Serving the Homeless
Our annual AGM will be held on Monday 7th March at 7.30pm at St Margaret’s Church Hall, Lime Avenue. Leigh. Please come along to support us and learn
Church Cleaning
If you are able to help with cleaning the Church for one hour every four weeks please contact the Parish office. Thank you
Money Matters
Offertory: Thank you for your generous offerings received last weekend, which amounted to £1,505.66.
Counters: Toni Cousins, Mary Cook & Jacky Hoggett.
Newsletter Folders: Bobby Newman & Emma Beardsell.
OUR LADY OF RANSOM SCHOOL
Our Lady of Ransom School is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly-motivated Class Teacher to start in September 2016. The school provides a happy, calm atmosphere with delightful children as well as supportive colleagues, governors and parents. The post would suit an experienced or newly qualified teacher who is either a practising Catholic or willing to support the strong Catholic ethos of our school. For full details of this post please refer to the school website www.olorcps.net or contact Mr Parascandolo, Head Teacher via the school office 01268-785741.
Closing date: Wednesday 9th March, 2016 (5pm)
Interviews: week commencing 14th March, 2016.
OUR LADY OF RANSOM SCHOOL
Our Lady of Ransom School is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly-motivated Class Teacher to start in September 2016. The school provides a happy, calm atmosphere with delightful children as well as supportive colleagues, governors and parents. The post would suit an experienced or newly qualified teacher who is either a practising Catholic or willing to support the strong Catholic ethos of our school. For full details of this post please refer to the school website www.olorcps.net or contact Mr Parascandolo, Head Teacher via the school office 01268-785741.
Closing date: Wednesday 9th March, 2016 (5pm)
Interviews: week commencing 14th March, 2016.
Social Committee news
Margueriteville CMC Donation. Following successful Country music nights at Christmas, January and February £500 has now been donated to the Parish Centre funds. Thanks once again to all supporters and donors of raffle prizes.
St George’s Day Evening Social at the Parish Centre. Advance notice of a social evening on 23rd April with Martin Jaye, a brilliant entertainer specialising in country and popular music, who recently appeared at the Margueriteville club. Tickets for the event will be on sale after Easter from Phyllis Sadowski, Marian Long and Darrell Binding. A fish n’chips quiz night is also being planned for June. More details to follow.
New members needed! We really need some new members to help organise parish social events, to put on events roughly once a quarter. New parishioners, young and old, would be welcome! Contact Darrell on 07825686249 or contact the parish office to give details.
Social Committee news
Margueriteville CMC Donation. Following successful Country music nights at Christmas, January and February £500 has now been donated to the Parish Centre funds. Thanks once again to all supporters and donors of raffle prizes.
St George’s Day Evening Social at the Parish Centre. Advance notice of a social evening on 23rd April with Martin Jaye, a brilliant entertainer specialising in country and popular music, who recently appeared at the Margueriteville club. Tickets for the event will be on sale after Easter from Phyllis Sadowski, Marian Long and Darrell Binding. A fish n’chips quiz night is also being planned for June. More details to follow.
New members needed! We really need some new members to help organise parish social events, to put on events roughly once a quarter. New parishioners, young and old, would be welcome! Contact Darrell on 07825686249 or contact the parish office to give details.
Gift Aid Envelopes
New boxes of envelopes for those in the Gift Aid Scheme will be available for collection this weekend and next weekend,12th/13th March. If you wish to gift aid your weekly offering by using envelopes, please complete a Gift Aid Form, available at the back of Church, and either hand it in to the Parish office or place it in the offertory collection. You will then receive a box of envelopes for your weekly collection.
Southend Deanery Year of Mercy Lent Talks at Nazareth House
Monday 7th March 7.30pm. ‘Do we need Mercy?’
