Sanctuary Lamp
This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for the intentions of Charles DeSouza & family, RIP.
Please pray for the repose of the souls of
ROSE SCOTT-FRAME who died on 27th April. Her Body will be received into the church on Sunday, 16th June at 6.30pm and her Requiem mass will take place on Monday, 17th June at 10.30am, followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
Requiescat in pace
Thank you from Fr Selvini
I would like to express once again my heartfelt thanks to all those who made my Silver Jubilee Mass such a happy and memorable occasion last week – Mgr Kevin Hale, our Parish Priest, for his most inspiring words, Spencer and his cantors, Niall and Rory, Bernard and the team of altar servers, the readers Mary and Rosa, those who kindly sent me Mass cards and gifts, and last but not least Sue Lawford and her team of helpers who prepared the lavish refreshments after Mass. Thank you all so much for your many kindnesses and generosity! I will offer Mass for your intentions in the near future.
Dates for your Diary
Sunday 23rd June—Fortieth Anniversary Mass of Fr Kevin Hale 11.30am
Saturday 6th July—Flower Festival
Monday 22nd—Friday 26th July 2024—Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes
Saturday 15th—Friday 21st March 2025—Parish Mission led by the Redemptorists
Wedding Anniversaries
Fr Kevin would be pleased to hear from any couples who are celebrating significant anniversaries this year (25, 40, 50, 60 years) so that they can be invited to the Mass celebrating Marriage and Family Life in Brentwood Cathedral in July,
OLL Ladies Group
Our next Meeting is on Thursday 20th June at 10am in the Parish Centre. Subs are just £1 00 which includes refreshments and we also have a fun Raffle. New members are always welcome.
Next week we will be having one of our popular Quiz mornings, so if you want to beat the Champions, no prizes for guessing, have your thinking hats at the ready!
NB: please remember to put your name down for the end of Term lunch.
Accommodation needed
A young family in the parish are in urgent need of accommodation in the Leigh, Westcliff, Southend, Rochford area. Ideally two bedrooms with bathroom and kitchen facilities. If you know of anything or can possibly help in this regard, please contact Francis O'Brien on 07845874331.
Repository Notice
We have cards for all those special occasions so please browse and come early to avoid disappointment . One of the volunteers are happy to help if you do not see what you are looking for. We also have a selection of Statues and Rosaries, plus a few new books for children.
Please note that the Repository is only open after all Masses at the weekends.
Flower & Craft Festival Saturday 6th July 2024
It is time to start preparations for this year’s Flower and Craft Festival! The Theme this year is ‘PRAYER.’
We would love to have as many people as possible to take part. Simply choose a prayer or prayers and think about how that can be illustrated visually with Flowers, Art work, Artefacts, Needlework etc.
The Festival day is always a very inspiring occasion with people from all faiths or none dropping into our beautiful Church. We have been overwhelmed by the positive response that there has been over the last few years to our themes.
If you would like to take part please email me at : mcronan@btinternet.com, or simply speak to me or Theresa.
If you are not sure about a suitable prayer then I have lots to choose from.
Jo Ronan
St Bernard's High School Year 5 Open Evening Thursday 11th July
St Bernard’s High School, A Catholic Academy for Arts and Science
Open Evening for Year 5 Students(Starting Year 7 in September 2025)
Thursday 11 July 2024—5.30pm to 8.30pm
We would be delighted to welcome Year 5 girls and their parents/carers to our Open Evening. This is an evening for girls wishing to join Year 7 in September 2025.
We are also offering an opportunity for parents/carers to visit the school during a normal teaching day, between 9.30am and 11.00am on set days in October, dates will be published on our website. Appointments for these guided tours will be available in September.
St Bernard’s High School offers selective places based on success in the CSSE
selective tests and non-selective places according to faith-based admissions criteria. (Please see school website for full details.)
‘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
‘The behaviour of students is exemplary both in lessons and throughout the school as they strive to live out the mission statement, ‘Love one another as I have loved you’. (Diocesan Inspection, 2024)
‘Behaviour for learning is outstanding, fostered through extremely positive teacher-student relationships’. (Diocesan Inspection, 2024)
www.stbernardswestcliff.org.uk
Milton Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex SS0 7JS. Tel: 01702 343583
General Election 2024
Helping Catholics engage with the General Election to make their voices heard on Thursday, 4th July.
St Thomas More Alumni Memorial Mass—22nd June
The annual St Thomas More Alumni Memorial Mass will take place this year in the chapel at St Thomas More High School on Saturday 22nd June at 11am to coincide with the SVP Fun Day being held at the school on the same day.
All former pupils and members of staff are welcome, together with their families and current members of the school, to pray for and remember those from the school community who have died.
Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School
Are you looking for a Nursery for your 2 to 4 year old?
Contact us to look around our learning environment!
office@ourladyoflourdes.southend.sch.uk 01702475689
Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School is located in Leigh's heart along Manchester Drive, a short walk from the London Road.
