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
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.
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.
The 11th Annual GK Chesterton Walking Pilgrimage
The 11th Annual GK Chesterton Walking Pilgrimage will take place on Saturday 24th July 2021. You can sponsor Stuart McCullough as he raises funds for Good Counsel on this 27 mile walk here; www.justgiving.com/fundraising/gkcwalk21 You can email prayer intentions to be prayed for along the way, to; catholicgkcsociety@yahoo.co.uk You can join us for Mass or part of the walk on the day or even just join us by saying the GK Chesterton Prayer on the day wherever you are. Find details and the prayer in a number of languages here; www.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk
St Bernard’s High School
A number of vacancies are available within our Catering Team from September 2021. Please go to our website - School Information - Vacancies -to complete an Application form. Closing date for applications Tuesday 24th August at 9am.
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In the second reading of the Mass this Sunday we hear the words of Saint Paul: He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.
Dear friends in Christ
In the second reading of the Mass this Sunday we hear the words of Saint Paul: He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. Through Baptism and Confirmation all the Christian Faithful belong to a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people. We all have the vocation, therefore, to seek holiness because of our consecration in Christ. From the ranks of the Faithful, all of whom have this common priesthood, some have been called by God, through the sacrament of Holy Orders, to exercise the ministerial priesthood. This second priesthood builds upon the first one, but they are essentially different. By means of the consecration received in Holy Orders, the priest becomes an instrument of Jesus Christ, to whom he offers his entire being, in order to bring the grace of redemption to all mankind. I am reminded of this enormous grace of priestly consecration in these days, since it is traditionally Ordination season! Last Sunday Fr Joseph Bailham OP, was ordained a priest for the Dominican Order (he is a native of Stock in our Diocese). Fr Callum Young from East Ham was ordained two weeks ago in Newry for the Neo Catechumenate. This weekend Fr Michael Barwick (Springfield Parish) was ordained in our Cathedral; and on Friday 23rd, Tony Grant (Forest Gate) will also be ordained for our Diocese. I ask you to hold these young men in your daily prayers, that wherever they are serving the Church, they will do so with single-mindedness and faithfulness so that God may use them as instruments for the salvation of many souls. As our Schools prepare for the Summer break, we wish all our students and staff a well-deserved holiday and pray that the coming academic year will be less fraught than the last!
God bless you all in this week ahead!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Lilian & Jim Fegan RIP (M&JC)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions in the Lady Chapel
Sunday 11 July
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Joseph Conlu & Lucille Farrdoal, RIP (JC)
11.30am Mass Kate & Mike Shardlow (40th Wedding Anniversary) (RD)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 12
Feria
9am Mass Norbert Widera, RIP (SH)
Tuesday 13
St Henry II, Roman Emperor
9am Mass Teresa Pinsent, RIP (JH)
Wednesday 14
St Camillus de Lellis, Pr
9am Mass Patricia Armstrong, RIP (Anniv) (J&PA)
Thursday 15
St Bonaventure, Bp,D
9am Mass Intentions of Kim Kenny (MW)
Friday 16
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
12noon Michael Owens, RIP (AO)
Saturday 17
Saturday Memorial of BVM
10am Mass Intentions of Sister Catherine Horan (MW)
10.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions in the Lady Chapel
Sunday 18 July
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Arthur Mills, RIP (DL)
6.30pm Holy Hour: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions in the Lady Chapel
8am Mass Intentions of Blake Mackay (SD)
9.30am Mass Larry Delahunty, RIP (Anniv) (LD)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr John Watson, Canon Daniel Harnett, Joan Gendall, Felix Keenan, Annie Harriet Briggs, Maria Chadun, Mary Bray, Irene Harvey, Margaret O’Callaghan, Elsie Mack, Stanislaus Dulewicz, Michael O’Connell, Betty Gray, Dorothy May Cole, Kathleen Scaife, Margaret Simpson, Monica Pray, Patricia Armstrong, Josephine Russell, Ronald Gibson, Robert Wright, Margarita Ekers, Mary James, Andrew Wardle, Hope Bailey-Pillow, Madeleine Bullock-Jarman, Joan Slattery, Norah Jordan, Donald Joyce & Ellen Gardner.
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
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 Wednesday, 21st July at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, 22nd July at 10.00am followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
BRENDA PEARSON, RIP who died on Monday 28th June. Her Body will be received into the church on Wednesday, 28th July at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, 29th July at 11.00am followed by burial at Woodside Cemetery.
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.