St Bernard's High School Minibus Fundraiser
We are in desperate need of a second minibus in order to support our students to train at offsite sporting facilities due to our lack of onsite space. We are fundraising internally at the school and through the great work of our PTFA but we are now reaching out to past students and friends of St Bernard’s to ask for kind donations of any amount to support us in this endeavour.
If you are available to support this fundraiser, please click on the below QR code:
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.
St Vincent's Centre, Southend
The Mayor’s Nominated Charity for 2022/23 is St Vincent’s Centre Southend and there are various upcoming events. Your participation would make a huge difference where all proceeds will go towards restocking their food bank.
Dinner & Auction - Saturday 16th November - Roslin Beach Hotel. Ticket Price £95.00 inc. welcome drink, 3 course dinner, live music & charity auction.
Phone: 07549 128877 or Email: nesperm@svp.org.uk for further details.
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.
March for Life UK - Saturday 7th September
Morning Events: 10.00am-1.00pm The Emmanuel Centre, SW1P 3DW
In the morning of March for Life we will be hosting a ‘Pro-life Health Summit’ 10.30-12.30 in The Emmanuel Centre where a variety of healthcare specialists will be looking in greater detail at our theme ‘Abortion isn’t Healthcare’.
Mass: 11.00am St George’s Cathedral, Southwark
The March: 1.30pm From The Emmanuel Centre
Ends at Parliament Square 4.30pm.
Contact: Isabel 07773 501721 or Ben 07885 505116 or info@marchforlife.co.uk
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
SS PETER & PAUL, App
The two Princes of the Apostles—Peter and Paul—dominant our church building on the inside and out.
Dear friends in Christ
The two Princes of the Apostles—Peter and Paul—dominate our church building on the inside and out. Inside they face one another across the Sanctuary and outside they look out from the church tower: Peter gazing South towards Rome and Paul looks to the East. They each hold the symbol that represents their life and struggles: Peter holds the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; Paul holds a book. Both were martyred in Rome for their discipleship of Jesus Christ: Peter crucified upside down in the Circus of Caligula (now the Piazza in front of St Peter’s Basilica) and Paul beheaded outside the City in a place named Tre Fontane, since according to legend where his head rolled, three springs appeared. We look to each of them this weekend for prayers and example. St Peter inspires us to be strong in the Faith he professed in Jesus Christ: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God and St Paul reminds us of the necessity of bringing our Faith to others, as he did as the first missionary.
Last Sunday during the Mass of Thanksgiving for my Fortieth Anniversary of Ordination, our Bishop reminded us that sufferings and struggles are part-and-parcel of Christian discipleship. The Apostles inspire us in this mission so that like them, we never give-up or give-in to the siren voices that would deflect us from being with Jesus. As I give thanks for the years of my Priestly life, I whole-heartedly thank all of you—my people and friends—who have sustained me on this path; I elaborated enough on this in the Newsletter last weekend. I now have to thank you for giving me a most memorable celebration last weekend. I was able to offer Holy Mass on Sunday for An Increase in Vocations to the Priesthood followed by a lovely Reception. On Monday evening, over forty Priests of our Diocese gathered in the church to pray and sing Vespers and Benediction on the Nativity of St John the Baptist followed by a supper together in the Gilbert Room. I have been overwhelmed by the kindness of so many of you—too many to thank individually—for such kind greetings, gifts and most of all, your prayers. I often tell my friends that I must have the best Parish in the Western Church! May God reward you all and may we go forward together in the Heart of Jesus and encouraged by Mary’s prayers!
Msgr Kevin Hale
SS PETER & PAUL, App
Liturgy:
Readings of Year B
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 4
Saturday 29
Saturday Memorial of the BVM
5.30pm Vigil Mass Intentions of Michael Tisi (MTLB)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 30 June
SS PETER AND PAUL, App - Holyday of Obligation
8am Mass Caroline Geoghegan, RIP (PG)
9.30am Mass Patrick Clarke, RIP (Anniv) (IR)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 1 July
St Oliver Plunket, Bp, M
9am Mass Kevin McGrath, RIP (MW)
Tuesday 2
Feria
9am Mass Intentions of Tabitha McGarry(MR)
Wednesday 3
St Thomas, Ap
9.30am Mass Frank Clancy, RIP (Anniv) (JL)
Our Lady of Lourdes Leavers Mass
Thursday 4
St Elizabeth of Portugal
9am Mass Cliff & Gina Sweetenham (Diamond Wedding Anniv) (CS)
Friday 5—First Friday
St Antony Mary Zaccaria, Pr
12 Noon Mass Steve Nortney, RIP (AT)
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass until Holy Hour 7—8pm
Saturday 6
St Maria Goretti, V, M
10am Mass Lucille Tarrobal RIP & Violet Gray ,RIP
10.30-11am Confessions; NO Exposition—Flower Festival
5.30pm Vigil Mass The People of the Parish
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 7 July
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Winifred Gover ,RIP
9.30am Mass Carol Lawson, RIP (Anniv) (SF)
11.30am Mass Eleanor Greatly, RIP (AS)
4pm Mass Caroline Geoghegan, RIP (CB)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr James Edward Littleton, Fr Patrick Curran, Fr Patrick Carthy, Canon Thomas Barrett, Fr Bill Brown, Benita Skelton, Patrick Clarke, Jim Robinson, Albert Nichols, Marguerite Cave, John Lloyd, John Kidney, Frank Clancy, Gustave Rombaut, Lionel Conway, Paul Stewart King, Josephine Studd, Julie Quail, Iris Bell, Harriet Thompson, Reginald Brierley, Joan Wiltshire, Alfred Edwards, Mirian Jackson, Kathleen Ford, Gertrude Bridges, Elsie Asher, Edmund Gdembiewski, Frances Littlewood, Marie Louise Clements, Alfred Johnson, Jennifer Lyons, Joseph Bond, Dorothy Blaker, Ronald Albert Conner & Niqui Denkmayer.