Our welcoming community school is perfect for children starting Nursery in 2024.
We're proud of our family feel, which spans generations, and our vast grounds for children to play.
Excelling in music, sport, science, and a balanced curriculum, we're the ideal place for your child to flourish.
Thinking about your child as they grow, our children transition easily and happily into our Reception classes. Our children achieve well in KS2, with many children moving on to the Catholic secondary schools.
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
The month of June—month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—is a period in the liturgical calendar full of beautiful feasts. We have already celebrated Corpus Christi last weekend marked with our Eucharistic Procession.
Dear friends in Christ
The month of June—month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—is a period in the liturgical calendar rich with beautiful feasts. We have already celebrated Corpus Christi last weekend marked with our Eucharistic Procession. Friday was the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and this Saturday is the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On Thursday we shall celebrate one of my patrons and great favourites of many—St Antony of Padua (or Lisbon, depending on your view!)—then the Nativity of St John the Baptist on 24th and the month ends with Saints Peter and Paul, the Princes of the Apostles! These all remind us that there is a rhythm to the Church Year, which begins in Advent and takes us through the mysteries of the life of Jesus, culminating with Easter and Pentecost. The remainder of the year now is called Ordinary Time. A friend of mine used to say that since the Resurrection there is no such thing as Ordinary Time! The Resurrection of Jesus changed everything so that we live now in a cosmic dimension, here on earth, but participants in the supernatural life.
The Readings of the Mass this weekend remind us that we have been called by God to live on a higher plane than the created material world. We are called to live the life of God—divine life. We do this in the midst of ordinary things, living sustained by the sanctifying grace of the Sacraments. Our struggle here on earth is worth every ounce of effort we put into it, since our crown in Heaven will be given in proportion to the effort we have made to give glory to God on earth.
One of the ways we can sanctify our homes and family life in the month of June is by consecrating our homes and families to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This can be done by enshrining an image of Jesus at the centre of our homes so that we—and everyone who comes in—is reminded that we are part of the Family of the Church—the Body of Christ—sons and daughters of the Father.
Thanks be to God for a beautiful Corpus Christi Procession last Sunday afternoon—all of us who attended will have been grateful for the fine weather, the music and the faith, of all those who came to make this annual act of homage to our Eucharistic Lord. I thank the Tilbury Brass band for attending, the children and altar servers for their devotion and our gratitude to those who prepared the Tea afterwards!
God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year B
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 1
Saturday 8
The Immaculate Heart of Mary
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 9 June
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Peter Deal RIP (CMcH)
9.30am Mass Caroline Geoghegan, RIP (MI)
11.30am Mass The Speedy Recovery of Winifred Gover
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 10
Feria
9am Mass Vincent & Sheila Harrison, RIP (JC)
Tuesday 11
St Barnabus, Ap
9am Mass Richard Coleman, RIP (AC)
Wednesday 12
Feria
9am Mass Intentions of Susan Griffin (PL)
Thursday 13
St Anthony of Padua, Pr, D
9am Mass Ann Pyke, RIP (DS)
Friday 14
Feria
10.45am Requiem Mass Valerie Linda Quinn RIP
No 12 Noon Mass
Saturday 15
Saturday Memorial of the BVM
10am Mass Maureen Marsland, RIP (Anniv) (EM)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
5.30pm Vigil Mass Intentions of Rosemary Bragard (90th Birthday) (SH)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 16 June
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Jim & Teena Rockell RIP (L&KW)
11.30am Mass Michelle Disney, RIP (Anniv) (JD)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Gerard Butcher, Fr Thomas Crowe, Fr John Gallacher, Fr Robert Mortimer-Anderson, Fr Thomas Carlin, Fr Gerard Hughes, Fr Ambrose O’Gorman, Fr Philip Willenbrock, Kathleen Lee, Ray Parascadolo, Irene Chessher, Caroline Geoghegan, James McCrimmon, Pamela Gafga, Annie Adelia Lawrence, Rose Whitehead, Walter Burrill, Gerald Melhuish, Gwendoline Underwood, George Houston, Theresa Yates, Raymond Morton, Harold Britt, Ken Bailey, Margaret Grenier, James George Fairchild, Janice Mary Turner, Jill Kinsley, Norita Fanning, Christina Pegler, Michelle Disney, Sheila Ann Power, Ethel Dillon, Teresa O’Brien & Norbert Widera.
We pray for our sick
The Sick List is available on the website main menu, under Worship.
We pray for the sick of our parish
“Father,
by the power of your Spirit
you have filled the hearts of your faithful people
with gifts of love for one another.
Hear the prayers we offer for our relatives and friends.
Give them health of mind and body
that they may do your will with perfect love.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.”
Sick & Retired Clergy Fund
This weekend there will be a second collection in aid of the Sick & Retired Clergy. You can donate in the second collection, online via the website, or the contactless device at the back of church, selecting second collection.