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 March.
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.
OLL Ladies Group
Our next Meeting is on Thursday 2nd March in the Parish Centre from 10am. All ladies in the Parish are welcome with a sub of just £1.00 per week plus a Raffle. There is no charge for teas and coffee.
As we are now in Lent we leave it to individuals to decide whether to bring cake or not!! We are planning a repeat of one of our popular mornings of favourite poems, but this time we are including books. So come all you book worms and share some of your favourite books/authors! No problems if nothing to share, just come along and enjoy the company.
CAFOD Family Fast Day Friday 3rd March - Lent Appeal
This Lent, your donations to CAFOD’s Family Fast Day Appeal will help families fighting the climate crisis and ensure that our Church network can quickly respond to emergencies, like the recent earthquake in Syria and Turkey. Give today using the envelope or via electronic payment (both at back of the church), or at cafod.org.uk/give and please join us in praying for CAFOD’s development and emergency response work all over the world.
Missio Red Box Holders
National Novena to St. Joseph 11th - 19th March 2023. See Poster at the back of Church.
If you would like to receive a Novena booklet, email novenamhm@gmail.com or send to Novena Director
6 Colby Gardens Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 7GZ. Joan Caunce, Secretary 01268 757505
World Day of Prayer Friday 3rd March
This year’s World Day of Prayer Service takes place on Friday 3rd March at 10.30am at St Alban’s Church, St Johns Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 7JY, followed by tea/coffee. Car parking is available at North Road and Cliffs Pavilion car parks.
All are welcome to this years Service which is prepared by the women of Taiwan on the theme ‘I have heard about your faith’
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
Earthquake Relief Charities
Please donate via Aid to the Church in Need or CAFOD websites.
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lent is almost upon us once again!
Dear friends in Christ
Lent is almost upon us once again! On Wednesday the Church will extend the annual and ancient invitation to us: Repent and believe the Gospel! Over the next forty days of Lent we shall enter the spiritual battle using the weapons of prayer, penance and works of charity. One of the good and positive aspects of information technology is the huge array of good Catholic material available to feed and nourish our faith and piety. Choose and use these resources wisely, since not everything that purports to be Catholic is so. As a basic starting point, we should all be aiming to read from the Bible regularly; know the basic content of the Catechism of the Catholic Church; keep up-to-date with the Magisterium (teaching authority) of the Church; and be abreast of Catholic news as furnished by such reliable sources as Vatican News Service, EWTN and Aleteia.
When it comes to the area of penance—there are many more things we can sacrifice than wine and chocolate! We could examine how much time we spend on social media and reduce it; how do we keep guard over what we say—gossiping; try to see someone who is lonely; give time to others; keep our homes/rooms in a orderly way. In matters of charity and almsgiving, we don't need to look very far to realise that we can give easily to those who are suffering right now: in Ukraine and as a result of the recent earthquake. Details can be found in this Newsletter of how to donate through Catholic Aid Agencies.
As Lent comes around again, we have the opportunity to become a new person—this is the meaning of Lent—that we enter a new springtime for our soul. We can live these days ahead of us like any other time, or we can choose to let these waters of Lent renew and refresh us. Even if we feel we may fail by the second day, we can begin again and again! We listen again to the words of the Prophet read on Ash Wednesday: Now, now it is the Lord who speaks—come back to me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning.
May God bless you and give us all perseverance in following Him in this Lenten season.
Msgr Kevin Hale
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday 19th February
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 6
5.30pm Vigil Mass Margaret Riley, RIP (WW)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass John & Pat Moon, RIP (SM)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Mona Cundick ,RIP
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 20
Feria
9am Mass Special Intentions of the Hill Family (SM)
Tuesday 21
St Peter Damian, Bp, D
9am Mass Annamma Cherian, RIP (Anniv) (BC)
Wednesday 22
ASH WEDNESDAY Day of fasting & abstinence
9.30am Mass Noel Murray, RIP (UO’K)—with children from OLOL school
12 Noon Mass John & Anne Downey, RIP (AD)
7pm Mass Caroline Graham-Males, RIP (Anniv) (SM)
Thursday 23
Thursday after Ash Wednesday
9am Mass Anthony Hayes, RIP (K&LW)
Friday 24
Friday after Ash Wednesday
12noon Mass Intentions of Patricia Thomas (PT)
7pm Way of the Cross & Benediction
Saturday 25
Saturday after Ash Wednesday
10am Mass Michelle Power, RIP (KH)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 26 February
First Sunday of Lent
5.30pm Vigil Mass Luigia Tisi, RIP (TT)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass John Bernard Holland, RIP (MH)
9.30am Mass Jim & Teena Rockell, RIP (Anniv) (K&LW)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Thomas O’Connor, Fr Archibald O’Brien, Deacon Sidney Lewis, Deacon Dwight Hayter, Canon Alosius Roche, Fr Gerard Murphy, Robert Bautista, Fr Gerard Murphy, Mrs Constance Anne, Christopher Keville, Jeanie Reeves, 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 Kenny, Mary Wildman, Joseph Mills, Vincent Sullivan, Dominnick Fanning, Maire Callanan, Lloyd Rodney, William Shanahan, Ernest Tobias. Olive Cale, Rose Cook, Amelia Mullins, Roger Billena, Anne Florence, Marie Bartley, Violet Nottle, Mary Sobota, Beau Winter-Myers, Maddalena Forte & Mary Tyson.
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 Kharas, 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, 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, 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
CHRISTINE WISE RIP who died on 21st January. Her body will be received into the Church on Thursday, 16th March at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Friday 17th March at 9.30am followed by burial at Hall Road Cemetery.
MARIA FITZAKERLEY RIP who died recently. Her funeral will take place on Friday, 10th March at 10.15am at Sutton Road Cemetery Church, followed by burial at Sutton Road Cemetery.
TERRY COCKERALL RIP who died on 29th January. Funeral details to follow.
ROY BUCK RIP who died recently. Funeral details to follow.
Requiescant in pace
Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday
Prelude: Adagio for the Elevation in D—Guiseppe Paolucci (1726-1776)
Postlude: Fugue in C— Ignazio Fiorillo (1715-1787)
Response to Psalm
Days of Fasting and Abstinence
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are the only days of obligatory fasting throughout the world (Can. 1251). The law of fasting binds those who have attained their majority, until the beginning of their sixtieth year (Can. 1252).
According to Canon Law, abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. The law of abstinence binds those who have completed their fourteenth year (Can. 1252).
Those under 14 years of age, the sick, the elderly and frail, pregnant women, are not required to abstain.
Deanery of Southend Lent Talks 2023
Wednesday evenings at 7pm—Eastwood Parish—St Peter’s
59 Eastwood Road North, Leigh on Sea SS9 4BX
Questions & Answers facilitated by Fr Jeff Woolnough
March 1st Fr Graham Smith
The Gospel According to John
March 8th DVD Presentation
Dr Scott Hahn—The Eucharist in Scripture
Part One—The Lamb’s Supper
March 15th DVD Presentation
Dr Scott Hahn—The Eucharist in Scripture
Part Two—The Fourth Cup
March 22nd DVD Presentation
Dr Scott Hahn—The Eucharist in Scripture
Part Three—Consuming the Word
Dates for your Diary
Monday 20th February—Journey in Faith-RCIA continues
Saturdays 13th & 20th May—First Holy Communion Masses 10.30am
Sunday 28th May—Pentecost Sunday—Confirmation Mass 11.30am
Sunday 11th June—Corpus Christi Procession 4pm
Saturday 8th July—Flower Festival
Earthquake Relief Charities
Please donate via Aid to the Church in Need or CAFOD websites.
Church Courtyard Parking
Please use only the allocated bays for parking in the courtyard of the church. If there are no vacant bays this means the courtyard is full. You can also use on-road parking! Please DO NOT double-park or block-in others. Also, please do not drive across the West doors of the church. These directives are for the health and safety of everyone.
200 Club
There are a number of 200 Club winners' cheques which still have to be paid into a bank account. If you have been a winner within the last five months, can you please check that your winning cheque has been paid into your account. If not, can you please take it to your bank as soon as possible. Thank you.