Fundraising Curry Night 15th June at 7.30pm
Please help support Patrick & Erin James and Raphie Parascandolo who are travelling to Lourdes alongside the Diocese this summer with BCYS, assisting the elderly and infirm on their annual pilgrimage. Tickets for our Curry night at Yak & Yeti, Leigh-on-Sea on 15th June are £15 per head and available from Carrie on 07799 475464 or Bridget on 07946 625894. Thank you.
Diocesan Centenary Pilgrimage to Walsingham Saturday 22nd July
The main celebration of our Centenary this year will take place at Walsingham and will be a Diocesan-wide event. There will be no Vigil Masses in the Diocese that evening in order to encourage as many as possible to go on this pilgrimage. Two coaches will travel from our Parish at a cost of £10 per adult, £5 per child. The coach will leave Our Lady of Lourdes Church at 8am and depart from Walsingham no later than 5pm.
If you would like to book a ticket for the coach please call in at the Parish Office as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Monies should be paid at the time of booking. The Parish Office is open from 9am to 1pm, Monday to Friday. Alternatively, put your name and cash/cheque (payable to Our Lady of Lourdes) in an envelope and post it through the Presbytery door.
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
Message from the Bishop
I ask all the people of Brentwood Diocese to remember in their prayers particularly this week-end all the people of Manchester and beyond who have been caught up in the recent tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the dead and injured; their family and friends.
At this time it is important to stand together and always to seek love before hatred. The response of the families of the people of Manchester has been a great witness for us all – in our turn we need to continue to support our friends in Manchester in whatever way we can.
Memorial Mass for Msgr George Stokes, RIP
This will be held on Thursday, 6th July at 11am at Brentwood Cathedral.
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.