Help for the Homeless this Winter
Southend Churches Winter Night Shelters (SCWNS) and Southend Borough Council have been running winter night shelters for the homeless for eight years. This year, the Catholic parishes of Sacred Heart and St John Fisher have agreed to provide a Night Shelter in Sacred Heart parish hall every Wednesday night, from Wednesday 5th December 2018 through to Wednesday 20th March 2019, and are requesting volunteer help and support from other Catholic parishes within our Deanery.
Beds will be supplied for 20 people and a hot meal for another up to 10 'dinner only' guests. The Night Shelter welcomes both men and women although historically only two or three women have been hosted most nights. Sufficient 'overnight volunteers' have already been found but approximately 30 additional volunteers will be needed each week!
There are a variety of tasks to be done commencing Wednesday evenings, 6pm to 10.30pm - setting up beds, greeting guests, serving meals, socialising with guests; and then again Thursday mornings, 7am to 9.00am - preparing breakfast, cleaning the hall, laundering etc., ...as well as tasks yet to be identified!
Potential volunteers are asked to contact Sue Tokley, Parish Secretary, in Sacred Heart/St John Fisher parish office on 01702 465720 or parish@catholicsouthend.org.uk . Francis O'Brien - OLOL Parish SVP Conference
Counters & Folders
Counters: Sheila West & Jacky Hoggett
Folders: Jane Trower & Clare English
Lourdes Ladies Group
Next Thursday 1st November we welcome the return of Jo Ronan as our guest speaker. Jo will be presenting one of her fascinating talks. ‘The history of St. Bernard's school ‘. All welcome.... you don't have to be "an old girl”!! Socialise over delicious cake and coffee from 10.30 - 12 for only a £1 sub. each week.
Parish Christmas Bazaar - Sunday 2nd December
It's that time of year again and we need your help! We need your donations of unwanted gifts, bric-a-brac, raffle prizes, bottles, toiletries and craft items, please leave donations at the back of the church in the old baptistry. If you would like us to collect, or if you would like to help on the day, please call us.
Sue Lawford 07816 141492 or Angela Clements 07940 183452.
Our Lady of Lourdes School - Prospective Parents Visit
Parents of children due to start in September 2019 are invited to a tour of the school on 30th October at 9.30am and 2pm by the headteacher. Because it will be a working day we kindly ask that you do not bring small children or pushchairs on this occasion. Children will have opportunities to get to know the school later in the year. We look forward to showing you around, please call the school office on 01702 475689 to make an appointment.
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, also at the back of church. Throughout November, there is a weekly mass for the Holy Souls and those whose names are placed under the Altar are remembered in these Masses and Offices.
Dates for your Diary
Thursday 8th November
Annual Parish Requiem 8pm
Friday 16th November
Sung Requiem in the Extra-ordinary Form 8pm
Sunday 18th November
Blessing of Graves, 3pm (Sutton Road)
Thursday 29th November
Forty Hours Prayer 7pm
Sunday 2nd December
Christmas Bazaar
Saturdays 11th & 18th May
First Holy Communions
Sunday 19th May
Visitation and Confirmation
1st Thursday of every month
Meeting of Parish Evangelisation Team 8pm
We Pray for our Sick
David Kislingbury, Joshua Hallett, Janet Weale, Mark Shepherd, Eileen Bines, Frank Bramley, Mark Hartley, Gillian Oldham, Basil Emmerson, Austin Butler, Christine Robinson, John Lavery, Rosemary Bragard, Paul Keane, Rose Craft, Maureen Gooding, Dympna Addecott, Pat Lynch, Christian Ryan, Mike Rubbert, Maureen Deekes, Tina Doveaston, Addi Brady, Ben Wilson, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Brita Irons, Nan Carrit, Eileen Wilson, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, Lyn Gopee, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Anthony McEvoy, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, 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, Lorraine Hart, Linda Dean,Antonella McConalogue, Eddie McConalogue, Georgina Cornwell, Martha Braun, Wyn McCafferty, Annie Holland, Jane Jowers, Ivor & Joanne Knight, David Clark, 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 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 George Steadman, Fr William Loveland, Canon Thomas Bishop, Canon Richard Gay, Fr Stephen Wyatt, Gwendoline Greiner, Patrick Landers, Maureen Coghlan, Stanley Watson, Alice Conway, Joyce Jones, Helen Lesley, Doris Payne, Mary Russell, William Upsher, Walter Kilman, Edward Hullett, Margaret Convey, Anna Hinbest, Mary Peomore, Eileen Clark, Philip Modica, Mick Burke, Andrew Mitchelmore & Marie Hale.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear Friends in christ
This Sunday's Gospel recounts the request made by the Apostles James and John: they wanted to hold places of honour in His Kingdom. Jesus used the opportunity to teach them a lesson in service: I have come not to be served but to serve. His whole life was a service to others. His doctrine is a constant appeal to mankind to forget self and live for others. He went throughout Palestine serving each person He met along the way. The Church is the continuation of His saving mission in this world. Her very reason for existing is to serve mankind through the preaching of the Word and celebration of the Sacraments.
Dear Friends in christ
This Sunday's Gospel recounts the request made by the Apostles James and John: they wanted to hold places of honour in His Kingdom. Jesus used the opportunity to teach them a lesson in service: I have come not to be served but to serve. His whole life was a service to others. His doctrine is a constant appeal to mankind to forget self and live for others. He went throughout Palestine serving each person He met along the way. The Church is the continuation of His saving mission in this world. Her very reason for existing is to serve mankind through the preaching of the Word and celebration of the Sacraments. As Pope St Paul VI (who was canonised last Sunday) said: Sharing the noblest aspirations of men and suffering where She sees them not satisfied she wishes to help them attain their full flowering, and that is why She offers men what She posses as her characteristic attribute - a global vision of man and of the human race. As we seek to imitate the Lord, we stand also ready to serve, not expecting anything in return. We have to serve even those - especially those - who do not appreciate our help. This is to make us truly Christ-like in our discipleship. By this way of living, we will indeed inherit the place of honour in God’s Kingdom one day in Heaven!
