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.
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.
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
Each year in the middle of August, on 15th, we have the celebration of the glorious Assumption of Our Blessed Lady.
Dear friends in Christ
Each year in the middle of August, on 15th, we have the celebration of the glorious Assumption of Our Blessed Lady. Our belief is, that at the end of her earthly life Mary was taken body and soul into the glory of Heaven; God did not allow the beautiful and immaculate body of His Mother to experience the corruption of the grave. On this feast, we have the opportunity of an outpouring of special love of Our Blessed Mother. We know that assumed into Heaven she has taken her place at the side of her Son. She is our best friend at Court, best-placed to put our intentions to God the Father, and is in intimate union with the Holy Spirit. We have ever confidence that sharing fully in the life of The Blessed Trinity she will aid us, as we pray daily: now, and at the hour of our death. We pray these words because the Hail Mary expresses the only two important moments for us: this present moment, and the moment of our death. In both these times Mary is with us, and ever more so now that she reigns as Queen of Heaven. Let us make our own the words of liturgy this when we come to Mass on Tuesday: Assumpta est Maria in cælum…Mary has been assumed into Heaven: the angels rejoice. They sing for joy and praise the Lord. May we join with them in giving this praise!
God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 8
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
Monday 14
St Maximilian Kolbe, Pr, M
9am Mass Intentions of David Poole—50th Birthday (AC)
Tuesday 15
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Holyday of Obligation
9am Mass Frank Mann, RIP (RM)
12Noon Mass Iwona Baran (Birthday) (AA)
7pm Mass The People of the Parish
Wednesday 16
St Stephen of Hungary
9am Mass Intentions of Dylon Steel (SH)
Thursday 17
Feria
9am Mass Bernadette Perry, RIP (KH)
Friday 18
Feria
12 Noon Mass John, Agnes & Susan Watkins, RIP (JW)
Saturday 19 August
St John Eudes, Pr
10am Mass Caroline Geoghegan, RIP (SG)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 20 August
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
5.30pm Vigil Mass Charles DeSouza, RIP (MF)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Tom & Anne Corcoran, RIP (KC)
9.30am Mass Ian Irwin, RIP (AP)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Stephen Keane, Canon Peter Prendergast, Canon Vincent Hurley, Fr Andrew Hurley, Fr John Cairns, Gerard Rodgers, Magdalaine Rubuck, Philippa Soggre, Jean Kerr, Philomena Stone, Arthur John Watkins, Frank Mann, Hugh Palmer, Helen Louise Enright, Dr Anna (Reggie) Kemmerling, Carmen Georges, Bridie Corrigan, Francis Bartley, Mary Attersley, Bernadette Perry, Andre Lince, Raymond Vaulbert de Chantilly, Annie Gallacher, John Walmsley, Margaret McFarlane, John Power, Marjorie Hook, Edwin Martin, Catherine McGowan, Noreen Selet, Edward Shavner, Charles Roots, Mary Theresa Johnson, Denise Gianelli & Valerie Huntley.
We Pray for our Sick
Deana Ince, 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. Her Requiem Mass will take place on Friday, 25th August at 2pm followed by committal at Basildon Crematorium.
Requiescat in pace
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am Mass
Prelude: Voluntary in B flat—Charles Burney (1726-1814)
Postlude: Largo Movement from Voluntary in D Major—Henry Heron (c.1730-1795)
Responsorial Psalm
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.
Dates for your Diary
Monday 18th September—Journey in Faith (RCIA) begins—8pm Newman Room
First Holy Communion Parents Meeting—Wednesday 13th September—8pm in Parish Centre
Thursday 30th November—Saturday 2nd December—Forty Hours’ Prayer
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.
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.