Contactless Giving
Many of us no longer carry cash. Contactless paying is becoming increasingly popular and is more hygienic. It is now possible to make contactless offerings to the Church. This can be done in the usual manner and there will be a device at the back of church with a Steward to assist. Simply touch an amount shown on the screen, (£2, £5, £10, £15, £20, £25 or enter another figure if you wish to give a particular amount) then tap your card or ‘phone to register payment. (The device will be sanitised by the Steward.) You should also Gift Aid amounts if you are a taxpayer (which gives an additional 25%). You need to enter your name and address on the first occasion and after that your details are remembered for future giving. The best way of making your weekly offering is by using the envelopes or by standing order but the contactless facility will enable us to donate at anytime if we don’t have cash.
St Thomas More Open Day
St. Thomas More High school - open day for Year 6 boys and parents, Saturday 19th September.
9am to 11.30am - Headteacher talk 10am
OR
1pm to 3.30pm - Headteacher talk 2pm
For families who have a son due to transfer to secondary school in September 2021 - come and see the school.
Parents of boys who wish to apply to St. Thomas More School for a place in September 2021 should complete the local education authority single application form (SAF) and fill in the supplementary information form (SIF) that can be collected on the open day.
If you are unable to come to the open day, please contact the school in order to get the supplementary information form. The form can also be downloaded from the school web site:-
WWW.ST-THOMASMORE.SOUTHEND.SCH.UK
Brentwood Catholic Children's Society
Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society has registered for the Fun Walk which normally takes place at the Barleylands Farm site in Billericay. This year, participants and parish groups are invited to walk 2k or 5k anywhere they wish at any time during September and ask for sponsorship from friends and family to help support our work. All details & sponsorship forms are available on www.bccs.org.uk under the Events/Virtual Fun Walk tab or follow us on social media for updates. We would be very happy to hear from parish or family groups who would like to walk for us – please email Libby: lphillips@bccs.org.uk
Site Manager Vacancy
The Diocese is looking for a Site Manager for the Cathedral Site to manage the routine maintenance of the buildings and grounds at the Cathedral Site. A job description is available upon request but the key elements are as follows:
Overall premises management
• Maintain the premises in a safe and healthy condition
• Identify anything requiring repair or maintenance and action as required
• Ensure all matters are logged as appropriate
• Liaise with Contractors as required
The expected closing date is Friday 2 October. For more information and a full job description and person specification contact
recruitment@dioceseofbrentwood.org
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus teaches us very often that we see salvation as something which is a consequence of a union with God, which is ultimately a personal thing and nobody can take our place in this personal encounter with him.
Dear friends in Christ
Jesus teaches us often that salvation is something which is a consequence of a union with God; ultimately a personal reality as nobody can take our place in this encounter with Him. But He also desires that we support each other and that we help each other on the way towards our final goal. The first and greatest expression of this intimate union with God is in prayer, private and communal. According to the Gospel of this Sunday, family prayer is especially pleasing to him. Commenting on this gospel, Saint John Paul II teaches that: this prayer has for its own object family life itself… Joys and sorrows, hopes and disappointments, births and birthday celebrations, wedding anniversaries of parents, departures, separations and homecomings, important and far-reaching decisions, the death of those who are dear to us etc - all of these mark occasions for God's loving intervention in the family's history. They should be seen as suitable moments for thanksgiving, for petition, for trusting abandonment of the family into the hands of their common Father in Heaven. The dignity and responsibility of the Christian family as the domestic Church can be achieved only with God's aid, which will surely be granted if it is humbly and trustingly petitioned for in prayer (Familiaris Consortio n.22).
I am sure that prayer in the family has been the glue that has kept many families together during these months of lockdown. I know from the many testimonies that I have received, it has been daily payer and the weekly Sunday Mass - albeit virtual - that has kept the Faith alive in our homes. I would like to laud all those who have struggled and persevered in doing this, because I understand how hard it has been for everyone. Thank you too, for the example of your faithfulness in prayer and trying, as best we have been able, to keep Faith alive in our hearts and homes.
This Tuesday 8th, is the Birthday of Our Blessed Lady. May she obtain for us all, and for families in particular, the grace of perseverance in our holy vocation. Perhaps I could remind you to offer Mary some little sign of our love on her Birthday: a Rosary said together, a picture or statue placed prominently in our home or simply an affectionate conversation with her in which we confide what is in our heart at this time. She will listen and respond.
