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.
Transfiguration of the Lord
Dear friends in Christ
On two occasions during the liturgical year, we remember the Transfiguration of Jesus in a special way.
Dear friends in Christ
On two occasions during the liturgical year, we remember the Transfiguration of Jesus in a special way. First, on the second Sunday of Lent, to affirm the divinity of Christ, before we commemorate his passion. And the second, today, as we recall the exaltation of Christ in anticipation of His eternal glory. This revelation prefigured the splendour of Heaven, where we will see God face-to-face. Through grace, we acquire the seed of eternal life during our present existence, and begin to participate to a certain extent in the promise of salvation even now.
Our life is a roadway to Heaven, but one that passes by way of the cross and through sacrifice. Until our final moments, we shall have to swim against the current. Saint Thomas Aquinas teaches that if we want to follow the path of Jesus, then we must keep the destination clearly fixed before our eyes...just as the archer does not accurately launch an arrow without first, looking at the target. This is necessary, above all, when the road is rough and hazardous, and the path laborious. It is fitting, therefore, for Christ, to reveal to His disciples, the splendour of His glory, to become transfigured before them, since in the same glory, He would one-day transfigure His own.
If we live in this way, nothing on this path can harm us, however tragic or catastrophic it may seem to be. Let us look to Christ in glory on this feast of His Transfiguration, that we may be led to our rebirth into everlasting life and see His glory face-to-face!
May God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Transfiguration of the Lord
Sunday 6 August
Transfiguration of the Lord
Liturgy:
Readings of The Feast, Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of The Transfiguration
5.30pm Vigil Mass Fidelis & Lourdesmary Pallis, RIP (DL)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Fred & Doreen Wall, RIP (K&LW)
11.30am Mass Vincent Glauda, RIP (Anniv) (KC)
4pm Mass John & Carol Smith—60th Wedding Anniversary (CS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 7
St Sixtus II, P & Comps, Mm
9am Mass Roger & Ann O'Boyle, RIP (Anniv) (MI)
Tuesday 8
St Dominic, Pr
9am Mass Intentions of Margarida Gomes (KP)
Wednesday 9
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, V, M
9am Mass Jim Monaghan, RIP (JA)
Thursday 10
St Lawrence, Deacon, M
9am Mass Denise MacDermott, RIP (Anniv) (AC)
Friday 11
St Clare, V
12 Noon Mass Caroline Goeghegan, RIP (CB)
Saturday 12 August
St Jane Frances de Chantal, Rel
10am Mass Liam Armstrong, RIP (JA)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 13 August
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Diana Underwood, RIP (Anniv) (RB)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Intentions of Fr Con Joyce-60th Anniv (MF)
9.30am Mass Ian Irwin, RIP (CC)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Pope Paul VI, Deacon Frederick Wall, Fr Henry Tilley, Fr David Coghlan, Fr Hugh Verity, Fr David Papworth, Jim Collins, John Joseph Sanford, Phyllis Mabel Burke, Arthur Holdstock, Michael Christopher Edwards, Phylis Glazebrook, Peter Matthews, Clarice Cannon, Margaret Taylor, Sheila Mazzag, Teresa Baxter, Lilian Sutton, Andrea Uglietti, Maria Figg, Richard Collins, Ethel Morgan, Patrick Blissett, Daran Persaud, Lily de Lobel, Maria Robinson, Vincent Glad, Teresa Booty, Doris Lowe, Leonard Stevenson, Christopher Barrago, William Smith, Joseph Herinckx, Ronald Hall, Les Smith, Len Murray, James Jones, Dawn Pursey & John Dillon.
We Pray for our Sick
Susan Griffin, Benjamin Dench, Eva Paviour, Gy Rampersaud, Mary O’Sullivan, Ian Spacie, Bobby Newman, Paul Watts, Christine Reid, Rose D’Souza, Jimmy & Pauline Martin, 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, 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 Soul of
JOAN HERBERT RIP who died on Wednesday, 2nd August.
