Repository
The Repository will be closed this Sunday, 12th November. Candles will be available to purchase at Sutton Road Cemetery for the Blessing of Graves.
Catholic Women's League
The next meeting of the CWL is on Monday, 13 November in the Newman Room at 2pm. New members are welcome, please see details on the Parish Website.
Counters & Folders
Counters: Jacky Hoggett & Brian Mountier
Folders: Pauline Jordan & Maureen Ward
Serving the Homeless
Our next fundraising event is "Songs from the Musicals" featuring Elizabeth Upsher and the Southend YMCA on Saturday 18th November in the Parish Centre. Tickets cost £12 and include an Italian buffet supper. Please bring your own drinks. Tickets are available from Theresa 335922 or Nina 472536.
Wines for Celebrations
Wine tasting - Wines for Celebrations - to be hosted by Steve Jones (late of the Pipe of Port) at St Helen's Church Hall, St Helen's Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 7JP on Friday 17th November at 7.30 p.m. Includes delicious refreshments of paté , cheese, bread and chutney which is served after the Wine Tasting. Tickets cost £15 - all profits go to St Helen's Church Lourdes fund (which gives financial assistance to help people going to Lourdes on the parish pilgrimage) and The Parish Minibus fund (to pay for the annual insurance of over £1,000). To book please ring
Pat 01702 476672 or Elizabeth 01702 347369.
Journey of Faith (RCIA)
A series of informal talks, designed to give an insight into the teachings and traditions of the Catholic church, continues on Monday 13th November at 8pm in the Parish Centre with The Story of Salvation (Creation, Fall & Redemption). You are welcome to attend some or all of these talks; if you would like more information please speak to Fr Kevin.
November Dead List
Envelopes for the November dead list are at the back of the church. Please place names and offering in the box provided.
Dates for your Diary
Thursday 30th Nov - Sat 2nd December - The Forty Hours Prayer
Sunday 10th Dec Advent Organ Recital by James Devor 5.30pm (with Benediction)
Friday 14th Dec Carols with the Gaudeamus Choir - 7.30pm
Friday 29th Dec Mass with the Bishop and seminarians of our Diocese - 12Noon
Days of Solemn Exposition of The Blessed Sacrament
The Forty Hours’ Prayer
Thursday 30th November – Saturday 2nd December
Thursday 30th November
Solemn Opening Mass 7.00pm
Exposition continues until midnight
Friday 1st December
Exposition from 7.00am and throughout the day
Holy Mass 12 noon
Benediction for children & families 3.30pm
Preached Holy Hour 8 – 9pm;
Exposition throughout the night
Saturday 2nd December
Holy Mass 7.00am
Concluding Solemn Benediction 4.00pm
Blessing of Graves
The Priests of the Deanery will be blessing Graves at Sutton Road Cemetery on Sunday, 12th November from 3.00pm. Candles are now available for purchase from the Repository for three pounds.
We Pray for our Sick
Renata Butler, Mike Rubbert, Teresa O’Brien, Derek Timothy, Maureen Deekes, Noel Fagan, Patricia Abram, 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, Janet Woods, Laura & Anne Breen, Breda Lynch,Roy Widdecombe, Lynne Hilkene, Johanna Lynch, Thomas Corrigan, Maria Clark,June Moncaster, Sheila McBrearty, Anthony King, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Edward Martin, Johnnie Pool, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Barbara Sheaf, 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, 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 Terence Howes, Fr James Allis, Fr Richard (Dick) Ashton, Fr Edwin Sheehan, Lucy Tombleson, Joan Lucey, Donald Galvin, Eileen Stanshall, Anne Britt, Joan Read, Albert Rogers, Janet Conway, John Owen, John Cavanagh, Jack O’Riordan, Vincent Kelly, John O’Neill, Kathleen McIlwee, Louisa Hurst, Sydney Pullen, Myriad Hubbard, Mary Capon, John Cousins, Ethel Donnison, Luciana Garuti, Edna Hutchings, Kathleen Macauley, Mrs Alice Kelly, Jack Hosmer, Florae Peck, Charotte Roberts, Bert Russell, John Cheswick, George Livermore, Celia Ashley & Marcia Clarke.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
31st Sunday: Month of the Holy Souls
Dear Friends in Christ
During this month of November the Church invites us to pray more insistently and offer sacrifices for the souls in Purgatory. Saint Pope John Paul II encourages us: we feel bound by charity to offer those brothers and sisters who have experienced the fragility proper to human existence the help of our vigilant prayer. May whatever residue of human weakness still remaining in them to delay their happy encounter with God be definitively wiped out. (2.xi.’82) To enter into eternal life it is necessary that we be purified of all sin. In Purgatory the soul experiences very intense suffering due to a kind of flame more painful than anything a person can suffer in this life (St Augustine). There is also joy and hope too though, since Heaven comes afterwards. The soul in Purgatory has already won the last battle and is awaiting a more or less imminent encounter with God. We can help the souls in Purgatory pass over more quickly the great divide that separates them from God by making reparation for sin. So, by being generous in our spirit of penance, having Masses offered for them and by continued prayer, we express the charity which is at the heart of our Faith. Let us use this month of November to remind ourselves of these truths again and do all we can to merit eternal life.
