Sanctuary Lamp
This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for the deceased members of the West & McManus Families.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of
IAN SPACIE who died on Wednesday, 10th July. His Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday, 7th August at 2pm followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
Requiescat in pace
Music at 11.30am
Prelude: Recit de Tierce—Francois Couperin (1688-1733)
Postlude: Offertoire—Francois Couperin (1688-1733)
Responsorial Psalm
First Holy Communion 2025
If your child is going into Year 3 or above and you wish for them to make their First Holy Communion in May 2025, please submit the application by Friday 6th September.
This should be done via the parish website, under Sacraments - Communion
(https://lourdesleigh.org/sacraments)
Dates for your Diary
Monday 22nd—Friday 26th July 2024—Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes
Friday 20th December—Sea of Voices Carol Service 7pm
Saturday 15th—Friday 21st March 2025—Parish Mission led by the Redemptorists
Repository
We are open this weekend after all Masses and we will then be closed for the summer holiday period and re-open in September . We would like to thank all Parishioners for your continued support.
MISSIO Red Box Holders
I have received the Summer 2024 edition of the Missio. If you have not received one personally from me please take one from the back of the Church (on the ledge at the back usual place). If anyone has a box needing emptying please give to me or leave in the Office and I will pick it up. Please don't to forget to take your boxes back from the back of the Church after.
Thank you.
Joan Caunce, Secretary, 01268 757505.
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
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
This week and last week, the Newsletter has reproduced images from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
Dear friends in Christ
This week and last week, the Newsletter has reproduced images from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Last week Ezekiel and this week Amos. We tend to listen to the words of Prophets in the First Reading at Mass, possibly without so much as a second thought for the context in which they were writing. Amos was one of the minor Prophets, inasmuch as his book is a short one in the Old Testament. He stands at the very beginning of the great prophetic tradition of social justice. He sees that at the very heart of the Law is our collective concern for the orphan, the widow, the stranger, the needy. This emphasis is also seen in Ezekiel and Isaiah and Jeremiah and it comes to a rich culmination in the words of Jesus Our Lord. We listen with attention to the words of Amos and allow ourselves to be challenged by what he and his fellow-Prophets have to say to us. As with Ezekiel last week, we must examine ourselves as to whether we have gone into rebellion, like the people the Prophets addressed. The Church of Jesus Christ is the New Israel and although we may not want to hear it, in many ways we have gone into rebellion as they did. We have often departed from the path that God has set-out for us, by worshipping things other than God. We ourselves—Baptised and Confirmed— have the duty and responsibility to call back those who have gone astray, to the family of God, the Church. The Prophets were sent, as Jesus sends out His Disciples in the Gospel of the Mass this Sunday. So, courage and fortitude are expected of us. As we listen again in these weeks to the exhortations of the holy Prophets, let us be encouraged by their zeal for the truths of God.
God bless you!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year B
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 6
Saturday 13
St Henry
5.30pm Vigil Mass Kathleen & Peter Sheridan, Dolly & Michael McNeela, Phyllis & Tom Attridge & John Murphy, RIP (Anniv)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 14 July
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Patricia Armstrong, RIP (Anniv) (JA)
11.30am Mass The King of Buganda (FS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 15
St Bonaventure, Bp, D
9am Mass Janet Weale, RIP (TW)
Tuesday 16
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
9am Mass Winifred Gover, RIP
Wednesday 17
Feria
9am Mass Michael Kinsella, RIP (Anniv) (ZK)
Thursday 18
Feria
9am Mass Intentions of Blake Mackay (SD)
Friday 19
Feria
12 Noon Mass Simon & Ursula Harrison (25th Wedding Anniv) (RO’C)
Saturday 20
St Apollinaris, Bp, M
10am Mass Steve Nortney, RIP (CR)
10.30-11.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
5.30pm Vigil Mass Fidelis & Lourdes Mary Pallis, RIP (DL)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 21 July
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Lucrecia & Jose Conlu, RIP & Lucille Tarrobel, RIP
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Intentions Fr Kevin—40th Anniversary (PL)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Canon Daniel Harnett, Fr Edmund Dobson, Fr James McEvoy, Josephine Russell, Ronald Gibson, Robert Wright, Janet Weale, Margarita Akers, Mary James, Andrew Wardle, Hope Bailey-Pillow, Madeleine Bullock-Jarman, Joan Slattery, Norah Jordan, Donald Joyce, Ellen Gardner. Joseph Ketterer, James Dawson, Andrew Regan, Mabel Buckley, Michael Regan, Bill Prior, Margaret May Orme, David Finnegan, Reginald Copley, Caroline Hardy, Kathleen Butt, Jane Bickmore, Charles Fletcher, Jane Mawdsley, Alice Collins, Aislinn Lane, Elsie Witty, Irene Hoggett, Frank McEvoy, Pamela Johnson, Francis Howard Kenney, Geraldine Hayter & Joan Farmer.
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 soul of
IAN SPACIE who died on Wednesday, 10th July. His Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday, 7th August at 2pm followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
Requiescat in pace
Responsorial Psalm at 11.30am
Incoming: Chorale Prelude "Lord our God be with us"—Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Outgoing: Dialogue a deux Choeurs—Gaspard Corrette (c.1671-1733)
Responsorial Psalm
First Holy Communion 2025
If your child is going into Year 3 or above and you wish for them to make their First Holy Communion in May 2025, please submit the application by Friday 6th September.
This should be done via the parish website, under Sacraments - Communion
(https://lourdesleigh.org/sacraments)
Sanctuary Lamp
The central sanctuary lamp in the church has been removed for some repairs and cleaning.
The lamp burns night and day—a living flame—which indicates the real and living presence of Our Lord in the Tabernacle. This follows the tradition of the seven lamps which burned in the presence of God in the Temple in Jerusalem. The six candles, on the Altar are redolent of this—the seventh being lit when the Bishop presides. Each week the lamp burns in memory of someone who has sponsored the lamp for a deceased loved-one or for someone's intentions. This is a lovely little custom that expresses faith, because the living flames symbolise our prayers that remain alive before God’s presence.
New Lectionary-Advent 2024
The books containing the Scripture Readings at Mass have been revised in translation. We shall now be using the English Standard Version—Catholic Edition of the Bible and the Abbey Psalter for the Psalms. These translations will bring us to a more faithful rendering of the texts. The new Lectionary has been produced to a very high standard as being worthy of the Word of God and the Sacred Liturgy. We will begin using these translations from the start of Advent this year.
I am very grateful to those who made donations to cover the cost of these volumes, which all came very quickly—thank you!
Dates for your Diary
Monday 22nd—Friday 26th July 2024—Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes
Friday 20th December—Sea of Voices Carol Service 7pm
Saturday 15th—Friday 21st March 2025—Parish Mission led by the Redemptorists