Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday
Prelude: Andante in C - John Keeble (1711-1786)
Postlude: Fugue in D - George Berg (1730-1775)
Flower Festival - 11th September 2021
Thank you to everyone who has already agreed to contribute to the Flower festival this year. The Theme is “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, hopefully, coincide with the Leigh Art Trail. I am pleased to say that we have already have some Art, Photography and Needlework, as well as flower arrangements promised by parishioners to illustrate the themes. We need more people to take part, particularly to do flower arrangements.
So we are calling all parishioners to help us to create a beautiful and prayerful event to be shared with our community.
Any donations collected on the day will go towards ‘Serving the Homeless’ projects.
For those interested a list of all the quotations will be available. You can email me at: mcronan@btinternet.com
Please let me know if you are planning to take part. You have 2 months left 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 (Chair, Serving the Homeless)
Catholicism Post-Covid
Here is a link to a very helpful (free) book as we move out of the pandemic. It gives lots of insights as to how we can rekindle our Faith after this dramatic period in our history. Above all, it describes ways that we can rekindle our Faith as we start to come back to Mass and the Sacraments.
CAFOD Brentwood
This year, the UK will host the largest gathering of world leaders ever to take place on British soil: the ‘COP26’ climate talks. As Prime Minister, Boris Johnson must push world leaders to show the ambition we need to keep temperature rises below the disastrous 1.5-degree threshold. Please urge the Prime Minister to put people hardest hit at the heart of COP26 climate talks and sign this online petition: https://action.cafod.org.uk/page/73304/petition/1
BCYS
We have been working hard at the Brentwood Catholic Youth Service to be able to welcome Clergy, Catechists and young people back to events this year as restrictions begin to ease, and with much hope about what is possible in the Autumn.
We have some key dates to save in your diaries, including our Autumn Youth Gather, Catechist Training Day and our upcoming Virtual Youth Masses.
Most excitingly (at least we think so!) is the "Lourdes at your Local" event, which we will be hosting in place of our usual pilgrimage to Lourdes in July. We will be travelling to different parishes around the diocese to celebrate Mass and be able to gather in person in a way that has not been possible for much too long. At the end of this week, we are also welcoming those aged 18+ (School Year 13 and above) to gather together at Walsingham House at Abbotswick, with Mass celebrated by Bishop Alan and followed by a picnic in the beautiful grounds of our retreat centre.
If you would like any more information about any of these events, please click the links to visit the website events page, or please do email gabriellafusi@dioceseofbrentwood.org.
BCCS Relay 100: Our Lady of Lourdes to St. Helen's church
Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society (BCCS) are holding a series of relays between 100 churches this Summer to raise funds and publicise their work in the Diocese. The relay covers 500 miles between 100+ churches and involves 100 people.
Parishioner Darrell Binding has volunteered to do our relay from OLOL church to St. Helen’s on 23rd July 2021. He is at pains to say he will be walking it, not running it!
Darrell is looking for sponsors please, so paper sponsor forms will be available from the parish office and back of church, but donations can also be made online by going to the Relay 100 fundraising page: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Team/Relay100, or you can transfer directly into BCCS’ bank account: Brentwood Catholic Childrens Society Account Number: 31094130 Sort Code: 40 13 22 (please reference your donation ‘Relay 100’ along with the name D Binding). Many thanks!
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
In the second reading of the Mass this Sunday Saint Paul reveals that he was beset with a suffering, the nature of which has been the cause of much speculation down the centuries.
Dear friends in Christ
In the second reading of the Mass this Sunday Saint Paul reveals that he was beset with a suffering, the nature of which has been the cause of much speculation down the centuries. Some believe it was a physical affliction, others the suffering he endured through persecution, and others again a powerful temptation or moral weakness. Whatever it was, Saint Paul asked repeatedly that God would remove this from him. He received this answer in reply: My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. God's help is sufficient for him to overcome that difficulty; at the same time we are given to know about the divine power that enabled him to overcome it. He becomes stronger when he relies on God's help, and this causes him to explain: For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecution, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong. In our own weaknesses we too constantly experience the need to turn towards God and draw on the strength that comes to us from Him. God so often has said to us deep in our hearts: My grace is sufficient for you, you have my help to enable you to overcome all problems and difficulties and anxieties. God always draws good from our trials. It may be very far in the future that we know the good that God has done for us, and perhaps it will only be in eternity, that we see the results of our problems and sufferings on this earth. God gives us all the grace to persevere in whatever He asks of us or sends us during this brief time of our sojourn here below.
