Gift Aid
Thank you to all those Parishioners who gift-aided their contributions last tax year 2014/15. In order to save on postage and printing, we will only be providing letters to those Parishioners who require one to complete their tax return for the Inland Revenue. If you require a letter, please email the Parish Office at office@lourdesleigh.org
If there are any changes to your circumstances, such as change of address or you are no longer a tax payer, please advise the Gift Aid organiser via the Parish Office. Thank you.
Vacancy for Head of School at St Francis R/C Primary, Maldon
Application packs available on line at Essex Job Scene. School visits very welcome, please contact the school on 01621 856698. Closing Date 1st July with interviews 13th July.
Vacancy for Head of School at St Francis R/C Primary, Maldon
Application packs available on line at Essex Job Scene. School visits very welcome, please contact the school on 01621 856698. Closing Date 1st July with interviews 13th July.
Governor Training - Cathedral House, Brentwood
‘Leading a school from good to outstanding’: 4th July 2015, 9.30am – 12.00pm.
‘Holding school leaders to account’: 11th July 2015, 9.30am – 12.00pm.
For further information or to register please contact Lisa Gunther at BRES on 01277 265218 or at lisagunther@dioceseofbrentwood.org. Closing date for responses by Monday 22nd June.
Governor Training - Cathedral House, Brentwood
‘Leading a school from good to outstanding’: 4th July 2015, 9.30am – 12.00pm.
‘Holding school leaders to account’: 11th July 2015, 9.30am – 12.00pm.
For further information or to register please contact Lisa Gunther at BRES on 01277 265218 or at lisagunther@dioceseofbrentwood.org. Closing date for responses by Monday 22nd June.
Lourdes Social News
The Social Committee are planning to run a family social in July and a fish and chips supper with entertainment for adults in October. Full details and arrangements will be announced in the bulletin in due course about these events; we welcome parishioner’s input on future events.
We have a good number of people who as helpers turn up on the night to assist in various ways but we really do need more people serving on the committee to help organise and run things, especially a few younger parishioners to get new fresh ideas, and parishioners who aren’t already involved in other things and would like to be. If you can help please contact Darrell (below) or the Parish Office.
The Margueriteville Country Music Club is run usually once a month at St James’ Church Hall to raise funds for the Lourdes Parish Centre. The next event will be the Club’s sixth birthday celebration on Saturday 4th July. Following last Month’s successful gig, another donation of £500 has now been made to the Parish centre fund, meaning that over £7,200 has been raised through the Margueriteville since it was formed in 2009.
Grateful Thanks to parishioners Bernadette Lane, Vita de Souza and Sandie Hippard who have helped Darrell in various ways in running the club. We welcome other parishioners’ support and help in running this and other social activities.
For more information on the Club and Lourdes social activities at the parish Centre please contact Darrell Binding on 07825686249 or email margueriteville@hotmail.co.uk.
Lourdes Social News
The Social Committee are planning to run a family social in July and a fish and chips supper with entertainment for adults in October. Full details and arrangements will be announced in the bulletin in due course about these events; we welcome parishioner’s input on future events.
We have a good number of people who as helpers turn up on the night to assist in various ways but we really do need more people serving on the committee to help organise and run things, especially a few younger parishioners to get new fresh ideas, and parishioners who aren’t already involved in other things and would like to be. If you can help please contact Darrell (below) or the Parish Office.
The Margueriteville Country Music Club is run usually once a month at St James’ Church Hall to raise funds for the Lourdes Parish Centre. The next event will be the Club’s sixth birthday celebration on Saturday 4th July. Following last Month’s successful gig, another donation of £500 has now been made to the Parish centre fund, meaning that over £7,200 has been raised through the Margueriteville since it was formed in 2009.
Grateful Thanks to parishioners Bernadette Lane, Vita de Souza and Sandie Hippard who have helped Darrell in various ways in running the club. We welcome other parishioners’ support and help in running this and other social activities.
For more information on the Club and Lourdes social activities at the parish Centre please contact Darrell Binding on 07825686249 or email margueriteville@hotmail.co.uk.
Catholic Womens League
The next meeting of the CWL is a Business Meeting on Monday 8 June at 2pm in the Newman Room. Please do feel welcome to join us.
Money Matters
Offertory: Thank you for your generous offerings received last weekend, which amounted to £1,690.44 and £357.94 for Christian Aid. Counters: Linda Wall, Jan Lewis & Jacky Hoggett. Newsletter Folders: Amanda Phipps, Clare English & Sarah Bagnall.
14+ Youth Group
Our 14+ Youth Group continues to meet every other week in the Parish Centre. Our next meeting is on Wednesday, 17th June at 7:30 & all parishioners aged 14 and above will be afforded a warm welcome. The group provides an opportunity for you to explore, examine and discuss your faith and connect with young people across the diocese. Come and learn the power and beauty of the Catholic faith!
Serving the Homeless
The Committee of Serving the Homeless is holding an Afternoon Tea at the Park View Suite on Thursday 11th June between 2 to 4 pm. Tickets cost £10 each and are available from Nina Bridgeman 472536, Jo Ronan 474062 or Linda Wall 558217.
