Church Cleaning
If you could volunteer one hour every week to help clean the Church, please leave your name and telephone number in the Parish Office.
Big Tea Party
This popular annual event will take place in the Parish Centre on Saturday, 2nd September. Details to follow.
Counters and Folders
Counters: Bob Hall & Eileen Wilson
Folders: Bob Hall & Pauline Jordan
First Holy communion 2018
If you have a child going into Year 3 in September and you would like them to make their First Holy Communion in 2018, please complete the on-line Registration Form available from the Parish Website under Sacraments and return this to the Parish Office no later than Thursday 31st August 2017.
School Admissions
Letters of Practice for admission to Primary School will be issued on a date in October.
Dates for your Diary
11th, 18th & 25th September - Introductory Talks on the Faith
7th October to 15th October - Parish Mission
Please Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Deacon Frederick Wall, Fr Henry Tilley, Fr David Coghlan, Fr Hugh Verity,Fr David Papworth, Pope Paul VI, Jim Collins, John Sandford, Phyllis Burke, Arthur Holdstock, Phylis Glazebrook, Peter Matthews, Clarice Gannon, Margaret Taylor, Sheila Mazzag Teresa Baxter, Lilian Sutton, Andrea Uglietti, Maria Figg, Ethel Morgan, Patrick Blisset, Daran Persaud, Lily Delobel, Maria Robinson, Vincent Glauda, Teresa Booty, Doris Lowe, Leonard Stevenson, Christopher Bariago, William Smith, Joseph Herinckx, Les Smith, Len Murray, James Jones, Dawn Pursey & John Dillon.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear Friends in Christ
I returned on Friday from our Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes along with a number of others from the Parish Family. It was, as ever, a time of grace and spiritual renewal when we most assuredly prayed for the Church at this time, and for the needs of our Parish here.
Dear Friends in Christ
I returned on Friday from our Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes along with a number of others from the Parish Family. It was, as ever, a time of grace and spiritual renewal when we most assuredly prayed for the Church at this time, and for the needs of our Parish here.
The Gospel this Sunday is a number of short parables or similes of what the kingdom of God is like. They describe the nature of the Church in its make-up which reminds us that the Church exists for the salvation of souls. The Lord teaches this same truth on many other occasions. His Church contains saints as well as sinners, His friends and also those who have abandoned Him. We all belong to Him in different ways. Sinners belong to the Church despite their sins. They still can return to the house of their Father, even if it be at the last moment of life. Having received Baptism, they carry within themselves the hope of reconciliation which not even the most grievous sins can erase. The sins which the Church finds in her children do not belong to her. They belong to her enemy. It is always a great sadness when people judge the Church on what she is not. St Pope John Paul II said: The Church is a Mother, through whom we are born to new life in God. A mother should be loved. She is holy with regard to her Founder, her works and her doctrines, but she is, nevertheless, composed of sinful men. It is our duty to make a positive contribution to the life of the Church to help her progress along the way of faithful renewal. This is not accomplished by negative criticisms.(7.xi.82). Therefore, as devout members of God’s Faithful People, we ask the Lord to increase our desire for personal holiness so that we might be more worthy sons and daughters of the Church and so let the authentic face of Christ be seen in our world.
God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Priest@LourdesLeigh.org ✚ 01702 478078
Homily available at LourdesLeigh.org
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 30th July
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Eva & Arthur Barbarrosa, RIP (Anniv) (RB)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Intentions of Vivien Clancy (SG)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Eileen & David Gurney - 60th Wedding Anniversary (E&DG)
NO Vespers & Benediction
Monday 31 St Ignatius of Loyola, Pr
9.00am Mass Roman Zakrzewski, RIP (AW)
Tuesday 1 August St Alphonsus liguri, bp, D
9.00am Mass Intentions of Renata & John Butler (MC)
Wednesday 2 St Eusebius of Vercelli, Bp
9.00am Mass Clare Chadwick, RIP (Anniv) (MI)
Thursday 3 Feria
9.00am Mass Maureen Mann, RIP (RM)
Friday 4 St John Vianney (Curé of Ars), Pr
12Noon Mass Intentions of the CWL
Saturday 5 Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major
10.00am Mass Maureen Regan, RIP (CR)
The Holy Rosary is prayed after morning Mass during the week
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 6th August
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil The People of the Parish
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Intentions of the Price & Murphy Families (NB)
9.30am Mass Denise MacDermott, RIP (Anniv) (AC)
11.30am Mass Vincent Glauda, RIP (Anniv) (KC)
NO Extraordinary Form Mass at 4pm
NO Vespers & Benediction
The Sacrament of Penance is available on request
Church Cleaning
If you could volunteer one hour every week to help clean the Church, please leave your name and telephone number in the Parish Office.
Big Tea Party - Advance Notice
This popular annual event will take place in the Parish Centre on Saturday, 2nd September. Details to follow.
Counters & Folders
Counters: Mary Cook & Jacky Hoggett
Folders: Amanda Phipps & Clare English
First Holy Communion 2018
If you have a child going into Year 3 in September and you would like them to make their First Holy Communion in 2018, please complete the on-line Registration Form available from the Parish Website under Sacraments and return this to the Parish Office no later than Thursday 31st August 2017.
School Admissions
Letters of Practice for admission to Primary School will be issued on a date in October.
Dates for your Diary
11th, 18th & 25th September - Introductory Talks on the Faith
7th October - 15th October - Parish Mission
Please Pray for the Dead on their anniversaries
Fr Michael O’Sullivan, Leo Ring, PaulSwann, Irene (Molly) Kerry, Irene Hall, Caroline Richards, Mary Fiddes, Eleanor Lawson, Sylvia Gosling, Ethel Warwick, Olive Scott-Hansen, Winifred Bailey, Bernard Martin, Frances Murray, Teresa Fitzgerald, Max Button, Margaret Ring, Cecelia Newton, Phyllis Fairman, John Higgins, Maureen Mann, Walter Owen, Stella Blackburn, Sister Vincent, Catherine Hayes, Timothy O’Shea, Anthony Poulton & Denise McDermott.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.