Requiescat in pace
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am Mass
Prelude: Improvised versets on the Introit
Postlude: Choral No. 1—Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Responsorial Psalm
The Lord is king, the Most High over all the earth.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of this Sunday contains the truth that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a pearl of great price—a treasure!
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of this Sunday contains the truth that the Kingdom of Heaven is like a pearl of great price—a treasure! Whenever we discover something of great value in our lives, we do everything we can to possess it. Jesus desires us to put all our efforts into attaining Heaven. Everything we do in this life has to be done with this one aim: arriving at Heaven. God’s Kingdom already exists on earth in the form of the Body of Christ—the Church. The Church is the source of holiness for our world. She continually offers mankind the means of achieving union with God. Certainly our Holy Mother shines out spotless in her sacraments, by means of which she brings forth her children, and nourishes them; in her faith, which has never suffered contamination; in her most holy laws, by which she commands all people; and in her evangelical counsels, which she proposes to all people; finally, in her heavenly gifts and charisms, by means of which, with inexhaustible fecundity, she brings forth armies of martyrs and virgins and confessors. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis,30)
As we listen again to these words of the Gospel this weekend, we implore God to give us a holy desire for the things of the Kingdom of Heaven: to grasp the pearl, that treasure of great price, and stake everything we have to win the crown of eternal life in Heaven.
Next weekend we shall be celebrating the feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus (6th August) which further imprints upon our minds and hearts the desire for the things of Heaven, where Christ lives in glory!
Having just returned from our Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes we give thanks for the grace-filled days spent in the company of Jesus and Mary. We assure you of the many prayers: Rosaries, Masses and sacrifices offered there for the intentions of our Parish Family.
God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 7
Sunday 30 July
Seventeenth 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 Muriel Coverdale, RIP (PL)
9.30am Mass Eileen Bines, RIP (SVP)
11.30am Mass Ian Irwin, RIP (CO’B)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 31
St Ignatius of Loyola, Pr
9am Mass Ian Irwin, RIP (SH)
Tuesday 1 August
St Alphonsus Liguori, Bp, D
9am Mass Gwendoline Underwood, RIP (Anniv) (RB)
Wednesday 2
St Eusebius of Vercelli, Bp
9am Mass Beth Brown, RIP (SM)
11am Requiem Mass Jimmy McCrimmon, RIP
Thursday 3
Feria
9am Mass Raymond Vaulbert de Chantilly, RIP (LP)
2.15pm Requiem Mass Janet Weale, RIP
Friday 4
St John Vianney (Curé of Ars), Pr—First Friday
12 Noon Mass Maureen Mann, RIP (RM)
12.30pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until Holy Hour 7-8pm
Saturday 5 August
Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major
10am Mass Charles & Alice Whitefield RIP (FM)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 6 August
Transfiguration of the Lord
5.30pm Vigil Mass Fidelis & Lourdesmary Pallis, RIP (DL)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Fred & Doreen Wall, RIP (K&LW)
11.30am Mass Vincent Glauda, RIP (Anniv) (KC)
4pm Mass John & Carol Smith—60th Wedding Anniversary (CS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Michael O’Sullivan, Fr Thomas Jordan, Fr Richard Rowe, Leo Francis Ring, Paul Swann, Irene (Molly) Kerry, Irene Hall, Caroline Richards, Mary Ellen Fiddes, Eleanor Lawson, Sylvia Gosling, Ethel Warwick, Olive Scott-Hansen, Winifred Bailey, Bernard Martin, Frances Murray, Teresa Fitzgerald, Max Button, Margaret Ring, Noel Auger, Cecelia Newton, Phyllis Fairman, John Higgins, Maureen Mann, Walter Owen, Stella Blackburn, Sister Vincent, Catherine Hayes, Timothy O’Shea, Anthony Poulton & Denise McDermott.