Our Lady of Lourdes PTA
Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School and Nursery are very excited to announce that we have joined up with ‘Leigh Trees’ in their school fundraising scheme. If you are going to buy a Christmas tree this year buying one from Leigh Trees will raise funds for our school.
Simply buy a real Christmas tree, online or in person, and YOU get £10 OFF, and the school PTA will also receive £10 commission for each tree sold.
You can buy online at LeighTrees.co.uk using our personalised Code: olol10 or visit LeighTrees at the A127 Christmas Tree Farm, 579 Prince Avenue, Westcliff on Sea SS0 0JJ, simply mention you are supporting Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School. Trees are available from mid-November with deliveries FREE to all SS postcodes from the end of November.
Many thanks for you support, OLOL School PTA
OLL Ladies Group
Our next Meeting is on Thursday 16th November in the Parish Centre from 10am. We will be hosting a Christmas Crafts morning with plenty to keep us all busy. If you are not a sewing Bee, don’t worry as plenty of hands required to fill fabric bags with Lavender, and that’s just for starters, so don’t be shy about joining in.
You might enjoy coming along and observing all the talent whilst indulging in tea, coffee and cake. Some of our ladies are hoping to have a Christmas Craft stall at the Parish Bazaar, so it will be a case of “many hands make light work”. As usual subs are just £1.00 plus a fun morning.
The Little Company of Mary, 11-13 Grosvenor Road, Westcliff-on-Sea
We are looking for a cook to prepare a light supper for nine sisters. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday—4.30pm-6.30pm. Apply to Maggie Millington, 01702 341537.
Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School & Nursery Vacancy
We are looking for an Early Career Teachers /Qualified Teachers EYFS Full time or Part-time (Maternity Cover), required for January 2024.
Please contact the school office via email at finance@ourladyoflourdes.southend.sch.uk or call on 01702 475689 for an application pack.
Closing Date: 21st November 2023
Interview Date: 28th or 29th November
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 Thomas More High School Sixth Form Open Evening
Thursday 23rd November, 6.00-9.00 PM
For families who have students—boys and girls—in year 11 of secondary school who are intending to begin sixth form studies in September 2024. Come and visit the school and meet the staff and current sixth form students. There will be tours of the sixth form building and the rest of the school.
Missio Red Boxes
If anyone has a box that needs emptying please let me have it either in person or left in the office by the very latest Sunday 26th November. Thank you. Joan Caunce, Secretary. 01268 757505
St Bernard's High School Vacancy
Reprographics and Display Technician Urgently Required, Part-time 25 hours per week 8.00am-1.30pm Monday-Friday (hours negotiable) Term time + 1 week
Scale 7-12 (pro rata)
The school is urgently looking to recruit a Reprographics and Display Technician ideally from 17 November 2023. We are looking for someone organised and adaptable to ensure the smooth running of our Reprographics Department.
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 this position, please fill in the support staff application form found on our website under https://www.stbernardswestcliff.org.uk/about-us/vacancies/ and email it to recruitment@stbernards.southend.sch.uk
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
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Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Primary School Vacancies
Class Teacher
We are looking to appoint a Class Teacher in KS2 for September 2024. Please visit Essex Jobscene for further details: https://www.essexschoolsjobs.co.uk/Vacancies/Details.aspx?VacancyId=94018 Closing date: Thursday 23rd November 2023 (4pm) Interview date: tbc
Learning Mentor
We are looking to appoint a Learning Mentor Permanent contract. Salary - Point 5 £21,575 FTE (actual salary £11,686) 23 hours, 45 mins a week (8.30am-1.15pm) Term Time only
Please visit Essex Jobscene for further details: https://www.essexschoolsjobs.co.uk/Vacancies/Details.aspx?VacancyId=94015 Closing date: Thursday 23rd November 2023 (4pm) Interview date: tbc
Supply Teachers
We are also looking to build a team of Supply Teachers. Please Contact Mr Parascandolo via info@olorcps.net for further details.
The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. These appointments are subject to satisfactory references, medical and enhanced DBS checks.
