Quiz Night in aid of ACROSS
Saturday 10th October, 7.15pm for a 7.45pm start
St Thomas More Church Hall, Hadleigh
£5 per person, bring your own drinks and nibbles
Maximum 8 per team
Put on your thinking caps and help us raise vital funds for ACROSS who take seriously ill and disabled people to Lourdes
To book a table, call Janet Sutton on 01702 554664 or email lucylock34@googlemail.com
Quiz Night in aid of ACROSS
Saturday 10th October, 7.15pm for a 7.45pm start
St Thomas More Church Hall, Hadleigh
£5 per person, bring your own drinks and nibbles
Maximum 8 per team
Put on your thinking caps and help us raise vital funds for ACROSS who take seriously ill and disabled people to Lourdes
To book a table, call Janet Sutton on 01702 554664 or email lucylock34@googlemail.com
Director of Education
Brentwood Diocese needs a Director of Education to succeed Mgr George Stokes. The Director will lead the Diocese, its Education Department and its schools into a new era of expansion, development and restructuring, as we seek to fully engage with the changing national landscape of education. This is a wonderful opportunity for the right person, a practising Catholic with a track record of successful senior leadership in education or a related professional area. We welcome applications from serving or recently-retired headteachers.
If you would like an informal conversation about the post before applying, please contact Janet Simmons at janets@dioceseofbrentwood.org
Apply by 29th September 2015
Director of Education
Brentwood Diocese needs a Director of Education to succeed Mgr George Stokes. The Director will lead the Diocese, its Education Department and its schools into a new era of expansion, development and restructuring, as we seek to fully engage with the changing national landscape of education. This is a wonderful opportunity for the right person, a practising Catholic with a track record of successful senior leadership in education or a related professional area. We welcome applications from serving or recently-retired headteachers.
If you would like an informal conversation about the post before applying, please contact Janet Simmons at janets@dioceseofbrentwood.org
Apply by 29th September 2015
Work at St Bernard’s
St Bernard’s High School has vacancies for an Assistant Caretaker, a Catering Assistant and Evening Cleaners
Applications close 22 September at 9am
Open Days at St Thomas More
Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th October 2015
By appointment on 01702 344933
Open Days are for parents who have a son due to transfer to Secondary School in September 2016. Come and see the school during a normal school day and meet the staff and pupils.
Parents of boys who wish to apply to St Thomas More school for a place in September 2016 should complete the Local Education Authority CAF: Common Application Form and fill in the SIF: Supplementary Information Form
available at St-ThomasMore.Southend.sch.uk
Work at St Bernard’s
St Bernard’s High School has vacancies for an Assistant Caretaker, a Catering Assistant and Evening Cleaners
Applications close 22 September at 9am
Open Days at St Thomas More
Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th October 2015
By appointment on 01702 344933
Open Days are for parents who have a son due to transfer to Secondary School in September 2016. Come and see the school during a normal school day and meet the staff and pupils.
Parents of boys who wish to apply to St Thomas More school for a place in September 2016 should complete the Local Education Authority CAF: Common Application Form and fill in the SIF: Supplementary Information Form
available at St-ThomasMore.Southend.sch.uk
St Vincent de Paul Society
We were pleased to hold our Summer Tea in the Parish Centre in July. Our
guests enjoyed a selection of homemade sandwiches and cakes with strawberries and cream, followed by a sing-song! It was our largest social gathering but there is always room for more. If you are not already on our guest list but would like to be included, or know of someone who might be interested, please contact our President, Pat O’Connell on 01702 712123. We are now planning our Christmas social to be held on 28th November. This is our Annual Appeal weekend and we thank you in advance for your continued financial support.
Prayer for the Synod of Bishops
Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
in you we contemplate
the splendor of true love,
to you we turn with trust.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
grant that our families too
may be places of communion and prayer,
authentic schools of the Gospel
and small domestic Churches.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
may families never again
experience violence, rejection and division:
may all who have been hurt or scandalized
find ready comfort and healing.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
may the approaching Synod of Bishops
make us once more mindful
of the sacredness and inviolability of the family,
and its beauty in God’s plan.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
graciously hear our prayer.
Pope Francis
Prayer for the Synod of Bishops
Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
in you we contemplate
the splendor of true love,
to you we turn with trust.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
grant that our families too
may be places of communion and prayer,
authentic schools of the Gospel
and small domestic Churches.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
may families never again
experience violence, rejection and division:
may all who have been hurt or scandalized
find ready comfort and healing.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
may the approaching Synod of Bishops
make us once more mindful
of the sacredness and inviolability of the family,
and its beauty in God’s plan.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
graciously hear our prayer.