In this month of the Holy Rosary, with Mary’s prayers, may we continue to be generous, selfless disciples, of the Lord.
God bless bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Priest@LourdesLeigh.org ✚ 01702 478078
Homily available at LourdesLeigh.org
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Sunday 21st October
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Jan Netherton, RIP (IS)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Dennis Jordan, RIP (Anniv) (PJ)
11.30am Mass Alan Bush, RIP (M&MR)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 22 St John Paul II, P
9.00am Mass Peter Gill, RIP (UO)
Tuesday 23 St John of Capistrano, Pr
9.00am Mass Henry Herbert, RIP (AB)
Wednesday 24 St Anthony Mary Claret, Bp
9.00am Mass David Gurney, RIP (MR)
Thursday 25 Feria
9.00am Mass Peter Sloan, RIP (CC)
Friday 26 Ss Chad and Cedd, Bpp
12Noon Mass Roseleen Armstrong, RIP (Anniv) (JA)
Saturday 27 Saturday Memorial of BVM
10.00am Mass Intentions of Eileen Gurney
10.30am-11.30am Exposition & Confession
THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Sunday 28th October
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil The People of the Parish
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Barbara Adams, RIP (A&CB)
9.30am Mass Mrs Greiner, Grace & Gwen Greiner, RIP (FM)
11.30am Mass Patricia Abram, RIP (Anniv)(AB)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
The Sacrament of Penance is available on request
Services from the church are live streamed
Maureen Maguire
Maureen and family would like to extend their heartfelt gratitude to those who offered prayers, mass intentions cards, kind words and support following the death of Frank, a much loved and respected husband, father and grandfather.
Cynthia Bush
Cynthia would like to thank everyone in the Parish family for all the love and support, abundance of Mass cards and many expressions of sympathy she received following the sudden death of Alan. A Mass will be offered at Walsingham in Thanksgiving for our Priests and Parish.
Christmas Shoebox Appeal
Leaflets are available at the back of the Church giving instructions how to fill a shoebox with gifts for a child this Christmas, who otherwise would receive nothing. Filled and ready to collect shoeboxes should be taken to the nearest drop off point, Shoezone 80 High Street, Southend (opposite Lloyd’s Bank) tel no 01702 462662. Unfortunately Leigh Road Baptist Church is not an Operation Christmas Child drop off point this year. Alternatively, St Peter’s RC Church, 59 Eastwood Road North, Leigh on Sea, SS9 4BX, tel no 01702 522879 is a drop off point from mid October onwards. The shoeboxes will be going to Eastern Europe this year so hats, gloves etc are ideal box fillers. The closing date is Sunday 18th November. Please do not leave filled shoeboxes at Our Lady of Lourdes Church or Leigh Road Baptist Church.
OLOL Parish Evangelisation Team
Our Parish Evangelisation Team meets on the first Thursday of each month (except August) from 8pm to 9pm in the Parish Centre. All Our Lady of Lourdes parishioners are members of the Parish Evangelisation Team and all are invited to attend our monthly meetings and will be most welcome!
This year, the first Thursday of November falls, in fact, on the 1st November, the Feast of All Saints and a Holyday of Obligation, with evening Mass for the Feastday being celebrated in Our Lady of Lourdes Church at 8.00pm.
Our November Parish Evangelisation Team meeting will therefore be held in the Parish Centre directly after the evening Mass, starting at approximately 8.40pm and concluding promptly at 9.30pm. Please join us if you can!
Calling Knitters & Crocheters - Can you help?
Could you make poppies, knitted or crocheted (3.5 to 4cm diameter with a pin on the back) to be included in a poppy wave being created to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War? The wave will be shown in The Royals 3rd-10th November, then moved to the foyer of the Cliffs Pavilion on Armistice Day, 11th November for the Remembrance Concert at 4pm. If you need a pattern, or address to deliver poppies, email jane.windass@googlemail.com Made poppies can be given to Jane after the 11.30am Sunday Mass, or left in her porch. Thank you.
Counters & Folders
Counters: Sheila West & Eileen Wilson
Folders: Angie Martin & Joseph Martin
Parish Fundraising
Thank you to everyone who supports the 200 Club. The results of the September draw are as follows:
1st prize £150 101 Mr P Fisher
2nd Prize £100 54 Mrs C O’Brien
3rd Prize £75 21 Mr A Long
4th Prize £50 13 Mrs C Harris
5th Prize £25 7 Mrs R Conlon
The 200 Club continues to provide funds to support the running of the Parish Centre. Forms are available from the back of the church or ring Linda Wall on 01702 558217.
Summer Lourdes 2019
If you are in school year 10 or above, come and join the Brentwood Catholic Youth Service on our hugely popular Summer Lourdes Pilgrimage. We travel alongside the Diocese to assist the elderly and infirm on their annual pilgrimage, particularly those in wheelchairs.
Alongside this we also run a retreat, daily Masses and excursions for the young people, as well as experiencing the Lourdes Torchlight Procession and Blessed Sacrament Procession. Applications will be open from the evening of Sunday 21st October and will remain open until 31st January 2019. These can be made at www.bcys.net/events where you will also find more information about the trip. Likely travel dates will be 20th - 27th July 2019.