Kevin Hale
Third Sunday of Easter

Dear friends in Christ

On this Octave of Easter we renew the joy of our celebration of the Resurrection of The Lord!

Third Sunday of Easter
Kevin Hale
Second Sunday of Easter

Dear friends in Christ

On this Octave of Easter we renew the joy of our celebration of the Resurrection of The Lord!

Second Sunday of Easter
Kevin Hale
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday
Kevin Hale
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

Holy Week is the most time of the Christian year and the Paschal Triduum—Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday—form the very core of the Christian Mystery, as we celebrate the Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Lord.

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
Kevin Hale
Fifth Sunday in Lent

Dear friends in Christ

Lent now enters the period that we traditionally call Passiontide.

Fifth Sunday in Lent

We pray for our sick

Paul Keane, Graham Addecott, Mabel Addecott, Christian Ryan, Arthur Mills,
Mike Rubbert, Teresa O’Brien, Maureen Deekes,  Noel Fagan, Patricia Abram, Tina Doveaston, Pat Lynch, Rose Craft, Addi Brady,  Ben Wilson, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Brita Irons, Eileen Wilson, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nan Carrit, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, Lyn Gopee, Margaret Harrington, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Anthony McEvoy, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, Dympna Addecott, Janet Woods, Lynne Hilkene, Laura & Anne Breen, Breda Lynch, Roy Widdecombe, Johanna Lynch, Thomas Corrigan, Maria Clark, June Moncaster, Sheila McBrearty, Anthony King, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Edward Martin, Johnnie Pool, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Barbara Sheaf, Josephine Griggs, Colleen Worley, Antonella McConalogue, Fr Jean Laurent Marie, Noel Kolb, Eddie McConalogue, Georgina Cornwell, Lorraine Hart, Dawn Deleigh, Wyn McCafferty, Linda Dean, Annie Holland, Martin Buckley, Chas Taylor, Martha Braun, John Lavery, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, David Clark, David Askew, Connor Bourke, Mattia Mollica, Sharon Levill, Bernadette Lane, David Kislingury, Maureen Ward, Jane Jowers, Irena Solecki, Doreen Troughton, Marguerite Harris, Andrew Exley, Rosemary Arscott, Lanto Bellis, Richard Collins, Niqui Denkmayer, Elizabeth McConalogue, Kean Smith and children Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Lucy Price, Connie Price, Mary Isherwood, Frazer Gregory, baby Talia Emery and Hattie Seymour.

 

Please Pray for the Dead on their anniversaries

Canon John Bloomfield, Canon Francis Dobson, Minnie Fogarty, Brian McInerney, Blodweh Owen, Louise Alexandra Marsden, Hester Masi, Walter McGlune, Melissa Overton, John O’Leary, Elizabeth Hancock, Marie Thompson, Doreen Clements, Firmina Rose Bailey, Frances Sims, Bill Shanahan, Terence Foley, Gertrude Culley, Doreen Newcombe, Winifred Hughes, Madeleine Moroney,
Clive Vincent Allen, Stephana Gallagher, Evelyn Roots, Cyril Jarman, Agness O’Donoghue, Agnes McManus, Catherine Ramsay, Hubert Carlyon, Mary Tomlinson, Ryan Allen, Margaret Bonsor, Juan Billena, Mabel Payne, Joe Delobel, Leslie George Murray, Derrick Whitmil-Smith, Mary Cooper,
Tim McCarthy, Lily Jessie Johnson & Eileen Watson.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.

 

PILGRIMAGE to KNOCK SHRINE, IRELAND - 28th MAY 2018

Inaugural Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine, Ireland, 28th May 2018.  Led by Bishop Alan Williams.  £699.00 per person sharing.  Price includes flights from London Stansted with 15kg checked in bag, all taxes, transfers, 5 nights’ in newly refurbished Knock House Hotel, in the grounds of the shrine, with full Irish Breakfast each morning, light lunch and 4 Course Dinner each evening. All entertainment and guided tours included. Wheelchair accessible rooms in the hotel.  Limited single rooms available.  Groups and Individual bookings welcome. Excellent programme of prayer time, masses, liturgies, excursions and evening activities.  We will also visit Ballintubber Abbey, Croagh Patrick, Westport and other famous sights in Co. Mayo. Contact 01268 762278 or email knockpilgrimages@gmail.com  Knock Pilgrimages is a member of the Travel Trust Association and is fully protected by ATOL T7613.

 

Social News Update

Margueriteville Country Music Club donated another £500 at Christmas to the Parish Centre funds.  Their next live music gig at St James Church hall, Elmsleigh Drive, Leigh is on Saturday 27th January with singer Jim Worton.  Contact Darrell 07825686249 for booking seats etc.

Sea of Voices Choir recommences singing from Wednesday 17th January onwards, from 7.45pm.  We have some new members to the choir at the start of 2018 but there is always room for some more!  Contact Darrell for more information.  Especially welcome any help to get a choir website set up and assist on future publicity on social media, etc. 

