The Live Simply Group invite you to watch a film in the Parish Centre on Friday October 27th at 7.30pm. Les Mis, with subtitles to singalong. Refreshments will be on sale to continue our support for CAFOD's refugee work. All are welcome.
Music at the Cathedral
CENTENARY CHORAL & ORCHESTRAL CONCERT on Saturday, 28th October, at 7.00 pm. EVERYONE most welcome! If you are free do come to the cathedral for a concert. The programme will include Mass in G – Schubert; Sospori – Elgar; Double Trumpet Concerto – Vivaldi; Gloria – Vivaldi; Serenade to Music – Vaughan Williams. Soloists: Julia Wilson-James (soprano); Chloe Treharne (alto); Michael Bradley (tenor); Joshua Chapman (bass). Sam Lewis & Darren Moore (Trumpets); Conducted by Andrew Wright. Tickets: £12 all unreserved obtainable from Music Office, Cathedral House, Ingrave Road, Brentwood, CM15 8AT or at the door. (Please include sae if writing) or email: music@dioceseofbrentwood.org Cheques made payable to Brentwood Cathedral Music. We look forward to welcoming you to the Cathedral for this Diocesan Centenary Concert.
Parish Social Events in the Parish Centre
Saturday 28th October
Family Disco - 7.30pm to 10.30pm £5 ticket or family ticket for £20 (2 adults + your children)
Friday 3rd November
Kai McKenzie is Michael Bublé in a tribute evening for adults. One of the UK’s leading Michael Bublé acts and previously entertained at the Parish Centre in 2014 and in Southend Cliffs in March. 8pm to 10.30pm. Tickets £10. Bring your own drinks.
Friday 24th November
Quiz starts 7.30pm. Tickets £6 each (includes Mulled Wine and mince pie).
Sunday 31st December
New Year’s Eve party with Disco, 8pm to 12.15am Tickets £5 (family ticket £20)
The Knights of St Columba (KSC)
We have organised a second Community Fayre at Nazareth House, 111 London Road, Westcliff, SS1 1PP on Saturday 21st October showcasing local charities, local help groups, and local businesses that have something to offer our community. The exhibitors will include Serving the Homeless, Christians Against Poverty, Catholic Clothing Guild, Storehouse Direct, CAFOD Brentwood, Southend in Transition and Southend Older People's Assembly. The Mayor of Southend will open the Fayre at 10.30am (finishing at 1pm) and we will have a Fairtrade raffle, Fairtrade light refreshments, a second hand book sale, and recycling points for your unwanted spectacles for VisionAid Overseas, unwanted currency for Missio, used stamps, and old mobile phones. Come and meet some great local people and see the help and ideas that are available. Entrance is free.
Counters & Folders
Counters: Linda Wall & Sheila West
Folders: Amanda Phipps & Clare English
Scripture Group
Fr. Con's Scripture Group will re-commence on Thursday 19th October in the Parish Centre from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, and will meet fortnightly after that date.
Serving the Homeless
Sincere thanks to everyone who supported our Jazz Evening last Saturday. This raised a profit of £545, which will go towards the YMCA's project ‘Mary's House’.
Over the past six months we have continued to spend £200 a month on fresh food for the Day Centre, Night Shelter and houses run by HARP; paid for temporary overnight accommodation for two clients until they could be housed; bought ten sets of clothing for young clients at HARP as well as additional underwear and jeans; financed the cost of providing bedding for twenty new beds in the women's hostel; provided £500 towards the cost of a shower for LRBC's winter night shelter; supported the suspended meal scheme at the Oasis Cafe and supported the Southend YMCA latest project "Mary's House".
Our next fundraising event is "Songs from the Musicals" featuring Elizabeth Upsher and the Southend YMCA on Saturday 18th November in the Parish Centre. Tickets cost £12 and include an Italian buffet supper. Please bring your own drinks. Tickets are available from Linda 558217, Theresa 335922 or Nina 472536.
School Admission Forms
Parents wishing to apply to Catholic Primary Schools for the next academic year are required to obtain a Letter of Catholic Practise from their Parish Priest. This must be requested from your Parish Priest in person and only one per child will be issued. Please come to the Parish Centre for these on Saturday, 28th October between 2pm and 4pm or Sunday 29th October between 4pm and 5pm.
These are issued only to practising Catholics (i.e. those who attend weekly Mass). Furthermore, this practise of the Faith will be viewed over a period of time and not just the weeks prior to an application. Parish Priests may also look at the date of Baptism, noting those children who have been Baptised soon after birth as compared to those Baptised with proximity to school age. This is a matter of justice to all involved in applying for places in our Schools. Our schools are often oversubscribed and in order to be fair, preference will justly be given to those who live and practise the Faith as well as who contribute to the life of the Church through the various ways in which that support is given. If you are not a practising Catholic this Certificate will not be given; you may still apply to a Catholic School but your application will considered under another category for Admissions.