Please Pray for the Repose of the Souls of:
Hannah Lee, RIP. Her Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday 10th June at 11am followed by committal at Hall Road Cemetery at 12.30pm.
Stella Hale, RIP who died recently. Funeral details to follow.
Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Edmund Tyler, Fr Thomas Crowe, Fr John Gallagher, Fr Thomas Carlin,
Fr Robert Mortimer-Anderson, Bertram Barrett, May Lobb, James McKeon,
Edith Turner, Nora Murphy, Catherine Weston, Kathleen Lee, Ray Parascandolo, Irene Chessher, Pamela Gafga, Annie Lawrence, Rose Whitehead, Walter Burrill, Marion Button, Gerald Melhuish, Gwendoline Underwood, George Houston, Harold Britt, Ken Bailey, Margaret Grenier, James Fairchild, Janice Turner,
Jill Kinsley & Norita Fanning.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
Corpus Christi: the Body and Blood of Christ
First reading Exodus 24:3-8
Second reading Hebrews 9:11-15
Gospel Mark 14: 12-16, 22-26
Preface of the Body & Blood of Christ
The Roman Canon
Saturday 6th June
5.30pm Mass Bertha Nesnas, RIP
Sunday 7th June
8am Mass Frances Emmerson, RIP
9.30am Mass Ray Parascondolo, RIP (Anniv)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
1.30pm Polish Mass
4pm Corpus Christi Procession
No Vespers or Benediction
Corpus Christi: the Body and Blood of Christ
First reading Exodus 24:3-8
Second reading Hebrews 9:11-15
Gospel Mark 14: 12-16, 22-26
Preface of the Body & Blood of Christ
The Roman Canon
Saturday 6th June
5.30pm Mass Bertha Nesnas, RIP
Sunday 7th June
8am Mass Frances Emmerson, RIP
9.30am Mass Ray Parascondolo, RIP (Anniv)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
1.30pm Polish Mass
4pm Corpus Christi Procession
No Vespers or Benediction
The Most Blessed Trinity
Dear friends in Christ
The summation and celebration of the Christian religion comes each year in the feast we celebrate this weekend: The Most Blessed Trinity. If it is difficult to speak about any of the mysteries of our holy Faith, then to say anything about the mystery of the inner nature and life of God is folly. What we are asked to reflect on with this feast each year is: how God exists as an intimate relationship of Persons and how through the life of the Church we are drawn into that family life. Through the Sacraments – especially the Eucharistic Sacrifice – we experience on earth something of the life that we hope one day to experience fully in Heaven. In the Mass, Jesus Christ offers Himself sacrificially to the Father (Priest and Victim) through the action of the Holy Spirit. Though Him, with Him and in Him… as we pray at the conclusion of the Canon of the Mass.
Next weekend the Church celebrates Corpus Christ, the feast of the presence of God Himself in our midst. The Mass, and the Procession that celebrates this feast each year, is the one act of adoration to the Godhead that expresses above all what is most dear to us as Catholics. I am sure you will all make a special effort to be present at the Procession next Sunday which is always a beautiful expression of Catholic Faith in the Blessed Sacrament. As usual, our First Communion children lead the procession, accompanied by the Tilbury Brass Band and this is followed by a Tea in the Parish Centre. God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
The Most Blessed Trinity
Dear friends in Christ
The summation and celebration of the Christian religion comes each year in the feast we celebrate this weekend: The Most Blessed Trinity. If it is difficult to speak about any of the mysteries of our holy Faith, then to say anything about the mystery of the inner nature and life of God is folly. What we are asked to reflect on with this feast each year is: how God exists as an intimate relationship of Persons and how through the life of the Church we are drawn into that family life. Through the Sacraments – especially the Eucharistic Sacrifice – we experience on earth something of the life that we hope one day to experience fully in Heaven. In the Mass, Jesus Christ offers Himself sacrificially to the Father (Priest and Victim) through the action of the Holy Spirit. Though Him, with Him and in Him… as we pray at the conclusion of the Canon of the Mass.
Next weekend the Church celebrates Corpus Christ, the feast of the presence of God Himself in our midst. The Mass, and the Procession that celebrates this feast each year, is the one act of adoration to the Godhead that expresses above all what is most dear to us as Catholics. I am sure you will all make a special effort to be present at the Procession next Sunday which is always a beautiful expression of Catholic Faith in the Blessed Sacrament. As usual, our First Communion children lead the procession, accompanied by the Tilbury Brass Band and this is followed by a Tea in the Parish Centre. God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
The Most Holy Trinity
Monday 1st June Dedication of the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary & Saint Helen, Brentwood
9am Mass John Holland, RIP
Tuesday 2nd Saints Marcellinus & Peter, Martyrs
9am Mass Intentions of Gilberte Cook
Wednesday 3rd Saint Charles Lwanga & Companions, Martyrs
9am Mass Perpetua Miller, RIP
Thursday 4th
9am Mass Reverend John Caden, RIP
Friday 5th Saint Boniface, Bishop, Martyr
12noon Mass Catholic Women's League Intentions
12.30pm Exposition after Mass until
8pm Holy Hour & Benediction
Saturday 6th Saint Norbert, Bishop
10am Mass Frank & Barbara Blaker, RIP