Parish Christmas Bazaar - Sunday 3rd December, 8.45am - 1.00pm
We are pleased to announce that our Annual Parish Bazaar is back once again and we need your help and generosity. If you have any unwanted gifts, toiletries, bottles, raffle prizes or bric-a-brac that you would like to donate, please leave them in the Old Baptistry.
If you would like to help on the day, please contact us.
Sue Lawford - 07816 141492, Angela Clements - 07940 183452, email angelaclements47@gmail.com. Thank you.
OLL School Fireworks Night
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School and Nursery in Leigh-on-Sea is hosting a spectacular professional fireworks display on Saturday 28th October.
Tickets are £7pp (children under 3 are free) and can be booked on www.ticketsource.co.uk searching ‘Our Lady of Lourdes Fireworks’. Gates open for food at 5.30pm, with the display starting at 7pm.
We hope to welcome many of you to our school grounds for this fantastic evening, in aid of PTA fundraising.
Sea of Voices Annual Christmas Concert
The Sea of Voices Choir, our Parish community choir, will be holding its Christmas Concert on Sunday 26th November at the Parish Centre from 3pm. Tickets £5 will shortly be available and any donations of raffle prizes and help with refreshments are very welcome!
All money raised will go to a local charity (name of charity/charities to be advised next week along with ticket availability). Please put a note in your diary!
Contact Darrell Binding on 07825686249 for any details/informations.
Guided Meditation on a Travelling Icon
Leigh on Sea Third Order of Carmelites invite you to a Guided Meditation on a Travelling Icon.
Come and hear about the creation of the Icon and the story of the Carmelites, told through imagery and symbols, in Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Centre on Saturday, 28th October, starting at 2.30pm.
All very welcome to attend.
JOURNEY OF FAITH—RCIA
RCIA will meet on Monday, 23rd October and is specifically for those who are not Catholics but who are enquiring with a view to finding out more about the Catholic Faith and Reception into the Church. These evenings begin at 8pm, are held in the Newman Room of the Parish Centre (the door is beside the Memorial Garden) and usually last just over an hour. Names may be given in advance to Fr Kevin or the Parish Office.
Repository Open
We have a very nice selection of new stock which includes a small selection of Statues. Thinking ahead to “All Souls” in November we have a selection of Graveside lights, Lanterns and some small Remembrance tokens. These will of course be available each week . You are all welcome to come and browse and if you do not see what you are looking for please ask one of the Volunteers.
If you have a short time to spare before and after a weekend Mass, please consider volunteering at the Repository. Please leave your name and contact number at the Parish Office.
Missio - World Mission Sunday (Sunday 22 October)
The Holy Father invites all Catholics to contribute to a special collection for Missio, his charity for world mission. Please support Missio in helping missionaries to work alongside communities throughout the world that are poor or in need , regardless of their background or belief.
To donate please see the Freepost envelopes at the back of the Church to send direct to Missio or place in the church collection.
Thank you.
Joan Caunce, Secretary.-
BCCS
Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society (BCCS) offers therapeutic support directly to children, young people, families and parents through their Child and Family Counselling Service (CFCS) located in their centre in Billericay. Their CFCS team consists of several experienced and highly qualified therapists working in specially adapted therapy rooms. Families can contact BCCS directly by emailing Donna Booth dbooth@bccs.org.uk who will outline the type of support that will be provided for them or their child. There is a charge for this service, but they urge any families needing support to contact them. More information is available on their website: www.bccs.org.uk
St Bernard's High School Open Evening
St Bernard’s High School—A Catholic Academy for Arts and Science
Open Evening for Prospective Year 12— Thursday 30 November 2023—7.00pm to 9.00pm
We would be delighted to welcome to our Sixth Form Open Evening prospective students who are interested in joining St Bernard’s High School’s Sixth Form in September 2024
We welcome applications to our mixed Sixth Form from students of all faiths and none, who meet our entrance requirements and are seeking a school with a Christian ethos.
‘St Bernard’s High School is a welcoming, inclusive school’. Ofsted 2023
‘Leaders have high expectations of pupils in terms of learning and behaviour. Pupils live up to these expectations.’ Ofsted 2023
‘St Bernard’s High School is an outstanding Catholic school - attainment and progress of students is outstanding’ (Diocesan Inspection, 2017)
www.stbernardswestcliff.org.uk, Milton Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex SS0 7JS
St Helen's Catholic Primary School Vacancy
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Teaching Assistant to join our hard-working and friendly team. Please check our website for full details https://st-helens.southend.sch.uk/about-us/our-school/staff-vacancies or contact Mrs Sears on 01702 343823.
Closing date Monday, 6th November.
Primary School Link Adviser Opportunity
The Diocese of Brentwood is seeking to appoint a Primary School Link Adviser who is a practising Catholic, to support the Diocesan Board of Education and its family of schools. This is likely to be a part-time post of either 3 or 4 days a week, however, consideration will also be given to applicants who are seeking a full-time or secondment opportunity. The Primary Link Adviser will report to the Diocesan Director of Education and Deputy Director. It is expected that applicants will have an established and successful track record as a head teacher, a senior leader in a primary school or have recent, relevant advisory/consultancy experience. Applicants must be able to demonstrate school improvement experience and the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. Working closely as part of a team, the successful candidate will:
• Support the development of Catholic schools as providers of high quality educational, religious and spiritual standards
• Play a leading role in the effectiveness of organisational services and operations
• Support projects in and across schools on an ad-hoc or commissioned basis
• Deliver training
• Participate in the formulation of local level education policy.