Dear Friends in Christ
During this month of November the Church invites us to pray more insistently and offer sacrifices for the souls in Purgatory. Saint Pope John Paul II encourages us: we feel bound by charity to offer those brothers and sisters who have experienced the fragility proper to human existence the help of our vigilant prayer. May whatever residue of human weakness still remaining in them to delay their happy encounter with God be definitively wiped out. (2.xi.’82) To enter into eternal life it is necessary that we be purified of all sin. In Purgatory the soul experiences very intense suffering due to a kind of flame more painful than anything a person can suffer in this life (St Augustine). There is also joy and hope too though, since Heaven comes afterwards. The soul in Purgatory has already won the last battle and is awaiting a more or less imminent encounter with God. We can help the souls in Purgatory pass over more quickly the great divide that separates them from God by making reparation for sin. So, by being generous in our spirit of penance, having Masses offered for them and by continued prayer, we express the charity which is at the heart of our Faith. Let us use this month of November to remind ourselves of these truths again and do all we can to merit eternal life.
Last weekend someone found a prayer card produced at the time of a Parish Mission in in our Parish in October 1948; it contains the daily acts of the Christian life and some prayers. On the reverse is printed: REMEMBER You have one soul to save, one God to love and serve, one eternity to expect. Death will come soon and judgement will follow and then - Heaven or Hell for ever. Therefore, avoid sin and all dangerous occasions of sin. Pray often and go frequently to Confession and Holy Communion. Be faithful to your Mission promises. This kind of language may make us wince somewhat these days, but it is all still true and a salutary reminder of what we are about. God bless you
Msgr Kevin Hale
Priest@LourdesLeigh.org ✚ 01702 478078
Homily available at LourdesLeigh.org
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 5th November
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Mary de Souza, RIP (ZDS)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Peter Herzog, RIP (Anniv) (JL)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Michael & Delia McHale, RIP (WMcH)
4.00pm Mass André Hinbest, RIP (CC) - Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 6 Feria
9.00am Mass Lilian & Jim Fegan (JC)
Tuesday 7 St Willibrord, Bp
9.00am Mass Gerald Kelly, RIP (Anniv)(JA)
Wednesday 8 Feria
9.00am Mass Raymond de Chantilly, RIP (SG)
Thursday 9 DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA
9.00am Mass Christopher Vinson, RIP (PV)
Friday10 St Leo the Great, P, D
12Noon Mass Fr Giovanni Battistelli, RIP (MC)
Saturday 11 St Martin of Tours, Bp
10.00am Mass Paula Chandler, RIP (SR)
10.30am-11.30am Exposition & Confession
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 12th NOVEMBER
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Pearl Scaife, RIP (Anniv) (MI)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Natalie Slater, RIP (TC)
9.30am Mass Nobby, Clare & Rebecca Clarke, RIP
11.30am Mass The Dead of the Wars
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Blessing of Graves
The Priests of the Deanery will be blessing Graves at Sutton Road Cemetery on Sunday, 12th November from 3.00pm. Candles are now available for purchase from the Repository for three pounds.
We pray for our sick
Renata Butler, Mike Rubbert, Teresa O’Brien, Derek Timothy, Maureen Deekes, Noel Fagan, Patricia Abram, 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, Janet Woods, Laura & Anne Breen, Breda Lynch, Roy Widdecombe, Lynne Hilkene, Johanna Lynch, Thomas Corrigan, Maria Clark, June Moncaster, Sheila McBrearty, Anthony King, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Edward Martin, Johnnie Pool, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Barbara Sheaf, 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, 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
Cardinal John Carmel Heenan, Fr William Philpot, Deacon Norman Wiseman, Canon Denis Petry, Bob O’Toole, Dorothy Bartley, Lily Kenny, Irene Fanning, May Pinsent, Arthur (Rob) Hood, Margaret Scales, Marie Elliott, Olive Potter, Alice West, James McHugh, Alan Gloyne, Bernard Culham, Bridget Curtis, Tom Doran, Robert Drew, Clare Murphy, Emma Harley, Fr James Ethrington, Francis Whelan, Dorothy Stuart, Sydney Hamblion, Thomas Horner, Dr Gerry Leyden, Marie Daniels, Sidney Hempstead & Pearl Scaife .
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
Dates for your Diary
Friday 10th Nov Sung Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form - 8pm
Thurs 30th Nov - Sat 2nd December - The Forty Hours Prayer
Sunday 10th Dec Advent Organ Recital by James Devor 5.30pm (with Benediction)
Friday 14th Dec Carols with the Gaudeamus Choir - 7.30pm
Friday 29th Dec Mass with the Bishop and seminarians of our Diocese - 12Noon