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,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, Connie Price, Mary Isherwood, Frazer Gregory, baby Talia Emery and Hattie Seymour
Please pray for the dead on their Anniversaries
Fr John Timmins, Bp John Petit, Canon Eric Goldingay, Fr Donald Clover, Canon Jerome Deady, Leonard Brockinhurst, Neil & Joan MacMillan, Mildred Jackson, Angela Edwards, Iolanda Peretti, Edith Young, Dr Denis O’Riordan, Clarice Wheeler, Mildred McHattie,Vera Waelend, Sebastian De Souza, Mabel Hooper, Joseph Mullins, Odilia Duhig, Stephanie Horwood, Kit Jafziger, Dr Nigel Warburton, Stella Hale, Ionas Acton, Ida D’eath and Dorothy Winyard.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace
Sixth Sunday of Easter
During this forty day period between Easter and the Ascension of Our Lord (next weekend) the Church asks us essentially to keep our eyes on Heaven. This is our final dwelling place to which God is calling us. This invitation becomes ever more pressing as we approach the Day on which Jesus went up to the right hand of God. Words are altogether inadequate for describing our life with God in Heaven. The Church reminds us that we will be with Christ and we shall see God. Apart from this immense joy - enough alone - there is also the additional joy of happiness in the company of those we loved on earth: family and friends. Also, the joy of our risen glorified bodies which will be without any of the imperfections we have had on earth. St Augustine teaches this when he says: This flesh will rise the same which was buried…The flesh which now falls ill and suffers, this same flesh will rise again. Our personality will continue to be the same(!) and we will have our own body, but vested with glory and splendour, if we have been faithful. All this we profess when we pray in the Creed: I believe in the resurrection of the body…This thought of eternity should give us serenity in life. Nothing on earth is irreparable, nothing here is definitive, all wrongs can be righted. The only definite defeat would be to miss the door which leads to life. St Teresa of Avila expresses this beautifully in her famous little prayer:
Dear Friends in Christ
During this forty day period between Easter and the Ascension of Our Lord (next weekend) the Church asks us essentially to keep our eyes on Heaven. This is our final dwelling place to which God is calling us. This invitation becomes ever more pressing as we approach the Day on which Jesus went up to the right hand of God. Words are altogether inadequate for describing our life with God in Heaven. The Church reminds us that we will be with Christ and we shall see God. Apart from this immense joy - enough alone - there is also the additional joy of happiness in the company of those we loved on earth: family and friends. Also, the joy of our risen glorified bodies which will be without any of the imperfections we have had on earth. St Augustine teaches this when he says: This flesh will rise the same which was buried…The flesh which now falls ill and suffers, this same flesh will rise again. Our personality will continue to be the same(!) and we will have our own body, but vested with glory and splendour, if we have been faithful. All this we profess when we pray in the Creed: I believe in the resurrection of the body…This thought of eternity should give us serenity in life. Nothing on earth is irreparable, nothing here is definitive, all wrongs can be righted. The only definite defeat would be to miss the door which leads to life. St Teresa of Avila expresses this beautifully in her famous little prayer:
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
Msgr Kevin Hale
Priest@LourdesLeigh.org ✚ 01702 478078
Homily available at LourdesLeigh.org
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Gwendoline Underwood, RIP (RB)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Intentions of the Carmelites (Leigh-on-Sea) (SH)
9.30am Mass Intentions of the Murphy & Price Families (K&LW)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 22 St Rita of Cascia Rel
9.00am Mass Paul Williams, RIP (CR)
Tuesday 23 Feria
9.00am Mass Charles & Alice Whitefield, RIP (FM)
Wednesday 24 Feria
9.00am Mass Intentions of Gerry Dillon (GD)
Thursday 25 St Bede the Venerable, Pr, D
9.00am Mass Keith Tanner, RIP (MR)
Friday 26 St Philip Neri, Pr
12Noon Mass Christine Fisher, RIP (TO’C)
Saturday 27 ST AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY, Bp
10.00am Mass Intentions of Brett Mackay (SD)
The Holy Rosary is prayed after morning Mass during the week
The Ascension of the Lord - Sunday 28th May
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Tony Nesnas, RIP (VDS)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Msgr George Stokes, RIP (AC)
9.30am Mass Intentions of the Price & Murphy Families
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
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 Doves,ton, 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,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, Connie Price, Mary Isherwood, Frazer Gregory,
baby Talia Emery and Hattie Seymour.