Pope Francis
Pray for the Dead
Please pray for our dead on their anniversaries
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them
May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace
Fr Theophilus Borer, Abp George Andrew Beck, Canon James Hemming, Deacon Arthur Woods, Fr Louis Heston, Fr John Bergin, Fr Anthony Mayston, Canon Frederick Gahagan, Eliza Moore, Mary Wright, Wilfred Sawyer, Kathleen McGowan, Anne McCarthy, Veronica Maguire, Patricia Lawrence, Kathleen Horning, Bill Jarrett, Ann Dodd, Marie Browne, Jack Abbott, Dario Peretti, Philomena Conley, Bernard Wiltshire, Eileen McCarthy, Percival De-Ath, Bridget Finnegan, Sylvia Jones, Anne Gibson, Frances Spriggs, Queenie Kay, Christopher Hickey, Stella Smith, Bernard Ratcliff, Hing San Lan, Mary Collins, Elizabeth Parsons, James Hall, John Watters, Anna Tynan, John Fazio, Lilian John Dora Loker, Margaret White and Ann Walker
Twenty-Fourth Sunday
First reading Isaiah 50: 5-9
Second reading James 2:14-18
Gospel Mark 8: 27-35
Preface of Sunday 3
Eucharistic Prayer 3
Saturday 12th September
5.30pm Mass Deceased members of the Swanton and McMahon Families
Sunday 13th
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Intentions of Wendy Downes & Family, RIP
11.30am Mass David and Irene Hall, RIP
4pm Polish Mass
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Twenty-third Sunday
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of this Sunday narrates the cure of a deaf-mute. The Lord took him aside, and placed his fingers in his ears and touched his tongue with spittle. Afterwards Jesus prays that his ears and mouth be opened and he is cured and begins to speak clearly. The fingers often signify a powerful divine action, and saliva is thought to have a certain ability to heal wounds. Although it is the words of Christ that work the cure, he wishes, as on other occasions, to use visible, material objects which in some way were intended to express the more profound actions the sacraments were later going to work in souls. Already in the first centuries, and throughout many generations, the Church used, and continues to use, the same gestures of the Lord at the moment of Baptism. The prayer over the one baptised is
May the Lord Jesus, who made the deaf hear and the dumb speak, touch your ears to receive His Word and your mouth to proclaim His faith, to the praise and glory of God the Father
These things we will all do if we are attentive continually to promptings of the Holy Spirit who uses us to proclaim God’s Word and His praises.
This Monday evening, 7th September, is the first of three talks on the Catholic Faith. Please invite anyone you know who may be interested in learning more about the Catholic faith (with a view to becoming a Catholic in the future!) to come along to my three introductory talks at 8pm in the Parish Centre. Perhaps there is someone you know who could be a Catholic and shows a holy desire to get to know Christ better in and through His Church? Do be courageous and apostolic and invite them; they will be very welcome and, hopefully, will benefit from these evenings.
May God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Twenty-third Sunday
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of this Sunday narrates the cure of a deaf-mute. The Lord took him aside, and placed his fingers in his ears and touched his tongue with spittle. Afterwards Jesus prays that his ears and mouth be opened and he is cured and begins to speak clearly. The fingers often signify a powerful divine action, and saliva is thought to have a certain ability to heal wounds. Although it is the words of Christ that work the cure, he wishes, as on other occasions, to use visible, material objects which in some way were intended to express the more profound actions the sacraments were later going to work in souls. Already in the first centuries, and throughout many generations, the Church used, and continues to use, the same gestures of the Lord at the moment of Baptism. The prayer over the one baptised is
May the Lord Jesus, who made the deaf hear and the dumb speak, touch your ears to receive His Word and your mouth to proclaim His faith, to the praise and glory of God the Father
These things we will all do if we are attentive continually to promptings of the Holy Spirit who uses us to proclaim God’s Word and His praises.
This Monday evening, 7th September, is the first of three talks on the Catholic Faith. Please invite anyone you know who may be interested in learning more about the Catholic faith (with a view to becoming a Catholic in the future!) to come along to my three introductory talks at 8pm in the Parish Centre. Perhaps there is someone you know who could be a Catholic and shows a holy desire to get to know Christ better in and through His Church? Do be courageous and apostolic and invite them; they will be very welcome and, hopefully, will benefit from these evenings.
May God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Twenty-Third Week
Monday 7th Feria
9am Mass Bill Pearson, RIP
Tuesday 8th September The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9am Mass Dennis Hippard, RIP
Wednesday 9th St Peter Claver, Priest
9am Mass Frank and Ann Ryan, RIP (Anniversary)
Thursday 10th Feria
9am Mass Daniel and Maryanne McConville, RIP
Friday 11th Feria
12noon Mass Tommy Clancy, RIP (Anniversary)
Saturday 12th The Most Holy Name of Mary
10am Mass Patricia Florence Larman, RIP
Twenty-Third Week
Monday 7th Feria
9am Mass Bill Pearson, RIP
Tuesday 8th September The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9am Mass Dennis Hippard, RIP
Wednesday 9th St Peter Claver, Priest
9am Mass Frank and Ann Ryan, RIP (Anniversary)
Thursday 10th Feria
9am Mass Daniel and Maryanne McConville, RIP
Friday 11th Feria
12noon Mass Tommy Clancy, RIP (Anniversary)
Saturday 12th The Most Holy Name of Mary
10am Mass Patricia Florence Larman, RIP
School Admissions
Please submit any application forms for signing to Fr Kevin during the month of October only, after Sunday Mass.