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
In the Gospel of the Mass this Sunday, Our Lord reproaches the Pharisees for performing deeds only to attract the attention of the people including their desire for social standing and approval. He
Dear friends in Christ
In the Gospel of the Mass this Sunday, Our Lord reproaches the Pharisees for performing deeds only to attract the attention of the people including their desire for social standing and approval. He goes on to say that there is only one Teacher and Doctor who is Christ, and there is only one Father, who is in Heaven. God enjoys the fullness of paternity and earthly fathers participate in His paternity whenever they contribute to new life. Those who foster faith in others also partake in this paternity. St Paul writes to the Christians in Corinth: For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. But I became your father in Christ Jesus through the Gospel. I urge you, then, to be imitators of me (1Cor4:14). He felt a deep paternal responsibility for all his children in need. This is why the Church teaches us that the people who foster our Faith through preaching and the Sacraments, should also be seen as our parents. We each participate in the spiritual parenthood of the many souls whom we have helped to find Christ and the salvation He alone brings. Paternal love, always involves a special readiness to expend oneself and be poured out for the sake of those who come within one's range of activity. In marriage, this readiness, even though open to all, consists mainly in the love that parents give to their children. In virginity, this readiness is open to all, who are embraced by the love of Christ the Spouse (St Pope John Paul II, Mulieris Dignitatem,21). Saint Joseph can be a model and help to us in this dimension of the Christian life, when it comes to our concern for the well-being and salvation of others. If we go to Joseph, we learn from him how to grow in love for our neighbour; he was the fatherly teacher of the Son of God on earth!
May God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 4
Saturday 4
St Charles Borromeo, Bp
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 5 November
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Deceased Relatives of the Clancy Family
9.30am Mass Deceased Members of the Wall & Rockell Families
11.30am Mass Vivian Payne, RIP (Anniv) (VP)
4pm Mass Assunta Cotgrove, RIP (AMcC)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 6
Feria
9am Mass Jan Andre Solecki, RIP (IS)
Tuesday 7
St Willibrord, Bp
9am Mass Gerry Kelly, RIP (JA)
Wednesday 8
Feria
9am Mass Jim & Lilian Fegan, RIP (JC)
4.30pm Body in Church Muriel Matthews, RIP
Thursday 9
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
9am Mass Holy Souls
2.30pm Requiem Mass Muriel Matthews, RIP
Friday 10
St Leo the Great, P, D
12Noon Mass Pauline Godfrey, RIP (MI)
7pm Sung Latin Requiem Mass
Saturday 11
St Martin of Tours, Bp
10am Mass Fr Bernard O'Brien, RIP (K&LW)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
5.30pm Vigil Mass Jerzy (George) Wislocki, RIP (Anniv) (PW)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 12 November
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Intentions of Evelyn McKay (SD)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Intentions of Brian Mountier-Birthday (SVP) (S&NH)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Canon John Carmel Heenan, Fr William Philpot, Canon Denis Petry, Fr James Ethrington, Bob O’Toole, Dorothy Bartley, Lily Kenny, Irene Fanning, May Pinsent, Arthur (Rob) Hood, Margaret Scales, Marie Elliott, Olive Potter, Alice West, James McHugh, Alan Gloyne, Eileen Waskett, Bernard Culham, Bridget Curtis, Tom Doran, Robert Drew, Clare Murphy, Emma Harley, Reginald Johnston, Francis Whelan, Dorothy Stuart, Sydney Hamblon, Thomas Horner, Dr Gerry Leyden, Marie Daniels, Sidney Hempstead & Pearl Scaife.
We Pray for our Sick
Lucy Moreno, Jose Luis Lira, Richard Poole, Pamela Uglietti, Michael Mapson, Deana Ince, Susan Griffin, 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.
Sanctuary Lamp
This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for the deceased members of the McGeoghegan Family.
Please pray for the repose of the souls of
Mrs MURIEL MATTHEWS Her body will be received into the church on Wednesday, 8th November at 4.30pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Thursday, 9th November at 2.30pm, followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
Mrs YVONNE ASHWELL-RIVENS who died on Friday 27th October. Her body will be received into the church on Wednesday, 22nd November at 4.45pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Thursday, 23rd November at 3pm.
Mr KENNETH BIEBUYCK who died on 20th October. Funeral details to follow.
Mrs PATRICIA BOWER who died on Tuesday 31st October. Funeral details to follow.
Requiescant in pace
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am Mass
Prelude: Voluntary in C—John James (c.1730)
Postlude: Recessional Voluntary—Francis Linley (1771-1800)
Responsorial Psalm