Fr. Eduard-William Fartan - Parish Priest of Benfleet
Monday 14th March 7.30pm. – Mary, Mother of Mercy
Fr. Stewart Foster –Diocesan Archivist
Southend Deanery Year of Mercy Lent Talks at Nazareth House
Monday 7th March 7.30pm. ‘Do we need Mercy?’
Fr. Eduard-William Fartan - Parish Priest of Benfleet
Monday 14th March 7.30pm. – Mary, Mother of Mercy
Fr. Stewart Foster –Diocesan Archivist
Reception into the Church
During the 11.30am Mass this Sunday, those wishing to be received into the Church will be presented with personal crucifixes. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
Aoife O’Sullivan, RIP
Please pray for the parents (Neil & Michelle), family and friends of Aoife O’Sullivan who died in Great Ormond Street Hospital on Wednesday. Aoife was in the Reception Class of Our Lady of Lourdes School; let us ask God to hold them all securely in the palm of His hand at this time.
Aoife O’Sullivan, RIP
Please pray for the parents (Neil & Michelle), family and friends of Aoife O’Sullivan who died in Great Ormond Street Hospital on Wednesday. Aoife was in the Reception Class of Our Lady of Lourdes School; let us ask God to hold them all securely in the palm of His hand at this time.
Pray for the Dead
Please pray for our dead on their anniversaries:
Fr Thomas Lawton, Fr John Gordon, Fr Edmund Meyer, Fr Maurice Roche,
Ena Bartley, Mary Smith, Doris Conner, Danielle Sutherland, Sandra McGran,
Philip Thomas, Anthony Conlon, Granley Rumsey, John Burke, Janet Harris,
Miss Sydney Compton, Edward Baigent, Elsie Killman,Teresa Rumsey,
Henry Delaney, John Button, Constance Ryan, Joyce Quinn, Pamela Jones,
Peggy Choppin, Vincent Ingham, Christopher Tyler, Joe Swann, Leo King,
Therese Ketterer, Joseph Collins, Lionel Clarke, Richard Young, Edith Smith, Margaret Houston, Benjamin Dawson, & Eileen Greaves.
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.
Third Sunday of Lent
Dear friends in Christ
The season of Lent is a time when all of us members of the Church try to grow in virtue. It is especially the period when those who are preparing for Baptism and Admission into the Church, go into a more intense spiritual preparation. The Church strips things down to their bare minimum at this time of year so that we can focus on what is essential; so, the church is not adored with flowers, the drapes are purple and music more sombre. By focusing on what is most essential we are enabled to grow step-by-step in the spiritual life. In the Gospel of this Sunday Jesus is reminding us that we should be showing the fruits of our inner conversion by the way we live and relate to God and neighbour. All of our Lenten practises, be they increased prayer, fasting or works of charity should be aimed at this. Our main enemy is pride, which is the primary tool the Evil One employs to disable us in the struggle. Pride makes us feel that we are either too good and have no need of God’s grace and mercy or, at the other end of the spectrum, we are so bad that God would never be bothered with me and His forgiveness is impossible, Both of these positions are false and not Catholic. Virtue is always in the middle-ground and we must have a healthy detestation of everything that leads us away from God whilst, at the same time, living with complete trust in God’s goodness and care for us. As we are individuals, so we are individually loved and none of us should ever forget that.
