OLL Ladies Group
We meet next on Thursday, 8th June in the Parish Centre from 10am. Subs are £1, plus a friendly Raffle. Come and join friends new and old for an enjoyable and interesting morning.
This week we are delighted to welcome back Liz Payne who has now embarked on an entirely new career with a local Charity. Liz will be giving a talk and demonstration about ‘Southend in sight’, a Charity which helps visually impaired people to lead full and independent lives. We are told Liz will be bringing along some equipment to demonstrate her talk and ladies will be offered the opportunity to try some of these things out. …..so we look forward to an interesting and fun morning.
NB. Would ladies who would like to join us for our end of term lunch in July please remember to give your name and money. Thank you!
Bereavement Support Group
If you are in need of individual or Group Counselling and support, please leave your name and contact details with the Parish Office. All enquiries received in strict confidence.
St Helen's Catholic Primary School
We are looking for a dedicated, inspiring Teacher to join our friendly team. Full details are on our website https://st-helens.southend.sch.uk/about-us/our-school/staff-vacancies
The closing date is Friday, 9th June midday and interviews will be on Wednesday, 14th June. Please contact Mrs Sears on 01702 343823 for a visit to our school.
CARITAS
Interested in the Catholic response to homelessness, welcoming refugees and migrants, assisting with the Cost of Living Crisis, or tackling the causes and effects of climate change? Come to the first Caritas Brentwood networking day, Saturday 10th June, 10am – 2.30pm, at Sacred Heart of Mary School, Upminster (on C2C & District lines, close to M25 & A127). Hear national speaker Raymond Friel, OBE, Chief Executive of the Catholic Social Action network.
This day is a chance to be sustained, share ideas and good practices with people from parishes across Essex and East London and hear about charities and resources available.
Details and Registration (free!) at www.caritasbrentwood.org/network
“Let the children Live”
On Monday 19th June Fr. Peter Walters will be visiting St. Thomas More to talk about his work in Columbia’s shanty towns with “Let the children Live”. Fr. Peter is an experienced speaker who promises an engaging and informative talk about Catholic social teaching, the plight of street children in South America and the work of his charity “Let the children live”.
All families of the school and parish family are warmly invited to hear the talk and join us for refreshments at 7pm, St. Thomas More High School (careers centre).
If you would like to attend, please let Paul Griffin know on pgriffin@st-thomasmore.southend.sch.uk. Please feel free to contact for more info.
Brentwood Diocese Initiative - Laudato Si' (our Common Home)
Bishop Alan has launched a Diocesan initiative based on the Pope's Encyclical Laudato Si', caring for our Common Home and its people. He is encouraging every Parish to become engaged in his vision. He asks us to think about issues such as; the environment, the homeless, those hungry/food waste and refugees. God asked us to be 'stewards' of this place he gave us to live in and share its resources fairly and justly, caring for all our brothers and sisters.
The Bishop asks us to work with and support the work of Caritas International that has 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries. As you have seen in the bulletin already, Caritas are holding a Networking Day on 10th June in Upminster.
Fr. Kevin has asked me to be the Parish representative for this initiative, but I cannot do this alone. If you are interested in any or all of these social issues and would like to get involved (or find out more) please contact me - I would very much value help and ideas to move this initiative forward.
Cathy (Sweeney) - Tel: 07762 107920
Email: cathy.sweeney16@btinternet.com
Calling all Catholic Men
Are you looking to be part of a group of proudly Catholic gentlemen, interested in faith, fraternity and family?
A place to talk with other men about the challenges of work and raising a Catholic family, a place where we can share our faith and find ourselves encouraged to be better husbands, fathers, brothers and sons. The Southend Catenian Association could be just what you are looking for! Call Mark Lambert on 0795 101 8735 and come and see what we are all about.
Pentecost
Dear friends in Christ
Today the Church was born in the Upper Room in Jerusalem.
Dear friends in Christ
Today the Church was born in the Upper Room in Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit filled the hearts and minds of the Apostles with the fire they needed to begin the work of spreading the life-giving Word of God: Go and make disciples of all nations! The task was a daunting one. They were eleven in number, the first Bishops of the Church. They had no deacons, no trained theologians, no seminaries, no church buildings, schools or universities, there were no written Gospels and very little money and just a few believers. But they were not discouraged, they were filled with joy and hope. They had great confidence in the Lord, in the message, and in the creativity and fertility of the Church. They knew that their task was to be used by the Holy Spirit to increase the Church, and they knew the graced means by which it was to grow. And grow it did. From those humble, hidden and inauspicious beginnings, they were able to bring the Gospel of Christ to every corner of the known world at that time. And so it continued in every generation that followed so that now the Gospel is known on every continent and in every country. That was the result of the power of faith and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. We might compare that with the situation today when we have every possible means at our disposal! The power of the Holy Spirit is not lacking, nor the grace available for the mission.
The Holy Spirit is at work in every age, ours included. If it is true, as Saint Paul assures us, that grace is more present, the more evil abounds, we might expect an especially powerful action of the Holy Spirit in our own time. Our task since Pentecost is to understand the times that God has put us in, to trace how the Holy Spirit is still working, and therefore seize the opportunity and the adventure of cooperating with Him. As we celebrate Pentecost, may we be given the wisdom, and the courage to rise to the monumental challenges that have come upon us, and prove faithful stewards, in our generation, of the saving message and the liberating life that Jesus has left us, and which we are living at this moment.
For those young adults of the Parish Family who are being Confirmed this Sunday, may this grace-filled moment strengthen them to take their places fully in the life of the Church and be the new witnesses of Jesus to the people of our generation. May God bless you all and fill you with a new experience of the Holy Spirit on this great Feast!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Pentecost
Pentecost
MONTH OF OUR BLESSED LADY
Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Apostles’ Creed
Preface of Pentecost
Sunday 28 May
Pentecost
5.30pm Vigil Mass Nellie O'Sullivan, RIP (AP)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Pascal Gardiner, RIP (CMcH)
9.30am Mass Michael Rubbert, RIP (Anniv) (MR)
11.30am Confirmation Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 29
Mary, Mother of the Church
10am Mass Marie Rubbert (Special Birthday) (RO’C)
Tuesday 30
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9am Mass Jeff Ashdown, RIP (SH)
Wednesday 31
Dedication of the Cathedral Church of St Mary & St Helen, Brentwood
9am Mass Intentions of David Pittaway (AK)
5pm Body in Church Ian Irwin, RIP
Thursday 1 June
Our Lord Jesus Christ The Eternal High Priest
11am Requiem Mass Ian Irwin, RIP
Friday 2
Ss Marcellinus & Peter, Mm
12 Noon Mass Gilberte Cook, RIP (MC)
12.30pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until Holy Hour 7-8pm
Saturday 3 June
St Charles Lwanga & Comps, Mm
10am Mass Leonor Arenas & Matilde Silva, RIP (Anniv) (MK)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 4 June
The Most Holy Trinity
5.30pm Vigil Mass Intentions of the de Souza Family (ADS)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Intentions of David Paul (50th Birthday) (MP)
9.30am Mass Jim & Teena Rockell, RIP (K&LW)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
4pm Mass Msgr Peter Wilson, RIP (Northampton) (PM)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr John Timmins, Bp John Petit, Canon Eric Goldingay, Fr Donald Clover, Canon Jerome Deady, Leonard Brockhurst, Neil & Joan Macmillan, Mildred Jackson, Angela Edwards, Iolanda Peretti, Edith Young, Dr Denis O’Riordan, Clarice Wheeler, Michael Rubbert, Mildred McHattie, Vera Waelend, Margaret Cornell, Sebastian De Souza, Mabel Hooper, Joseph Mullins, Odilia Duhig, Angela Hughes, Stephanie Horwood, Kit Nafziger, Dr Nigel Warburton, Stella Mary Hale, Jonas Acton, Ida Death, Dorothy Winyard & Catherine Barewish.
We Pray for our Sick
Mary O’Sullivan, Ian Spacie, Bobby Newman, Paul Watts, 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, 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, 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.
Sanctuary Lamp
This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for the intentions of the Harris family.
We Pray for the Repose of the Souls of
JOHN COOPER RIP who died on Monday 8th May. His Requiem Mass will be held on Monday, 19th June at 10.30am followed by committal at Basildon Crematorium.
EILEEN BINES, RIP who died on Tuesday, 23rd May. Funeral details to follow.
Requiescant in pace
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am Mass
Prelude: Sonata per Organo—Giovanni Bassani (1657-1716)
Postlude: Vivace in D—(John Alcock (1715-1806)
Responsorial Psalm
Sacrament of Confirmation
Please pray for those who are being Confirmed this Sunday during the 11.30 Mass: Liam Thomas Beardsell, Caelia Bonnar, Max Burzotta, Grace Campbell-Gibbs, Joseph Clayton, Julia Davey, Malachi Goodrich, Lizzie Greer, Saoirse Healy, Joseph Holland, Orla Agnes James, Luke Kwasnica, Jessica Lewis, Amelia Luft, Aaron McCormick, Fergus McCourt, Jacob Morgan, Maximilian Rodger, Lawrence Stone, Eva Watts & Teddy Whitaker.
Dates for your Diary
Sunday 28th May—Pentecost Sunday—Confirmation Mass 11.30am
Sunday 11th June—Corpus Christi Procession 4pm
Saturday 17th June—SVP Strawberry Tea
Saturday 8th July—Flower Festival
Sunday 9th July—The Campion School Boys Schola will sing at the 11.30am Mass
Calling all Catholic Men
Are you looking to be part of a group of proudly Catholic gentlemen, interested in faith, fraternity and family?
A place to talk with other men about the challenges of work and raising a Catholic family, a place where we can share our faith and find ourselves encouraged to be better husbands, fathers, brothers and sons. The Southend Catenian Association could be just what you are looking for! Call Mark Lambert on 0795 101 8735 and come and see what we are all about.
St Vincents Centre
SUPPORT RICHARD'S CAMINO WALK FOR ST VINCENT'S CENTRE
Between 3rd and 10th June 2023, I am walking the last leg of the Camino Portuguese, a distance of 120km, to raise much needed funds for the St Vincent’s Centre, Southend.
On this pilgrimage I will be carrying my own luggage and sleeping in hostels along the way. I won’t be doing it alone, I will be part of a group comprising Seminarians and prospective Deacons of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
Please be as generous as you can. All the money raised will go directly to the St Vincent’s Centre which is a community hub supporting the most vulnerable people in the local area.
Thank you for your support.
Richard Cerson
www.justgiving.com/page/richardcominoportuguesewalk