God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Twenty-Third Sunday in ordinary Time
Saturday 5 September
5.30pm Vigil Mass Fr Stephen Foster, RIP (KH)
6.30pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confession available: Lady Chapel
Sunday 6
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Intention of Rita Symonds (AB)
11.30am Mass All the Clergy at this difficult time (JA)
4pm Mass Helen Hiscock, RIP (Anniversary) (MH) - Extraordinary Form (NB No general Communion at this Mass)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 7
Feria
9am Mass Grahame Addecott, RIP (JA)
Tuesday 8
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9am Mass William Pearson, RIP (SP)
Wednesday 9
St Peter Claver, Pr
9am Mass Anna Kennette, RIP (LLG)
Thursday 10
Feria
9am Mass John & Elaine Sinclair & family - Golden Wedding Anniversary
3.30pm Requiem Mass Ronald Desmond Hall, RIP
Friday 11
Feria
12 noon Mass Tommy Clancy, RIP (VC)
Saturday 12
The Most Holy Name of Mary
10am Mass Intentions of Peter Loh (KL)
10.30-11.30am Exposition
10.30-11.30 Confession - First Holy Communion Reconciliations
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confession available: Lady Chapel
Sunday 13
8am Mass In reparation to the Sacred Heart (MH)
9.30am Mass David Massalski, RIP (AA)
11.30am Mass Alan Bush, RIP (Anniversary) (CB)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Mgr Canon Michael Wilson, Fr Charles Johnson, Fr Conrad Smith, Fr Theophilas Borer, Archbishop George Andrew Beck, Canon James Hemming, Maria Griffiths, Noel Crighton, Anthony Cummins, Judith Davies, Mary Agnes Burkins, Edith Annie Murray, William Peck, Marie Bailey, Francis Ryan, John Burns, Mary Cope, Winifred Gansen, Joseph Manton, William Allen, Jim Hayes, Peter Green, Joseph Thurlow, Elsie Ivett, Anne Brooks, Mary Manton, William Wheaton, Kathleen Matthews, Eliza Moore, Mary Wright, Wilfred Sawyer, Kathleen McGowan, Anne McCarthy, Veronica Maguire, Joyce Wager & Alan Bush.
We Pray for our Sick
Russell Short, Paul Bloomberg, Marie Karaf, Christine Reid, Gilberte Cook, Garry Pearman, Anne Owen, Adrian Barclay, Patricia Ann Darroch, Peggy Larman, Sylvia Langley, Patricia Vanner, Amy Louise Fox, Sarah Savage, Bill O’Connell, Janet Weale, Charlotte O’Neil, Ella Williams, David Kislingbury, Mark Shepherd, Eileen Bines, Breege McCaffrey, Mark Hartley, Austin Butler, John Lavery, Paul Keane, Rosemary Bragard, Pat Lynch, Maureen Gooding, Dympna Addecott, Ben Wilson, Christian Ryan, Mike Rubbert, Tina Doveaston, Addi Brady, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Rose Craft, Nan Carrit, Eileen Wilson, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, 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, Wyn McCafferty, Georgina Cornwell, Antonella McConalogue, Eddie McConalogue, Sharon Levill, Annie Holland, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, Connor Bourke, Mattia Mollica, Bernadette Lane, Irena Solecki, Ianto Bellis, Doreen Troughton, Marguerite Harris, Andrew Exley, Elizabeth McConalogue, Kean Smith, Keith Maliff & children, Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Connie Price, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Mary Isherwood, Lucy Price & Frazer Gregory.
Contactless Giving
Many of us no longer carry cash. Contactless paying is becoming increasingly popular and is more hygienic. From this weekend it will be possible to make contactless offerings to the Church. This can be done in the usual manner and there will be a device at the back of church with a Steward to assist. Simply touch an amount shown on the screen, (£2, £5, £10, £15, £20, £25 or enter another figure if you wish to give a particular amount) then tap your card or ‘phone to register payment. (The device will be sanitised by the Steward.) You should also Gift Aid amounts if you are a taxpayer (which gives an additional 25%). You need to enter your name and address on the first occasion and after that your details are remembered for future giving. The best way of making your weekly offering is by using the envelopes or by standing order but the contactless facility will enable us to donate at anytime if we don’t have cash.
Pray for the Repose of the Souls
Ronald Desmond Hall, RIP
Philomena Stone, RIP
Margaret Owens, RIP
Mavis Laura James, RIP
Organ Voluntaries at 11.3am Mass on Sunday
Organ Prelude: Andante sostenuto (Symphonie Gothique) - Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
Organ Postlude: Prélude (Suite, Op. 5) - Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
St Thomas More Open Day - Saturday 19th September
St. Thomas More High school - open day for Year 6 boys and parents, Saturday 19th September.
9am to 11.30am - Headteacher talk 10am
OR
1pm to 3.30pm - Headteacher talk 2pm
For families who have a son due to transfer to secondary school in September 2021 - come and see the school.
Parents of boys who wish to apply to St. Thomas More School for a place in September 2021 should complete the local education authority single application form (SAF) and fill in the supplementary information form (SIF) that can be collected on the open day.
