St Thomas More High School - Sixth Form Open Evening
Thursday 22nd November 6-9pm. For families who have pupils - boys and girls - in Year 11 of secondary school who are intending to begin sixth form studies in September 2019.
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.
Person required for paid position of Parish Manager in the office of St Helen’s, 27 Milton Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 7JP
16-20 hours per week, (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) 9am to 1pm. If you, or any of your family/friends, are interested, please first contact Fr Alex Poblador for a job description and person specification. You should then send in your CV, with a covering letter, demonstrating how your experience and skills match the essential requirements and attributes of the role. Closing date for CVs/ applications by Monday 26th November 2018. Interview date Friday 7th December. Contact: 01702 342324 westcliff@dioceseofbrentwood.org
Counters & Folders
Counters: Bob Hall & Sandra Hippard
Folders: Tom O’Callaghan & Rita O’Callaghan
Night of Light
As part of the 40 hours prayer this year, the Parish will be holding a 'Night of Light' on Friday, 30th November from 5pm to 8pm. The lighting of the Christmas lights in Leigh is an ideal opportunity to reach out to all those passing by, inviting them to come into our church to light a candle and say a prayer. The young people of the parish and the Parish Evangelisation Team will be hosting the evening. You are all welcome to come and be part of the event by praying in front of the Blessed Sacrament for the people on the streets and those talking to them. There will also be a live music ministry from Brentwood providing music.
Lourdes Ladies Group
Meet at 10.30am in Parish Centre, Thursday 15th November for Advent arts & crafts preparation. No artistic skills? Just come along & enjoy good company and delicious cake, coffee and a natter. ALL women welcome.
Parish Christmas Bazaar - Sunday 2nd December
The Bazaar will start after the 8am Mass and continue until 1.30pm. We are in need of of your unwanted gifts, toiletries, bottles, bric-a-brac, raffle prizes, craft items. Please leave donations at the back of Church. Thanks to everyone who has donated and offered to help so far. If you need us to collect any donations, please call us, Sue 07816141492 or Angela 07940183452.
Grand Prize Draw tickets are available at the back of the Church now, please take and return the stubs and money to the Parish Office.
Sea of Voices Charity Concert
Our Charity concert on Friday 23rd November at 7.30pm will be held upstairs in the Gilbert Room. We are dedicating our concert to the memory of former choir member, Frank Maguire RIP, and according to Mrs Maguire’s wishes, all proceeds will go to the Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society. Programmes for admission to the concert will be on sale shortly at £5. There will be a raffle on the night as well as teas and coffees available in the interval. A seasonal glass of wine and refreshments will also be available after the concert. Further details and programmes can be obtained from Darrell Binding on 07825686249, choir members in the parish and through the Church Office in November.
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
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 - after 8am Mass
Saturdays 11th & 18th May
First Holy Communions
Sunday 19th May
Visitation and Confirmation
1st Thursday of every month Meeting of Parish Evangelisation Team 8pm
Please pray for the Repose of the Soul of
Sheila McBrearty, RIP who died on Friday 2nd November. Funeral details to follow.
Janine Barter, RIP who died recently.
We Pray for our Sick
Ella Williams, 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, 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
Canon Denis Petry, Fr Terence Howes, Fr James Allis, Fr Richard (Dick) Ashton, Fr Edwin Sheehan, OFM, Dr Gerry Leyden, Marie Daniels, Sidney Hempstead, Pearl Scaife, Lucy Tombleson, Joan Lucey, Donald Galvin, Eileen Stanshall, Anne Britt, Joan Read, Albert Rogers, Janet Conway, Jon Owen, John Cavanagh, Jack O’Riordan, Vincent Kelly, John O’Neill, Kathleen McIlwee, Richard Sparrow, Louisa Hurst, Sydney Pullen, Myriad Hubbard, Mary Capon, John Cousins, Ethel Donnison, Luciana Garuti, Edna Hutchings, Kathleen Macauley, Alice Kelly, Florrie Peck, Charlotte Roberts & Bert Russell.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear Friends in christ
The Readings at Mass this weekend show a continuity between the Old and New Testaments. They manifest the centrality of divine love as the first of all the commandments. God loves us unconditionally and He expects of us, His children, to love in the same manner. We show our love for God and neighbour in the smallest of ways: the time we give to prayer; a genuflection well made, a loving look at a crucifix or holy picture; the prompt way in which we respond to the needs of others, a smile when we are feeling down…all these manifest a desire to love. He looks at the intentions of our hearts, and with the smallest of acts we can show how we are trying to live the two-fold commandment of love: towards God and our neighbour.
