We pray for our sick
Christine Robinson, Rosemary Bragard, Mark Wilson, Noel Kolby, John Lavery, Anne Currid, David Gurney, Paul Keane,Maureen Gooding, Mabel Addecott, Christian Ryan, Arthur Mills, Mike Rubbert, Teresa O’Brien, Maureen Deekes, Noel Fagan, 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, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Anthony McEvoy, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, Dympna Addecott, Janet Woods, Lynne Hilkene, June Moncaster, Laura & Anne Breen, Breda Lynch, Maria Clark, Roy Widdecombe, Johanna Lynch, Sheila McBrearty, Anthony King, Chas Taylor,Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Johnnie Pool, Edward Martin, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Hugh Isaacs,Josephine Griggs, Colleen Worley, Dawn Deleigh, Antonella McConalogue, Fr Jean Laurent Marie, Eddie McConalogue, Georgina Cornwell, Lorraine Hart, Wyn McCafferty, Linda Dean, Annie Holland, Martin Buckley, Martha Braun, Jane Jowers, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, David Clark, David Askew, Connor Bourke, Mattia Mollica, Sharon Levill, Bernadette Lane, David Kislingury, Maureen Ward, Irena Solecki, Lanto Bellis, Doreen Troughton, Marguerite Harris, Andrew Exley, Rosemary Arscott, Richard Collins, Niqui Denkmayer, Elizabeth McConalogue, Kean Smith, and children Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Mary Isherwood, Lucy Price, Connie Price, Frazer Gregory, baby Talia Emery and Hattie Seymour.
Please Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr James (Jim) McCormack, Fr John William Hayes, Canon Tomas Clarke, Mrs Constance Newton, Dorothy Kyrke-Smith, Margaret Philp, Joseph Edwards, John Smith, eileen Rosina Hod, Mrs Winifred Craic, Francis Thomas, Amy Ehn, Roma Morgan, John Rivens, Emma Hobbs, Alfred Warner, Philip Everett, Bridget Hamblion, Pauline Cousins, Florence West, Ellen O’Leary, Agnes Brady, Edward Petronis, Michael Jones, Charles Cutter, William Ross, Eric Jeffries, Lily Mead, Michael NcNamara & Richard Walker.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
Dates for your Diary
12th & 19th May First Holy Communions
20th May Confirmation
1st July Parish AGM
Flower Festival 16th June 2018
Thank-you to everyone who has volunteered to take on a window display for the Flower Festival, or to help with the refreshments.
Nearer the time, we will be asking people who are not already doing a display to contribute some flowers or garden greenery to help with the displays.
Thanks for all the encouragement and support. Jo & Theresa.
OLOL Women’s Group
Following another successful morning, the Women’s Group will next meet on Thursday 24th May from 10.30am. Enquiries or offers of guest speaker please contact Cynthia Bush on twobushes@talktalk.net.
Parish/Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes Monday 23rd - Saturday 28th July 2018
Five nights (full board) travelling with British Airways via Toulouse and staying at the Grand Moderne Hotel will cost £665 per pilgrim. There are still a few places available. Please ask for more details from the Parish Office.
Counters & Folders
Counters: Linda Wall & Jacky Hoggett
Folders: Jane Trower & Clare English
Tea/Coffee & Homemade Cakes
Every Monday & Thursday after 9am Mass. Why not pop into the Parish Centre, meet friends and enjoy coffee and cake!
Parish Centre - call for help one hour per week
To keep the Parish Centre looking pristine and clean, we are looking for some more volunteers to help support the existing cleaning team. No heavy lifting involved. If you are able to help your support would be much appreciated. Please contact the Parish Office or Steve on 0792 939 1890. Thank you.
Serving the Homeless
Sincere thanks to everyone who supported the recent Quiz Night that raised £588 towards our local homelessness projects, also to those parishioners who have generously donated raffle prizes for our grand Summer Draw.
Our next event is an Afternoon Tea to be held in the Park View Suite in Chalkwell Park on Thursday 14th June at 2 pm. Tickets cost £12 and are available from Jo 474062, Linda 558217 or Nina 472536.
St Helens to St George's Sponsored Walk for the BCCS and CAFOD 'Share the Journey'
The annual parish to parish sponsored walk to raise funds for the Brentwood Catholic Children's Society (BCCS) takes place on Saturday 2nd June. We will gather at St Helens for 10am Mass, and set off afterwards around 10.45am with Father Joseph for an approximate five and a half miles walk along the seafront to Shoeburyness where we will finish the walk with refreshments in the parish hall at St George's after midday. All participants will receive a certificate at the end from Julie of the BCCS.
