Tea on the Terrace
Advance notice of this popular annual event! Saturday 8th September from 2.30pm in the Parish Centre. Come and enjoy the best Afternoon Tea in Town for only £8.00 Adults (Family ticket £25.00 ). Delicious home made cakes, sandwiches, scones etc. Tickets on sale from 18th August. Save the date!
First Holy Communion 2019
If you have a child going into Year 3 in September and would like them to make their First Holy Communion in 2019, please complete the on-line Registration Form available from the Parish Website, under Sacraments, and return it to the Parish Office no later than Friday 7th September.
We Pray for our Sick
Frank Maguire, Gillian Oldham, Basil Emmerson, Christine Robinson, Rosemary Bragard, Mark Wilson, John Lavery, Paul Keane, Rose Craft, Maureen Gooding, Mabel Addecott, Pat Lynch, Christian Ryan, Mike Rubbert, Maureen Deekes, Tina Doveaston, 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, Eddie McConalogue, Georgina Cornwell, Lorraine Hart, Wyn McCafferty, Linda Dean, Annie Holland, Martha Braun, Jane Jowers, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, David Clark, 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, Mick Cordingley, Ernie Worsley and children Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Mary Isherwood, Lucy Price, Connie Price & Frazer Gregory.
Please Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Stephen Keane, Canon Peter Prendergast, Les Smith, Len Murray, James Jones, Dawn Pursey, John Dillon, Gerard Rogers, Magdalaine Rubek, Philippa Soggre, Jean Kerr, Arthur Watkin, Frank Mann, Hugh Palmer, Helen Enright, John Power,Dr Anna (Reggie) Kemmerling, Carmen Georges, Bridie Corrigan, Francis Bartley, Mary Attersley, Bernadette Perry, Andre Lince, Raymond Vaulbert de Chantilly, Annie Gallacher, John Walmsley & Margaret McFarlane.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear Friends in christ
Last week we spoke in the Homily about the sixth chapter of St John's Gospel and how every three years at this time we begin reading from it at Mass for five consecutive Sundays. I would invite you, during these more restful days of the Summer, to read through this chapter for yourselves: perhaps with your families, in private prayer or as spiritual reading.
Dear Friends in christ
Last week we spoke in the Homily about the sixth chapter of St John's Gospel and how every three years at this time we begin reading from it at Mass for five consecutive Sundays. I would invite you, during these more restful days of the Summer, to read through this chapter for yourselves: perhaps with your families, in private prayer or as spiritual reading. This Sunday the first reading and the Gospel reflect on the manna which came down from Heaven and with which Moses fed the people in the desert. This strange bread from Heaven which fed the people on their pilgrimage for forty years in the wilderness, is a symbol of the Bread of Heaven - The Eucharist - with which Jesus will feed His people until the end of time. In the Mass we are truly fed on the Body of Christ, come down from Heaven, a Bread that sustains and nourishes us in every way. If we come to Mass with the amazement which the Jewish people had for that mere bodily bread, think how much more we will be transformed by the reception of Christ Himself, given to us in the Mass. I remind you that the Homilies of these Sundays, which by the end of five Sundays will form a complete catechesis on the Mass, can be found on the Parish website or at the iTunes store.
With every blessing for the week ahead!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Priest@LourdesLeigh.org ✚ 01702 478078
Homily available at LourdesLeigh.org
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - Sunday 5th August
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil The People of the Parish
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Adrian Dann, RIP (SVP)
9.30am Mass Denise MacDermott, RIP (Anniv) (AC)
11.30am Mass Rose Wilde, RIP (II)
4.00pm Mass Percy Lamb, RIP (SVP) Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 6 TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD
9.00am Mass Robert & Marion Caunce, RIP (JC)
Tuesday 7 St Sixtus 2nd, P & his Companions, Mm
9.00am Mass Tom & Kitty Lydon - 65th Wedding Anniversary (T&KL)
Wednesday 8 St Dominic, Pr
9.00am Mass Eugene & Glenys Siani, RIP (RB)
Thursday 9 ST TERESA BENEDICTA OF THE CROSS, C, M
9.00am Mass Mrs Hannah Kelly, RIP (M&MD)
Friday 10 ST LAWRENCE, Deacon, M
12Noon Mass Annette Clarke, RIP (BH)
Saturday 11 St Clare, V
10.00am Mass Bob & Ione Waite, RIP (VB)
10.30am-11.30am Exposition & Confession
NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - Sunday 12th August
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Diana Underwood, RIP (Anniv) (NB)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Vincent Glauda, RIP (Anniv) (KC)
11.30am Mass Jim Scott, RIP (MS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
The Sacrament of Penance is available on request
Counters & Folders
Counters: Jacky Hoggett & Linda Wall
Folders: Jane Trower & Clare English
Tea on the Terrace
Advance notice of this popular annual event! Saturday 8th September from 2.30pm in the Parish Centre. Come and enjoy the best Afternoon Tea in Townfor only £8.00 Adults (Family ticket £25.00 ). Delicious home made cakes, sandwiches, scones etc. Tickets on sale from mid August. Save the date!
