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. Day trips to Westport, Ballintubber Abbey and Fr. National Museum. Single supp £100.
Contact Patricia on 01268 762 278 or 07740 175557 or email knockpilgrimages@gmail.com. Knock Pilgrimages is fully protected by ATOL T7613.
Third Sunday of Easter
Dear friends in Christ
On each occasion that the Apostles encounter Jesus after the Resurrection, they are confronted with His physicality.
Dear friends in Christ
On each occasion that the Apostles encounter Jesus after the Resurrection, they are confronted with His physicality. He is truly alive and in his human body—but because it is a glorified body, they have difficulty in recognising Him. In order to convince them that it is truly Himself, He allows them to touch his wounds, and He eats with them. Because of this, the Apostles are convinced that their faith in the Risen Christ is not the result of mere wishful thinking, or enthusiasm or imagination, but of facts which they themselves are able to confirm repeatedly. Jesus in His appearances, adapts with a marvellous consideration, to their state of mind and the varied situations of those to whom He reveals Himself. He does not treat them all the same but by different ways He leads them to certainty about His Resurrection and about the fact that He is the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Our Lord wants to give us every possible guarantee, to that throughout the ages, our faith can rest on solid foundations.
This Sunday we begin the Month of May, Mary’s own month. As ever, let us resolve from the start, to offer each day to her as a special sign of our love and affection. We are children of Mary—especially so in our Parish—let us, like children, give the simplest of tokens of this devotion: honouring her images and statues; praying the Rosary and her Litany each day well; speaking to her in loving conversation and telling others about the important role she has in the life of the Church and in our personal lives. Whoever honours the Mother will be loved very much by the Son!
You will see that the shrine of St Joseph has been installed—but not completed—as it still has to be decorated; thanks to those benefactors who made the work possible in his honour.
May God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Third Sunday of Easter
Sunday 1 May
Third Sunday of Easter
MONTH OF OUR BLESSED LADY
Liturgy:
Readings of Year C
The Apostles’ Creed
Preface of Easter 2
5.30pm Mass Terri & Don Prentice, RIP (JR)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Intentions of the People of the Ukraine (IS)
9.30am Mass Intentions of Iwona Baran (AA)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
4pm Mass Dave Scammell, RIP (JA)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 2
St Athanasius, Bp, D
10am Mass Tom O'Callaghan, RIP (SH)
Tuesday 3
SS Philip and James, App
9am Mass Charles & Alice Whitefield, RIP (FM)
5pm Body in Church Antonia Campos Dona, RIP
Wednesday 4
The English Martyrs
10am Requiem Mass Antonia Campos Dona, RIP
Thursday 5
Feria
9am Mass Tom O'Callaghan, RIP (L&KW)
5pm Body in Church Tom Lydon, RIP
Friday 6
St John Payne, Pr, M
12Noon Requiem Mass Tom Lydon, RIP
2pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until Holy Hour 7-8pm
Saturday 7
Feria
10am Mass Danny Visperas, RIP
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 8
Fourth Sunday of Easter
5.30pm Mass Tony & Eileen Byczynski, RIP (JR)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Intentions of Irena Solecki (60th birthday) (IS)
11.30am Mass Tom O'Callaghan, RIP (AS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr John Kennedy, Canon Thomas Norris, Fr Feargus Saurin, Fr Andrew Dorricott, Canon Patrick Palmer, Canon Basil Booker, Fr John O’Callaghan, Brigid Behn, Margaret Rose McKay, Lucy Dann,Jo Hopkins, Jessie Aubury, Joseph Chapp, Michael Livermore, Alfred Pavitt, Johanna Holgate, Lilian Currie, Hannah Lee, Peter Burry, Sarah Jane Coyne, Ronald Owen Turner, Wilhelmina Chalk, Leslie Porter, Anita Dawson, David McCluskey, Sybil Figueredo, Elizabeth mcCarthy, John Brown, Petronella Jennett, Mary Delong, Arthur Leftley, Bertha Nesnas, Mary Hardie, Mabel Salter, Dorothy Hosmer, Denys Hale & Charles McLaughlin.
We Pray for our Sick
David Lesley, Gerry Clarke, Dominic De Souza, Val & Tony Tisi, Ann Owen, Gerry 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, 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, 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 & baby Forest Gallagher.
We Pray for the Repose of the Souls of
TOM LYDON, RIP who died on 31st March. His body will be received into the Church on Thursday, 5th May at 5pm and his Requiem Mass will take place on Friday, 6th May at 12Noon followed by committal at Sutton Road Cemetery.
ANTONIA CAMPOS DONA, RIP who died on 5th April. Her body will be received into the Church on Tuesday, 3rd May at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday, 4th May at 10am followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
PEGGY (Lilian) LARMAN, RIP who died on 12th April. Her body will be received into the Church on Thursday, 12th May at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Friday, 13th May at 10.15am followed by committal at Sutton Road Cemetery.
CHRISTINE KEENAN, RIP who died suddenly on Friday, 22nd April.
DOMINIC DE SOUZA, RIP who died on Wednesday, 27th April.
MALCOLM CHESHIRE, RIP who died on Monday, 7th March. Requiem Mass Monday, 23rd May at 1.30pm
VALERIE TISI, RIP who died on Friday.
