Live Simply Group
You are invited to join the Live Simply group each Monday from 10.15am to 11.45am in the Parish Centre to discuss the Sunday Gospel and how it applies to our everyday life, using material from CAFOD and Laudate Si.
Serving the Homeless
The committee of Serving the Homeless are organising an Indian buffet meal at The Shagor Restaurant in Hamlet Court Road on Thursday 14th September at 7.30 pm. Tickets cost £15 and are available from Jo Ronan, Linda Wall, Theresa Whitaker or Pat Short. Alternatively, you can ring Linda on 01702 558217.
Dinner & Dance in aid of Nazareth House
This is a Knights of Saint Columba Event. Saturday 23rd September at Nazareth House Main Hall – Doors open 6.30pm for 7pm start. Delicious Fish 'N' Chips, wonderful live music and the opportunity to choose your partner and take to the dance floor. All profits go to the Sisters of Nazareth to aid them in the wonderful work they do with the elderly, in many cases our loved ones. The evening will conclude at 9.30pm so as not to disturb the residents. Ticket price £10 available from Liam Rand 07952 954833, Damian Dillon 07887 678741 or email: liam.rand@btopenworld.com. Please inform us when booking if you have specific dietary requirements.
World Youth Day, Panama, January 2019
If you will be in year 12, or aged 17-27, in January 2019, then join the BCYS group travelling to Costa Rica and Panama for an encounter with 2 million young people from all over the world, and the Pope. This is truly a “once in a lifetime” experience and an amazing opportunity to discover and celebrate faith in Latin America. For more information, visit www.bcys.net or email frdominic@dioceseofbrentwood.org by 15th September 2017.
Holydays of Obligation - England and Wales
With effect from the 1st Sunday of Advent 2017, two holydays of obligation are being reinstated. This decision was made by the Bishops of England and Wales, and has been confirmed by the Holy See. The days are:
The Epiphany of the Lord — 6 January (transferred to the adjacent Sunday when it falls on Saturday or Monday)
The Ascension of the Lord — Thursday after 6th Sunday of Easter
School Admissions
Letters of Practice for admission to Primary School will be issued on a date in October.
Our Parish Mission – Your Help Needed!
Following on from Father Kevin’s words in last week’s as well as this week’s Newsletter, please do today take from the back of the church an envelope (or two or three!) of ‘flyers’ to deliver, advertising our forthcoming Parish Mission. Envelopes have been labelled with the ‘Street name’ and the number of dwellings thereon. The task is to put a ‘flyer’ through each letter-box! Blocks of flats can sometimes be difficult but just do your best to deliver as many of the flyers as you can! Our hope is for all the flyers to be delivered over the course of the forthcoming fortnight and we need your active help to accomplish the task! Many thanks! Francis O’Brien – Steward of the Gospel.
APF Boxholders
As you know the last legal day for accepting the old £1 coins is 15th October 2017. If you have not had your box opened in the last six months and you know that there may be £1 coins in it, would you please give it in to the office or to me personally as soon as possible. I have received the Autumn Missio Magazines so if you have not already received one from me, please take one from the back of the Church. Don't forget to collect your emptied boxes from the back of the church. Thank you. Joan Caunce. Secretary 01268 757505.
First Holy Communion 2017/2018
There will be a parent’s meeting on Wednesday 20th September at 8pm in the Parish Centre for those parents who have registered their child to make their First Holy Communion next year.
Dates for your Diary
11th, 18th & 25th September - Introductory Talks on the Faith
7th October - 15th October - Parish Mission
Please pray for the Repose of the Souls of:
Marian Helena Payne, RIP who died on Monday 28th August. Her Body will be received into the Church on Tuesday, 26th September at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday, 27th September at 10am, followed by committal at Southend Cemetery.