Please keep in your prayers those who are preparing to receive the Sacraments for the first time this Easter. Also, the group of candidates from our Parish who will begin this Sunday their preparation for Confirmation when the Bishop visits in May. God bless you all in your continued endeavours to be holy this Lent!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Third Sunday of Lent
Dear friends in Christ
The season of Lent is a time when all of us members of the Church try to grow in virtue. It is especially the period when those who are preparing for Baptism and Admission into the Church, go into a more intense spiritual preparation. The Church strips things down to their bare minimum at this time of year so that we can focus on what is essential; so, the church is not adored with flowers, the drapes are purple and music more sombre. By focusing on what is most essential we are enabled to grow step-by-step in the spiritual life. In the Gospel of this Sunday Jesus is reminding us that we should be showing the fruits of our inner conversion by the way we live and relate to God and neighbour. All of our Lenten practises, be they increased prayer, fasting or works of charity should be aimed at this. Our main enemy is pride, which is the primary tool the Evil One employs to disable us in the struggle. Pride makes us feel that we are either too good and have no need of God’s grace and mercy or, at the other end of the spectrum, we are so bad that God would never be bothered with me and His forgiveness is impossible, Both of these positions are false and not Catholic. Virtue is always in the middle-ground and we must have a healthy detestation of everything that leads us away from God whilst, at the same time, living with complete trust in God’s goodness and care for us. As we are individuals, so we are individually loved and none of us should ever forget that.
Please keep in your prayers those who are preparing to receive the Sacraments for the first time this Easter. Also, the group of candidates from our Parish who will begin this Sunday their preparation for Confirmation when the Bishop visits in May. God bless you all in your continued endeavours to be holy this Lent!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Third Sunday in Lent
Saturday 27th Feria
10am Mass Patrick Farrell, RIP (Anniv)
5.30pm Vigil The People of the Parish
Sunday 28th February
8am Mass Intentions of the O’Sullivan Family
9.30am Mass Frank & Moira Keenan, RIP
11.30am Mass Michael Crawley, RIP
Monday 29th Feria
9am Mass Michael Sheaf, RIP (Anniv)
Tuesday 1st March ST DAVID, Bp
9am Mass Bill Hoggett, RIP (Anniv)
Wednesday 2nd Feria
9am Mass Peppi Major, RIP (Anniv)
Thursday 3rd Feria
9am Mass Intentions of the Corrigan Family
Friday 4th Feria
6.30am Mass Maire Callanan, RIP
12Noon Mass CWL Intentions
12.30pm Exposition after Mass until
8.00pm Holy Hour & Benediction
Saturday 5th Feria
10am Mass Patricia Breslin, RIP
5.30pm Vigil Mass Bertha Nesnas, RIP
Sunday 6th March
8am Mass Maureen Caulfield, RIP
9.30am Mass Jim & Teena Rockell, RIP
11.30am Mass Parishioners
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Third Sunday in Lent
Saturday 27th Feria
10am Mass Patrick Farrell, RIP (Anniv)
5.30pm Vigil The People of the Parish
Sunday 28th February
8am Mass Intentions of the O’Sullivan Family
9.30am Mass Frank & Moira Keenan, RIP
11.30am Mass Michael Crawley, RIP
Monday 29th Feria
9am Mass Michael Sheaf, RIP (Anniv)
Tuesday 1st March ST DAVID, Bp
9am Mass Bill Hoggett, RIP (Anniv)
Wednesday 2nd Feria
9am Mass Peppi Major, RIP (Anniv)
Thursday 3rd Feria
9am Mass Intentions of the Corrigan Family
Friday 4th Feria
6.30am Mass Maire Callanan, RIP
12Noon Mass CWL Intentions
12.30pm Exposition after Mass until
8.00pm Holy Hour & Benediction
Saturday 5th Feria
10am Mass Patricia Breslin, RIP
5.30pm Vigil Mass Bertha Nesnas, RIP
Sunday 6th March
8am Mass Maureen Caulfield, RIP
9.30am Mass Jim & Teena Rockell, RIP
11.30am Mass Parishioners
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Southend Deanery Year of Mercy Lent Talks at Nazareth House
Monday 29th February 7.30pm. – ‘God the Father of Mercies’
Fr. Eamonn Power - Parish Priest of Canvey and Dean of Southend
Monday 7th March 7.30pm. ‘Do we need Mercy?’
Fr. Eduard-William Fartan - Parish Priest of Benfleet
Monday 14th March 7.30pm. – Mary, Mother of Mercy
Fr. Stewart Foster –Diocesan Archivist