Thank you from Fr Con Joyce

Many thanks to all who sent me Christmas cards and gifts. Wishing you all God’s blessings for the New Year.

Fr Con.

Thank you from Fr Selvini

I would like to thank all those Parishioners who sent me gifts and Christmas cards. They were much appreciated. Wishing you and all your loved ones every blessing throughout the year.

Serving the Homeless

On Sunday, 29th January 2023 Serving the Homeless are holding a Sunday Lunch in the Park View Suite, Chalkwell Park, 12.30pm for 1pm.

Tickets cost £24 and are available from any Committee member or please ring Linda Wall on 01702 558217.

Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School & Nursery

If your child is eligible to attend Nursery, please clink on the link below to find more information about Our Lady of Lourdes School Nursery

Sea of Voices Choir

Our Community choir returned last week, we meet every Thursday at the Parish centre from 7.45pm. New members who would like to sing are very welcome so come along and meet us!  We especially need male Basses, but all soprano, altos and tenors will be also very welcome.  If you know someone, especially any young singers, please tell them and get them to contact me (details below).

Darrell Binding 07825686249 or email seaofvoiceschoir@outlook.com.  Sea of Voices are on Facebook

Bereavement Support Group

The Group meets on the third Tuesday of every month in the Parish Centre (Bernadette room) at 2pm. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 21st February.

We are aware that this time may not be convenient for everyone who feels they need support following the loss of a loved one. We are therefore considering a possible change of day and time. For example Saturday morning or afternoon or a weekday morning or evening might be more convenient for people.

The Group is open to people who have experienced loss and Bereavement and who feel they might find sharing their experience with others in a confidential and caring environment. We try to ensure that nobody is under any pressure to talk but participants are gently encouraged to express their feelings supported by other Group members and experienced Counsellors. If further information is required please contact the Parish Office or phone Cynthia on 07783 094312 with your name and contact number.

If interested please give your name, contact details, and preference of day/ time to the Parish Office. Thank you.

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Dear friends in Christ

Behold the Lamb of God! With these words St John the Baptist introduces Jesus to the world on the banks of the Jordan River. These words are still said every day by priests before the moment of Holy Communion, as we are invited to make an act of faith in Jesus, and an act of humility before we approach the Altar to receive Him. The image of the Lamb evokes gentleness and meekness. For the ancient Jews the image of the Lamb evoked sacrifice, since it was this animal that was slaughtered in the Temple as a sacrifice for sin. Jesus is the Lamb of God, who by His death, has definitively healed our sins. Jesus consistently reaches out to sinners, that they may be recipients of the mercy He brought to mankind. We can never lose hope of forgiveness when it is Christ Who forgives. All we have to do is approach Him in confident faith and trust. This happens first of all in Baptism by which all sin is cleansed. Subsequently in the Christian life this is achieved by the Sacrament of Penance, Confession. This Sacrament facilitates a pure and innocent approach to Jesus in the Blessed Eucharist. The Church takes care to remind us that we should not approach Holy Communion if we are conscious of serious sin, without first having gone to Confession. This is the consistent teaching of the Church based on the doctrine of St Paul who says that if we eat and drink the Body and blood of the Lord unworthily, then we eat and drink damnation on ourselves (cf 1Cor 11:27) Let each of us take care, examine our lives and consciences, and see if we always approach Holy Communion with the correct dispositions, having purified our lives of anything that is contrary to the teaching of Jesus. We ask Our Lord to show us how to be meek and gentle, as He is, and to be filled with love-sorrow when we approach Him, The Lamb of God.

God bless you!

Msgr Kevin Hale

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sunday 15th January
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Liturgy:
Readings Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday I

5.30pm Vigil Mass Pat Poulton, RIP (PO’C)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions

8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Angela Barrett, (RIP) (LW)
11.30am Mass Dr Noel Hayter, RIP (PL)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction

Monday 16
Feria
9am Mass Hazel Armstrong, RIP (JA)

Tuesday 17
St Anthony Ab
9am Mass Bernadette Ward - 50th Birthday (MW)

Wednesday 18 Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity Feria
9am Mass Mary Morgan, RIP (EM)

Thursday 19
St Wulstan, Bp
9am Mass Lucille Tarrobal RIP, Jose Conlu RIP, Lucrecia Conlu RIP

Friday 20
St Fabian P. M; St Sebastian M
NO midday Mass
2.15pm Requiem Mass Francis Anthony Hayes, RIP

Saturday 21
Saturday Memorial of BVM
10am Mass Ollie Grimes, RIP (MI)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions

Sunday 22 January
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

5.30pm Vigil Mass Essie Glauda, RIP (Anniv) (KC)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions

8am Mass Eric Major, RIP (Anniv) (PM)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Rose De Souza - 100th Birthday (SVP)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction

We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries

Fr Gilbert Basil Pearson, Fr Neville Banks, Fr Kenneth Green, Canon Charles Kuypers, Mgr Canon David Donnelly, Fr John Meehan, Bp Bernard Ward, Fr Christopher Quirke, Mary Ann Foley, Elsie Nicol, Nancy Hume, Annie Shea, Gordon Wallen, Brigid Connolly, Violet Read, Gabriel Craven, Patrick Connolly, Brenda Campbell, Germaine Cave-Palmer, Renée Warburton, Robert Garson-Gratidge, Mrs Breed Hayes, Bridget Kelly, Maud Reddy, Catherine Woods, Eugene Regan, Barry Anderson, Anne Ryan, Bernard Leonard, Gilbert Oldham, John F Dillon, Ilene Axson, Dora Maria Trieste Arnott, Teresa Moule, Courtney Choat-Kelly, Kathleen Goddard, Hubert A Conally, Jimmy Baker, Catherine Morris, Frances May Emerson, John Mansfield & Charles Paterson.

We Pray for our Sick

Christine Reid, Rose D’Souza, Jimmy & Pauline Martin, Ben Dench, James Fegan, Muriel Matthews, David Lesley, 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, Johnny 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

This week the Sanctuary lamps burn for the intentions of Daniel & Hannah O’Hanrahan and baby Heidi.

We Pray for the Repose of the Souls of

PETER ANTONY HAIGH RIP who died on Wednesday, 30th November. His funeral service will take place on Wednesday, 18th January at 11am followed by committal at Basildon Crematorium.

PAUL JAMES CORPE RIP who died on Thursday 15th December. His funeral service will take place on Friday, 20th January at Basildon Crematorium at 10.30am.

FRANCIS ANTHONY MURRAY HAYES RIP who died on 31st December. His Requiem Mass will take place on Friday 20th January at 2.15pm followed by committal at Basildon Crematorium.

JOHN McCARTHY RIP who died on Saturday, 17th December. His body will be received into the church on Tuesday, 24th January at 5pm and his Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday, 25th January at 11am followed by burial at Herongate Wood Cemetery, Brentwood.

TERENCE (TERRY) VICTOR LESLIE MARTYN RIP who died on Tuesday 20th December. His funeral service will take place on Thursday, 26th January at Basildon Crematorium at 2.30pm.

FRANCIS JOHN MULLAN RIP who died on 10th December. His funeral service will take place on Wednesday, 8th February at Southend Crematorium at 2.40pm.

CHARLES DE SOUZA RIP who died on 2nd January. Funeral details to follow.

JOHN HARLEY RIP who died on 6th January. Funeral details to follow.

MARIA FITZAKERLEY RIP who died recently. Funeral details to follow.

Requiescant in pace

Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday

Prelude: Adagio and Allegro in D—John James (c.1740)

Postlude: Fugue in G—Arcangelo Corelli   (1653-1713)

Response to Psalm

Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes-Monday 24th-Saturday 29th July

The Parishes of Wickford, Leigh-on-sea, Southend & Prittlewell will travel together to join with the Brentwood Diocesan Pilgrimage in Lourdes (£790 per adult sharing)

Package Inclusions: Return flights with British Airways from Heathrow including 23kg hold-luggage, 5 nights full-board in the 4* Grand Hotel Moderne (closest to the shrine), fully guided with walking tour & full religious itinerary.

Please register your interest before 30 January 2023. Please register your details (name, number of seats requested, contact number & email address) with the Parish Office before 30 January 23.

Online booking forms will be available from 01 February 2023. Limited places available!

Serving the Homeless Collection Saturday 28th/Sun 29thJanuary

I would like to thank everyone who has supported us over the last 30+ years. During this time, with your help, we have been able to support many young people in the area into safe accommodation and support. You have allowed us to fund programmes run by Southend YMCA, HARP and more recently the St Vincent Centre. We spend between £16-17,000 annually on training courses, food supplies, white goods and building programmes carried out by these organisations.

I know that it is a difficult time for many people but if you are able to make a donation at our annual collection, I can promise you that your support will make a very real difference to some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

With very best wishes for the New Year,

Jo Ronan( Chairwoman, Serving the Homeless)

Sick & Housebound

If you have have a family member, or are aware of someone who is sick or housebound and would wish to receive any of the Sacraments, please advise Father Kevin.

Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School & Nursery

If your child is eligible to attend Nursery, please clink on the link below to find more information about Our Lady of Lourdes School Nursery

OLL Ladies Group

Our next Meeting is on Thursday 19th January from 10am in the Parish Centre. All ladies in the Parish are welcome to join us . Why not come and while away those January blues with some entertaining games, fun and chat over coffee and cake and blow away the cobwebs? As usual subs are just £1. 00 with a fun Raffle. (unwanted gifts gratefully accepted to boost the Raffle).  We all look forward to seeing you there!    

Serving the Homeless

On Sunday, 29th January 2023 Serving the Homeless are holding a Sunday Lunch in the Park View Suite, Chalkwell Park, 12.30pm for 1pm.

Tickets cost £24 and are available from any Committee member or please ring Linda Wall on 01702 558217.

Sea of Voices Choir

Our Community choir returned last week, we meet every Thursday at the Parish centre from 7.45pm. New members who would like to sing are very welcome so come along and meet us!  We especially need male Basses, but all soprano, altos will be also very welcome.  If you know someone, especially any young singers, please tell them and get them to contact me (details below).

Darrell Binding 07825686249 or email seaofvoiceschoir@outlook.com.  Sea of Voices are on Facebook