If you are unable to come to the open day, please contact the school in order to get the supplementary information form. The form can also be downloaded from the school web site:-
WWW.ST-THOMASMORE.SOUTHEND.SCH.UK
Brentwood Catholic Children's Society
Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society has registered for the Fun Walk which normally takes place at the Barleylands Farm site in Billericay. This year, participants and parish groups are invited to walk 2k or 5k anywhere they wish at any time during September and ask for sponsorship from friends and family to help support our work. All details & sponsorship forms are available on www.bccs.org.uk under the Events/Virtual Fun Walk tab or follow us on social media for updates. We would be very happy to hear from parish or family groups who would like to walk for us – please email Libby: lphillips@bccs.org.uk
Site Manager Vacancy
The Diocese is looking for a Site Manager for the Cathedral Site to manage the routine maintenance of the buildings and grounds at the Cathedral Site. A job description is available upon request but the key elements are as follows:
Overall premises management
• Maintain the premises in a safe and healthy condition
• Identify anything requiring repair or maintenance and action as required
• Ensure all matters are logged as appropriate
• Liaise with Contractors as required
The expected closing date is Friday 2 October. For more information and a full job description and person specification contact
recruitment@dioceseofbrentwood.org
Missio Red Boxes
If you have a box that needs emptying please leave it in the office or give it to me personally if you see me. I have received the Summer magazines but cannot leave them at the back of the church so I will put them with the empty boxes which I will leave at the back of the church on the ledge by the exit door. Please remember to collect them.
Thank you. Joan Caunce, Secretary.
Funeral Postponed
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Funeral scheduled for tomorrow at 10:15am has been postponed
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary time
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of this Sunday follows directly from what we heard at Mass last weekend: after Peter professes his faith in Jesus as the Son of the Living God, Jesus reveals that He and His followers will go to Jerusalem where He will be rejected, suffer and be put to death.
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of this Sunday follows directly from what we heard at Mass last weekend: after Peter professes his faith in Jesus as the Son of the Living God, Jesus reveals that He and His followers will go to Jerusalem where He will be rejected, suffer and be put to death. This was anathema to the Apostles, who had a dreaded fear of pain and suffering. We now know, that the Christian path and calling, is one that goes by the way of the Cross. If we want to rise with Christ in glory, then He has told us that we must do this by the road that goes via Calvary. In a word, only the love of God that is rooted in generosity and sacrifice will enable the human person to obtain the eternal destiny of Heaven.
This will be an exciting, and also anxious time, as our Schools return to work for a new year. Let us pray for our young people and their teachers, that they will be safe, secure and fruitful in these coming months. It has been lovely to see more families and individuals returning to Mass gradually. We should all feel reassured that we are doing all we can to ensure that parishioners feel safe when they come into the church. We have had many months of this strange regime and it is time for us to be courageous and try to continue with our lives within the framework that we now have. First Confessions and Holy Communions will begin in this coming month and go through to the end of October. The Sacrament of Confirmation will be administered on 11th October and those preparing for Reception into the Church will be Received and Confirmed on 11th September. Please keep all of these candidates for the Sacraments in your prayers. I thank them for their patience as we know this has been an extra-ordinary year and far from what we could have planned or expected. As we go forward, slowly and prudently, let us do so with complete trust in Divine Providence.
May God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saturday 29 August
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confession available: Lady Chapel
Sunday 30
8am Mass Intentions of Ann Emmerson (AE)
9.30am Mass Norman Firminger, RIP (MR)
11.30am Mass Intentions of Christine Challis & Catherine Harris (CH)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 31
St Aidan, Bp and Saints of Lindisfarne
10am Mass Intentions of the O'Keefe Family (UO'K)
Tuesday 1 September
St Sebbi, King of the East Saxons
9am Mass Deceased members of the Moon Family (SM)
Wednesday 2
Feria
10.15am Requiem Mass Ronald Hall, RIP
Thursday 3
St Gregory the Great, P, D
9am Mass Tony James, RIP (UO’K)
Friday 4
St Cuthbert, Bp
12 noon Mass Vivien Clancy, RIP (NF)
7pm Holy Hour
Saturday 5
Saturday Memorial of BVM
10am Mass Intentions of Michael & Marie Rubbert (MR) - Wedding Ann.
10.30-11.30am Exposition
Confession available: Lady Chapel
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confession available: Lady Chapel
Sunday 6
8am Mass Fr Stephen Foster, RIP (KH)
9.30am Mass Intentions of Rita Symonds (AB)
11.30am Mass All the Clergy at this difficult time (JA)
4pm Mass Helen Hiscock, RIP (Anniversary) (MH) - Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction