Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday
Berceuse - Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Carillon de Westminster (from Pièces de Fantaisie) - Louis Vierne
Booking Masses
Please remember to go on-line to book a place at Mass as it is very important that we regulate the number of people in the Church so that we are Covid safe. Thank you.
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School
Contract type:
Full-time Maternity Cover Required KS1 or KS2 September 2021 – July 2022
and
Full-time Classroom teacher in KS1 or KS2
Job title: Classroom Teacher
Salary: Main Scale
We are looking for class teachers with energy and enthusiasm who have a good knowledge and understanding of learning and teaching in KS1 or KS2.
We are looking for teachers who will bring a love of learning to our children and have high aspirations for children and themselves. We are happy to accept applications from NQTs or experienced teachers and would love to talk about your plans for career development.
Our Lady of Lourdes is a friendly and well-respected school within our community. We have strong links with our feeder parishes of Our Lady of Lourdes and St Peter’s.
At Our Lady of Lourdes, we recognise the important role we achieve in teaching our children to love and serve each other as responsible members of our Christian community. We know the importance of enabling children to learn whilst enabling the development of the whole child.
Our Lady of Lourdes is a happy school with two forms in each year group. We are committed to school improvement so that every child is given the right start in their journey of learning.
Our school is a welcoming and caring community with happy, motivated children. Our teachers work closely as a team, supported by committed and well-trained support staff.
We need someone who is:
An excellent practitioner who aspires to being an outstanding teacher.
Passionate about children and their learning
A team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Able to foster positive and supportive relationships with our children, staff and parents
Committed to inclusion
Able to sustain high expectations of achievement and behaviour
Approachable and able to make learning fun.
Supportive of our Christian ethos
We encourage you to visit our lovely school and to find out more about us through our website www.olol.co.uk
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School is committed to the safeguarding of children and this position is subject to an enhanced DBS check, reference checks and a pre-employment health check.
Applicants must complete a CES application form. Please download or print the document, complete in full and either submit online or send into school by post or hand deliver.
We welcome visits to our school which will follow our risk assessment for social distancing. Contact Sarah Daves for further information or to book a school visit: finance@ourladyoflourdes.southend.sch.uk
Applications close 14th May 2021
Interview Date: 18th May 2021
200 Club
The 200 Club continues to provide funds to support the running of the Parish. During the last financial year, thanks to the parishioners who subscribe to the 200 Club, donations from the 200 Club funds were made to the restoration of the reredos and the repair of the bells.
However, during the last 18 months, the number of parishioners supporting the 200 Club has fallen to 162, a shortfall of 38.
We are currently looking for new members. The subscription is £5 per month, either by cash, cheque or direct debit. If you would like to join, please fill in a form which can be found at the back of the church or ring Linda Wall on
01702 558217.
Recently, there have been several occasions where a monthly prize has been won but where a change of address has not been notified to Linda, resulting in cheques going missing. It is very important that changes of address should be notified both to the office and to Linda.
Upcoming Events for Serving the Homeless
Flower Festival 2021
We will be holding a Flower Festival in OLL church again this year on 11th September. The Theme will be “I AM” (as in I Am the Good Shepherd; the Light of the World; The Way, Truth, & Life etc.) This was the theme that we had chosen for last year, but due to the pandemic it did not take place. The Festival will again coincide with the Leigh Art Trail. We would like to expand the displays to include Art, Photography, Needlework, Woodwork etc., to illustrate the theme. Any donations will go towards ‘Serving the Homeless’ projects.
So we are calling all parishioners to help us to create a beautiful and prayerful event to be shared with our community.
For those interested a list of all the quotations will be available. You can email me at: mcronan@btinternet.com
You have four months to get creative!
We are also holding a Summer Raffle to raise funds so that we can continue to contribute to HARP and YMCA projects. Tickets for our ‘Hamper Bonanza’ are now on sale, with the draw taking place at the beginning of September. Tickets can be purchased from any of our Committee members.
Jo Ronan
CAFOD
Thank you for your generous donations to CAFOD’s Family Fast Day during Lent. We featured Marian and her son Svondo in Zimbabwe in Lent 2018. The community vegetable garden that your donations helped provide is growing well and during the pandemic the family has survived on the vegetables. Your support has also helped to provide soap and handwashing stations in the garden and in family homes. This is just one of many long-term development projects that CAFOD has funded with the money from that Fast Day. Thank you for your steadfast support.
BCCS - Virtual London Marathon
Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society has several charity places for the Virtual London Marathon taking place over 24 hours on 3rd October 2021. This can be run anywhere and on completion, runners will receive the official London Marathon Finisher’s medal and New Balance T shirt. They will also have access to the London Marathon App allowing them to plot their run on the official London Marathon course. If you would like one of our places and think you could raise a fundraising total of £300, please email Julie jabbott@bccs.org.uk for registration details.
