Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year B
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 7
Saturday 9
The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
5.30pm Vigil George Wislocki, RIP (Anniv) (PW)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 10 November
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Deceased relatives of the Clancy Family (JL)
9.30am Mass Pauline Godfrey, RIP (MI)
11.30am Mass The Dead of the Wars
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 11
St Martin of Tours, Bp
9am Mass Paul Watts, RIP (UO)
Tuesday 12
St Josaphat Bp, M
9am Mass For intentions of Priests (ML)
Wednesday 13
Feria
9am Mass Adrian Dann, RIP (SD)
4.30pm Body in Church Paul Watts, RIP
5.30pm—6.30pm Holy Hour for Sacredness of Human Life
Thursday 14
Feria
9am Mass Holy Souls
12.30pm Requiem Mass Paul Watts, RIP
7pm Annual Parish Requiem Mass
Friday 15
St Albert the Great, Bp, D
9.30am Memorial Mass Michael Mapson, RIP
12Noon Mass Pearl Scaife, RIP
Saturday 16
St Edmund of Abingdon, Bp
10am Mass Intentions of the Watts Family (VS)
10.30-11.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
5.30pm Vigil Evelyn Shevket, RIP (Anniv) (MC)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 17 November
Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time—World Day of the Poor
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Intentions of Donny D'Cruz (AJ)
11.30am Mass Audrey Demers, RIP (JS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Canon Denis Petry, Fr Terence Howes, Fr James Allis, Fr Edwin Sheehan, OFM, Dorothy Stuart, Sydney Hamilton, Thomas Horner, Dr Gerry Leyden, Marie Daniels, Sidney Hempstead, Pearl Scaife, Lucy Tombleson, Joan Lucey, Donald Galvin, Eileen Stanshall, Anne Britt, Isobel Good, Joan Read, Albert Rogers, Jane Conway, John Owen, Rene Solecki, John William Cavanagh, Jack O’Riordan, Vincent Kelly, John O’Neill, Kathleen McIlwee, Richard Sparrow, Louisa Hurst, Sydney Pullen, Myriad Hubbard, Mary Capon, John Cousins, Ethel Dennison, Luciana Garuti, Edna Hutchings & Edith McCouat.
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
PAUL WATTS, RIP who died on Friday, 11th October. His body will be received into the church on Wednesday, 13th November at 4.30pm and his Requiem Mass will take place on Thursday, 14th November at 12.30pm followed by committal at Sutton Road Cemetery.
MICHAEL MAPSON, RIP who died on Tuesday, 10th September. His Memorial Mass will take place on Friday 15th November 9.30am.
MARIE KHARAS, RIP who died on Wednesday, 16th October. Her Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday, 20th November at 10.45am followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
Requiescant in pace
Dates for your Diary
Monday, 11th November—Journey in Faith (RCIA) 8pm Parish Centre
Thursday 14th November—Annual Requiem Mass 7pm
Friday 22nd November—Sung Latin Requiem Mass 7pm
Thursday 28th-Saturday 30th November—Forty Hours’ Prayer
Friday 20th December—Sea of Voices Carol Service 7pm
Saturday 15th—Friday 21st March 2025—Parish Mission led by the Redemptorists
Saturdays 10th & 17th May 10.30am—First Holy Communion Masses
Sunday 1st June 2025—Visitation & Confirmation
Sunday 22nd June—Corpus Christi Procession 4pm
Monday 21st—Friday 25th July—Lourdes Pilgrimage
Monday 8th September Centenary of the Opening of our Church
Assisted Suicide Bill
On Wednesday between 5.30–6.30pm the Bishops of England and Wales will join in an hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. We will do the same in our Parish so that this Bill will not come into Law.
If you haven’t already written to your MP asking them to vote against the bill being introduced in Parliament proposing a change in the law to permit assisted suicide, but would like to, the Right to Life website [https://righttolife.org.uk/] has a tab marked Take Action and a further tab which says ask your MP to stop assisted suicide being rushed into law. If you click on this, you will be asked for your postcode and a letter is automatically generated to your MP. It takes about 30 seconds.
Annual Parish Requiem
This Mass will be celebrated on Thursday evening of this week, 14th November at 7pm
We invite all those who have experienced the loss of a loved-one in the last year to attend, as well as all members of our Parish Family who would wish to pray for the souls of the Faithful Departed at this time.
Candles for the Forty Hours’ Prayer-Thursday 28th to Saturday 30th November
These can be had in the Sacristy (£5) and will burn before the Blessed Sacrament with your intention written on the base. The remaining lamps will be used as the Sanctuary Lamp throughout the coming year.
Music at 11.30am Mass
Prelude: Air for a Remembrance—Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-87)
Postlude: O Rest in the Lord...postlude for Remembrance—Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Responsorial Psalm
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, 7th 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 Sallie Pollock on 07450 277956 You will be most welcome!
Holy Souls Box
During November we customarily keep the memories of our Beloved Dead in our prayers. Their names will be placed under the Altar by using one of the envelopes at the back of church (please add your Gift Aid number) and placing it in the box provided, including an offering if you can, for Holy Souls Masses. In this way, we present them to God in the Masses and Offices during this month of the Holy Souls.
JOURNEY OF FAITH—RCIA
This continues on Monday, 11th November and is specifically for those who are not Catholics but who are enquiring with a view to finding out more about the Catholic Faith and Reception into the Church. These evenings begin at 8pm, are held in the Newman Room of the Parish Centre (the door is beside the Memorial Garden) and usually last just over an hour. Names may be given in advance to Fr Kevin or the Parish Office.
Baptism Preparation Sessions
Due to unforeseen circumstances the next Baptism Preparation session will now be on Tuesday 26th November instead of Tuesday 12th November. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Repository
The Repository is open after Masses at the weekend and Parishioners are welcome to come and browse.
We have a few of the new weekend Missals left, (softback £12/hardback £22) and we will shortly be having a good supply of Christmas cards and calendars.
St Joseph's Canvey is looking for Foundation Governors
Are you a practising Catholic?
Are you effective at forging links with the local and wider community?
Do you have skills that might be useful in a primary school like strategic leadership? recruitment? using data?
The Governing Body of St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Canvey Island is looking for foundation governors. The term of office is usually for 4 years from date of appointment.
The governors work as a team, in close co-operation with the headteacher and staff. The core responsibilities of the governing body are:
Ensure clarity of vision, ethos, and strategic direction
Hold the headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff
Oversee the financial performance of the school and make sure its money is well spent
In addition to this, foundation governors are appointed specifically to ensure:
That the religious character of the school is preserved
That the school is conducted in accordance with its trust deed
That the religious education curriculum is in accordance with the Bishop’s policy for this Diocese
Are you able to give some of your time to a local Catholic school? We'd love to have you onboard. If you're interested in applying but you don't feel you have the experience, training will be provided to those that wish to expand and develop their skills.
If you would like to know more about the becoming a governor, please contact Frank McEvoy, the Chair of Governors, by email: fmcevoy@assisicatholictrust.com.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Parish Christmas Bazaar - Sunday 24th November, 8.45am - 1.00pm
We are pleased to announce that our Annual Parish Bazaar is back once again and we need your help and generosity. If you have any unwanted gifts, toiletries, bottles, raffle prizes or bric-a-brac that you would like to donate, please leave them in the Old Baptistry.
If you would like to help on the Saturday to help set up, or on the Sunday, please contact us.
Sue Lawford—07816 141492
Angela Clements—07940 183452—email angelaclements47@gmail.com.
St ~Bernard's High School Sixth Form Open Evening
Thursday 28 November 2024—6.30pm to 8.30pm
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 2025. www.stbernardswestcliff.org.uk
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
‘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
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time-Month of the Holy Souls
Dear friends in Christ
The first of all the Commandments is the love of God.
Dear friends in Christ
The first of all the Commandments is the love of God. This is also the determining factor in our lives: the fact that God loves us. The Incarnation is the supreme manifestation of the love of God for each of His children. This love precedes Creation itself. St Thomas Aquinas teaches that this same love is the source of every grace we receive. And Saint Augustine has written: We have been loved even when we were most undesirable. God has wanted to grant us something to praise Him with. The same Saint also says: Listen! Think of the way you are loved when you were not lovable. Listen to how you were loved when you were clumsy and ugly, before there was anything in you that was worthy of love. Because you have been loved first, you have been made worthy of being loved (Sermon 142).
The Lord asks us to love Him with deeds and with the affections of the heart. Every day we should come to know a little more about the sacred humanity of Jesus, which is the shortest route to the life of the Blessed Trinity. Last week Pope Francis gave us a beautiful Encyclical Letter—Dilexit nos—on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. There he explains: As we contemplate the heart of Christ, the incarnate synthesis of the Gospel, we can, following the example of St Thérèse of the Child Jesus 'place heartfelt trust not in ourselves but in the infinite mercy of a God who loves us unconditionally and has already given us everything in the cross of Jesus Christ'. This is an important necessity in a materialistic age such as ours, notes the Pope: In a world where everything is bought and sold, people’s sense of their worth appears increasingly to depend on what they can accumulate with the power of money. We are constantly being pushed to keep buying, consuming and distracting ourselves, held captive to a demeaning system that prevents us from looking beyond our immediate and petty needs. For Pope Francis, devotion to the Sacred Heart can therefore strengthen the Church today by making visible the intense awareness of the love of Jesus in personal spiritual experience, but also in community and missionary commitment.
One of the specific ways we show our love for God and neighbour during this month of November is by our prayer for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Included in the newsletter are the conditions for the gaining for a Plenary Indulgence for the Holy Souls during this first week of the month. An easy way to fulfil the requirements would simply be a visit to our Memorial Garden beside the church where over seventy members of the Parish family rest in hope of the Resurrection.
God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year B
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 6
Saturday 2
COMMEMORATION OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED (ALL SOULS’ DAY)
5.30pm Vigil Maria Keen, RIP (DL)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 3 November
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Month of the Holy Souls
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Deceased Members of the Wall & Rockell Families (K&LW)
11.30am Mass Deceased Members of the Siani Family (RB)
4.00pm Mass Holy Souls
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 4
St Charles Borromeo, Bp
9am Mass Nicholas Flach, RIP (MF)
Tuesday 5
Feria
9am Mass Vivian Payne, RIP (VP)
Wednesday 6
Feria
9am Mass Jim & Lilian Fegan, RIP (JC)
Thursday 7
St Willibrord, Bp
9am Mass Gerald Kelly, RIP (Anniv) (JA)
Friday 8
Feria
12Noon Mass Holy Souls
Saturday 9
The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
10am Mass Paul Watts, RIP (K&LW)
10.30-11.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
5.30pm Vigil George Wislocki, RIP (Anniv) (PW)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 10 November
Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time—Remembrance Sunday
8am Mass Deceased relatives of the Clancy Family (JL)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Pauline Godfrey, RIP (MI)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction