We pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr John Gallagher, Fr Robert Morimer-Anderson, Fr Thomas Carlin, Fr Gerard Hughes, Fr Ambrose O’Gorman, Bp Bernard Patrick Wall, Harold Britt, Ken Bailey, Margaret Grenier, James George Fairchild, Janice Mary Turner, Jill Kinsley, Nora Fanning, Christine Pegler, Sheila Ann Power, Ethel Dillon, Teresa O’Brien, Norbert Widera, Agnes Sawyer, Kenneth Miller, Mary Famie, Dorothy Butcher, Frederick Carter, Teresa McTavish, Florence Ellis, Anne Ryan, Saverio Pucino, Gertrude Drew, John William Gillman, Angeline Sweet & John Oliver.
We Pray for our Sick
David Lesley, Tony Tisi, Ann Owen, 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, 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
MARY LEFTLEY, RIP who died on Friday, 27th May. Her Body will be received into the church on Wednesday, 29th June at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Thursday, 30th June at 1pm followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
MICHAEL (MIKE) RUBBERT, RIP who died on Sunday, 29th May. His Body will be received into the church on Thursday, 30th June at 5pm and his Requiem Mass will take place on Friday, 1st July at 10.30am followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
Requiescant in pace
Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday
Prelude: Improvisation on the Introit for Trinity Sunday
Postlude: Passacaglia in D minor - Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Dates for your Diary
Sunday 19th June—Corpus Christi Procession
Saturday 10th September—Flower Festival
Annual Procession of the Blessed Sacrament
Sunday 19th June 4.00pm
Accompanied by the Tilbury Brass Band
Followed by Tea in the Parish Centre
Sick & Retired Clergy Fund
This weekend there will be a retiring collection for the Sick & Retired Clergy. This Fund provides financial assistance to priests of the diocese who are permanently or temporarily incapacitated by old age, infirmity or illness from the performance of their clerical duties.
Consecration to Jesus through Mary
On the 26th June, Pope Francis will close the X World Meeting of Families in Rome at his Sunday Angelus.
United in prayer with the Holy Father, families are invited to gather in the Lady Chapel after 11.30am Mass on Sunday 26th June, where we will pray the Angelus together for the intentions of all families in the parish. This will be concluded with a blessing of families.
Strawberry Tea
Your parish SVP (Society of St Vincent de Paul) Conference is delighted to announce the post-pandemic return of its annual 'Strawberry Tea' to which senior citizens of the parish are most warmly invited! Our Strawberry Tea is being held in the Parish Centre on Saturday, 9th July, commencing at 2pm and concluding at 4pm! If you would like to join us on this happy parish occasion please call Janeth Markham on 07786 901488. You will be most welcome!
St Thomas More Alumni Memorial Mass - Wednesday, 22nd June
This year's annual Memorial Mass for deceased pupils and members of staff of St Thomas More High School will be held in the school at 8pm on Wednesday 22nd June.
A tradition that began in 1980, this occasion is open to all former pupils as well as current and former members of staff and offers an opportunity to remember and honour former classmates and teachers.
The Mass is followed by a buffet reception and the chance to renew acquanitances over a drink or two.
Walsingham House Abbotswick
We are looking for young people to join our team next year, you’d live and work as part of the community at Walsingham House at Abbotswick, helping to run retreats for young people aged 10 -18. Our retreats are a mix of prayer, games, discussions and workshops. If you have an interest in working with young people in the future, are enthusiastic, hardworking, involved with your faith and enjoy working with others then please get in touch.
We will provide you with leadership development which will give you skills that will help in your future. We aim to accompany you in your faith journey and enabling you to share that with others. In addition to this your accommodation and meals are included along with a weekly stipend. Through team training, holidays and a week in Lourdes we aim to build a wonderful community.
If you would like to visit or find out more do get in touch, you are always welcome, just email Joe at josephbeattie@dioceseofbrentwood.org
We look forward to hearing from you and hope that you will consider taking a gap year with us.
Flower Festival - 10th September 2022
It is time to be creative again! Thank you to all those who have already said that they want to take part.
The theme of the Flower and Arts & Crafts festival this year is Christian Feasts and Festivals. Like last year we would like people to create a flower arrangement, or tapestries, paintings, photographs (or any type of craft work) on the theme chosen.
The main topics will be: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Holy Family, Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Christ the King, Pentecost, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi, All Saints & All Souls Day, St Peter & Paul.
There are of course other special feast days you can choose. In Anglican churches Harvest festivals are prominent whilst there are several special feast days for Our Lady in the Catholic church.
Many people who visit during the festival have no religious background and we want to present a powerful and prayerful message about Christianity.
Please let me know which theme or themes you will be doing and in what medium. (mcronan@btinternet.com)
Thanks, Jo Ronan
Outing to Hyde Hall Gardens
The above coach trip is on 23rd June with a Coach leaving outside the Church at 10.15 and then at Westleigh Schools. We leave Hyde Hall at 3.30pm. Tickets for coach and gardens is £25 (RHS members £20).
