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.
CHRISTIANE DUVAL, RIP who died on Friday, 30th June. Her Requiem Mass will be held at Sacred Heart Church on Monday, 24th July at 2pm.
JANET WEALE RIP who died on Saturday, 15th July. Her Requiem Mass will be held on Thursday, 3rd August at 2.15pm followed by committal at Basildon Crematorium.
EDMUND TODRYK RIP
Requiescant in pace
Sanctuary Lamp
This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for the deceased members of the O’Brien Family.
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am Mass
Prelude: Pastorella in D—Johann Nauss (1690-1764)
Postlude: Voluntary in G—William Boyce (1710-1779)
Responsorial Psalm
Repository
The Repository is now closed for the Summer and will re-open in early September with a selection of new stock, gifts and cards.
Site Manager - Cathedral House
The successful applicant will identify and carry out effectively, routine and reactive maintenance tasks, regular health and safety checks and other general duties associated with the management of buildings and grounds comprising the Cathedral House and the Brentwood Parish.
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: £23,000 - £27,000 p/a depending on experience
Start Date: ASAP
Apply by sending a CV and covering letter (no longer than A4) recruitment@brcdt.org
Closing date for applications is 14th August 2023
London Marathon 2024
Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society has a number of Gold Bond Charity places for runners in the LONDON MARATHON taking place on SUNDAY 21st April 2024. If you are an experienced runner, or someone who would value the opportunity to participate in this renowned event, please contact Damian Dillon for further details on 07912 308000/ddillon@bccs.org.uk.
The closing date for completed applications is Friday 28th July and please note that there is a minimum sponsorship requirement of £1800 (excluding Gift Aid).
If you have been lucky enough to secure your own running place through the ballot, we would invite you to join us and run for Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society. The London Marathon is a unique opportunity to raise much needed funds for the Diocesan Children’s Society and perhaps achieve a lifetime ambition at the same time.
St Bernard's High School
Exam Invigilators
The school is looking to recruit further Exam Invigilators to join its bank of staff who oversee examinations in the school. Training will be given.
Hourly rate: £10.50
The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in this commitment.
If you are interested in becoming part of the team, please fill in a non-teaching application form found on our website under https://www.stbernardswestcliff.org.uk/about-us/vacancies/ and email it to recruitment@stbernards.southend.sch.uk
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.
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
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.
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
Parish Fundraising
Thank you to everyone who supports the 200 Club. The results of the June draw are as follows:
1st Prize £150 108 Mr & Mrs M Mapson
2nd Prize £100 9 Mr S Pearson
3rd Prize £75 94 Mrs A Thompson
4th Prize £25 185 Mrs E Humpage
We are still looking for new members. The subscription is £5 per month, either by cash, cheque or direct debit. If you would like to join, please fill in a form which can be found at the back of the church or ring Linda Wall on 01702 558217.
First Holy Communion 2024
If your child is going into Year 3 or above and you wish for them to make their First Holy Communion, please submit the application by Friday 8th September 2023.
This should be done via the parish website, under Sacraments - Communion
(https://lourdesleigh.org/sacraments)
The first meeting for parents will be on Wednesday 13th September at 8pm in the Parish Centre.
The Knights of St Columbia National Relic Tour
We are delighted to announce that the Diocese of Brentwood will be graced with the presence of esteemed relics during the Knights of Saint Columba National Relic Tour 2023. From July 30th to August 12th, we welcome you to witness and venerate the sacred relics of St. Columba of Iona, St. Andrew the Apostle, and St. Margaret of Scotland.
These relics, rich in spiritual significance, offer a unique opportunity for personal reflection and communion with these revered saints. Join us in this profound spiritual journey as we celebrate their enduring legacies. Stay tuned for more details and event schedules. Let us come together in faith and embrace the blessings of this extraordinary experience! Please see the timetable below dates, times and places the Relics can be viewed throughout the Diocese.
