SVP Christmas Party
A Christmas Party! Your parish SVP (Society of St Vincent de Paul) Conference is delighted to announce the date and place of its annual '"Christmas Party" to which all senior members of the parish are most warmly invited!
Our "Christmas Party" is being held in the Parish Centre on Saturday, 9th December, commencing at 2pm and concluding at 4pm! Carols, good company and Christmas fare will pleasantly ease you into the seasonal spirit!
If you—or someone you know—would like to join us on this happy parish occasion please call/text Francis O'Brien on 07845 874331. You will be most welcome!
Sea of Voices Annual Christmas Concert
The Sea of Voices Choirs Christmas Concert will be held on Sunday 26th November at the Parish Centre starting at 3pm. Tickets at £5 are available from the Parish Office (9.00am to 1pm weekdays), choir members or Darrell (contact number below). We will also aim to have tickets available at teas and coffees after Sunday masses.
All proceeds are to be donated to Fairhavens (Havens Hospice), in memory of Alice Hood, the late daughter of one of our former choir members.
Raffle prize donations and offers of help with refreshments, etc are very welcome!
Contact Darrell on 07825686249 for tickets and offers of help.
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
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 Vacancies
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
Exam Invigilators required - as soon as possible
Current Hourly Rate: £10.50
Invigilators should be reliable, responsible, and able to follow instructions in a calm and sensible manner.
A flexible approach to working hours is essential and full training will be provided.
We welcome applications from all denominations or none.
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 torecruitment@stbernards.southend.sch.uk
Note: CVs will not be accepted.
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
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.
Office Clerk - Cathedral House
To provide effective and efficient support in relation to administration requirements at Cathedral House.
Hours: 21 hours per week 09.00 until 17.00 (Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays).
Start Date: December/January 2024
Salary- £13 per hour
Apply by sending a CV and covering letter (no longer than A4) hr@brcdt.org
Closing date for applications is 5th December 202
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of the Mass this weekend describes a scene which those who heard Jesus would have found very familiar: the transfer of the betrothed from her parents home to her new abode; all conducted in festive mood with an entourage carrying their lamps.
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of the Mass this weekend describes a scene which those who heard Jesus would have found very familiar: the transfer of the betrothed from her parents home to her new abode; all conducted in festive mood with an entourage carrying their lamps. The parable concerns a bridegroom who arrives unexpectedly in the middle of the night. The question is whether the escorting bridal party is ready and prepared to meet him.The bridegroom is Christ. He will come again at some future time. The bridesmaids represent mankind. Some are vigilant while others are careless. The time of waiting is a symbol of our life on earth. The arrival of the bridegroom and the wedding celebrations signify the inauguration of the state of eternal joy in the company of Christ. This parable should bring to our minds that definitive moment of death. Following our judgement by God, some souls enter fully into His presence while others find themselves excluded from the wedding feast forever. The Old Testament makes something quite clear: If a tree falls to the north or the south, the place where the tree falls, there it will lie (Eccl.11:3). At the time of death, the state of our soul is fixed for all eternity. So, this Gospel and this time of November are together reminders to be vigilant as we make the pilgrimage towards eternal life. This weekend is also a moment when we remember those who gave their lives for our freedom, as we commemorate the dead of the wars. Everything at this time of the year directs our thoughts towards the Last Things: death, judgement, Heaven, Hell. We owe it to ourselves to live in a state of continued readiness for our encounter with God after death. This is something we could ask our Guardian Angel to remind us of daily, so that we can go forward, like those wise bridesmaids, with lamps brightly burning in joyful hope.
I invite you to the annual Mass for those who have died from our Parish Family in this last year: on Thursday evening at seven o’clock.
May God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 5
Saturday 11
St Martin of Tours, Bp
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 Intentions of Brian Mountier-Birthday (SVP)
11.30am Mass The Dead of the Wars
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 13
Feria
9am Mass Rene Solecki, RIP (Anniv) (IS)
Tuesday 14
Feria
9am Mass Eleanor Tierney, RIP (MI)
Wednesday 15
St Albert the Great, Bp, D
9am Mass Pearl Scaife, RIP (Anniv) (MI)
Thursday 16
St Edmund of Abingdon (Rich), Bp
9am Mass Holy Souls
Friday 17
St Elizabeth of Hungary, Rel
12Noon Mass Evelyn Shevket, RIP (Anniv) (MC)
Saturday 18
Dedication of the Basilica of Ss Peter & Paul, App
10am Mass Mike Healy, RIP (F&JO’B)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
5.30pm Vigil Mass Rene Bragard, RIP Anniv) (RB)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 19 November
Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Intentions of Rosemary Mann (RM)
9.30am Mass Donesha D'Cruz, RIP (AJ)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Magnificat Booklets
There are a number of complimentary copies of the November Magnificat available at the back of church; please help yourself. If you wanted to subscribe to this on a regular basis, you will find the details within the booklet itself.
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Terence Howes, Fr James Allis, Fr Richard (Dick) Ashton, Fr Edward Sheehan, OFM, Lucy Tombleson, Joan Lucey, Donald Galvin, Eileen Stanshall, Anne Britt, Isobel Good, Joan Read, Albert Rogers, Janet Conway, John Owen, Rene Solecki, John William Cavanagh, Jack O’Riordan, Vincent Kelly, John O’Neill, Kathleen IcIlwee, Richard Sparrow, Louisa Hurst, Sydney Pullen, Myriad Hubbard, Mary Capon, John Cousins, Ethel Donnison, Luciana Garuti, Edna Hutchings, Edith McCouat, Kathleen Macauley, Mrs Alice Kelly, Jack Hosmer, Florrie Peck, Charlotte Roberts, Bert Russell, Maureen Deeks, John Chiswick, George Livermore, Celia Ashley, Marcia Clarke & James Rourke.
We Pray for our Sick
Isabel Coombs, 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 Agus Family.
Please pray for the repose of the souls of
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.
Mrs PATRICIA BOWER who died on Tuesday 31st October. Her body will be received into the church on Sunday, 26th November at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Monday, 27th November at 10am, followed by committal at Basildon Crematorium.
Mr KENNETH BIEBUYCK who died on 20th October. His body will be received into the church on Tuesday, 5th December at 4.30pm and his Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday, 6th December at 11am, followed by committal at Upminster Cemetery.
Mrs SUZANNE (SUE) REYNOLDS who died recently.
Requiescant in pace
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am Mass
Prelude: Have mercy on me Lord God—J.S. Bach bwv 721 (1685-1750)
Postlude: Prelude for Remembrance—Johann Krieger (1635-1731)
Responsorial Psalm