With every blessing for his coming week!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Peter & Carol Moon, RIP (SM)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions in the Lady Chapel
Sunday 4 July
8am Mass Intentions of Lucrecia Conlu (JC)
9.30am Mass John Bernard Shaw, RIP (ES)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
4.00pm Teresa O’Brien RIP (Sung Latin EF)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 5
St Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Pr
9am Mass Michael Maloney, RIP (J&CO’B)
Tuesday 6
St Maria Goretti, V, M
9am Mass Intentions of Chun Yung-Woo (MK)
Wednesday 7
Feria
9am Mass Norbert Widera, RIP (G&RD)
Thursday 8
Feria
9am Mass Alison Shepherd, RIP (Anniversary) (CH)
4.30pm Body in Church Norbert Widera, RIP
Friday 9
St Augustine Zhao Rong, Pr & Comps, Mm
9am Requiem Mass Norbert Widera, RIP
No Midday Mass
Saturday 10
Saturday Memorial of BVM
No 10am Mass
No Confessions
Sunday 11 July
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Jim & Lilian Fegan RIP (M&JC)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions in the Lady Chapel
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Joseph Conlu & Lucille Farrdoal, RIP (JC)
11.30am Mass Mike & Kate Shardlow - 40th Wedding Anniversary (RD)
4pm Mass Teresa O'Brien, RIP (MI) - Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Patrick Curran, Fr Patrick Carthy, Canon Thomas Barrett, Fr Peter Brady, Canon Francis Gilbert, Fr Walter Walsh, Iris Bell, Harriet Thompson, Reginald Brierley, Joan Wiltshire, Alfred Edwards, Mirian Jackson, Kathleen Ford, Gertrude Bridges, Elsie Asher, Edmund Gdembiewski, Ann Francis Littlewood, Marie Louise Clements, Alfred Johnson, Jennifer Lyons, Joseph Bond, Dorothy Blaker, Ronald Albert Conner, Niqui Denkmayer, Brian Finnegan, Dorothy Burder, Susan Hayes, Alison Shepherd, Elizabeth (Lily) Dean, Mary Kennedy, Maurice Mulch, Benitta Skellon, George King, Margaret Smith, Patricia Cavanagh, Ted Wilson, John Hardy, Paddy Shanahan, William O’Neill, Selwyn Lewis & Ita McCullough.
We Pray for our Sick
Jennifer Biebuyck, Moira Scott, Peter Wilkinson, Jill Yates, Leonora Maguire, Brian Mountier, Renata Butler, Margaret Bartle, Tony Downey, Kristy Monferrari, Fred Ring, Ian Irwin, Russell Short, Marie Karaf, Gilberte Cook, Garry Pearman, 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 Souls of
NORBERT WIDERA, RIP who died on Tuesday 15th June. His Body will be received into the church on Thursday, 8th July at 4.30pm and his Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Friday, 9th July at 9am followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
LOUISE DRAY, RIP who died recently. Funeral at Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon.
MARGARET SMITH, RIP who died on Friday, 25th June. Her Body will be received into the church on Thursday, 15th July at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Friday, 16th July at 2.30pm followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
BRENDA PEARSON, RIP who died on Monday 28th June.
Flower Festival - 11th September 2021
Thank you to everyone who has already agreed to contribute to the Flower festival this year. The Theme is “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, hopefully, coincide with the Leigh Art Trail. I am pleased to say that we have already have some Art, Photography and Needlework, as well as flower arrangements promised by parishioners to illustrate the themes. We need more people to take part, particularly to do flower arrangements.
So we are calling all parishioners to help us to create a beautiful and prayerful event to be shared with our community.
Any donations collected on the day will go towards ‘Serving the Homeless’ projects.
For those interested a list of all the quotations will be available. You can email me at: mcronan@btinternet.com
Please let me know if you are planning to take part. You have 2 months left 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 (Chair, Serving the Homeless)
Catholicism Post-Covid
Here is a link to a very helpful (free) book as we move out of the pandemic. It gives lots of insights as to how we can rekindle our Faith after this dramatic period in our history. Above all, it describes ways that we can rekindle our Faith as we start to come back to Mass and the Sacraments.
CAFOD Brentwood
This year, the UK will host the largest gathering of world leaders ever to take place on British soil: the ‘COP26’ climate talks. As Prime Minister, Boris Johnson must push world leaders to show the ambition we need to keep temperature rises below the disastrous 1.5-degree threshold. Please urge the Prime Minister to put people hardest hit at the heart of COP26 climate talks and sign this online petition: https://action.cafod.org.uk/page/73304/petition/1
St Thomas More High School Open Evening
St. Thomas More High school - open evening, Thursday, 8th July 4pm to 7pm - for families who have a son due to transfer to secondary school in September 2022 - come and see the school, meet the staff and pupils.
The Headteachers talk will begin at 6pm.
Parents of boys who wish to apply to St. Thomas More School for a place in September 2022 should complete the local education authority single application form (saf) and fill in the supplementary information form (sif) that can be collected at the open evening.