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.”
Please pray for the repose of the souls of
THOMASINA McVAY HILL (Nina) who died 19th June. Her Requiem mass will take place on Thursday, 11th July at 10am, followed by committal at Southend Cemetery.
FR BRIAN McGILLOWAY who died recently.
Requiescant in pace
Dates for your Diary
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
Clergy Appointments
These changes take place from the first week of September.
PARISH PRIESTS
Fr Tony Grant—From Canning Town to Manor Park
Fr Gary Dench—From Cathedral to Hutton
Fr Jerold Savio Terrance—From Hornchurch, St Mary to Maldon/Burnham
Fr John Britto Michael—New to Diocese to Great Dunmow
Fr Jon Ravensdale (Ordinariate)—From Greenstead to Harlow, The Assumption of Our Lady
Fr Alex Garner (Ordinariate)—New to Diocese to Greenstead
Fr Timothy Ezet (Ordinariate)— New to Diocese to Chingford, CTK
Fr Paul Makita SCA—From Barking, St Thomas More to Barking, St Mary & St Ethelburga
ASSISTANT PRIESTS
Fr Paschal Uche—Chelmsford to Grays
Fr Matúš Meleg—From Grays to Cathedral
Fr Frank Westcott—Newly Ordained to Hornchurch, St Mary
Fr Saji Thomas RCJ—Basildon to East Ham
Fr Grzegorz Borski—New to Diocese to Clacton
Fr Albert Kollemkudy RCJ—New to Diocese to Basildon
RETIREMENTS
Father Leslie Knight
Canon William Young
Father John Corbyn [Ordinariate]
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am
Incoming: Elevation—Andre Raison (1645-1719)
Outgoing: Basse de Trompette—Giles Jullien (1650-1703)
Responsorial Psalm
The Angel of the Lord will rescues those who revere him
OLOL Ladies Group
Our next Meeting is on Thursday 4th July at the usual time of 10am. New members are always welcome with subs still at £1 .
Next week we are very pleased to welcome back Father Jeanne-Claude Selvini who has very kindly agreed to give us a talk. This will be “A potted history of the Catholic Church in England”, which should prove to be a very interesting topic and food for thought! We would appreciate it if ladies could be on time, given Fr. Selvini’s busy schedule.
NB: This will be the last week for ladies to book a place on our end of term lunch, cost just £8. If you haven’t been able to come to Meetings recently, no problem just please remember to book a place to avoid disappointment.
Flower & Craft Festival Saturday 6th July 2024
Thank you to everyone who has agreed to take part in this year's Flower and Craft Festival. We now need all of you to support us by coming on Saturday 6th and bringing friends, neighbours and family to our beautiful Church. The theme is Prayer and everyone will find something that speaks to them, especially perhaps those who do not have any religious background. As always there will be free refreshments provided by some of our parishioners in the Parish Centre, with any donations going to HARP.
We would appreciate any donations of flowers on Friday 5th when we will be putting the displays together.
Please do try to make an effort to come along and appreciate the music, crafts and flowers that our parishioners have been creating.
Jo Ronan
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,
The Forthcoming General Election
As you know, the UK general election is fast-approaching and those standing will want our votes.
We have a responsibility as Catholics, to ensure that parties commit to tackling issues such as upholding the sanctity of life for the most vulnerable in our society.
Raising our voices and contacting parliamentary candidates as a parish community will send a strong signal to them.
The Prolife Charity, SPUC has created a simplified process to equip Catholics to contact their parliamentary candidates .
Please see https://www.spuc.org.uk/valueyourvote for more information.
You just enter your postcode to find out who your candidates are, and a template email appears for you to send to them.
The threat of decriminalising abortion was averted in this Parliament but will soon return in the next.
There is also expected to be a big push to legalise assisted suicide as well.
It is vital for us as Catholic to use our vote to stand up for the most vulnerable in our society and to elect pro-life MPs.