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
St Matthew’s Parable of The Sower is one of the best known of the stories told by Jesus.
Dear friends in Christ
St Matthew’s Parable of The Sower is one of the best known of the stories told by Jesus. God hopes we will be good soil that will receive His grace and bear fruit. The greater our generosity towards God, the better and more abundant will be the fruit we produce. The only thing that matters, comments St John, Chrysostom, is that we should not be a beaten-down thoroughfare, or rocky ground, or thorns, but that we should be good soil… Our hearts must not be the path from which the enemy, like the birds, snatches the seed, trodden on the foot by passers-by. Our hearts must not be the rocky ground where the shallowness of the soil causes the seed to germinate immediately, so that it is scorched by the sun. Our hearts must not be a thistle-bed of human passions, strangled by the care of this world. (Sermon 101,3)
Anyone, whatever our lives have been in the past, are able to become soil that is prepared to receive God's grace. Any soil could become rich land, although previously it may have been nothing but desert, because God's grace never fails us, and His care is greater than that of the most expert farmer. Once grace has been given, the results depend only on us, who are free to correspond or not. The ground is good, the sower is the same, and the seeds are the same in each case. Nevertheless, how is it that one gives a hundredfold, another sixtyfold and another thirtyfold? We can see that the difference depends on the person receiving it, for even when the soil is good, there is a great deal of difference between one patch of ground and another. You can see that neither the farmer, nor the seed is at fault, but the soil on which the sowing was done. This is not a result of nature, but of the disposition of the will. (St John Chrysostom, loc.cit)
We could daily examine our lives and ask ourselves if we correspond well with the graces God gives us. He has given us so much, and has a right to expect much back in return.
May God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 5
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
Monday 17
Feria
9am Mass Intentions of Rena Scanlon (AB)
11.30am Funeral Mass Raymond Morton, RIP
Tuesday 18
Feria
9am Mass Intentions of Blake Mackay (SD)
4.30pm Body in Church Eileen Gurney, RIP
Wednesday 19
Feria
11.30am Requiem Mass Eileen Gurney, RIP
Thursday 20
St Apollinaris, Bp, M
9am Mass Intentions of Ewan Craig (AC)
Friday 21
St Lawrence of Brindisi, Pr, D
12 Noon Mass Denis O'Shea, RIP (F&JO’B)
Saturday 22 July
St Mary Magdalene
10am Mass Colin O'Brien, RIP (CO’B)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 23 July
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Clare Chadwick, RIP (Anniv) (MI)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Intentions of Marie Rubbert (RO'C)
9.30am Mass Intentions of Carol Paine-80th birthday (AT)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Canon Daniel Harnett, Fr Edmund Dobson, Fr Patrick Taylor, Deacon David Balmer, Fr James McEvoy, Margarita Ekers, Mary James, Andrew Wardle, Hope Bailey-Pillow, Madeleine Bullock-Jarman, Joan Slattery, Norah Jordan, Donald Joyce, Ellen Gardner, Joseph Ketterer, James Dawson, Andrew Regan, Mabel Buckley, Michael Regan, Bill Prior, Margaret May Orme, David Finnigan, Reginald Copley, Caroline Hardy, Kathleen Butt, Jane Bickmore, Charles Fletcher, Jane Mawdsley, Alice Collins, Aislinn Lane, Elsie Witty, Irene Huggett, Frank McEvoy, Pamela Johnson, Francis Howard Kenney, Geraldine Hayter, Joan Farmer, Winifred Martin & Marian Bukowski.
We Pray for our Sick
Tay Collicutt, 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
RAYMOND MORTON RIP who died on Sunday, 11th June. His funeral will be held on Monday 17th July at 11.30am, followed by 12.45pm burial at Sutton Road Cemetery.
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.
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.
CHRISTIANE DUVAL, RIP who died on Friday, 30th June.
Requiescant in pace