Kevin Hale
Fourth Sunday of Easter

I am the Good Shepherd.

Fourth Sunday of Easter
Kevin Hale
Third Sunday of Easter

Dear friends in Christ

In an early text by Saint Justin, Martyr, c.150 AD we read: On Sundays there is an assembly of all who live in towns or in the country... This is the first day, on which God transformed darkness and matter and made the world; the day on which Jesus Christ our Saviour rose from the dead.

Third Sunday of Easter
Kevin Hale
Second Sunday of Easter

Dear friends in Christ

The Octave Day of Easter renews our joy and hope in the Resurrection of Our Lord

Second Sunday of Easter
Kevin Hale
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

Dear friends in Christ

A happy and blessed Easter to all of our Parish family!

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

Dear friends in Christ

We are at the start of the Great Week once again!

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

Flower Festival 16th June 2018

As part of our Evangelisation and Discipleship project, we are organising a festival of flowers to be held on Saturday 16th June. The aim is to involve as many parishioners as possible in decorating all the windowsills in the church. The theme will be, The Saints. Each display to be inspired by the saints portrayed in the stained glass windows. We hope that this event will encourage the people of Leigh to visit our beautiful Church.

We hope that organisations, groups, families or individuals will volunteer to take responsibility for one window display. A list will be available to choose from.

This is not a competition. Please do not feel that you have to be a professional flower arranger to take part! Garden flowers and greenery, together with any symbols or items representing the Saints in the window that you have chosen, would be ideal.

If you are interested in taking part, or would like to know more, please contact:

Theresa 335122 or Jo 474062

 

EVANGELISATION & DISCIPLESHIP PROJECT

Thank you so much for your support for this initiative which we hope will produce confidence and growth in our Parish community. If you couldn't make the first meeting, DON'T LET THAT STOP YOU! You will still be welcome at our next meeting on Tuesday 20th March at 7:30pm in the Gilbert Room when we will begin studying Sherry Weddell's book Forming Intentional Disciples together. This programme has transformed and deepened the faith of many people. For those who already intend to come to the next meeting, why not start your evangelisation training now by inviting two other people from the parish to join you at the next meeting? Please remember to pray for this ongoing initiative.

 

Fourth Sunday of Lent - Lætare Sunday 11th March 2018

Fourth Sunday of Lent - Lætare Sunday 11th March 2018

We have passed the mid-way stage of Lent, and the Church allows us a little respite, a glimpse of the joy that will come to us at Easter, in the prayers of the liturgy and in the lighter tone of the vesture used on this Lætare Sunday. The words of the Introit of the Mass bid Jerusalem rejoice, and come together all you that love her: rejoice with joy, you that have been in sorrow: that you may exult...  Jerusalem is the place where the events of our salvation are going to unfold and so it is the City that, in a very true sense, is blessed. It is there that our Saviour will be lifted up upon the Cross  just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert. Everything in the Old Testament is a preparation for, or a prefigurement of, the coming of the Messiah. As we approach the part of Lent traditionally termed Passiontide  we can begin to think in more detail about the particulars of the Passion of Our Lord. We reflect on these mysteries so that we can apply them to our own lives and understand something of the love God shows us by going to this extreme. During Lent we try with every greater determination to unite all of the crosses and contradictions of this life with the Passion of Jesus and His Cross.  I would like to share with you some lovely lines of Pope Emeritus Benedict, from his Encyclical Letter on Hope - Spe Salvi -written to the Ch

FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT - Sunday 11th March - Lætare

FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT - Sunday 11th March - Lætare
Saturday 5.30pm    Vigil Frank & Moira Keenan, RIP (FK)
6.30pm–7.30pm      Exposition & Confession

8.00am        Mass Intentions of Marie Fitzakerley - 90th Birthday (JL)
9.30am        Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am        Mass Mervyn Calton, RIP (RC) 
5.30pm        Vespers & Benediction

Monday 12    Feria
9.00am         Mass William Brown, RIP (Anniv) (JS)

Tuesday 13    Feria
9.00am         Mass Intentions of Sue O’Brien (T&VT)

Wednesday 14   Feria
9.00am         Mass Intentions of John & Renata Butler (C&AB)

Thursday 15    Feria
9.00am           Mass Derek Timothy, RIP (T&VT)

Friday 16        Feria
6.30am          Mass Barbara Sheaf, RIP (K&LW)
12Noon          Mass John & Pat Moon & Valerie Griggs, RIP (SM)
8.00pm         Stations of the Cross & Benediction

Saturday 17    ST PATRICK, Bp, Apostle of Ireland
10.00am         Mass Rev John O’Neill, RIP (FM)
10.30am-11.30am    Exposition & Confession 

FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT - Sunday 18th March 
Saturday 5.30pm    Vigil Mick & Sheila West (40th Wedding Anniv)
6.30pm–7.30pm      Exposition & Confession

