Missio - Red Box Holders
If anyone has a Red Box that has not been emptied in the last 12 months, please give them to me personally or leave them in the Parish Office, no later than the 28th November. Thank you.
Joan Caunce, Secretary, 01268 757505
Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
Dear friends in Christ
The final Sunday of the liturgical year ends on the high-note of Christ Our Universal King.
Dear friends in Christ
The final Sunday of the liturgical year ends on the high-note of Christ Our Universal King. The Gospel reading, however, does not give us a vain worldly-glorious monarch, but rather the image of the Suffering Servant (as described by the Prophet Isaiah) who gives His life to save the world. It calls to mind the many images in Christian art—Ecce Homo, Behold the Man—of the Jesus who suffers in order to give us an example by his death on the Cross.
During these final days of the liturgical year we can come and gaze on the face of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament exposed in our church for adoration. From Thursday evening until Saturday afternoon there is the annual Forty Hours’ Prayer. We were unable to do this last year and it is my hope that this time will lead us back into the weekly celebration of Sunday Mass. Our Bishops had hoped that from the First Sunday of Advent the Sunday Obligation could be restored. However, this week they have decided that due to continued uncertainties for many Catholics, this will remain suspended. However, the exhortation is given to return to Sunday Mass wherever it is morally possible. You can read what they have said here: https://www.cbcew.org.uk/bishops-statement-honouring-sunday/
This week, try to find time to visit the church—between Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon—and bring all your prayers, hopes and desires to Jesus in the Eucharist. You will find the timetable for these days on the Services section of the Newsletter.
This is also National Youth Day: a moment for us to pause and appreciate the young people who form the Church today and are the hope of the Church tomorrow. They are new parents and families of future generations of Catholics who will live and hand-on the light of our Faith to the world. One of our young adults will say a few words at the end of each Mass about the Brentwood Youth Service. Pray for all our young people—especially those who are struggling with difficulties after the pandemic—that they will be faithful to Jesus Christ and bring hope to our world, today and tomorrow.
May God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
5.30pm Vigil Mass Rene Braggard, RIP (Anniversary) (RB)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Holy Souls in Purgatory
11.30am Mass Louis Mooney, RIP (CdS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 22
St Cecilia, V, M
9am Mass Stephen Palmer, RIP (MT)
Tuesday 23
St Clement I, P, M
9am Mass Caroline Walker, RIP (L&KW)
Wednesday 24
St Andrew Dung-Lac, Pr, & Comps, Mm
9am Mass Maureen Regan, RIP (CR)
11am Requiem Mass Albert George Rice, RIP
Thursday 25
St Catherine of Alexandria, V, M
7pm Mass Opening Mass of Forty Hours’ Jim & Lilian Fegan, RIP (JC) Exposition continues until 11pm
Friday 26
Feria
Exposition resumes from 7am
12Noon Mass Holy Souls
3.30pm Benediction for Children & Families
7pm-8pm Preached Holy Hour
Exposition until 11pm
Saturday 27
Saturday Memorial of BVM
Exposition resumes from 7am
10am Mass Intentions of Lucrecia Conlu, Roselle Ganatuin & Danny Visperas (JC)
10.30-11.30 Confessions
4.00pm Closing Benediction of the Forty Hours’
Sunday 28 November
First Sunday of Advent
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Ignatius & Flora (Rosemary), RIP (DS)
9.30am Mass Sir David Amess, RIP (SM)
11.30am Mass Eileen Wilson, RIP (L&KW)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Mgr Edward Watson, Canon Martin Hancock, Fr Anthony Robson, Fr John Aydon, William Shanahan, Rene Bragard, Victor Gubbins, Anne Jordan, Patricia Breslin, William Lewis, Harry Stanley, Constance Dobson, Enos (Alan) Ash, Tina Kentish, Jonathan Marshall, Kathleen McKee, James Carns, Dr Harry Maher, Thomas Mulholland, John Holmes, Bernard Harvey, Elizabeth Watson-Lamb, Marie Wilkes, Gilbert Blanch, Veronica Billena, Clifford Polland & Matthew Browning.