New social events at the Parish Centre are being planned including St Patrick’s night. More details will follow in due course. 

 

White Flower Appeal

White Flower Appeal - the  Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) will be holding its annual appeal next weekend.

SPUC is currently campaigning to stop the decriminalisation of abortion, which means taking abortion outside the law.  This is the most dangerous threat to unborn children and their mothers in decades.

Please be as generous as you can to help us defeat this latest attack on unborn babies and their mothers, and to stop abortion getting even worse in this country by decriminalisation. 

 

Thank You from Serving the Homeless

As another year ends we would like to thank you all for your wonderful support again last year. With your donations, attendance at our events and membership of our 200 Club, we have been able to spend £15,623 on local homelessness initiatives during 2017.

We have continued to spend £200 per month on fresh meat, milk and cheese for HARP to provide meals for their clients. We gave HARP £3,500 for transition programmes which help clients into work and housing, bought garden benches and the bedding for the 20 beds in the new women’s hostel and  also financed a garden project which will involve clients working to better their environment.

We are continuing to support The Churches Winter Shelters programme. We assisted last year by purchasing the bed rolls, sleeping bags etc. that were needed to set up the shelter in Leigh Road Baptist Church. We have also given them £500 towards the cost of installing a shower for their rough sleepers.  Another £650 was given to support the general costs of running all the Church night shelters. We have also financed ‘Suspended Meals’ at Oasis café, to enable them to give hot meals to those who need it.

We sponsored one of the Youth awards at Southend YMCA and we are raising funds to support their project, ‘Mary’s House’ (a safe refuge for the most vulnerable youngsters.) We have been able to give them £4,950 this year. We also made up a Christmas parcel for each of the 33 youngsters who are spent Christmas at the YMCA this year.

We hope you all had a very happy  and peaceful New Year and we would love to hear from anyone who would be willing to join the Committee so that we can continue to help those around us who are in need next year.

 

THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY & JOSEPH

THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY & JOSEPH - Sunday 31st DecEMBER

Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Steve & Agnes McManus, RIP (Anniv) (SW)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession

8.00am Mass Diana, RIP (SC)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Deceased members of Walsh & Clark Families (MC) 
6.00-7.00pm    Holy Hour, Te Deum & Benediction

Monday 1 January MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
12Noon Mass Gregory Power, RIP (Anniv) (MP)

Tuesday 2 Ss Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bpp, Dd
9.00am Mass Maureen Regan, RIP (Anniv) (CR)

Wednesday 3 Feria of Christmastide
9.00am Mass Thomas Henry Gunn, RIP (F/M)

Thursday 4 Feria of Christmastide
9.00am Mass Anne Young, RIP (S)

Friday 5 Feria of Christmastide
12Noon Mass Intentions of the CWL
12.30pm Exposition after Mass until
8.00pm Holy Hour & Benediction

Saturday 6 Feria of Christmastide
10.00am Mass Terence & Maisie Renehan,  RIP (Anniv) (MH)    
10.30am-11.30am Exposition & Confession 

THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD - Sunday 7th January

Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Rosemary O’Brien, RIP (WMcH)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession

8.00am Mass Raymond de Chantilly, RIP (SVP)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Essie Glauda, RIP (Anniv) (KC)
4.00pm Mass Marian Payne, RIP (SVP) - Extraordinary Form
5.30pm Blessing of Babies & Benediction

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Fourth Sunday of Advent - Sunday 24th DecEMBER

Saturday 5.30pm  Vigil Deceased relatives & loved ones of Braggard & Underwood Families (RB)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession

8.00am Mass Tony Nesnas, RIP (Anniv) (SC)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Clare Chadwick, RIP (MI) 

5.30pm Vigil Mass -  Christmas Eve - Intentions of Teresa O’Brien (SW)
(preceded by Carols at 5pm)
10.30pm Carols & Readings
11.00pm Midnight Mass The People of the Parish

Monday 25 CHRISTMAS DAY
8.00am Mass Private Intention
9.30am Mass Private Intention
11.30am Mass Private Intention

Tuesday 26 ST STEPHEN, The First Martyr
10.00am Mass Intentions of the Altar Servers & their Families

Wednesday 27 ST JOHN, Ap, Evangelist
10.00am Mass Anne Young, RIP (T&RO’C)

Thursday 28 THE HOLY INNOCENTS, Mm
9.00am Mass Ugo Gardin, RIP (Anniv) (MB)

Friday 29 ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, Bp, M    
12Noon Mass Ints of John & Renata Butler-50th Wedding Anniversary (RB)

Saturday 30 Sixth Day within the Octave of Christmas
12Noon Mass Anna siani,  RIP (Anniv) (RB)    
10.30am-11.30am    Exposition & Confession 

THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY & JOSEPH - Sunday 31st DecEMBER

Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Steve & Agnes McManus, RIP (Anniv) (SW)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession

8.00am Mass Diana, RIP (SC)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Deceased members of Walsh & Clark Families (MC) 
6.00-7.00pm Holy Hour, Te Deum & Benediction