8.00am        Mass Guy Bragard, RIP (Anniv) (RB)
9.30am        Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am        Mass Madelaine Sighe, RIP (MR)
5.30pm        Vespers & Benediction

 

We pray for our sick

Anne Currid, David Gurney, Maureen Gooding, Paul Keane, 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, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Anthony McEvoy, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, Dympna Addecott, Janet Woods, Lynne Hilkene, June Moncaster, Laura & Anne Breen, Breda Lynch, Roy Widdecombe,
Johanna Lynch,  Maria Clark, Sheila McBrearty, Anthony King, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Edward Martin, Johnnie Pool, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Josephine Griggs, Noel Kolb, Colleen Worley, Antonella McConalogue, Fr Jean Laurent Marie, Dawn Deleigh, Eddie McConalogue, Georgina Cornwell, Lorraine Hart, 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

Fr William Luby, Canon Martin Horkan, Rev John O’Neill, Margaret Houston, Benjamin Dawson, Leo King, Edith Smith, Eileen Greaves, George Burnham, Lydia Upton, Maura Harley, Eric Wilding, Stefan Zyms, Frank Keenan Snr, Nora Thompson, Philip Hale, Eleanor Hayes, June Hazel White, David McGowan, George Conway, James Kennedy, Kathleen Horsford, Julian Felix Asselberghs, Catherine Isobel Jago, Anthony Slattery, Mary Russell, Henry McIlwee, Nina Clarke,
Alfred Marshall, Dolores Cutter, John Flynn, Gabrielle Haiser & Henry De Souza.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.

Nazareth House Lenten Talks - Revised

Thursday 15th March Fr Dominic Howarth on Formation of our young people -
‘ Abbotswick and beyond’.
Final talk Thursday 22 March Brian Holt -President of the Comitium for the Legion of Mary in our Diocese - ‘Devotion to Mary means Apostleship’.
Both talks begin at 7.30pm and the evenings conclude with devotions with priests available to hear confessions.
The Deanery Sacrament of Reconciliation at St Peter’s is therefore moved to Friday, 23rd March at 8.00 pm (as opposed to Thursday, 22nd March at 7.30 pm as previously advised). 

 

PILGRIMAGE to KNOCK SHRINE, IRELAND - 28th MAY 2018

Last few Seats - Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine, Ireland, 28th May 2018.  Led by Bishop Alan Williams.  £699 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.   Contact  01 268 762278 or email knockpilgrimages@gmail.com.  Knock Pilgrimages is a member of the Travel Trust Association and is fully protected by ATOL T7613.  

 

Gift Aid Envelopes

New boxes of envelopes for those in the Gift Aid Scheme will be available for collection on 10th/11th and 17th/18th March.  If you wish to gift aid your weekly offering by using envelopes, please complete a Gift Aid Form, available at the back of Church, and either hand it in to the Parish office or place it in the offertory collection.  You will then receive a box of envelopes for your weekly collection.

Thank you from ‘Serving the Homeless’

We have our Annual General meeting on 12th March at 7.30 at St. Margaret’s Church Hall, Lime Ave Leigh.  We would welcome anyone who would like to find out more about what we do. (But don’t worry you won’t be forced to join!)  Our next event is a meal at East on 22nd March at 7.30. Tickets are £15 and are available from Linda, 558217, Theresa, 335122 or from Jo 474062.

 

Spring Walk

Why not sign up for HARP’s Prittle Brook Spring Walk?  Taking place on Sunday 22rd April 2018 at 2pm, it’s a 3½ mile Sunday afternoon stroll along the Prittle Brook Greenway from Priory Park to Belfairs Park – raising vital funds for HARP.
Every step you take will show you’re supporting local homeless people.  What’s more, with each entry you will receive a FREE HARP Spring Walk T-shirt and also enjoy a well-earned cup of tea and slice of cake afterwards at the Woodlands Centre at Belfairs Park.  This is a great afternoon out and knowing you are helping Southend’s homeless community rebuild their lives and live independently makes it even better! https://www.harpsouthend.org.uk/spring-walk-2018

Coast to Coast Rosary

After similar events in Poland and Ireland, we plan to pray the rosary around the coast on Great Britain in April this year.

The event, which is scheduled for Sunday, April 29, will pray specifically for our country, for peace and for the upholding of the dignity of human life. This mass-rosary prayer will help combat the present threats to faith, the dignity of the human person and to peace, and encourage a re-flourishing of our Faith.   Our Parish will pray the Rosary on the waters-edge at The Crowstone  bottom of Imperial Avenue at 3pm that Sunday.  Visit the website for more details: www.rosaryonthecoast.co.uk

 

Missio

APF Boxholders.  I have received the Spring 2018 Missio magazine.  If you have not received one from me personally, please take one from the back of the Church in the usual place. 

Thank you.  Joan Caunce, Secretary  Tel:  01268 757505