John Ronald Jarvis, RIP who died on Friday 1st September. His Requiem Mass will take place on Thursday, 21st September at 2.00pm, followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
We pray for our Sick
Renata Butler, Mike Rubbert, Teresa O’Brien, Derek Timothy, Maureen Deekes, Carol Halldenby, Noel Fagan, Leanor Fairbanks, Patricia Abram, Christine Noden, Tina Doveaston, Pat Lynch, Rose Craft, Addi Brady, 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, Mary Boyce,Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Anthony McEvoy, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, Dympna Addecott, Monica Neate, Janet Woods,Laura & Anne Breen, Roy Widdecombe, Lynne Hilkene, Johanna Lynch, Thomas Corrigan, 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, Kean Smith 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 Charles Johnson Fr Conrad Smith, Fr Theophilus Borer, FR JOHN Bergin, Deacon Arthur Woods, Abp George Andrew Beck, Canon James Hemming, Fr Louis HESTON, Mary Cope, Winifred Gansen, Joseph Manton, William Allen, Jim Hayes, Peter Green, Elsie Ivett, Anne Brooks, Mary Manton, William Wheaton, Kathleen Matthews, Eliza Moore, Mary Wright, Wilfred Sawyer, Joyce Wager, Kathleen McGowan, Anne McCarthy, Veronica Maguire, Patricia Lawrence, Kathleen Horning, Bill Jarrett, Ann Dodd, Marie Browne, Jack Abbott, David Peretti, Philomela Conley, Bernard Wiltshire, eileen McCarthy, Percival DeAth, Bridget Finnegan, Sylvia Jones, Dot Tooley, Anne Gibson, Frances Spriggs & Joseph Hayes.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear Friends in Christ
This week ninety of us - Priests, Deacons and Seminarians - will be travelling with our Bishop to Ars in France. (For reasons of security we will go on two separate flights; the Bishop on one and the Vicar General on another, just in case!) Ars is the village where St John Vianney was the reluctant Parish Priest between the years 1818-1859. Our Bishop will lead us in days of spiritual recollection in this, our Centenary Year. It is the first time such a pilgrimage has been undertaken by the Clergy of our Diocese. Our hope is that, close to the Curé of Ars, we will absorb the spirit of his priestly life especially in his devotion to the Mass and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; his dedication to the Sacrament of Penance (he spent many hours each day in the Confessional) and his tireless preaching and teaching of his people as he led them along the path to Heaven. Please pray for us, that we may be filled in these days with that same fervour!
Dear Friends in Christ
This week ninety of us - Priests, Deacons and Seminarians - will be travelling with our Bishop to Ars in France. (For reasons of security we will go on two separate flights; the Bishop on one and the Vicar General on another, just in case!) Ars is the village where St John Vianney was the reluctant Parish Priest between the years 1818-1859. Our Bishop will lead us in days of spiritual recollection in this, our Centenary Year. It is the first time such a pilgrimage has been undertaken by the Clergy of our Diocese. Our hope is that, close to the Curé of Ars, we will absorb the spirit of his priestly life especially in his devotion to the Mass and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; his dedication to the Sacrament of Penance (he spent many hours each day in the Confessional) and his tireless preaching and teaching of his people as he led them along the path to Heaven. Please pray for us, that we may be filled in these days with that same fervour!
We are fast approaching our Parish Mission: 7th - 15th October. Two priests from the Norbertine Priory in Chelmsford - Abbot Hugh Allan and Fr Stephen Morrison - will be leading these days. The theme will be: The Catholic Faith - Ever Ancient Ever New. As part of the preparation, and by way of outreach or evangelisation to all of the people in our Parish, I am asking that, as in our previous Mission (twelve years ago!) we will circulate a small flyer giving details of the Mission, to every household within the Parish. This will be a big operation and I am asking you to undertake to deliver leaflets in the street in which you live or one adjacent. I would also like us to seriously commit to these eight days of Parish Mission by, firstly praying the Mission Prayer each day. Secondly, to attend the liturgies of the Mission each day by coming to Holy Mass (6.30am or 9am) and the evening Service and Talk, 8pm. It is my hope that the follow-up to the Parish Mission will be the launch of a programme of Discipleship for Evangelisation as envisaged by our Diocesan-wide Stewards of the Gospel initiative; but more about that after the Mission!
In the meantime, and as our Schools begin a new year this week, we wish all our students and staff a happy and fruitful year ahead. I especially wish Mrs Sally Nutman a joyful start at Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School as she takes-up the post of Executive Head there this week.
May God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Priest@LourdesLeigh.org ✚ 01702 478078
Homily available at LourdesLeigh.org
Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 3rd September
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Mary De Souza, RIP(VD)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Thomas Stock, RIP (JD)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Intentions of Mick Toomey (II)
4.00pm Mass Helen Hiscock, RIP (M) - Extraordinary form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 4 St Cuthbert, Bp
9.00am Mass Intentions of Joan & Michael Caunce - Wedding Anniversary (JC)
Tuesday 5 St Teresa of Calcutta, Rel
9.00am Mass Dette Nolan, RIP (First Anniversary) (AM)
Wednesday 6 Feria
9.00am Mass Intentions of Jane & Gavin Allard - Diamond Wedding Anniversary (J&GA)
Thursday 7 Feria
9.00am Mass John Kidney, RIP (G&RD)
Friday 8 THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
12Noon Mass Denis Hippard, RIP (SH)
Saturday 9 St Peter Claver
10.00am Mass Joan Gooding, RIP (MI)
The Holy Rosary is prayed after morning Mass during the week
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 10th September
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Bill Pearson, RIP (Anniv) (SP)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Frank & Ann Ryan, RIP (Anniv), (JL)
9.30am Mass June White, RIP (IS)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
The Sacrament of Penance is available on request
Live Simply Group
You are invited to join the Live Simply group each Monday from 10.15am to 11.45am in the Parish Centre to discuss the Sunday Gospel and how it applies to our everyday life, using material from CAFOD and Laudate Si.
The next meeting is on Monday 4th September. Many thanks to all those who supported the art sale in July. Over £3000 was raised for The Kenyan Orphans Fund.