Counters & Folders
Counters: Linda Wall & Brian Mountier
Folders: Tom O’Callaghan & Rita O’Callaghan
The Diocese of Brentwood - 100 years in Pictures
We are publishing a Souvenir Booklet to mark our Diocesan Centenary, 110 pages with more than 300 colour and black & white photographs. Copies are now available at the Repository for £7.
Notice for Altar Servers
All those who have signed up to serve over the Easter weekend are asked to attend rehearsals on:
Monday, 10th April at 6.30pm for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday
Saturday, 15th April at 10am for the Easter Vigil.
Dates for your Diary
Sunday 23rd April Divine Mercy Service - 2.30pm
Saturday 6th & 13th May First Holy Communion Masses- 10.30am
Sunday 4th June Confirmation Mass - 11.30am
Sunday 18th June Corpus Christi Procession - 4pm
Saturday 22nd July Walsingham Centenary Pilgrimage
Monday 24th/Friday 28th July Parish Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes
7th October to 15th October Parish Mission
Please pray or the Repose of the Soul of:
Bartholomew Guihen who died on 29th March. His Requiem Mass will be held on Thursday 20th April at 11am followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
We pray for our Sick
Teresa O’Brien, Derek Timothy, John Jarvis, Maureen Deekes, Carol Halldenby, Noel Fagan, Leanor Fairbanks, Patricia Abram, Christine Noden, Tina Doveaston, Pat Lynch, Rose Craft,Teresa Yates, Addi Brady, Gerard Rodgers, Ben Wilson, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Brita Irons, Eileen Wilson, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nan Carrit, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, Lyn Gopee, Margaret Harrington, Vera Farrow,Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Anthony McEvoy, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, Dympna Addecott, Monica Neate, Laura & Anne Breen, Roy Widdecombe, Lynne Hilkene, Johanna Lynch, Janet Woods, Thomas Corrigan, Mary Boyce, June Moncaster, Breda Lynch, Sheila McBrearty, Anthony King, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Edward Martin, Johnnie Pool, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Barbara Sheaf, Maria Clark, Josephine Griggs, Colleen Worley, Antonella McConalogue,, Fr Jean Laurent Marie, Noel Kolb, Eddie McConalogue, Georgina Cornwell, Lorraine Hart, Dawn Deleigh, Wyn McCafferty, Linda Dean, Annie Holland, Fr Martin Buckley, Chas Taylor, Martha Braun, John Lavery, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, David Clark, David Askew, Connor Bourke, Mattia Mollica, Sharon Levill, Bernadette Lane, David Kislingury, Maureen Ward, Jane Jowers, Irena Solecki,Doreen Troughton, Marguerite Harris, Andrew Exley, Rosemary Arscott, Lanto Bellis, Richard Collins, Niqui Denkmayer, Elizabeth McConalogue, and children Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Lucy Price, Mary Isherwood, Frazer Gregory, baby Talia Emery and Hattie Seymour.
Please pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Thomas Adkins, Fr Anthony Lawson, Fr Patrick Donohoe, Fr Owen Fitzgerald, Fr John O’Mahoney, Fr William Donelan, Fr George Duckett, Esther Martin, Frances Phillips, Christopher Bennett, Frances Hoey, Patrick Manning, Patricia Logan, Frank Nagle, Winifred Duffield, May Provera, Andrew Traynor, Eileen Goodwin-Self, John Clements, Ian Walker, John Adams, Agnes Ransom, Martin Payne, Peter Abel & James Kennedy.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Dear Friends in Christ
This week at Mass we hear the third of those awe-inspiring episodes in the life of Our Lord which St John records: the raising of Lazarus from the dead. There are three occasions in the Gospels when Jesus raises the dead but with the raising of Lazarus - being called forth from the very tomb after several days therein - there is the symbol of the resurrection of the body. Jesus would Himself be raised from the dead by His power as God but as with the Gospels of the previous two Sundays, this miracle points also to a deeper significance. As Lazarus is called to come back from the dead - Lazarus come out! - so the Christian soul is being called by Christ to come back from the death of sin; to experience the divine life.
Dear Friends in Christ
This week at Mass we hear the third of those awe-inspiring episodes in the life of Our Lord which St John records: the raising of Lazarus from the dead. There are three occasions in the Gospels when Jesus raises the dead but with the raising of Lazarus - being called forth from the very tomb after several days therein - there is the symbol of the resurrection of the body. Jesus would Himself be raised from the dead by His power as God but as with the Gospels of the previous two Sundays, this miracle points also to a deeper significance. As Lazarus is called to come back from the dead - Lazarus come out! - so the Christian soul is being called by Christ to come back from the death of sin; to experience the divine life.
This is how the Church proposes to us that we prepare for Easter, and also how the Catechumens - those preparing for the Easter Sacraments for the first time - must also prepare for that encounter. We prepare by that intimate and personal meeting with Christ in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation: Confession. By the humble articulation of our sins, we are called forth by Christ into the light and new life that is Himself. Every time we celebrate this Sacrament, as well as being assured of our own salvation, we increase the holiness of the Church too. I encourage you all to make a carefully prepared Confession during Holy Week in anticipation of Easter. In fact, one of the precepts of the Church is that we go to Confession at least once a year around this time (between Ash Wednesday and Trinity Sunday).
As the decoration of the church is now almost completed, I thank those who, each week on Friday evening have laboured to clean-up! We are all most grateful to you, all those who keep the church and grounds so well-presented.