We Pray for our Sick
Marjorie Jay, Paul Sutton, John Murphy, Mary Monaghan, Jennifer Biebuyck, Moira Scott, Jill Yates, Leonora Maguire, Brian Mountier, Renata Butler, Margaret Bartle, Tony Downey, Kristy Monferrari, Fred Ring, Ian Irwin, Russell Short, Marie Karaf, 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, 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, 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
ALBERT RICE, RIP
HELEN WILLIAMS, RIP
OLIVIA CHESNEY, RIP
PETER MOORE, RIP
EILEEN WASKETT, RIP
Dates for your Diary
Monday 22nd November Journey in Faith (RCIA)
Parish Centre, Bernadette Room—8pm
Thursday 25th—Saturday 27th November
Annual Days of Eucharistic Exposition
Sunday 5th December Christmas Bazaar—8.45am to 1pm
Friday 17th December Serving the Homeless Carol Service—7pm
Wednesday 25th May Visitation of the Bishop & Confirmation
Saturdays 14th & 21st May First Holy Communion Masses
Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday
Prelude: Domine Deus, Rex Caelestis (Messe pour Les Couvents) - Francois Couperin (1668-1773)
Postlude: Hymne d'Action de Grâce "Te Deum" - Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Days of Solemn Eucharistic Adoration—"Forty Hours” Prayer
This begins on Thursday, 25th November with the Mass at 7pm and continues until the Closing Benediction on Saturday at 4pm.
The lists for Watching are at the back of the church which we ask you to fill-out; please ensure there are two names at each of the thirty minute slots. Candles which can burn before the Blessed Sacrament can be got from the Parish Office. You might like to put one for a special intention and names can be written on the base.
Brentwood Catholic Youth Service
Brentwood Catholic Youth Service (BCYS) and Walsingham House at Abbotswick offer retreats, pilgrimages and many other events for many thousands of young people every year; most of the work is led by volunteers, trained as young leaders in the Church. The BCYS also supports our catechists and school lay chaplains. Today a speaker will tell us more about the BCYS and there will be a collection for their vital work, or you can donate online at www.bcys.net/donate.
The Launch of The Synodal Pathway
The First Sunday of Advent 2021 falls on 28 November. We shall hear from Bishop Alan in his pastoral letter, how we are all invited to join with our parish partnerships in listening and discussion groups as the Synodal Pathway is launched.
To mark this event our partnership—Westcliff, Leigh-on-Sea and Eastwood Parishes will be afforded an afternoon of listening to the will of the Holy Spirit during Holy Hour beginning at 3pm—just after 4pm there will be the opportunity for refreshments to discuss what the Synodal Pathway might mean to the Church both universally and at our local parish partnership level. All are welcome!
For further information contact-
Fr Jeff Woolnough
St Peter’s- Eastwood Parish
59 Eastwood Road North
Leigh on Sea SS94BX
Parish Christmas Bazaar - Sunday 5th December, 8.45am - 1.00pm
We are pleased to announce that our Annual Parish Bazaar is back once again and we need your help and generosity. If you have any unwanted gifts, toiletries, bottles, raffle prizes or bric-a-brac that you would like to donate, please leave them in the Old Baptistry.
Please do not donate used electrical goods. However, we are desperately in need of unwanted items - no jumble please!
If you would like to help on the day, please contact us.
Draw tickets are now available at the back of the Church.
Sue Lawford - 07816 141492, Angela Clements - 07940 183452, email angelaclements47@gmail.com. Thank you.
Christmas Decoration Morning
Join us in the Parish Centre on Monday, 6th December from 10.30-12-30pm for a morning of crafty fun.
Make your own wreath and tea light decorations. All materials will be supplied, but it would be helpful if you could bring your own secateurs. This is not a professional demonstration, but a chance to have a go and have some fun. You will be able to take home some original decorations!
Tea/coffee & cakes will be provided.
£10 per head with profits going to ‘Serving the Homeless.’
As numbers are limited please ring Jo 474062 or Theresa 620043 to book a place.
Parish Fundraising
Thank you to everyone who supports the 200 Club. The results of the October draw are as follows:
1st prize £150 195 Miss S Hippard
2nd Prize £100 31 Mrs L Ravinet
3rd Prize £75 156 Mr N Strauss
4th Prize £25 45 Mr W Bertram
Please remember: if you move house, please notify me of your change of address.
