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
Friday 20th December—Sea of Voices Carol Service 7pm
Saturday 15th—Friday 21st March 2025—Parish Mission led by the Redemptorists
Repository
The Repository is now closed for the summer holiday period and will re-open in September.
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
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.
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of the Mass this Sunday shows the solicitude of Jesus for his disciples, tired as they are after their apostolic works in the neighbouring towns and village.
Dear friends in Christ
The Gospel of the Mass this Sunday shows the solicitude of Jesus for his disciples, tired as they are after their apostolic works in the neighbouring towns and villages. Come away by yourselves to a lonely place and rest awhile, he says to them. And Saint Mark explains that there were so many people coming and going at that time that they had no time to read or even to eat. So they went away to a lonely place where they could be by themselves. Often our lives, like theirs, is one of phrenetic activity: between our responsibilities at work, our family, and to society. For this reason we need times of rest and recreation. As our Schools now begin the Summer break, many of us think about heading-off for a well earned holiday; we remind ourselves that we must always find time to rest in the Lord. Let us never forget our basic spiritual obligations: prayer, constant sense of the presence of God in our lives, and the vital importance of our Sunday celebration of Holy Mass. I do wish all of you who are embarking on a holiday at this time, a blessed rest, and an enjoyable time!
As I prepare to depart for Lourdes with the Diocesan Pilgrimage, together with a group from our Parish, I assure you of our prayers for all of the intentions of the Parish Family. I ask you, in return, to pray for us, that we may enjoy safe travel and receive many graces from being close to Jesus and Mary in that most holy of Sanctuaries!
May God bless you all and keep you in His Sacred Heart!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year B
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 7
Saturday 20
St Apollinaris, Bp, M
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
Monday 22
St Mary Magdalene
9am Mass Bernadette Bikhit, RIP (AS)
Tuesday 23
St Bridget of Sweden, Rel
9am Mass Winifred Gover, RIP
Wednesday 24
St Charbel Makhlouf, Pr
9am Mass Edward Trindle, RIP (MM)
Thursday 25
St James, Ap
9am Mass Intentions of Julian Tisi Intentions (MT)
Friday 26
Ss Joachim and Anne, Parents of the BVM
12 Noon Mass Intentions of Rebecca Moseby (ES)
Saturday 27
Saturday Memorial of the BVM
10am Mass Steve Kim Keogh, RIP (MW)
10.30-11.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
5.30pm Vigil Mass Mary (Molly) McGuire, RIP (Anniv) (SW)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 28 July
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Kathryn Shepherd, RIP (Anniv) (SW)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Intentions of Lambert Family—anniversary of Ruth (PL)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Patrick Taylor, Deacon David Balmer, Fr John Boardman Jones, Fr Michael Hannah, Fr Dermot Moore, Fr James Cooney, Fr Godfrey Anstruther OP, Jane Mawdsley, Alice Collins, Aislinn Lane, Elsie Witty, Irene Huggett, Frank McEvoy, Pamela Johnson, Francis Howard Kenney, Geraldine Hayter, Joan Farmer, Winifred Martin, Marian Bukowski, Leonard Betts, Arthur Koch, William Rhodes, David Hall, Eva Bartley, Sylvester Smolarczyk, Marie Ann Brand, John Maguire, Stefan Nowacki, John O’Brien, Gertrude Mortelman, Daisy Houlihan, Frederick James Hardy, Mrs Pearle, David Bavin, Margaret Hughes, Bertha Dock-Olsen, Emma Alexander & Anne Owen.
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.”
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