Kevin Hale
Fourth Sunday of Easter

Dear friends in Christ

On   morning/evening we heard those much awaited words from St Peter’s in Rome: Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam!

Fourth Sunday of Easter
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

Serving the Homeless

Sincere thanks to those parishioners who purchased raffle tickets for our Grand Summer Draw. These will be on sale throughout the summer from any member of our Committee or, alternatively, please contact Jo Ronan 474062, Linda Wall 558217 or Nina Bridgeman 472536.  Tickets cost £1 each or you can purchase a book of 5 tickets for £5.

Art Exhibition & Sale

The Live Simply Group invites you to an exhibition & sale of beautiful original paintings & craft from Kenyan artists in the Parish Centre.  The work will be on display from 10.30am Saturday 15th July until 8.00pm; and then again, on Sunday 16th July, from 8.30am until 2.00pm. Refreshments will be available.  All proceeds will go to Kenyan Orphan Fund & Ugandan Project.  Why not pop in after Mass or tell your friends?

Quiz & Chips Night

This will be held in Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Centre on Saturday 22nd July, 6.30pm for 7pm start.  Maximum 8 people per table.  Prizes for the winners.  Fish & Chips will be served, bring your own drinks and nibbles.  £10 per person.  Raffle donations gratefully received.  All proceeds go to the Parish Lourdes Fund.  For tickets please contact Phyllis on 07969465518 or Darrell on 07825686249.

Sea of Voices

We have been going for over a year now and have sung in various locations.  We could still do with more voices, male and female.  We meet upstairs in the Parish Centre 7.45pm to 9.15pm on Wednesday evenings.  Do come along and see what you think with a view to joining.  We also need an Assistant Musical Director.  If interested, or know of someone, please contact Darrell on 07825686249.

Thank You

Vivien Clancy and family would like to thank parishioners for their prayers, support and kind messages of sympathy on the death of her brother-in-law, John Kidney.  Vivien would also like to thank parishioners for their cards, gifts and good wishes on the occasion of her 98th birthday.

Carmelite Pilgrimage to Aylesford Priory - Sunday 16th July

Leigh on Sea Lay Carmelite Pilgrimage to Aylesford Priory for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.  Holy Mass at 12Noon.  Coach from bus stop opposite Our Lady of Lourdes Church at 9.15am (also pick up at bus stop opposite Nazareth House at 9am.)  Fare £12.  To book a seat on the coach telephone Bernadette Lane on 01702 421891 or 07963 300518.  Please bring a packed lunch.  All welcome.

Diocesan Centenary Pilgrimage to Walsingham Saturday 22nd July

The main celebration of our Centenary this year will take place at Walsingham and will be a Diocesan-wide event.  Two coaches will travel from our Parish at a cost of £10 per adult, £5 per child.  The coaches will leave Our Lady of Lourdes Church at 8am and depart from Walsingham no later than 5pm.  If you would like to book a ticket for the coach please call in at the Parish Office as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.  Monies should be paid at the time of booking.  The Parish Office is open from 9am to 1pm, Monday to Friday.  Alternatively, put your name and cash/cheque (payable to Our Lady of Lourdes) in an envelope and post it through the Presbytery door.

Please Pray for the Dead on their anniversaries

Canon Francis Gilbert, Fr Walter Walsh, Fr John Watson, Paddy Shanahan, William O’Neill, Selwyn Lewis, Ita McCullough, Joan Gendall, Felix Keenan, Annie Briggs, Maria Chadun, Mary Bray, Irene Harvey, Margaret O’Callaghan, Elsie Maczka, Stanislaus Dulewicz, Michael O’Connell, Betty Gray, Dorothy Cole, Kathleen Scaife, Margaret Simpson, Monica Gray, Patricia Armstrong, Josephine Russell, Ronald Gibson & Robert Wright.

May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Dear Friends in Christ

Jesus often speaks to us about the joy that comes from self-denial.  In the Gospel of this weekend we hear the well-known words in which Jesus invites us to share His yoke, His burden. It is the Gospel text much related to the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The oft-proclaimed paradox of the Christian life is to be found in this way: accepting the difficulties and contradictions of life so as to be more liberated and also more united with Christ. Our love of God is nourished in prayer and reception of the Sacrament, in the constant struggle against our defects, in the unceasing effort to maintain a living presence of God throughout the whole of our days, in our relationships with others and even in our times of rest. The Blessed Eucharist is, above all, the spring at which our love of God is perpetually refreshed and strengthened.

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 2nd July 

Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Vera & Henry De Souza, RIP (FDS)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession


8.00am Mass Teresa Yates, RIP (MW)
9.30am Mass Lynn Tait, RIP (BH)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
4.00pm Mass Marion & Robert Caunce, RIP - Extraordinary Form (JC)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction

Monday 3 ST THOMAS, Ap
9.00am Mass Alexander McFarlane, Jr, RIP (PJ)

Tuesday 4 St Elizabeth of Portugal
9.00am Mass Intentions of Vivien Clancy (JL)

Wednesday 5 St Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Pr
9.00am Mass Frank Clancy, RIP (Anniv) (VC)

Thursday 6 St Maria Goretti, VM
9.00am Mass Intentions of David & Eileen Gurney (60th Wedding Ann) (JL)

Friday 7 Feria
12Noon Mass Intentions of the CWL
12.30pm Exposition after Mass until
8.00pm Holy Hour and Benediction

Saturday 8 Our Lady on Saturday
10.00am Mass Alison Shepherd, RIP (Anniv) (CH)
10.30am-11.30am Exposition & Confessions

The Holy Rosary is prayed after morning Mass during the week

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 9th July 

Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Ted Wilson, RIP (Anniv) (EW)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession

8.00am Mass Intentions of Renata Butler (Rosary Group)
9.30am Mass David Ward, RIP
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction

The Sacrament of Penance is available on request

Quiz & Chips Night

Quiz & Chips Night

This will be held in Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Centre on Saturday 22nd July, 6.30pm for 7pm start.  Maximum 8 people per table.  Prizes for the winners.  Fish & Chips will be served, bring your own drinks and nibbles.  £10 per person.  Raffle donations gratefully received.  All proceeds go to the Parish Lourdes Fund.