We are still 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.
Serving the Homeless
As many parishioners will know, the Committee had to cancel the wine tasting in October. To help our income we have a set up a Christmas raffle, tickets for which are now available. They cost £5 per book and are available from any Committee member or please ring Linda on 01702 558217. Prizes include Christmas hampers and many other gifts.
Journey in Faith (RCIA)
The Journey in Faith sessions continue on Mondays. These evenings are for those wishing to discover more about the Catholic Faith with a view to Reception into the Church. If you know anyone who is interested in learning more about our Faith and wishing to become Catholic, please direct them to Fr Kevin or these evenings. They will be in the Parish Centre and begin at 8pm.
St Thomas More High School
Sixth Form Open Evening
Thursday 25th November 6pm-9pm - Headteacher to talk 7pm
For families who have students – boys and girls - in year 11 of secondary school who are intending to begin sixth form studies in September 2022. 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.
Missio - Red Box Holders
If anyone has a Red Box that has not been emptied in the last 12 months, please give them to me personally or leave them in the Parish Office, no later than the 28th November. Thank you.
Joan Caunce, Secretary, 01268 757505
Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
As we enter the final days of the liturgical year, the Church reminds us once again of some central truths of our Faith: the meaning of life, our death, judgement and the second coming of Christ.
Dear friends in Christ
As we enter the final days of the liturgical year, the Church reminds us once again of some central truths of our Faith: the meaning of life, our death, judgement and the second coming of Christ. This is what links the first reading and the Gospel of the Mass this Sunday. In every age Christians have repeated the lovely simple invocation: Come, Lord Jesus! This prayer was so widely used that the early Church has passed it down to us in the original Aramaic. This is one of the acclamations we say at Mass after the Consecration. In the moment when Jesus becomes truly present on the Altar, the Church expresses her earnest desire to behold His coming in glory. In this way the liturgy on earth is at one with that of Heaven. Even though the moment has not arrived for us to be with God in Heaven, we have a foretaste of that glory in Holy Communion. St Pope John Paul II made this plea: Let us pray that the heartfelt prayer of the Church, ‘Come, Lord Jesus’, will become the spontaneous plea of every human heart. We can never be satisfied by the things of the world. Our hearts yearn for the promised blessing still to come.
As we approach the end of the Church year—next weekend is the celebration of Christ our Universal King—we are also going to have our Solemn Days of Eucharistic Adoration. This could not take place last year with all the disruptions of the last eighteen months. These hours of prayer bring us to the heart of all true religion, The Mystery of Faith. In fact, from the First Sunday of Advent the obligation for Sunday Mass is restored after the disruption brought about by the pandemic and a suspension of this precept of weekly Sunday Mass. Our hope is that with the Forty Hours' Prayer we will be brought back again to the centrality of the Blessed Eucharist in our lives. Our Catholic Faith is purely and simply about bringing each of us humbly before Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. You might start thinking about the time you can spend in church on those days 25-27th of this month.
God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Jerzy (George) Wislocki, RIP (Anniversary) (PW)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Rene Solecki, RIP Anniversary) ((IS)
9.30am Mass Aloysius DeSouza, RIP (FdS)
11.30am Mass The Dead of the Wars
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 15
St Albert the Great
9am Mass Pearl Scaife, RIP (Anniversary) (MI)
Tuesday 16
St Edmund of Abingdon (Rich), Bp
9am Mass Intentions of Lois Oliver (TW)
Wednesday 17
St Elizabeth of Hungary, Rel
9am Mass Intentions of Maureen Ward (MW)
Thursday 18
Dedication of the Basilicas of Ss Peter & Paul, App
9am Mass Intentions of Kevin Power (MP)
Friday 19
Feria
12Noon Mass Intentions of Rosemary Mann (RM) 7pm Sung Requiem Mass (Missal of 1962) The Holy Souls
Saturday 20
Saturday Memorial of BVM
10am Mass Frank Maguire, RIP (MM)
10.30-11.30 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 15 November
Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
5.30pm Vigil Mass Rene Braggard, RIP (Anniversary) (RB)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Holy Souls in Purgatory
11.30am Mass Louis Mooney, RIP (CdS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction