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Joan Caunce, Secretary
01268 757505
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
Jesus Christ came into the world to show us the way to Heaven, which is also the way of Cross; but He not only teaches us how to carry our burdens, but He carries them with us.
Dear friends in Christ
Jesus Christ came into the world to show us the way to Heaven, which is also the way of the Cross; but He not only teaches us how to carry our burdens, but He carries them with us. Living life close to Christ ensures that we are not alone and will never feel abandoned no matter what the difficulties we experience. Furthermore, Jesus tells us that we must carry one another's burdens. This is the meaning of true Christian fraternity. If there are times in our lives when we are wrestling with a particularly difficult burden, we should never fail to call to mind the words of Jesus in the Gospel this Sunday: Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened and I will give you rest. Only Jesus can renew our strength and raise us up when we are downtrodden; only He can quench our thirst. Some words of Pope Saint Paul VI: We can be sure that Jesus constantly invites us to come to Him, sees our difficulties and has compassion on us. Still more does He offer us His promises, His friendship, the hope of goodness, of a healing remedy for our ills, of comfort, and still more does He offer nourishment, bread, the very source of energy and life.
Let us pray each day for the grace of tenacity in the face of our burdens and crosses, so that we may gain the supernatural courage we need in times of difficulty. We ask Mary, our Most Holy Mother, to stay close to us always, so that we may experience her maternal care also.
We are most grateful to all those who made the Flower Festival this weekend such a gloriously colourful and uplifting occasion, so appropriately centred around the Gospel narratives.
God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 4
Sunday 9 July
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Alison Shepherd, RIP (Anniv) (CH)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Ian Irwin, RIP (MD)
11.30am Mass Andrzej Sasiadek, RIP (TS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 10
Feria
9am Mass Jim & Lilian Fegan, RIP (Anniv) (JC)
Tuesday 11
St Benedict, Ab
9am Mass Frank Maguire, RIP (MM)
Wednesday 12
Feria
9am Mass Christy Smith, RIP (MW)
Thursday 13
St Henry II, Roman Emperor
9am Mass Vincent & Sheila Harrison, RIP (JC)
7pm OLL Leavers Mass
Friday 14
St Camillus de Ellis, Pr
12 Noon Mass Patricia Armstrong, RIP (JA)
Saturday 15 July
St Bonaventure, Bp, D
10am Mass Betty Gray, RIP (JH)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 16 July
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Charles & Margaret Kelly, RIP (MS)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Roy Worsley, RIP (JC)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Ofelia Omaguin, RIP & Lucille Tannobale, RIP
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Canon Francis Gilbert, Fr Walter Walsh, Fr John Watson, Paddy Shanahan, William O’Neill, Selwyn Lewis, Ita McCullough, Joan Gendall, Felix Keenan, Annie Harriet Briggs, Maria Chadun, David Dilley, Mary Bray, Irene Harvey, Margaret O’Callaghan, Elsie Maczka, Stanislaus Dulewicz, Michael O’Connell, Betty Gray, Dorothy May Cole, Kathleen Scaife, Margaret Simpson, Monica Gray, Patricia Armstrong, Josephine Russell, Ronald Gibson & Robert Wright.
We Pray for our Sick
Benjamin Dench, Eva Paviour, Gy Rampersaud, 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 Poole, 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.
We Pray for the Repose of the Souls of
JIMMY McCRIMMON RIP who died on Wednesday, 14th June. His funeral will be held on Wednesday, 2nd August at 11am, followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
EILEEN GURNEY RIP who died on Friday, 16th June. Her body will be received into the Church on Tuesday, 18th July at 4.30pm and her Requiem Mass will be held on Wednesday, 19th July at 11.30am followed by committal at Basildon Crematorium.
RAYMOND MORTON RIP who died on Sunday, 11th June. His funeral will be held on Monday 17th July at 11.15am, followed by 12.45pm burial at Sutton Road Cemetery.
CHRISTIANE DUVAL, RIP who died on Friday, 30th June.
Requiescant in pace
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am Mass
Prelude: Larghetto in F—James Nares (1715-1783)
Postlude: Fugue in F—Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)
Responsorial Psalm
Thank You
I wish to thank all who came to celebrate my 60th Anniversary of Priestly Ordination at the Mass on 30th June. It was a wonderful celebration. I wish to thank all who could not be present at the Mass but gave me many cards and gifts. I wish to thank in particular the pianist and singers for the hymns and music. For the caterers who made the reception in the hall after Mass a joyful event. Thanks to the Bishop and clergy for coming. Father Con.
BCCS RELAY100
Volunteers are once again taking part in the diocesan relay from parish to parish for Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society (BCCS), Bishop Alan Williams completed the first leg on 9th May. I’m doing it again for the Our Lady of Lourdes to St. Helen’s leg on 22nd July.
If you would like to sponsor me, please either use one of the BCCS sponsorship forms available in the Parish Office or Parish Centre at teas & coffees after 9.30am and 11.30am Sunday masses, or by going online at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/relay100 to make your donation which can be gift aided if appropriate.
Please mention my name and Relay 100 in the sponsorship note as a reference so that BCCS can trace your online donation. Thank you so much for supporting BCCS. Darrell Binding
Reading at weekend Mass - Volunteers welcome
Readers participating in the Liturgy of the Word play an essential role in the Mass, and the parish is looking for more volunteers to read. Pre-Covid there were usually two readers per weekend Mass and we would like to get back to that arrangement again if possible. It would also be wonderful if we could have readers from all age groups - including our young people.
On average people read about once every 4-5 weeks, and the rota is flexible to fit in with holiday and other commitments. You don't have to have read before and training can be provided. If you want to experience what reading would be like before deciding whether to read regularly, a one-off reading opportunity can be arranged too.
So if you would like to find out more and give reading a try, please go to the volunteering page on the website and send us your details Volunteer (lourdesleigh.org) and Jackie Sullens will be in touch. Thank you.
Serving the Homeless
Tickets for our Grand Raffle are now available. Prizes include Garden Hampers, Pamper hamper, hamper of Italian foods, Children's hamper and many more. Tickets cost £1 each or a book of tickets for £5. They are available from any member of the Committee or please ring Linda on 01702 558217. Thank you for your continuing support.
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
Missio Red Box Holders
I have received the Summer 2023 Missio Magazines. If you have not received one from me personally, please take one from the back of the Church on the ledge in the usual place. Thank you.
Joan Caunce, Secretary
01268 757505
Contactless Payments/Offerings
The contactless device is now permanently situated at the back of the church and may be used for Offertory and Second Collection offerings, Repository payments, candles, SVP and other stipends.
St Thomas More High School Open Evening - Thursday, 13th July
Thursday, 13th July 4pm to 7pm - for families who have a son due to transfer to secondary school in September 2024 - come and see the school, meet the staff and pupils.
The Headteachers talk will begin at 6.00pm.
Parents of boys who wish to apply to St. Thomas More School for a place in September 2024 should complete the local education authority single application form (saf) and fill in the supplementary information form (sif) that can be collected at the open evening.
If you are unable to come to the open evening, please contact the school in order to get the supplementary information form. The form can also be downloaded from the school web site:-
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.
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
July is dedicated to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus; in the Roman Calendar July 1st was kept as this feast.
Dear friends in Christ
July is dedicated to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus; in the Roman Calendar July 1st was kept as this feast. Westminster Cathedral is dedicated to the Most Precious Blood and within the interior there are various allusions to this dedication, such as the use of the red marble. The Blood of Jesus which was shed in His Passion, and flowed-down from the Cross, are reminders of the price of our Redemption. God could have taken away our sins in any way He chose, but He wished to pay in this way. As St John Henry Newman writes in his Meditations on the Way of the Cross: The Eternal Father determined not to pardon us without a price, in order to show us a special favour. He condescended to make us valuable to Him. What we buy we put a value on. He might have saved us without a price—by the mere ‘fiat’ of His will. But to show His love for us He took a price, which, if there was to be a price set upon us at all, if there was any ransom at all to be taken for the guilt of our sins, could be nothing short of the death of His Son in our nature. O my God and Father, Thou hast valued us so much as to pay the highest of all possible prices for our sinful souls—and shall we not love and choose Thee above all things as the one necessary and one only good? (Twelfth Station)
In Holy Communion we receive the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. This truth has been taught by the Church from the beginning and was expressed explicitly by the Council of Trent in 1551 in the thirteenth session cf http://www.thecounciloftrent.com/ch13.htm
At Mass we adore Jesus as present as truly as He was during His earthly life, with all the merits of the Passion being present, and as He lives gloriously now in Heaven. If there had been only one soul on earth in need of salvation, Jesus would have shed His blood for them. The fact that we all benefit from this act of His redemption in no way dilutes or lessens the infinite power of Christ’s Precious Blood. Many Catholics are in the habit of praying the Anima Christi as thanksgiving after Holy Communion; it is an excellent prayer and one which is the substance of the hymn, Soul of My Saviour:
Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
Body of Christ, save me.
Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
O Good Jesus, hear me.
Within your wounds hide me.
Permit me not to be separated from you.
From the wicked foe, defend me.
At the hour of my death, call me
and bid me come to you
That with your saints I may praise you
For ever and ever. Amen.
Msgr Kevin Hale
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 3
Sunday 2 July
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Ints Fr Con Joyce (AE)
9.30am Mass Clare Ryan, RIP (SM)
11.30am Mass Philomena Davids, RIP (DG)
4pm Mass Fr James Patrick Hannon, RIP (AM)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 3
St Thomas, Ap
9am Mass Frank Clancy, RIP (Anniv) (JL)
Tuesday 4
St Elizabeth of Portugal
9am Mass Christopher Colquhoun, RIP (SM)
5pm Body in Church Caroline Geoghegan, RIP
Wednesday 5
St Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Pr
9am Mass Ian Irwin, RIP (D&RL)
2pm Requiem Mass Caroline Geoghegan, RIP
Thursday 6
St Maria Goretti, V, M
9am Mass Jose Conlu, RIP (JL)
Friday 7
First Friday
12 Noon Mass Bruce Adcock, RIP (GS)
12.30pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until Holy Hour 7-8pm
Saturday 8 July
Saturday Memorial of BVM
10am Mass Intentions of Des McFarlane (90th Birthday) (MW)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 9 July
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Alison Shepherd, RIP (Anniv) (CH)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Ian Irwin, RIP (MD)
11.30am Mass Andrzej Sasiadek, RIP (TS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
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