First Holy Communion 2019
If you have a child going into Year 3 in September and would like them to make their First Holy Communion in 2019, please complete the on-line Registration Form available from the Parish Website, under Sacraments, and return it to the Parish Office no later than Friday 7th September.
We pray for our sick
Frank Maguire, Gillian Oldham, Basil Emmerson, Christine Robinson, Rosemary Bragard, Mark Wilson, John Lavery, Paul Keane, Rose Craft, Maureen Gooding, Mabel Addecott, Pat Lynch, Christian Ryan, Mike Rubbert, Maureen Deekes, Tina Doveaston, 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, Eddie McConalogue, Georgina Cornwell, Lorraine Hart, Wyn McCafferty, Linda Dean, Annie Holland, Martha Braun, Jane Jowers, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, David Clark, 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, Mick Cordingley, Ernie Worsley and children Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Mary Isherwood, Lucy Price, Connie Price & Frazer Gregory.
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, Sister Vincent, Catherine Hayes, Jim Collins, Timothy O’Shea, Anthony Poulton, Denise MacDermott, 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 Blissett, Daran Persaud, Lily Delobel, Maria Robinson, Vincent Glauda, Teresa Booty, Doris Lowe, Leonard Stevenson, Christopher Barrago, William Smith & Joseph Herinckx.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary time
Dear Friends in christ
Over the coming five weeks, and corresponding with the Summer vacation, we shall hear chapter six of St John’s Gospel being read at Mass. It begins with the feeding of the five thousand and is a prelude to the teaching of Jesus as the Bread of Life. After everyone had eaten, Jesus took advantage of the opportunity to teach his Apostles a lesson about the importance of little things. When they had eaten their fill, he told His disciples to gather up the fragments left over, but nothing may be lost. So they gathered up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves.
Dear Friends in christ
Over the coming five weeks, and corresponding with the Summer vacation, we shall hear chapter six of St John’s Gospel being read at Mass. It begins with the feeding of the five thousand and is a prelude to the teaching of Jesus as the Bread of Life. After everyone had eaten, Jesus took advantage of the opportunity to teach his Apostles a lesson about the importance of little things. When they had eaten their fill, he told His disciples to gather up the fragments left over, but nothing may be lost. So they gathered up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves. Jesus shows us His generosity in two ways: first by giving to the people as much as they wanted and secondly by making sure nothing was wasted. He educates by means of dramatic action as well as through insignificant detail. The collecting of the leftovers is a way of showing us the value of little things done out of love for God: cleanliness, orderliness, and finishing our work well with perfection. Christ spent the better part of thirty years doing just ordinary everyday things. But according to the Gospels He did this whilst remaining in continual conversation and union with His heavenly Father. Over these coming weeks we shall use the opportunity of the Homily at Mass to go through some of the important aspects of the Church's teaching on the Blessed Eucharist. This is because the Eucharist is the greatest possession of the Church - The Mystery of Faith - and by our continual reflection, veneration and devotion to this mystery, enter ever more deeply into the life of God Himself.
May God bless you all in these days of rest and vacation!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Priest@LourdesLeigh.org ✚ 01702 478078
Homily available at LourdesLeigh.org
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - Sunday 29th July
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil The People of the Parish
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Alison Shepherd, RIP (CH)
9.30am Mass Theresa Yates, RIP (MW)
11.30am Mass Intentions of the Lambert Family (LL)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 30 St Peter Chysologus, Bp, D
9.00am Mass Intentions of Sheila Newman (RO’C)
Tuesday 31 St Ignatius of Loyola, Pr
9.00am Mass Ellen Venn, RIP (SVP)
Wednesday 1 St Alphonsus Liguori, Bp, d
9.00am Mass Edward Hippard, RIP (SH)
Thursday 2 St Eusebius of Vercelli, Bp
9.00am Mass Clare Chadwick, RIP (Anniv)(MI)
Friday 3 Feria - First Friday
12Noon Mass Frances Emmerson, RIP (AE)
12.30pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until
8.00-9.00pm Holy Hour & Benediction
Saturday 4 St John Vianney (Curé of Ars)
10.00am Mass Maureen Mann, RIP (Anniv)(RM)
10.30am-11.30am Exposition & Confession
EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - Sunday 5th August
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil The People of the Parish
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Adrian Dann, RIP (SVP)
9.30am Mass Denise MacDermott, RIP (Anniv) (AC)
11.30am Mass Rose Wilde, RIP (II)
4.00pm Mass Percy Lamb, RIP Extraordinary Form(SVP)
5.30pmVespers & Benediction
The Sacrament of Penance is available on request
Stewards of the Gospel: Up-Date on the Process
Bishop Alan has recorded a video message to us all and it is now available on the Diocesan website by clicking anywhere on the Home page.
Parish Centre
No refreshments in the Parish Centre after Masses from this weekend (29th July). The normal tea/coffee rota will resume in September.