Please Pray for the Dead on their anniversaries
Mgr Canon William O’Grady, VG, Fr Henry Peace, Fr Charles Carless, Fr Austin Thorburn,
Mrs Gertrude Caden, Christopher Buckingham, Eileen Hart, Murray Grant-Browning,
Minnie Rowland, Derrick Amner, Cliff Falkus, Andrzej Sasiadek, Lyonel Winyard,
Monica Rose Smith, Kate Parr, Henry Smith, Lawrence Marshall, Mary Lyons, Elizabeth White,
Rosa Betts, James Byrne, Henrietta Bartley, Mary Pearce, Michael Farmer, Eleanora Ruggiero, Francis Bull, Kathleen Reynolds, Frances Florence, Elizabeth Newton, Thomas O’Malley &
Richard Bird.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
Dates for your Diary
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 - 15th October Parish Mission
Counters & Folders
Counters: Linda Wall & Brian Mountier
Folders: Tom O’Callaghan & Rita O’Callaghan
Church Cleaning
If you could volunteer one hour every 4 weeks to help clean the Church, please leave your name and telephone number in the Parish Office.
Diocesan Centenary Lectures, Cathedral Hall, Ingrave Road, Brentwood, CM15 8AT: Wednesdays at 7.30pm
7 June: Father Stewart Foster, Diocesan Archivist: ‘The Foundation & Early Years
of the Diocese (1917-1951)’
14 June: Canon Brian O’Shea, Parish Priest of Grays: ‘The Development of the
Diocese (1951-1979)’
21 June: Father Martin Boland, Dean of the Cathedral: ‘The Diocese Today –
A Reflection’
28 June: Dr Paul Doherty, Headmaster, Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford
Green: ‘The Patron Saints of the Diocese of Brentwood’
Admission Free - Bookstall available
KNIGHTS OF SAINT COLUMBA PILGRIMAGE TO AYLESFORD PRIORY
On Sunday 11th June join us at Aylesford Priory to celebrate the feast of Saint Columba with an open air Mass, picnic in the grounds or enjoy a meal in the restaurant and process with the Knights through the beautiful Rosary Walk in the afternoon. Adults £14 – Children Free (limited places available on a first come first served basis) Pick-Up points: Sacred Heart Church, Southchurch at 8:30am – Nazareth House, Westcliff at 8:40am – Our Lady of Lourdes, Leigh at 8:50am. To book your place please phone Mike Warren 07948 515288 or email: warrenmike@hotmail.co.uk
TALES from a TUDOR KITCHEN MAID
You are warmly invited to an afternoon with Eileen aka Anghared on Monday 22nd May, who shares her experiences as a "Tudor Maid "at Kentwell Hall. The afternoon promises to be informative and amusing so please join us from 2-4 pm in the Parish Centre. Tickets are £2.50 and include tea and homemade cakes and are available from Cynthia 01702-477384 or Jan 07775620890 or after Mass during the week and weekends.
Congratulations
To Gerry Dillon - our former Parish Master of Ceremonies who will this week mark his seventieth birthday as an Altar Server! Well done and keep going!
SERVING the HOMELESS
A huge thank you to the East Essex Players for organising the fundraising meal at the Maharaja restaurant. A cheque for £352 has been given to Serving the Homeless for their local homelessness projects.
Our next event is Afternoon Tea, which will be held in the Park View Suite, Chalkwell Park, on Thursday 8th June at 2.00 pm. Tickets cost £12 and are available from Jo Ronan 474062, Linda Wall 558217 or Nina Bridgeman 472536.
Brentwood Cathedral Choir
Brentwood Cathedral Choir has commissioned a new Missa Brevis, for choir and organ, from the composer Diana Burrell, for the Diocesan Centenary. Diana Burrell is a parishioner at the church of Our Lady, Queen of Heaven, Harwich, and her most recent commission was for the BBC Symphony Orchestra at London’s Barbican Centre. The Missa Brevis will receive its first performance at the 11.30 am Mass in Brentwood Cathedral on Sunday 18th June. Parishioners are very warmly invited to this celebration of the Diocesan Centenary.
APF Missio
I have received the 2016 APF results from Missio recently, the Red Box collection amounted to £1,251 and the direct donations amounted to £1,140, a grand total of £2,391. Thank you all very much. If you do not have a Red Box and would like to have one please do not hesitate to contact me. If you have a Red Box and you are a Tax-payer would you please consider signing a Gift Aid Declaration. Contact me if you would like a form. I have put the poster from Missio showing the results at the back of the Church. Thank you. Joan Caunce, Secretary, 01268 757505.
Scripture Group
Fr. Con's Scripture Group will next meet in the Parish Centre 8pm-9pm on Thursday, 25th May. All welcome.