Further details and an application form can be obtained via the following link: Primary Link Adviser – Brentwood Diocesan Education Service or by emailing: victoriabarnes@dioceseofbrentwood.org
FREE Little City Sessions
Is your child in Nursery or preschool?
Come along to a FREE Little City session at our school on the 7th November!
Go shopping in the supermarket; be a hairdresser; treat the poorly animals in the Vets: the possibilities are endless!
Simply go to https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/leigh-on-sea/our-lady-of-lourdes-catholic-primary-school-and-nursery and book your space!
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The image of a banquet is often used in the Bible to represent salvation and the intimacy of relationship that we shall have with God.
Dear friends in Christ
The image of a banquet is often used in the Bible to represent salvation and the intimacy of relationship that we shall have with God. Behold I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with me (Rev 3:20). God repeats over and over again, His desire to engage in a loving dialogue with his creatures, a dialogue, which will take definitive form in Heaven. What so far has been our response to the thousand petitions we are constantly receiving from the Lord? How is our prayer? Are we entering into close relationship with the Lord? Do we excuse ourselves from leading lives of greater dedication? Do we feel responsible for bringing the divine invitation to others? Are we concerned about the salvation of the people we know? There are no good excuses for missing the banquet of the Lord. The excuses the people give in the parable of the Mass this Sunday are essentially the same sort of excuses people use today. The problems lies in giving priority to earthly realities over eternal realities. St Augustine exclaims: Help us, Lord, to disown our vain excuses. We want to attend the banquet ... Don't allow our pride or sensuality or attachments or idle curiosity to get in the way of our attendance. Make sure that we show up...Who, after all, is going to be there? Beggars, the sick, the crippled, the blind ... We will arrive as the poor people that we are. We have been invited by the wealthy one who became poor for our sake, thereby enriching the poverty of the poor. We will come as sick people, since we need the divine doctor to cure our ills. We will come as lame people, and we will tell him: 'Keep steady my steps according to thy promise' (Ps 118:133). We will come as blind people and we will ask him: Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death' (Ps 12:4).
God bless you all in this coming week!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 1
Saturday 14
St Callistus I, P, M
10am Mass Peter Boardman, RIP (HS)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
5.30pm Vigil Mass Intentions of Tádgh Morgan—new baby (KM)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 15 October
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Sir David Amess, RIP (Anniv) (RP)
9.30am Mass John & Anne Young, RIP (LY)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 16
St Margaret Mary Alacoque, V
9am Mass Gilberte Cook, RIP (MH)
Tuesday 17
St Ignatius of Antioch, Bp, M
9am Mass Intentions of Kath O’Connor (MI)
Wednesday 18
ST LUKE, Evangelist Feast
9am Mass Intentions of Evelyn Mackay (SD)
Thursday 19
Ss John de Brebeuf & Isaac Jogues, Pre, & Comps, Mm
9am Mass Mary Comey, RIP (Anniv) (MC)
Friday 20
Feria
12Noon Mass Charles & Alice Whitefield, RIP
Saturday 21
Feria
10am Mass John Harley, Nina Clarke & Emma Harley, RIP (PL)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 22 October
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Thomas Patrick Costello, RIP (Anniv) (KC)
9.30am Mass Peter Boardman, RIP (AP)
11.30am Mass Mark Solecki, RIP (Birthday) (IS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Canon Roderick Grant, Mgr Canon Christopher Creede, Fr Bernard Clay, Francis Jones, Martha Tanner, Phyllis Koch, John Young, John Murray, Anne Young, Olga Ballard, Mary Aitken, Mary Smith, Kathleen Chambers, Florence Cody, Ada Redington, Patricia Kendall, Charles Edwards, William Brooks, Johanna Gromnicka, Margaret Kenney, Josephine Platt, Annie Barton, Anthony Isaacs, Joan Erwood, George Gatward, David Thomas, Kevin Hopley, Monica James, Elizabeth Winchester, Veronica McCullough, Dr. Brian Quinn, Denis Jordan & Sybil Swann.
We Pray for our Sick
Yvonne Ashwell, Lucy Moreno, Jose Luis Lira, Richard Poole, Pamela Uglietti, Michael Mapson, Deana Ince, Susan Griffin, Eva Paviour, Gy Rampersaud, Mary O’Sullivan, Ian Spacie, Bobby Newman, Paul Watts, Christine Reid, Rose D’Souza, Jimmy & Pauline Martin, James Fegan, 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.
Please pray for the repose of the souls of
JOHN WILLIAMS who died on Saturday 2nd September. His Requiem Mass will take place on Monday, 23rd October at 1pm followed by committal at Basildon Crematorium.
Mrs MURIEL MATTHEWS—details of funeral to be announced
Requiescant in pace
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am Mass
Prelude: Voluntary in G John James (c.1730)
Postlude: Toccata in G Minor Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Responsorial Psalm