Next Sunday at Mass - Palm Sunday - when we listen again to the Reading of St Matthew’s account of the Passion of Christ, let’s each reflect that it was on account of our sins that Jesus suffered it all. The merits of His Passion are experienced whenever we go to Confession and confess our faults and failings and receive the bathing which is nothing less than the Blood of Christ. May we all begin this period of Passiontide with renewed contrition for our sins coupled with a confident trust in God’s mercy. God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Priest@LourdesLeigh.org ✚ 01702 478078
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Fifth Sunday of Lent - Sunday 2nd April
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Bertha Nesnas, RIP (SC)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Peggy, Steven & Martin Cockerell, RIP (TC)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Intentions of the Jacobs Family (MK)
4.00pm Mass Marjorie Wolsley, RIP (JC) - Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 3 Feria
9.00am Mass Intentions of Mya Strzetelska (MS)
Tuesday 4 Feria
9.00am Mass Intentions of Danny McNally (AB)
Wednesday 5 Feria
9.00am Mass June White, RIP (LW)
Thursday 6 Feria
9.00am Mass Will & Vi Coveney, RIP (Anniv) (MC)
Friday 7 Feria
6.30am Mass Henry De Souza, RIP (R&TO’C)
12Noon Mass CWL Intentions
12.30pm Exposition after Mass until
8.00pm Stations of the Cross & Benediction
Saturday 8 April Feria
10am Mass Intentions of Simone Dann (AD)
10.30am-11.30am Exposition & Confession
The Holy Rosary is prayed after morning Mass during the week
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord - Sunday 9th April
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Kathleen Young, RIP (Anniv) (LY)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Eileen Pearson, RIP (Anniv) (SP)
9.30am Mass Tony Irons, RIP (JV)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
The Sacrament of Penance is available on request
OUR LADY of RANSOM CATHOLIC SCHOOL
The Governing Body of Our Lady of Ransom Catholic School is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly-motivated class teacher, to join our friendly and dedicated team in September 2017.
Our Lady of Ransom was judged to be a GOOD school by Ofsted in May 2016 and an OUTSTANDING Catholic school (Section 48 Inspection, May 2016) Our school provides a happy, calm atmosphere with delightful children as well as supportive colleagues, governors and parents. The successful candidate will need to be a strong practitioner committed to achieving high standards of pupils' learning and capable of teaching imaginatively. 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.
Visits to the school are welcomed and encouraged. For more details please contact Mr. Parascandolo (Head Teacher) via the school office (01268 785741)
Closing date: 3rd May, 2017 (4pm) Further details and a CES application form can be found on the school website www.olorcps.net.
Penance Service
Penance Service
There will be a Penance Service at Our Lady of Canvey and the English Martyr on Canvey Island on Wednesday 5th April at 8pm.
A Day with Mary
The "Day With Mary" apostolate will be having a day in Our Lady of Canvey Church on Saturday 22nd of April, starting at 10.00am. It is a day of prayer, Adoration, rosary, Mass and sermons and all are welcome.
Serving the Homeless
Our Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday 3rd April at 7.30pm in St Margaret's Church Hall, Lime Avenue, Leigh on Sea. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Spring Walk
Why not sign up again for HARP’s Prittle Brook Spring Walk? Taking place on Sunday 23rd April 2017 at 2pm, it’s a 3½ mile Sunday afternoon stroll along the Prittle Brook Greenway from Priory Park to Belfairs Park – raising vital funds for HARP. Every step you take will show you’re supporting local homeless people.
What’s more, with each entry you will receive a FREE HARP Spring Walk T-shirt and also enjoy a well-earned cup of tea and slice of cake afterwards at the Woodlands Centre at Belfairs Park. This is a great afternoon out and knowing you are helping Southend’s homeless community rebuild their lives and live independently makes it even better! http://www.harpsouthend.org/spring-walk.
Diocesan Centenary Exhibition
There is an Exhibition at Cathedral House Conference Room Foyer, Ingrave Road, Brentwood, Essex CM15 8AT from April-June 2017. Opening Times: Saturday 10am-5pm (except Holy Saturday 15 April) ; Sunday 9am-1pm & 3pm-8pm. Other times by arrangement: archives@dioceseofbrentwood.org. Tel: 01277 265238.
Class Teacher at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Manchester Drive, Leigh on Sea, SS9 3HS, 01702 475689
MPR/UPR, Full-time, Required September 2017. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, experienced highly motivated, Upper KS2 teacher to join our teaching staff. We are a large 2 form entry primary school with 421 children on roll. The successful candidate must be either a practising Catholic or willing to support the strong Catholic ethos of our school. TLR would be considered for the right candidate. The successful candidate will: have a passion for learning and to make learning fun, expect the highest standards from all pupils, demonstrate high expectations of behaviour and achievement, communicate well with children, parents and colleagues, have good organisational skills and outstanding classroom practice. We offer access to professional development. Visits are warmly welcomed and can be arranged by contacting the school office. Closing Date: Thursday 20th April 2017. For the application form, please follow the link below.
http://www.catholiceducation.org.uk/employment-documents/application-forms. Please choose the link ‘Teacher Application Form’, download and return to the school office via post or email to finance@ourladyoflourdes.southend.sch.uk.
The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The appointment is subject to satisfactory enhanced DBS clearance and references and expects all staff to share this commitment.