Missio AF
I wish to thank all of you who contributed to Missio last year either by the Red Box (£1074.88) or by direct donations (£2212.54). Considering the problems with Covid this is a super amount. I will put the Thank you poster at the back of church next week. If you have boxes that need to be emptied please either give them to me personally or leave them in the office for me to collect. I will leave the boxes at the back of the church on the ledge by the Exit door when I have dealt with them. Please don't forget to collect your spring Missio magazine from the ledge at the Exit door.
Thank you. Joan Caunce, Secretary.
Church Heating
The week starting 17th May the Church boiler will be replaced at a cost of just under £21k. Once again, apologies for the relative lack of heat!
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Fourth Sunday of Easter
Dear friends in Christ
The earliest Christian iconography depicts Jesus as The Good Shepherd.
Dear friends in Christ
The earliest Christian iconography depicts Jesus as The Good Shepherd. This gentle image of the One who always leads us back to the fold, is the image which the Liturgy puts before our eyes on this particular Sunday of Eastertide. Psalm 23—perhaps one of the best known and loved of these prayers—expresses the confident optimism of the Christian soul as this representation of Jesus carries us home to the House of The Father.
By a long established tradition, on this Sunday we pray for the Shepherds of the Church: Her Bishops and Priests. Also, for vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life. Remember to implore God to send us Shepherds who have the Heart of Jesus Christ; faithful priests who will bring us the grace of God in the Sacraments and in the Word of Truth. Perhaps we think that priests will just materialise…that when I leave this Parish there will be another to replace me; please God, there will be! But in the meantime we have to invest in the formation of our young people, so that the seeds of the Faith are sown and that when God calls someone to follow Him in priestly or consecrated life, they have the support of their families and of their Parish Family. Such vocations do grow on trees! I thank God for the witness of the priests I knew when growing-up, and for the lived-out Faith of my family and friends who constantly encouraged me on my path to the Priesthood. It is the same for all of us whom God has chosen and called. We are ever conscious of those words of Our Lord: You did not choose me, but I choose you.
Our Diocesan Vocations Team has produced some prayer cards which are available for you to collect from the back of church. You will find further helpful resources on the Vocations website: brentwoodvocations.co.uk
This week we begin Mary’s Month of May: let us go to her, so that assisted with her Mothers love, we may live our Christian vocation with complete fidelity to Jesus her Son.
I wish you all a blessed week ahead!
Msgr kevin Hale
Fourth Sunday of Easter
5.30pm Vigil John Adams, RIP (HR)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions in the Lady Chapel
Sunday 25 April
8am Mass Intentions of the Bladen-Hovell Family (PD)
9.30am Mass Intentions of the Dipre Family (PD)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 26
Feria
9am Mass Vera de Souza, RIP (Anniversary) (LD’S)
8.30-10am Private Prayer
Tuesday 27
Feria
9am Mass Peter & Carol Moon, RIP (SM)
8.30-10am Private Prayer
Wednesday 28
St Peter Chanel, Pr, M
9am Mass Pauline Kidney, RIP (Anniversary) (JL)
8.30-10am Private Prayer
Thursday 29
St Catherine of Siena, V, D
9am Mass Albert Thomas Cook, RIP (Anniversary) (SD)
8.30-10am Private Prayer
Friday 30
St Pius V, P
12Noon Mass Sylvia Langley, RIP (VS)
11.30-1pm Private Prayer
Saturday 1 May
St Joseph the Worker
10am Mass Frances Emmerson, RIP (AE)
10.30-11.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions in the Lady Chapel
Fifth Sunday of Easter
5.30pm Vigil Mass A Very Special Intention (MS)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions in the Lady Chapel
Sunday 2 May
8am Mass Eileen Farrel, RIP (M,C&NC)
9.30am Mass Peter Burry, RIP (AB)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
4pm Mass Brian Bladen-Hovell, RIP (PD) - Ex Form
(No General Communion)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Myles O’Reilly, Mgr George Stokes, Fr Brian O’Higgins, John Joseph Heaphy, Minnie Smith, Elizabeth White, Vincent Hurley, Audrey Lewis, Phyllis Eileen Tate, Mary Butt, Eric Pearson, Vera de Souza, Elsie Doris Robinson, Mary Fitzgerald, Arthur Bartley, Margaret Makey, Christopher Dowdall, Evelyn Thompson, Tom Skellon, Patricia Burles, Pauline Kidney, Margaret Ashley, Rose Faulkner, Jeremiah Lucey, Francis (Frank) Mansfield, Winifred Sentinel, Edith Pey, Margaret Randall, Brigid Behn, Margaret Rose McKay & Lucy Dann.
