St Thomas More Alumni Memorial Mass
The annual Memorial Mass at which all deceased former pupils, governors and members of staff of St Thomas More High School are remembered and prayed for, will be held on Thursday, 22nd June at 7.30pm in the school.
The Mass will be followed by drinks and a buffet giving all present the chance to renew old acquaintances.
Further details at www.stmalumni.co.uk.
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.
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.
The Body and Blood of Christ
The Body and Blood of Christ—Corpus Christi
Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of The Blessed Eucharist
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
Monday 12
Feria
9am Mass Ian Irwin, RIP (CB)
Tuesday 13
St Anthony of Padua, Pr, D
9am Mass Michael & Teresa O'Brien, RIP (Anniv) (MI)
Wednesday 14
Feria
9am Mass Michelle Disney, RIP (Anniv) (JD)
Thursday 15
Feria
9am Mass Ernie Cotgrove, RIP (AMcC)
Friday 16
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
9am Mass Special Intention (MI)
12 Noon Mass Intentions of Rory Neal-McKenzie (CD)
followed by Devotions and Benediction
Saturday 17 June
The Immaculate Heart of Mary
10am Mass Rose & Bridget Comey, RIP (MC)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 18 June
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Cecil Duggan, RIP (AS)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Tim Kearney, RIP (CMcH)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Alison Shepherd, RIP (CH)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
The Body and Blood of Christ
Dear friends in Christ
This weekend we celebrate the Feast that is THE Mystery of Faith—Corpus Christi.
Dear friends in Christ
This weekend we celebrate the Feast that is THE Mystery of Faith—Corpus Christi. Writing about this Feast, Saint Thomas Aquinas said: It was to impress the vastness of this love more firmly upon the hearts of the faithful that our Lord instituted this sacrament at the Last Supper. He left It as a perpetual memorial of His passion. It was the fulfilment of ancient figures and the greatest of all His miracles. Whilst the Blessed Eucharist IS the greatest of all the signs and miracles Jesus performed, perhaps an even greater miracle is that It has been continued every day throughout the world since that moment. Indeed, in the life of the Church there have been numerous occasions when God has wanted to manifest in a more dramatic way the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Eucharistic Miracles have often occurred as a result of a lack of faith on behalf of the priest or people; a consequence of a sacrilege committed, or simply because God wanted to show us the great treasure we possess of Himself in the Mass.
I have spoken recently about the impact of the life of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the teenager who died in 2006 from leukemia at the age of fifteen; his mother visited London last week to speak about her extra-ordinary son. One of the facets of his holy life was a devotion to the Eucharistic Miracles of the world. He created a website that catalogues these phenomena. You might like to visit it here: http://www.miracolieucaristici.org/en/liste/list.html
The greatest miracle of the Eucharist is that all these centuries later, we are able to celebrate, receive and venerate, the same Lord who gave Himself for us at the Last Supper, on Calvary and Who lives now in Heaven. This Sunday afternoon we have the Eucharistic Procession—a short public display of Catholic Faith in which I hope all of you will try to participate. If we believe passionately in this Mystery of Faith, then we can never tire of telling others about It and drawing others to share the same Faith in Jesus, which we live and worship in the Mystery of the Blessed Eucharist.
God bless you.
Msgr Kevin Hale
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Thomas Crowe, Fr John Gallagher, Fr Robert Mortimer-Anderson, Fr Thomas Carlin, Fr Gerard Hughes, Fr Ambrose O’Gorman, Fr Philip Willenbrock, Walter Burrill, Marion Button, Gerald Melhuish, Gwendoline Underwood, George Houston, Theresa Yates, Harold Britt, Ken Bailey, Margaret Grenier, James George Fairchild, Janice Mary Turner, Jill Kinsley, Norita Fanning, Christopher Pegler, Michelle Disney, 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.
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, Florence Hownam & children: Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Connie Price, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Mary Isherwood, Lucy Price, Frazer Gregory & baby Forest Gallagher.
Annual Procession of the Blessed Sacrament
Sunday 11th June 4.00pm
Accompanied by the Tilbury Brass Band
Followed by Tea in the Parish Centre
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.
CAROLINE GEOGHEGAN who died on Friday 9th June.
RACHEL PHILLIPS who died on Thursday 8th June.
Requiescat in pace
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am Mass
Prelude: Toccata—Johann Speth (1664-1719)
Postlude: Sonata per Organo—(Giuseppe Sigismondo (1730-1826)
Responsorial Psalm
Sick & Retired Clergy Fund
This weekend there will be a second collection in aid of the Sick & Retired Clergy. This 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 priestly duties.
You can donate in the second collection, online via the website, or the contactless device at the back of church.
Church Cleaning
Would you have an hour to spare one morning, once a week, between Monday to Friday to help clean our beautiful Church? If so, please leave your name and contact details at the Parish office. Thank you.
Blessed Carlo Acutis
Follow the link below to watch Antonia Salzano—Mother of Blesed Carlo Acutis on YouTube speaking at Corpus Christi Church, Maiden Lane, London on Thursday 1st June.
https://sodality.co.uk/2023/06/03/antonia-salzano-my-son-bl-carlo-acutis/
Dates for your Diary
Saturday 17th June—SVP Strawberry Tea
Saturday 8th July—Flower Festival
St Thomas More Alumni Memorial Mass
The annual Memorial Mass at which all deceased former pupils, governors and members of staff of St Thomas More High School are remembered and prayed for, will be held on Thursday, 22nd June at 7.30pm in the school.
The Mass will be followed by drinks and a buffet giving all present the chance to renew old acquaintances.
Further details at www.stmalumni.co.uk.
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