This promises to be a lovely day out and any ladies in the Parish are welcome to join us. Hyde Hall Gardens have beautiful extensive gardens, a large gift shop for browsing , plus a Garden Centre to purchase some of their lovely plants and several Restaurants/Cafes for lunch or snacks. You are welcome, of course, to bring your own lunch and picnic in the grounds.
If interested please contact Jan Lewis on: 07775620890.
BCCS Relay100
Last year, volunteers took part in the Diocesan relay from parish to parish for Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society (BCCS) and we’re doing it again!
The Bishop launched the whole event on May 9th, and I have volunteered to do the Lady of Lourdes leg again to St.Helen’s Westcliff before the end of June (date to be confirmed). Our Lady of Lourdes parishioners raised over £100 last time for our leg last year but the most important thing is that BCCS covers all the parishes and shows the importance of the work they do for children.
If you would like to sponsor me you can by either using my sponsorship form - available at teas & coffees after 9.30am and 11.30am Sunday masses from 21st May or by going online to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/relay100 If appropriate, please use gift aid for your donation.Please mention my name and Relay 100 in the sponsorship note as a reference so that BCCS can trace your donation online.
You can also donate by BACS at Account: Brentwood Catholic Childrens Society; Account Number: 3109413; Sort Code: 40 13 22. Again please quote BCCS Relay100 and my name D Binding. Thank you so much for your support. Darrell Binding
Bereavement Support Group
The Bereavement Support Group meets every third Tuesday of each month. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 21st June.
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.
St Bernard's High School - Open Evening
Open Evening for Year 5 Students
(Prospective Year 7 in 2023)
Wednesday 6 July 2022
6.00pm to 9.00pm
We would be delighted to welcome Year 5 girls and their parents/carers to our Open Evening. This is an evening for girls wishing to join Year 7 in September 2023.
We are also offering an opportunity for parents/carers to visit the school during a normal teaching day, dates will be published on our website later this academic year.
St Bernard’s High School offers selective places based on success in the CSSE selective tests and non-selective places according to faith-based admissions criteria. (Please see school website for full details.)
‘The school is welcoming and inclusive. In 2015, many pupils made significantly better progress than other pupils nationally’ Ofsted 2016
'The gifted, able and talented programme provides challenging enrichment across all year groups and is acknowledged by the NACE Award' Ofsted 2016
‘St Bernard’s High School is an outstanding Catholic school… Attainment and progress of students is outstanding’ (Diocesan Inspection, 2017)
www.stbernardswestcliff.org.uk, Milton Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex SS0 7JS Tel: 01702 343583
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Pentecost Sunday
Dear friends in Christ
The Birthday of our Holy Mother the Church is what we celebrate this Sunday!
Dear friends in Christ
The Birthday of our Holy Mother the Church is what we celebrate this Sunday! After the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven, the Apostles returned to Jerusalem and waited with Mary for the coming of the Advocate, the Great Comforter. The Sequence which we recite or sing at Mass this Sunday is a text dating from the thirteenth century. It expresses poetically what the Holy Spirit does in our souls and in the world. As we pray it again at Mass this weekend, we ask that this, the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, may fill us with his gifts and that those gifts may flower into the fruits of love, peace, joy and goodness.
Today at the end of the Masses we will pray the Prayer for the Queen which you will find elsewhere in the Newsletter. This prayer for the Sovereign used to be sung every Sunday at the end of the Solemn Mass in every Parish until the reform of the liturgy. Today we shall offer this prayer for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, in thanksgiving for seventy years of devoted service to our Nation and the Commonwealth. Long may she reign over us!
God bless you all; may the Holy Spirit enlighten and enliven our hearts and lives this Pentecost!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Pentecost Sunday
Sunday 5th June
Pentecost Sunday
MONTH OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
Liturgy:
Readings of Year C
The Apostles’ Creed
Preface of Pentecost
5.30pm Mass Tony & Pat Poulton, RIP (JR)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Intentions of the Stewart Family (ES)
9.30am Mass Rose Comey, RIP (Anniv) (MC)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
4pm Mass Clive Richards, RIP (Anniv) (LL)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 6
Mary, Mother of the Church
9am Mass Roland Clark, RIP (MC)
12Noon Requiem Mass Christine Keenan, RIP
Tuesday 7
Feria
9am Mass Christine Keenan, RIP (MS)
Wednesday 8
Feria
9am Mass Peace in Ukraine (MI)
Thursday 9
Our Lord Jesus Christ the Eternal High Priest
9am Mass Tom Lydon, RIP (LdC)
Friday 10
Feria
12Noon Mass Pamela Gafga, RIP (40th Anniv) (PG)
Saturday 11
St Barnabus, Ap
10am Mass Special Intention (MS)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 12
The Most Holy Trinity
5.30pm Mass Gwendoline Underwood, RIP (Anniv) (RB)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Vincent & Sheila Harrison, RIP (Anniv) (JC)
9.30am Mass Intentions of Mary McDermott (SG)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction