Please Pray for the dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Edmund Tyler, Terry Wilson, Charles Mann, Thomas Donnolly, Elsie Hale, Lee Schiller, Joan Holdstock, Gladys Hanger, Alice Quinlan, Margaret Gibson, Anne Hughes, Mollie Cosgrove, Margaret Keniry, Kathleen Owen, John Mudd, Kathleen Denyer,Bertram Barrett, May Lobb, James McKeon, Edith Turner, Richard Neagle, Nora Murphy, Catherine Weston, Kathleen Lee, Ray Parascandolo, Irene Chessher, Dr Jack Hesketh-Beasley, Pamela Gafgam Annie Lawrence & Rose Whitehead.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
The Ascension of The Lord
Dear Friends in Christ
Forty days after His Resurrection, Jesus gathered the disciples together and bade them a final farewell; this is the moment of His Ascension into Heaven which we celebrate this weekend. It was a moment tinged with joy and sadness: joy because Jesus returns to His rightful place with God the Father in Heaven; and sadness because we no longer have His physical presence with us. However, Our Lord remains with us in the Blessed Eucharist, which is a real and abiding presence: in the Mass and in the Tabernacle, where He dwells continually; it is there that he awaits us, calling and welcoming us. In a Sermon for this feast the English convert and writer, Monsignor Ronald Knox, has some lines which I always find uplifting for this Day: Among all the mysteries of our Lord's life, this is the only one which makes you think how nice it was for our Lord, instead of thinking how nice it was for us. We rejoice, for his sake, that he has left this miserable world behind, to enjoy eternity; we rejoice, for our sakes, because in him humanity has stormed the citadels of heaven; because he, who once beckoned us to share in his sufferings, beckons us now to share in his glory.
Dear Friends in Christ
Forty days after His Resurrection, Jesus gathered the disciples together and bade them a final farewell; this is the moment of His Ascension into Heaven which we celebrate this weekend. It was a moment tinged with joy and sadness: joy because Jesus returns to His rightful place with God the Father in Heaven; and sadness because we no longer have His physical presence with us. However, Our Lord remains with us in the Blessed Eucharist, which is a real and abiding presence: in the Mass and in the Tabernacle, where He dwells continually; it is there that he awaits us, calling and welcoming us. In a Sermon for this feast the English convert and writer, Monsignor Ronald Knox, has some lines which I always find uplifting for this Day: Among all the mysteries of our Lord's life, this is the only one which makes you think how nice it was for our Lord, instead of thinking how nice it was for us. We rejoice, for his sake, that he has left this miserable world behind, to enjoy eternity; we rejoice, for our sakes, because in him humanity has stormed the citadels of heaven; because he, who once beckoned us to share in his sufferings, beckons us now to share in his glory.
Next weekend - Pentecost - is the birthday of the Holy Church. It is the traditional day for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Confirmation. Please pray for the group of young adults in our Parish Family who will be Confirmed during the 11.30am Mass next Sunday: for their Sponsors, godparents and families that, they may be faithful to what they promise and receive what is promised to them.
With every blessing.
Msgr Kevin Hale
Priest@LourdesLeigh.org ✚ 01702 478078
Homily available at LourdesLeigh.org
The Ascension of The Lord
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
Monday 29 Feria
10.00am Mass Intentions of Pedro Ayerbe (CB)
Tuesday 30 THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
9.00am Mass Ernest Cheeseman, RIP (CC)
Wednesday 31 DEDICATION OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARY & ST HELEN, BRENTWOOD
9.00am Mass Lucy & Sean Summers - Wedding Anniversary (RB)
Thursday 1 June St Justin, M
9.00am Mass Stella Hale, RIP (CF)
5.00pm Body in Church: Sybil Figueredo, RIP
Friday 2 Ss Marcellinus and Peter, Mm
11.00am Requiem Mass Sybil Figueredo, RIP
1.00pm Exposition until
8.00pm Holy Hour & Benediction
Saturday 3 St Charles Lwanga & Comps, Mm
10.00am Mass Intentions of Gilberte Cook (SD)
The Holy Rosary is prayed after morning Mass during the week
PENTECOST SUNDAY - Sunday 4th June
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Mr & Mrs Baxter - 30th Wedding Anniversary
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Maureen Regan, RIP (CR)
9.30am Mass Tony Nesnas, RIP (SC)
11.30am Mass Confirmation Mass
4.00pm Mass The People of the Parish - Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
The Sacrament of Penance is available on request
Lourdes Fund
There has been a small Fund in the Parish to assist young people going on pilgrimage to Lourdes for some years now. It was first endowed by the late Bishop Patrick Casey and has practically dried-up. If there are any groups or individuals who through fundraising or donations would like to continue to endow this Fund then please make any donations payable to the Parish of Leigh-on-Sea and designated it for the Lourdes Fund. Many thanks.
Annual Procession of The Blessed Sacrament - Sunday, 18th June 4.00pm
Accompanied by the Tilbury Brass Band
Followed by Tea in the Parish Centre
Counters & Folders
Counters: Jacky Hoggett & Sandie Hippard
Folders: Bobby Newman & Linda Wall
Annual Collection for our Sick and Retired Clergy
The Annual Collection for our Sick and Retired Clergy is due to be taken on the weekend of 17th/18th June this year. The Administrators of the Fund take this opportunity to thank Parishes for their continued generosity.
The Sick & Retired Clergy Fund is part of the Diocesan Charity which helps and supports our retired and sick clergy. As a Charity we rely on the generosity of the Parishes and individual donations to keep the Fund in a healthy state. Another valuable means is by including a bequest in your Will; a Form of Bequest can be found on page 36 of the Brentwood Diocesan Directory. Your generosity through donations, the annual collection and bequests is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your continued help and support.
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
Meal at East - 29th June, 2017
The Kwasnica fundraising meal at East (Alexandra Rd, Southend) is back! Pleasejoin us for delicious 'all you can eat' Chinese food. Tickets cost £13 (excluding drinks) and there will be a raffle. We are raising money to go to Lourdes with the BCYS (Brentwood Catholic Youth Service). In addition to attending planned activities with the other young pilgrims, we will be assisting the sick, elderly and disabled pilgrims by pushing wheelchairs and offering companionship. Although physically and emotionally challenging it is a very rewarding experience. In order to go, we need to raise the money to pay for our travel and accommodation. For information about tickets & raffle donations, please contact Amy on 07847517148.
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