benefited so greatly from the Ascension of our Lord that all that beforehand had caused them fear now caused them joy. From that moment on, their souls were fixed in contemplation on the the divinity seated at the right hand of the Father; the very vision of His body was no obstacle to their believing with their minds illumined by faith that Christ had not separated Himself from His Father when He descended, and had not separated Himself from His disciples when He ascended.

Please pray for our thirty-three young people who are preparing for the Sacrament of Confirmation next Sunday (Pentecost) and also our sixty-five young children who are receiving First Holy Communion over these weeks too.

At the Clergy Deanery Meeting this week Fr Eamonn Power – the new Parish Priest of Canvey Island – was elected as the Dean of Southend to replace me. I am very happy to hand over the reins after eleven years in the post; I ask you to pray for him in this new responsibility. May God bless you all!

Msgr Kevin Hale

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The Ascension of the Lord

Monday 18th St John I, Pope, Martyr
9am Mass Ints Esther Clarke

Tuesday 19th St Dunstan, Bishop
9am Mass Ints of the Corrigan Family

Wednesday 20th St Bernardine of Siena, Priest, Religious
9am Mass Charles & Alice Whitefield, RIP

Thursday 21st Ss Christopher Magallanes, Priest, and companions, Martyrs
9am Mass Ints of Margaret Sanders

Friday 22nd St Rita of Cascia, Religious
12noon Mass John & Gertrude Caden, RIP (Anniv)

Saturday 23rd Feria
10.30am Mass First Holy Communion