Dear Friends in christ
The Readings at Mass this weekend show a continuity between the Old and New Testaments. They manifest the centrality of divine love as the first of all the commandments. God loves us unconditionally and He expects of us, His children, to love in the same manner. We show our love for God and neighbour in the smallest of ways: the time we give to prayer; a genuflection well made, a loving look at a crucifix or holy picture; the prompt way in which we respond to the needs of others, a smile when we are feeling down…all these manifest a desire to love. He looks at the intentions of our hearts, and with the smallest of acts we can show how we are trying to live the two-fold commandment of love: towards God and our neighbour.
During November we are thinking more intensely about the things of the next life. Next weekend we shall recall the centenary of the end of the Great War and we will pray in particular for all those who lost their lives, or those affected by, the loss of loved-ones in armed conflicts. Prayer for the Holy Souls in Purgatory should permeate our devotional lives during this month. You can visit the Memorial Garden beside the church here and pray for those parishioners who have been buried there over the recent years. We keep our departed ones close, spiritually and physically, as we pray and offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for them daily.
May God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Priest@LourdesLeigh.org ✚ 01702 478078
Homily available at LourdesLeigh.org
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Sunday 4th November
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Michael & Margaret Gibbons, RIP (Anniv) (BG)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Fidelis & Lourdes Mary Pallis, RIP (Anniv) (DL)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Jeremiah & Catherine Brennan, RIP (Anniv)(KE)
4.00pm Mass Intentions of the Shpella Family (TS) - Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 5 Feria
9.00am Mass Vivian Payne, RIP (Anniv) (V&NP)
Tuesday 6 Feria
9.00am Mass Gerald Kelly, RIP (Anniv)(JA)
Wednesday 7 St Willibrord, Bp
9.00am Mass Foyster Family - Thanksgiving (MF)
Thursday 8 Feria
9.00am Mass Jim & Lilian Fegan, RIP (Anniv)(JC)
8.00pm Mass Parish Requiem for the deceased of the last year
Friday 9 DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA
12Noon Mass Holy Souls
Saturday 10 St Leo the Great, P, D
10.00am Mass Adrian Dann, RIP (SD)
10.30am-11.30am Exposition & Confession
THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIMe Sunday 11th Nov.
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Pearl Scaife, RIP (Anniv) (MI)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Peter Herzog, RIP (Anniv) (JL)
9.30am Mass Deceased relatives of Wall & Rockell Families (K&LW)
11.30am Mass Deceased of the Wars
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
The Sacrament of Penance is available on request
Services from the church are live streamed
Baptism Preparation Evenings
The next Baptism Preparation Sessions will take place on Tuesdays 6th and 13th November. They will take place the Parish Centre at 8pm. For further information, please contact Catherine or Andy Harris on 077333 27295.
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 5th November at 8pm in the Parish Centre with Journey of Faith (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.
St Thomas More High School - Sixth Form Open Evening Thursday 22nd November 6pm to 9pm
For families who have pupils - boys and girls - in Year 11 of secondary school who are intending to begin sixth form studies in September 2019. come and visit the school and meet the staff and current sixth form students. there will be tours of the sixth form building and the rest of the school.
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.