Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society
BCCS would like to thank all the parishioners very much for their kind and generous donation of £253.28, being the proceeds of the December-January Crib Collection.
Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society
BCCS would like to thank all the parishioners very much for their kind and generous donation of £253.28, being the proceeds of the December-January Crib Collection.
Cafod Lent Fast Day - Friday 19 February
This Lent, Cafod will use funds raised for its WASH campaign (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) to work with aid partners to provide sustainable access to clean and safe water for local communities in Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Congo. This work transforms lives - particularly children’s - as many have to walk miles every day in dangerous and harsh conditions to collect water for their families, and have no time or opportunity to attend school. The UK Government will match funds raised by Cafod during Lent to a limit of £3.5m. So anything you can give for this Cafod Fast Day will go that bit further.
Cafod Lent Fast Day - Friday 19 February
This Lent, Cafod will use funds raised for its WASH campaign (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) to work with aid partners to provide sustainable access to clean and safe water for local communities in Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Congo. This work transforms lives - particularly children’s - as many have to walk miles every day in dangerous and harsh conditions to collect water for their families, and have no time or opportunity to attend school. The UK Government will match funds raised by Cafod during Lent to a limit of £3.5m. So anything you can give for this Cafod Fast Day will go that bit further.
ST. THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER OF RE
Applications are welcome from newly qualified and experienced teachers of RE, who have a passion for their Christian faith and for student success. The ability to teach RE to A Level would be an advantage. There are wider school TLR’s available for candidates with the appropriate experience. We are a Catholic School but applications are equally welcome from non-Catholic Christians. Informal discussions or visits are encouraged and very welcome prior to application. Please contact Mr J Hollingsworth, Director of Teaching and Learning jhollingsworth@st-thomasmore.southend.sch.uk. Please see the school’s website for further details and an application form or telephone the school for details to be sent to you. Closing date: 1st March 2016 Start date: September 2016. The school’s application form must be completed. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Appointments made are subject to an Enhanced DBS clearance and safeguarding checks.
www.st-thomasmore.southend.sch.uk Telephone 01702 344933.
ST. THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER OF RE
Applications are welcome from newly qualified and experienced teachers of RE, who have a passion for their Christian faith and for student success. The ability to teach RE to A Level would be an advantage. There are wider school TLR’s available for candidates with the appropriate experience. We are a Catholic School but applications are equally welcome from non-Catholic Christians. Informal discussions or visits are encouraged and very welcome prior to application. Please contact Mr J Hollingsworth, Director of Teaching and Learning jhollingsworth@st-thomasmore.southend.sch.uk. Please see the school’s website for further details and an application form or telephone the school for details to be sent to you. Closing date: 1st March 2016 Start date: September 2016. The school’s application form must be completed. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Appointments made are subject to an Enhanced DBS clearance and safeguarding checks.
www.st-thomasmore.southend.sch.uk Telephone 01702 344933.
Dates for Your Diary
Saturdays 7th & 14th May First Holy Communion Masses
Wednesday 18th May Bishop’s Visitation & Confirmation
Sun 14th to Sat 20th August Parish/Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes
Sacrament of Confirmation
The first preparation session for Confirmation will be on Sunday 28th February
at 6.30pm in the Parish Centre. The sessions will end around 8pm each week. Confirmation will be given when the Bishop visits the Parish on Wednesday,
18th May.
Year of Mercy Parish Prayer Intention
That during the season of Lent, all who follow Christ may avail themselves of the Father’s Mercy especially in Confession.
Pray for the Dead
Please pray for our dead on their anniversaries:
Fr. John Joyce, Fr Thomas O’Connor, Fr Archibald O’Brien, Joan Stanley,
Malcolm Atkinson, Patricia Garnett, Anthony Ashwell-Rivens Elaine MacDonald, Amy Read, John Armstrong, Doreen O’Leary, Alice McGiff, John McCarthy,
Ernest Treston, Eleanor Walsh, Veronica Collins, Mark Bragard, Michael Fitzgerald, Maire Beckwith, Douglas Ellegard, Ernest Bullock, Anthony Hillier, Leo Farge, Peggy Stevenson, Branko Deyanovitch, Hugh McHattie, Elizabeth Callow, Vera Thompson, Christopher Purcell, Neil O’Keefe, Robert Bautista,
Constance Anne, Christopher Keville, Theresa Daniels, Maria Calame,
Amy Cutforth, Eileen Ditton, Grace Angwin & Anthony Warwick.