We Pray for our Sick
Brian Mountier, Renata Butler, Norbert Widera, Margaret Bartle, Tony Downey, Kristy Monferrari, Fred Ring, Ian Irwin, Russell Short, Marie Karaf, Gilberte Cook, Garry Pearman, Anne Owen, Patricia Ann Darroch, Peggy Larman, 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, 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, Dawn Deleigh, Lorraine Hart, Linda Dean, 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, Bradley & children: Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Connie Price, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Mary Isherwood, Lucy Price & Frazer Gregory.
We Pray for the Repose of the Soul of
DOREEN PENNIFOLD RIP who died on Friday morning.
MICHAEL O’BRIEN, RIP who died on Maundy Thursday afternoon. His Requiem Mass will be held on Friday 28th May at 2pm.
World Day of Prayer for Vocations
This Sunday is the Good Shepherd Sunday, or the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. The second collection supports the education and formation of our seminarians. We have nine seminarians in formation for our diocese at this time. At the Beda in Rome we have the Rev. Deacon Tony Grant who is to be ordained a priest in the summer. At Oscott College in Birmingham we have the Rev. Deacon Michael Barwick who is to be ordained in the summer also. Also at Oscott is Alexander Johnson, Jonathan Burden, Frank Westcott and Alex Wyndham. At Allen Hall in Westminster we have Damien Wade who is to be ordained deacon this year and also at Allen Hall are Matúš Meleg and Moses Itene, please pray for them all today and in the future.
Today you can take a prayer card as you leave church to help you pray for vocations, or you will find a copy below, and there will be an opportunity to have a mass said for vocations if you would like to. If you would like to have a mass said for vocations then please take an envelope and indicate how many masses you would like to be said, write your name as the donor and specify any special date you would prefer and give it to your parish priest.
Today, on this Fourth Sunday of Easter, the Church focuses our attention on Jesus, the Good Shepherd. The image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd is one of the most beloved images of Our Lord in the New Testament. Jesus is the Good Shepherd because he lays down his life for his sheep; Jesus is the Good Shepherd because he knows each of his sheep by name. And those who belong to his flock hear his voice and follow him.
On this Good Shepherd Sunday the Church summons us to pray that the Good Shepherd will send others to pastor and watch over his flock. And so today is a day of prayer for vocations: vocations to the priesthood and vocations to religious life. On this day, the Church invites us to pray that the Lord of the Harvest will call young men and women to dedicate their lives to spreading the Gospel as priests and religious.
Do you know a young man who might be a good priest? If so, invite him to consider exploring the possibility of becoming a priest? It is not that young people are uninterested in dedicating their lives to God. I have met many who are. But they have never been invited to consider the possibility of doing so. But what if you reached out to them and suggested the possibility? What if you planted the seed that might lead to a vocation to priesthood or religious life?
If you are a young person reading this, ask yourself what you want to do with the precious gift of life that God has given you. How do you want to live the rest of your life? What is really and truly important to you? Do you have a deep love for Christ and the Church? Do you have a passion to proclaim the good news of the gospel to others? Are you interested in a life of serving others for the sake of the gospel? If so, being a priest or a religious sister may be a way in which you can fulfil your deepest desires. For when all is said and done, our deepest desire is for God, and it is only when we satisfy this desire that we will be truly fulfilled.
On the Good Shepherd Sunday, pray for the priests and religious who have served you throughout your life. Encourage your children and grandchildren and other young people to consider if God is calling them to a life of priestly or religious service. Pray that God will give the Church faithful priests and religious who will give of themselves generously and tirelessly for the sake of the Gospel.
Prayer For Vocations
Lord Jesus Christ,
You have chosen the Apostles and their successors,
the Bishops and Priests of the Catholic Church, to preach
the true faith throughout the whole world. We earnestly beseech You to choose from among us in our parishes, priests and religious who will gladly spend their entire lives to make You better known and loved.
Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us. Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us. St Joseph pray for us.
St John Vianney pray for us.
Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday
Adagio (Symphonie IV) - Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
Fugue and Cadenza in C - Johann Pepusch (1667-1752)
Church Heating
The week starting 17th May the Church boiler will be replaced at a cost of just under £21k. Once again, apologies for the relative lack of heat!
Reception of Holy Communion
When you come up for Holy Communion, unloop your mask before taking the Host, move to the side, consume It, and replace your mask before returning to your seat.
BCCS - Virtual London Marathon
Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society has several charity places for the Virtual London Marathon taking place over 24 hours on 3rd October 2021. This can be run anywhere and on completion, runners will receive the official London Marathon Finisher’s medal and New Balance T shirt. They will also have access to the London Marathon App allowing them to plot their run on the official London Marathon course. If you would like one of our places and think you could raise a fundraising total of £300, please email Julie jabbott@bccs.org.uk for registration details.