Baptism Preparation Sessions
The next Baptism Preparation Sessions will take place on
Tuesday 5th April, 2022
Tuesday 14th June, 2022
Tuesday 9th August 2022
Tuesday 4th October, 2022
They will take place the Parish Centre at 8pm. For further information, please contact Catherine or Andy Harris on 077333 27295.
Mums, Dads and Toddlers Coffee Mornings
Mums, Dads and Carers with pre-school children are invited to get together for coffee and chat in the Parish Centre on Monday mornings from 9.30am until 11 am, during school term times, organised by the Lourdes Ladies group. Toys and books will be provided and we look forward to welcoming you.
Vicariate for Adult Formation
THRESHOLDS OF HOPE QUESTION: What is new about the new evangelisation? Input will be given by Fr Pachal Uche, assistant priest at St James the Less, Colchester on Sunday 27th February, 4.00–5.00 pm via Zoom. To join this Zoom meeting simply forward a contact email to adultformationvicariate@dioceseofbrentwood.org. For more information go to www.thresholdsofhope.co.uk
Pilgrimage to Knock
Fully escorted Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine, Ireland, 23rd May 2022. £699.00 per person sharing. Price includes flight with 10kg hand luggage, all transfers, 4 nights’ in Knock House Hotel with full board. All entertainment and excursions included. Lunches on days out. Wheelchair accessible rooms. Single room supplement £100. Contact Patricia on 01268 762 278 or 07740 175557 or email knockpilgrimages@gmail.com. Knock Pilgrimages is a member of the Travel Trust Association and is fully protected by ATOL T7613.
Missio AF
The National Novena to St. Joseph will take place from 10th March to 18th March 2022 at St. Joseph's Church in Maidenhead. If you would like a booklet of daily prayers and reflections for during the Novena please write to the Novena Director at 6 Colby Gardens, Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 7GZ or email novenahm@gmail.com or telephone 01628 676909.
Please also see the poster at the back of the Church. Thank you. Joan Caunce Secretary 01268 757505
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.
Recycling Sack for CAFOD
A pink sack can be found at the back of the church. Please donate your old mobile phones, jewellery, stamps (used or album collections) and other limited electronic gadgets. Details of accepted items are on the leaflets at the back of church. These will then be recycled and the money raised will go to CAFOD.
Many thanks. Live Simply Group.
Be part of the Walsingham House Team 2022/2023
If you are 18+ and looking for an exciting gap year opportunity, then a year on the Walsingham House Team could be for you. Spend a year as a volunteer in a thriving young Catholic Community, working with thousands of young people from Essex and East London. We are looking for inspiring individuals who want to share their faith with other young people and are also looking to learn new skills, grow deeper in their own faith and enjoy a challenge.
For more information please contact Joseph Beattie, manager of Walsingham House, by emailing josephbeattie@dioceseofbrentwood.org or calling 01277 373959. There is more information about our work on our website (www.bcys.net) and social media @Brentwoodcys
Diocesan School Vacancies
Headteacher
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Upminster
Required from 1st September 2022. Group 3: L18-24a (Outer London). NOR: 420 (2 form entry).
The governors of St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Upminster, are seeking to appoint an inspirational and dedicated Head Teacher due to the retirement of the current Head Teacher. St Joseph’s is a nurturing and welcoming community with Christ at the centre. Our new Head Teacher will work with supportive governors to shape the strategic direction of the school, and will be responsible for the day-to-day leadership and management of St Joseph’s.
Deadline for applications: 5:00 pm on Thursday 3rd March 2022. We warmly welcome and encourage applicants to visit our school. Please contact the school office on office@st-josephs.havering.sch.uk to arrange. Further information and an application pack are available from the school website: www.st-josephs-upminster.net
Headteacher
St Alban’s Catholic Primary School, Hornchurch
Required from 1st September 2022. Group 2: L11 – L17 (starting salary based on experience). NOR: 210 (1 form entry).
The Governors of St Alban’s Catholic Primary School are seeking to appoint an inspirational and dedicated Head Teacher from September 2022, due to our long standing Head Teacher retiring. St Alban’s is a caring, friendly school and community where our Catholic Ethos is central to all that we do. Our new Head Teacher will work with governors to shape the strategic direction of the school, and will be responsible for the day-to-day leadership and management of St Alban’s.
Deadline for applications: 12:00 noon on Friday 11th March 2022. For further information please contact School Business Manager Katrina Arrowsmith at contact@st-albans.havering.sch.uk, or call the office Tel: 01708 555644 for an application pack or to arrange a mutually agreed date and time to visit.
Further details of these vacancies and other are available from the diocesan website https://www.dioceseofbrentwood.net/departments/education/vacancies/school-vacancies/
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
Often we can focus on the Gospel of the Mass of each Sunday and fail to take cognisance of the First Reading, which is not only thematically linked, but will often contain a most important teaching itself.
Dear friends in Christ
Often we can focus on the Gospel of the Mass of each Sunday and fail to take cognisance of the First Reading, which is not only thematically linked, but will often contain a most important teaching itself. This is a case in point this Sunday with the story of David's flight from King Saul across the wastelands of Ziph. One night when the King was sleeping in the midst of his men, David crept close to the camp accompanied by Abishai, the most faithful of his friends. They saw Saul sleeping and there was the temptation to assassinate him. There could be no doubt that the death of the King would be the shortest route to freeing David once and for all from all the dangers he faced; it would raise him to the throne. But for the second time David chose the longer path, and preferred to preserve Saul's life. David's behaviour on this and other occasions shows the great soul of the man. His largeness of spirit won for him, first the admiration, and then the friendship, of his greatest enemy, and also of the people. Above all it won him the friendship of God. In the Gospel of Mass Jesus speaks about the virtue of magnanimity: Be merciful as your Father is merciful; give and you will receive, which is closely related to fortitude, and consists in our willingness to undertake great things for God. Saint Thomas calls magnanimity the ornament of all the virtues. The Saints have always been great-souled people, magna anima, showing the largeness of spirit when they undertook great projects for God, then carried them through to completion. In our dealings with others, we see that greatness of spirit is a fruit of our closeness to Jesus Christ. The soul that lives magnanimity—largeness of heart—is always prepared to live the demands of charity, always prepared to endure all things, for the love of God and neighbour.
Next Sunday at 11.30am Mass we shall welcome the Schola Cantorum of The Campion School who will provide the music, under the direction of their Head of Music and our Sub-Organist, James Devor. This is by way of an extra celebration before the relative sobriety of Lent.
May God bless you!
Msgr Kevin hale
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Mass Henry de Souza, RIP (Anniv) (LdS)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Patchai Family Thanksgiving (RP)
9.30am Mass Jim & Teena Rockell, RIP (Anniv) (L&KW)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 21
Saint Peter Damian, Bp, D
9am Mass Edward & Esther Martin, RIP (Anniv) (A&JM)
Tuesday 22
The Chair of St Peter, Ap
9am Mass Thomas Henry Gunn, RIP (FM)
Wednesday 23
St Polycarp, Bp, M
9am Mass Sheila de Chantilly, RIP (T&RO’C)
Thursday 24
Feria
9am Mass Danny Furguson, RIP (J&CO’B)
5pm Body in Church Peter Quinn, RIP
Friday 25
Feria
10.45am Requiem Mass Peter Quinn, RIP
Saturday 26 February
Saturday Memorial of BVM
10am Mass John Bernard Holland, RIP (Anniv) (MH)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 27 February
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Mass Maria Keen, RIP (Anniv) (DL)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Neil O'Keefe, RIP (Anniv) (UO)
11.30am Mass Mick Toomey, RIP (SG)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Deacon Sidney Lewis, Deacon Dwight Hayter, Fr Gerard Murphy, Mgr Canon Jules Van Meenan, Fr Clifford Beecroft, Canon Aloysius Roche, Theresa Daniels, Maria Calame, Amy Cutforth, Eileen Ditton, Grace Angwin, Anthony Warwick, Pamina Edgeley, David Johnson, Mary Latham, Mary Asher, Anna McCall, Adolph Figueredo, Mary Keefe, Frank Blaker, Jim Keniry, Mary Wildman, Joseph Mills, Vincent Sullivan, Dominick Fanning, Maire Callanan, Lloyd Rodney, William Shanahan, Ernest Tobias, Olive Cale, Rose Cook, Amelia Mullins, Roger Billena, Anne Florence, Marie Bartley, Violet Note, Mary Sabot, Beau Winter-Myers, Maddalena Forte, Mary Tyson, Ronald Ditto, Janet Hurley, Michael Nils Irons & John Holland.
We Pray for our Sick
Gerry Clark, Roland Clark, Kenneth Biebuyck, Zach Stokes, Andrew Stokes, Noel Conroy, 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, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, 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, 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, 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
PETER QUINN, RIP who died on 2nd January. His body will be received into church on Thursday, 24th February at 5pm. His Requiem Mass will be on Friday, 25th February at 10.45am followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
MARY TERESA RIGDEN, RIP who died on 15th February. Her Requiem Mass will be on Wednesday, 16th March at 10.30am followed by committal at Sutton Road Cemetery.
Requiescant in pace
Dates for your Diary
Sunday 27th February—The Campion School Schola Cantorum will sing at 11.30am Mass
Wednesdays March 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th—Marriage Preparation Evenings
Saturdays 14th & 21st May—First Holy Communion Masses
Wednesday 25th May—Visitation of the Bishop & Confirmation
Sunday 19th June—Corpus Christi Procession
Saturday 10th September—Flower Festival
Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday
Prelude & Postlude: Pastorale, BWV 590 - J S Bach (1685-1750)
Diocesan Pilgrimage to Walsingham - 28th May 2022
Join Bishop Alan and other parishes around the Diocese of Brentwood in Walsingham as we celebrate the Year of the Family ‘Hearing and Doing the Word of God’.
We will celebrate Mass at the Basilica before walking the Holy Mile to the grounds of Walsingham Abbey to celebrate Vespers and Benediction on the site of the Holy House.
If you would like to come please contact the Parish office.
World Day of Prayer 2022 - Friday 4th March
“I KNOW THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU”
2022 is a special year for Womens World Day of Prayer in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This year, we have prepared the World Day of Prayer service. Your local service takes place at 10.30 a.m. in St Mark's Church, Hamlet Road, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 1HY and includes participation by the children of St Helen's Primary School (Year 6). It will be followed by tea and coffee refreshment and is open to anyone who would like to attend. Please join us in this special year to share in prayer and contemplation.