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.
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday 6th St Paul Miki and Companions, Mm
10am Mass Fr John Caden, RIP (Anniv)
5.30pm Vigil Mass Liz Edmonds, RIP
Sunday 7th February
8.00am Mass Intentions of Benjo Balling
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
First Holy Communion Presentation of Photographs
11.30am Mass Intentions of Anne Young
4.00pm Mass Peter Griffin, RIP (Anniv) - Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 8th February Feria
8.30am Mass Luigia Tisi, RIP (Anniv)
Tuesday 9th Feria
9am Mass Bridie Conneely, RIP (Anniv)
Wednesday 10th ASH WEDNESDAY Day of Fasting & Abstinence
9am Mass Carmen Ashley, RIP (Anniv)
12Noon Mass Stella Hale, RIP
8.00pm Mass Holy Souls
Thursday 11th OUR LADY OF LOURDES
9.30am Mass Bernard Ward, RIP (Anniv)
(Our Lady of Lourdes School attending)
Friday 12th Feria
12Noon Mass Gerald Vickers, RIP & Victor Moran, RIP
8.00pm Stations of the Cross & Benediction
Saturday 13th Feria
10am Mass Jennifer Garrett, RIP (Anniv)
5.30pm Vigil Mass Intentions of Paul Collingwood
Sunday 14th February
8am Mass Intentions of the McHale Family
9.30am Mass Pat & John Moon & Valerie Griggs, RIP
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday 6th St Paul Miki and Companions, Mm
10am Mass Fr John Caden, RIP (Anniv)
5.30pm Vigil Mass Liz Edmonds, RIP
Sunday 7th February
8.00am Mass Intentions of Benjo Balling
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
First Holy Communion Presentation of Photographs
11.30am Mass Intentions of Anne Young
4.00pm Mass Peter Griffin, RIP (Anniv) - Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 8th February Feria
8.30am Mass Luigia Tisi, RIP (Anniv)
Tuesday 9th Feria
9am Mass Bridie Conneely, RIP (Anniv)
Wednesday 10th ASH WEDNESDAY Day of Fasting & Abstinence
9am Mass Carmen Ashley, RIP (Anniv)
12Noon Mass Stella Hale, RIP
8.00pm Mass Holy Souls
Thursday 11th OUR LADY OF LOURDES
9.30am Mass Bernard Ward, RIP (Anniv)
(Our Lady of Lourdes School attending)
Friday 12th Feria
12Noon Mass Gerald Vickers, RIP & Victor Moran, RIP
8.00pm Stations of the Cross & Benediction
Saturday 13th Feria
10am Mass Jennifer Garrett, RIP (Anniv)
5.30pm Vigil Mass Intentions of Paul Collingwood
Sunday 14th February
8am Mass Intentions of the McHale Family
9.30am Mass Pat & John Moon & Valerie Griggs, RIP
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Fifth Sunday of the Year
Dear friends in Christ
The moving scene depicted for us in this Sunday’s Gospel shows, on the one hand the ineptitude and lack of faith of Jesus’ disciples, and on the other, His patient indulgence of them. This is the story of the Church: in every age God has called those to follow Him who have been inadequate instruments of Divine grace, to show that the power is of God and not of us. This coming week we shall begin the Holy season of Lent with the traditional Day of Fasting and Abstinence on Ash Wednesday. Now is the time for us to contemplate the ways in which we can live this time of grace and conversion, always conscious that God gives us every chance to begin again-and-again. In this Year of Mercy, the call to conversion is ever more urgent and we have no excuse for not turning to God with confidence to implore His merciful love. St John Paul II wrote: Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.
On Thursday we have the patronal festival of our Parish and Diocese. This year the main celebration of Our Lady of Lourdes will take place in the morning with Mass at the later hour of 9.30am; Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School will be present with us. There is another Diocesan celebration in the evening at Brentwood Cathedral with a Mass at 7pm; it will include the Induction of the new Canons. As this is an important milestone in the life of our Diocese, the Bishop invites us to go to the Cathedral and participate in this Mass with the Diocesan Family on this occasion; I would appreciate it if many of you would come along and support the Bishop and his new Chapter; a Reception will follow the Mass. As this may be a late evening, the usual Lenten 6.30am Mass will commence the following Friday, 19th. May God bless us all, as together we embark on the pilgrimage of Lent, that it may bring us purified and holier to a glorious Eastertide!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Fifth Sunday of the Year
Dear friends in Christ
The moving scene depicted for us in this Sunday’s Gospel shows, on the one hand the ineptitude and lack of faith of Jesus’ disciples, and on the other, His patient indulgence of them. This is the story of the Church: in every age God has called those to follow Him who have been inadequate instruments of Divine grace, to show that the power is of God and not of us. This coming week we shall begin the Holy season of Lent with the traditional Day of Fasting and Abstinence on Ash Wednesday. Now is the time for us to contemplate the ways in which we can live this time of grace and conversion, always conscious that God gives us every chance to begin again-and-again. In this Year of Mercy, the call to conversion is ever more urgent and we have no excuse for not turning to God with confidence to implore His merciful love. St John Paul II wrote: Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.
On Thursday we have the patronal festival of our Parish and Diocese. This year the main celebration of Our Lady of Lourdes will take place in the morning with Mass at the later hour of 9.30am; Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School will be present with us. There is another Diocesan celebration in the evening at Brentwood Cathedral with a Mass at 7pm; it will include the Induction of the new Canons. As this is an important milestone in the life of our Diocese, the Bishop invites us to go to the Cathedral and participate in this Mass with the Diocesan Family on this occasion; I would appreciate it if many of you would come along and support the Bishop and his new Chapter; a Reception will follow the Mass. As this may be a late evening, the usual Lenten 6.30am Mass will commence the following Friday, 19th. May God bless us all, as together we embark on the pilgrimage of Lent, that it may bring us purified and holier to a glorious Eastertide!
Msgr Kevin Hale
PLEASE PRAY fOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOUL OF:
Andrew (Mel) Kenny who died on Thursday, 28th January. His Requiem Mass will take place here on Thursday 18th February at 11am followed by burial at Hall Road, Rochford.
St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Tilbury
Class Teacher NQTs - KS1/2 (Mainscale) required for September 2016. (Early start available for the right candidate). We are looking to recruit experienced or Newly Qualified teachers to join our oversubscribed and happy school. Our school is warm and inviting and our children are very well behaved and willing to learn. Enquiries are welcomed from fully qualified teachers with QTS.
Closing date: 26th February 2016. Interviews: 8th March 2016
Nursery Teacher required for April or September 2016. We require an enthusiastic and experienced Early Years Teacher to run our excellent Nursery. This teacher will be committed to working with the rest of the team to raise standards and drive the school forward.
Closing date: 22nd February noon. Interviews: 24th February 2016
To arrange an appointment and request an application pack for either of the posts advertised, please contact Alison Bishop on 01375 843254 or at admin@tilburystmarys.thurrock.sch.uk
St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Tilbury
Class Teacher NQTs - KS1/2 (Mainscale) required for September 2016. (Early start available for the right candidate). We are looking to recruit experienced or Newly Qualified teachers to join our oversubscribed and happy school. Our school is warm and inviting and our children are very well behaved and willing to learn. Enquiries are welcomed from fully qualified teachers with QTS.
Closing date: 26th February 2016. Interviews: 8th March 2016
Nursery Teacher required for April or September 2016. We require an enthusiastic and experienced Early Years Teacher to run our excellent Nursery. This teacher will be committed to working with the rest of the team to raise standards and drive the school forward.
Closing date: 22nd February noon. Interviews: 24th February 2016
To arrange an appointment and request an application pack for either of the posts advertised, please contact Alison Bishop on 01375 843254 or at admin@tilburystmarys.thurrock.sch.uk
ABC - About Being Catholic
The series of talks designed to give an insight into the teachings and traditions of the Catholic Church continues this Monday, 8th February at 8pm: The Paschal Mystery/TheEucharist.
You are welcome to attend some or all of these talks: if you would like more information please speak to Fr Kevin or telephone Pat O’Connell on 01702 712123.
Year of Mercy – Spring Events
Meeting the God of Mercy through the Sacraments - Saturday 13th February, 10.30am - Fr Martin Boland.
Wrestling with forgiveness - Saturday 5th March (not 27th February), 10.30am - Bishop Emeritus, Thomas McMahon
All events take place at Cathedral House Brentwood.
Telephone: 01277 265 285. Email: lisagunther@dioceseofbrentwood.org