Requiescant in pace
Dates for your Diary
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
Monthly Evenings for Vocation Enquirers
The next “Enquirers’ Evening” for those considering or interested in a vocation to the priesthood is on Tuesday 3 May at St Edmund of Canterbury Church in Loughton.
For further information please contact Fr Mark Swires vocprom@dioceseofbrentwood.org
Bereavement Support Group
We are pleased to announce that the Bereavement Support Group has re- started and meets every third Tuesday of each month. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 17th May.
The Group is open to all men and women who have experienced loss and bereavement and are welcome to join us in a warm, friendly and confidential environment. We will meet in the Bernadette room, Parish Centre, and sessions begin promptly at 2pm. Refreshments are available.
If further information is required please contact: Cynthia on 01702 477384.
Serving the Homeless
The Committee are currently organising an Afternoon Tea to be held on Wednesday 11th May in the Park View Suite in Chalkwell Park, 2.15 pm for 2.30 pm. Tickets cost £15 and can be purchased from Nina on 07528 502543 or Linda on 07769 708231.
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. Day trips to Westport, Ballintubber Abbey and Fr. National Museum. Single supp £100.
Contact Patricia on 01268 762 278 or 07740 175557 or email knockpilgrimages@gmail.com. Knock Pilgrimages is fully protected by ATOL T7613.
Second Sunday of Easter
Dear friends in Christ
The eighth day or Octave Day of Easter renews the joy and hope of Easter for us.
Dear friends in Christ
The eighth day or Octave Day of Easter renews the joy and hope of Easter for us. Every year we hear the account of Jesus appearing to His Apostles in the Upper Room on the evening of the Day of Resurrection. It is the moment when he confers on His Church the grace of His Divine Mercy—given for all time—and to be received in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Confession. Jesus breathed upon them and said: ‘receive the Holy Spirit; those whose sins you forgive they are forgiven…' Many of the Faithful prepare for this Feast of Divine Mercy by sacramental Confession and making the devotions which honour the Mercy of God. Today we thank God for this gift of grace within the Church, that we can experience now, despite our frailty and human fragility, the constant loving mercy of God our Father.
I thank you once again for your Easter greetings which have come in different forms over the last week! Many of you have written to me, from within the Parish and a number also from overseas, who have been linked to our Parish since the start of the Pandemic. I am grateful to you all for your continued help, support and prayers; also for the kind Easter Offerings made.
It was heartening to see the attendance over Holy Week and Easter much at the pre-pandemic levels. May the graces earned throughout Lent show their fruits now in this Easter season. May we go forward living with the hope and optimism the Easter seasons signals.
God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Second Sunday of Easter—Divine Mercy Sunday
Second Sunday of Easter—Divine Mercy Sunday
Liturgy:
Readings of Year C
The Apostles’ Creed
Preface of Easter 1
5.30pm Mass Intentions of Rosemary Bragard (RM)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Pauline Kidney, RIP (Anniv) (JL)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Christine Mary Fisher, RIP (Anniv) (PF)
2.30pm Divine Mercy Devotions & Benediction
(NO Vespers & Benediction)
Monday 25
Saint Mark, Evangelist
9am Mass In memory of Charles Taylor (Chas) (CH)
Tuesday 26
St George, M, Patron of England
9am Mass Intentions of Beryl Taylor and family (MS)
Wednesday 27
Feria
9am Mass Evelyn Thomson, RIP (BP)
Thursday 28
St Peter Chanel, Pr, M
9am Mass Peter & Carol Moon, RIP (SM)
Friday 29
St Catherine of Siena, V, D
12Noon John & Doreen Pennifold, RIP (Anniv) (FG)
Saturday 30 April
St Pius V, P
10am Mass Sir David Amess, RIP (IS)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 1 May
Third Sunday of Easter
5.30pm Mass Terri & Don Prentice, RIP (JR)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Intentions of the People of the Ukraine (IS)
9.30am Mass Intentions of Iwona Baran (AA)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
4pm Mass Dave Scammell, RIP (JA)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Simon Sullivan, Fr Myles I’Railly, Fr George Stokes, Fr Brian O’Higgins, Mary Bartley, Tony Pycraft, Brigid Alexander, Grahame Addecott, 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 Makes, 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.
We Pray for our Sick
Gerry Clarke, Dominic De Souza, Val Tisi, Ann Owen, 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, 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, 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 & baby Forest Gallagher.
Sanctuary Lamp
The Sanctuary Lamps burn for the intentions of Fred & Doreen Wall, RIP and the Griffin Family.
We Pray for the Repose of the Souls of
TOM LYDON, RIP who died on 31st March. His body will be received into the Church on Thursday, 5th May at 5pm and his Requiem Mass will take place on Friday, 6th May at 12Noon followed by committal at Sutton Road Cemetery.
ANTONIA CAMPOS DONA, RIP who died on 5th April. Her body will be received into the Church on Tuesday, 3rd May at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday, 4th May at 10am followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
PEGGY (Lilian) LARMAN, RIP who died on 12th April. Her body will be received into the Church on Thursday, 12th May at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Friday, 13th May at 10.15am followed by committal at Sutton Road Cemetery.
CHRISTINE KEENAN, RIP Funeral details to follow
MALCOLM CHESHIRE, RIP His Requiem Mass will be on Monday, 23rd May at 1.30pm
DOMINIC DeSOUZA RIP who died on Wednesday
VALERIE TISI, RIP who died on Friday
Requiescant in pace
Dates for your Diary
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