If you are unable to come to the open evening, please contact the school in order to get the supplementary information form. The form can also be downloaded from the school web site:-
BCYS
We have been working hard at the Brentwood Catholic Youth Service to be able to welcome Clergy, Catechists and young people back to events this year as restrictions begin to ease, and with much hope about what is possible in the Autumn.
We have some key dates to save in your diaries, including our Autumn Youth Gather, Catechist Training Day and our upcoming Virtual Youth Masses.
Most excitingly (at least we think so!) is the "Lourdes at your Local" event, which we will be hosting in place of our usual pilgrimage to Lourdes in July. We will be travelling to different parishes around the diocese to celebrate Mass and be able to gather in person in a way that has not been possible for much too long. At the end of this week, we are also welcoming those aged 18+ (School Year 13 and above) to gather together at Walsingham House at Abbotswick, with Mass celebrated by Bishop Alan and followed by a picnic in the beautiful grounds of our retreat centre.
If you would like any more information about any of these events, please click the links to visit the website events page, or please do email gabriellafusi@dioceseofbrentwood.org.
Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday
Prelude: Pavan the Earl of Salisbury - William Byrd (1543-1623)
Postlude: Rhapsody no. 3 in C-sharp minor - Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
BCCS Relay 100: Our Lady of Lourdes to St. Helen's church
Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society (BCCS) are holding a series of relays between 100 churches this Summer to raise funds and publicise their work in the Diocese. The relay covers 500 miles between 100+ churches and involves 100 people.
Parishioner Darrell Binding has volunteered to do our relay from OLOL church to St. Helen’s on 23rd July 2021. He is at pains to say he will be walking it, not running it!
Darrell is looking for sponsors please, so paper sponsor forms will be available from the parish office and back of church, but donations can also be made online by going to the Relay 100 fundraising page: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Team/Relay100, or you can transfer directly into BCCS’ bank account: Brentwood Catholic Childrens Society Account Number: 31094130 Sort Code: 40 13 22 (please reference your donation ‘Relay 100’ along with the name D Binding). Many thanks!
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
The readings of the Mass this Sunday tell us about death and life.
Dear friends in Christ
The readings of the Mass this Sunday tell us about death and life. The first reading teaches us that death had no place in the initial plan of God for the human race: God did not make death, and He does not take delight in the death of the living. Jesus Christ accepted it as a necessity of nature, as an inevitable part of a man’s fate on earth. Jesus Christ accepted it, in order to overcome sin. Our human heart recoils in anguish when faced with death, but we are comforted by the knowledge that Jesus destroyed death. It is no longer the event that we must fear above all else. Rather it is, for the believer, the necessary step from this world to the Father. The Gospel of the Mass shows Jesus arriving at the house where the people had gathered. One of the rulers of the synagogue, was waiting anxiously for Jesus because his daughter was at the point of death. By the time He arrives, the girl was already dead. Nevertheless, Jesus brings the girl back to life even if they thought everything was lost. Jesus pays no attention to those who laughed at him and performs this great miracle for the child and her father.
The evangelists have handed down to us a small but significant human touch of Jesus: and He told them to give her something to eat. Jesus, perfect God and perfect man, is also interested in those matters that relate to our life here on earth. But He is far more interested in whatever concerns our eternal destiny. Saint Jerome comments on these words of Our Lord: the child is not dead, but sleeping. He points out that both things are true. It is as though He was saying, she is dead for you, but sleeping for me. If we love our bodily life, how much more should we esteem the life of our soul!
God bless you and keep you all in His Sacred Heart in this coming week.
Msgr Kevin Hale
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Guy Bragard, RIP (RB)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions in the Lady Chapel
Sunday 27 June
8am Mass Intentions of the Diggines Family (JL)
9.30am Mass Intentions of Jill Yates (LCG)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 28
St Irenaeus, Bp, M
9am Mass Marcia Clarke, RIP (SH)
Tuesday 29
SS PETER AND PAUL, App Holyday
9am Mass Gareth Lewis, RIP (Anniversary) (JL)
12Noon Mass Studie De Souza, RIP (FDS)
8pm Mass The People of the Parish
Wednesday 30
First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church
9am Mass Patrick Clark, RIP (Anniversary) (BH)
Thursday 1 July
St Oliver Plunket, Bp, M
9am Mass John Kidney, RIP (Anniversary) (JL)
Friday 2
Feria - First Friday
12Noon Mass Norbert Widera, RIP (CF)
7pm-8pm Holy Hour & Benediction
Saturday 3
St Thomas, Ap
10.00am Frank Clancy, RIP (Anniversary) (JL)
10.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions in the Lady Chapel
Sunday 4 July
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Peter & Carol Moon, RIP (SM)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions in the Lady Chapel
8am Mass Intentions of Lucrecia Conlu (JC)
9.30am Mass John Bernard Shaw, RIP (ES)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
4pm Mass Teresa O'Brien, RIP (MI) - Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction