SVP Summer-time Strawberry Tea!
What could be nicer! Summertime is on its way and your parish SVP (Society of St Vincent de Paul) Conference is delighted to announce the date of its forthcoming annual 'Strawberry Tea' to which all senior citizens of the parish are most warmly invited!
Our Strawberry Tea is being held in the Parish Centre on Saturday, 17th June, commencing at 2pm and concluding at 4pm! If you, or someone you know, would like to join us on this happy parish occasion please call Sue Hibbert on 07957 411373. You will be most welcome!
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.
Parish Administrator-Our Lady of Good Counsel, Wickford
Our Lady of Good Counsel in Wickford are looking for a Parish Administrator to provide complete and comprehensive administration for the church community. The successful applicant will need to have excellent communication and administration skills.
Hours: 12 hours per week working three days (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
Apply by sending a CV and covering letter (no longer than A4) to hr@brcdt.org . Closing date for applications is Friday 16 June 2023.
Job description: Parish Administrator -Wickford (full job description is contained on www.dioceseofbrentwood.net/diocese/working-for-us).
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.
“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.
The Most Holy trinity
Dear friends in Christ
As Christians we began our lives in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Dear friends in Christ
As Christians we began our lives in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. At that moment when we were baptised, we were assumed into the life of God Himself. In this name we also leave this world, signed with the sign of the Cross, the sign of Faith. We profess our Faith in God as Three Divine Persons. This is the Faith the Apostles heard from the lips of Jesus and have passed down to us. The life of the Christian on earth is to become familiar with, to enter into, a relationship with each of the Persons of the Godhead. We already have God dwelling within us, but we need to discern this reality more and more. St Teresa of Avila said that as she considered the presence of the Three Divine Persons in her soul she was amazed at seeing so much majesty in a thing as lowly as my soul; then Our Lord said to her: it is not lowly, my daughter; because it is made in my own image. And the Saint was filled with consolation. It can do us a great deal of good to consider these words as being spoken to us and they will encourage us to continue along this path that ends in God. We must treat every person we come across each day, as the possessor of an immortal soul, the image of God, which is, or can become the temple of God.
Next Sunday we shall be celebrating the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ—Corpus Christi—the beautiful feast of God’s Gift of the Blessed Eucharist. It is the Sunday of our Eucharistic Procession which is at 4pm. It should be a most lovely manifestation of the Faith of the entire Parish, if each of us were to participate and show to our world our love for the best Thing we have as Catholics!
With every blessing!
Msgr Kevin Hale
The Most Holy Trinity
The Most Holy Trinity
Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of The Most Holy Trinity
Sunday 4th 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
Monday 5
St Boniface, Bp, M
9am Mass Michael & Teresa O'Brien, RIP (Annivs) (MI)
Tuesday 6
St Norbert, Bp
9am Mass Dr Nadia Rokan (KR)
Wednesday 7
Feria
9am Mass Ian Irwin, RIP (PL)
Thursday 8
Feria
9am Mass Roland Clark, RIP (MC)
Friday 9
St Ephrem, Deacon, D
12 Noon Mass Charles D'Souza, RIP (MB)
Saturday 10 June
Our Lady on Saturday
10am Mass Intentions of Angela Spedding (AS)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 11 June
The Body and Blood of Christ—Corpus Christi
5.30pm Vigil Mass Gwendoline Underwood, RIP (Anniv) (RB)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Jim & Teena Rockell, RIP (Anniv) (K&LW)
11.30am Mass Veronica Webster, RIP (JS)
4pm Procession of the Blessed Sacrament
NO Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Edmund Tyler, Fr Gerard Butcher, Terry Wilson, Charles Mann, Thomas Connolly, Elsie Hale, Lee Schiller, Joan Holdstock, Gladys Hanger, Anthony Cummins, Dr Jack Hesketh-Beasley, Alice Quinlan, Margaret Gibson, Mrs Anne Hughes, Mollie Cosgrove, Margaret Kenny, Kathleen Owen, Kathleen Denyer, John Mudd. Peter Gerald Sloan, Bridie Satelle, Bertram Barrett, May Lobb, James McKeon, Edith Turner, Richard Charles Neagle, Laura Pauline Groves, Barbara Adams, Nora Murphy, Catherine Weston, Kathleen Lee, Ray Parascandolo, Irene Chessher, Pamela Gafga, Annie Adeua Lawrence, Rose Whitehead & Julio Cáceres Neira.
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, 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.
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
Sanctuary Lamp
This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for the intentions of the Trindle family.
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am Mass
Prelude: Adagio (Trio Sonata no. 3) BWV 527—J S Bach (1685-1750)
Postlude: Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 533—J S Bach
Responsorial Psalm
Dates for your Diary
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
Annual Procession of the Blessed Sacrament
Sunday 11th June 4.00pm
Accompanied by the Tilbury Brass Band
Followed by Tea in the Parish Centre
Sick & Retired Clergy Fund
Next weekend there will be a second collection in aid of the Sick & Retired Clergy. You can donate in the second collection, online via the website, or the contactless device at the back of church.
BIN A TIN FOR VIN
The St Vincent Centre is doing wonderful work in Southend helping the poorest amongst us.
You can help the food bank there by bringing a tin of something with you when you come to mass and putting it in VINNIE'S BIN, which will be in the OLD BAPTISTERY.
This will be emptied twice weekly.
St. Vincent de Paul Society(SVP), Our Lady of Lourdes & St. Joseph
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
SVP Summer-time Strawberry Tea!
What could be nicer! Summertime is on its way and your parish SVP (Society of St Vincent de Paul) Conference is delighted to announce the date of its forthcoming annual 'Strawberry Tea' to which all senior citizens of the parish are most warmly invited!
Our Strawberry Tea is being held in the Parish Centre on Saturday, 17th June, commencing at 2pm and concluding at 4pm! If you, or someone you know, would like to join us on this happy parish occasion please call Sue Hibbert on 07957 411373. You will be most welcome!