To take part, to receive registration and sponsor forms, and for more information, please contact Damian of the Knights of St Columba (07887 678741 / damian.dillon@btinternet.com). Registration is free, and any sponsorship raised will go direct to the BCCS. This year we will be combining the walk with the CAFOD Share the Journey campaign to show solidarity with refugees to count the miles we walk collectively, and to sign a card to go to the Prime Minister calling for agreements to be made at the United Nations for refugees and migration.
Visit cafod.org.uk/Campaign/Share-the-Journey for more information. We hope you can join us to support these two causes this year.
Church Access
Because of recent problems with theft and vandalism, the church is locked at 1pm each day. After that time it is possible to gain access through the door on the north side, using the security keypad, the number for which can be obtained from the Parish Office; please do not disclose the number to third parties.
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Dear Friends in christ
Well done everyone who braved the cold last Sunday afternoon for the
Rosary on the Coast which we prayed on Chalkwell beach. There was a really heartening gathering from the local Parishes, and beyond (including one coach-load from NW London!) praying the Glorious Mysteries of the Holy Rosary for Faith, Life and Peace in our Country. We prayed looking across the water to the Isle of Thanet in Kent, where St Augustine arrived in 597 with monks from Rome, sent by Pope St Gregory, bringing the Gospel to these shores. Thank God for this beautiful act of witness, prayer and evangelisation!
Dear Friends in christ
Well done everyone who braved the cold last Sunday afternoon for the
Rosary on the Coast which we prayed on Chalkwell beach. There was a really heartening gathering from the local Parishes, and beyond (including one coach-load from NW London!) praying the Glorious Mysteries of the Holy Rosary for Faith, Life and Peace in our Country. We prayed looking across the water to the Isle of Thanet in Kent, where St Augustine arrived in 597 with monks from Rome, sent by Pope St Gregory, bringing the Gospel to these shores. Thank God for this beautiful act of witness, prayer and evangelisation!
On Thursday we celebrate The Ascension of Our Lord to Heaven. This mystery of Jesus’ life concludes and completes the time he spent on earth after His Resurrection. The Ascension is one of the two recently restored Holydays of Obligation in the year (the Epiphany is the other) and a Day when we celebrate by attending Holy Mass. Our culture of Faith is diminishing all of the time, due to the increasingly secular environment in which we live. It requires constant vigilance and unremitting work to ensure that we continue to swim in the warming waters of a culture of Faith. Living and celebrating the festivals of the Church is one of the ways we maintain this; so even if we are working we can find a church near us wherein we can participate in the Mass on these Holydays. The Ascension of Jesus draws our vision upwards to where Jesus has gone before us, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, interceding and waiting for us.
In this month, dedicated to Mary, may God and His Blessed Mother assist and bless us always!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Priest@LourdesLeigh.org ✚ 01702 478078
Homily available at LourdesLeigh.org
Sixth Sunday of Easter
SIXTH Sunday of Easter - Sunday 6th May
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil The People of the Parish
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Eileen Mishtall, RIP (MB)
9.30am Mass Intentions of Imelda (BH)
11.30am Mass Rose Comey, RIP (MC)
4.00pm Mass Intentions of Anna Wiktorska (AW) - Ex. Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 7 Feria
10.00am Mass Adrian Dann, RIP (C&JO’B)
Tuesday 8 Feria
9.00am Mass Christine Fisher, RIP (TF)
Wednesday 9 Feria
9.00am Mass Intentions of Rosemary & Gerry Dillon (SH)
Thursday 10 THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD - Holyday of Obligation
9.15am Mass Intentions of David Sullivan (UO’K) (with OLOL School)
12Noon Mass Intentions of Frank & Maureen Maguire (MW)
8.00pm Mass The People of the Parish
Friday 11 Bl John Rochester, Pr, M
12Noon Mass Jim Scott, RIP (MS)
Saturday 12 St John Houghton, Pr, M
10.30am Mass First Holy Communion Mass
SEVENTH Sunday of Easter - Sunday 13th May
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Bernadette Dellar, RIP (J)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Joyce Wilkinson, RIP (Anniv) (PW)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Frank Baynes, RIP (BH)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
The Sacrament of Penance is available on request
Serving the Homeless
In June we will be holding our annual Grand raffle and we would welcome donations of items that we could offer as top prizes.
Parish/Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes Monday 23rd - Saturday 28th July 2018
Five nights (full board) travelling with British Airways via Toulouse and staying at the Grand Moderne Hotel will cost £665 per pilgrim. There are still a few places available. Please ask for more details from the Parish Office.
Flower Festival 16th June 2018
Thank-you to everyone who has volunteered to take on a window display for the Flower Festival, or to help with the refreshments.
Nearer the time, we will be asking people who are not already doing a display to contribute some flowers or garden greenery to help with the displays.
Thanks for all the encouragement and support. Jo & Theresa