Sanctuary Lamp
The lamp burns for the intentions ofYvonne Myers-Lamptey & Family.
Blessing of Graves
Fr Graham Smith will be Blessing Graves at Sutton Road Cemetery on Sunday,12th November from 3.00pm.
Please Pray for our sick
Renata Butler, Mike Rubbert, Teresa O’Brien, Derek Timothy, Maureen Deekes, Noel Fagan, Patricia Abram, Christine Noden, Tina Doveaston, Pat Lynch, Rose Craft, Addi Brady, Ben Wilson, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Brita Irons, Eileen Wilson, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Fr Bernard Clay, 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, Laura & Anne Breen, Roy Widdecombe, Lynne Hilkene, Johanna Lynch, Thomas Corrigan, June Moncaster, Breda Lynch, Sheila McBrearty, Anthony King, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Edward Martin, Johnnie Pool, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Barbara Sheaf, Maria Clark, 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 Roderick Grant, Mgr Canon Christopher Creede, Fr Bernard Clay, Francis Jones, Martha Tanner, Phyllis Koch, John Young, John Murray, Olga Ballard, Mary Aitken, Mary Smith, Florence Cody, Ada Redington, Patricia Kendall, Charles Edwards, William Brooks, Johanna Gromnicka, Mary Kenny, Josephine Platt, Annie Barton, Anthony Isaacs, Joan Erwood, George Gatward, David Thomas, Monica James, Elizabeth Winchester, Veronica McCullough, Dr Brian Quinn & Denis Jordan.
May their Souls & the Souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Message from our Bishop
My dear Parishioners of Leigh-on-Sea,
As you begin your week of Parish Mission, I would like to assure you of my particular spiritual closeness during these days. I ask especially that the Holy spirit will inspire all of you through the preaching and teaching of Fr Hugh Allan & Fr Stephen Morrison.
Dear friends in Christ
This weekend we begin our Parish Mission! Having prepared these last months through prayer, we welcome Fathers Hugh Allan and Stephen Morrison who will guide us through these days of prayer and spiritual renewal.
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 8th October
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil The People of the Parish
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass Teresa Yates, RIP (SVP) (PR)
9.30am Mass Ints of Mike & Marie Rubbert - Thanksgiving-Golden Wedding Ann
11.30am Mass Thomas Patrick Costello, RIP (Anniv) (KC)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 9 St Denis, Bp, & his Companions, Mm
6.30am Mass Shirley Corboy, RIP (MD)
9.00am Mass Raymond de Chantilly, RIP, (MF)
8.00pm Mission Service
Tuesday 10 St Paulinus of York, Bp
6.30am Mass Mrs Greiner, Grace & Gwen Greiner, RIP (FM)
9.00am Mass Lawrence de Lobel, RIP (Anniv)(VC)
8.00pm Mission Service
Wednesday 11 St John XXIII, P
6.30am Mass Eleanor Strauss, RIP (ND)
9.00am Mass Eileen & Bill Pearson, RIP (Anniv) (SP)
8.00pm Mission Service
Thursday 12 Ss Ethelburga, Hildelith & Cuthberga, Rel
6.30am Mass Leonor Fairbanks, RIP (NB)
9.00am Mass Thomas Henry Gunn, RIP (FM)
8.00pm Mission Service
Friday 13 St Edward the Confessor, King
6.30am Mass David Ward, RIP
9.00am Mass John Kidney, RIP (SVP)
8.00pm Mission Service
11.00pm All night Vigil until 6.30am
Saturday 14 St Callistus I, P, M
10.00am Mass Intentions of Evelyn Mackay (SD)
10.30am Children’s Mission Service
10.30am-11.30am Exposition & Confession
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday 15th October
Saturday 5.30pm Vigil John Young, RIP (Anniv) (LY)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession
8.00am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Dennis Jordan, RIP (Anniv) (PJ)
11.30am Mass Rosellen Armstrong, RIP (JA)
Close of Mission
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Walsingham House
Thank you for your recent kind donations of £637.94 for Abbotswick, the new Youth Centre.
Christmas Bazaar, Sunday 3rd December, 2017
This year we are holding our Parish Bazaar on a SUNDAY! Everyone is welcome to join us after 8am Mass right through to 1.30pm.
We need your donations of unwanted gifts, bottles, toiletries and good quality raffle prizes. You can leave these in the old Baptistry. We really hope that you can join us for delicious refreshments. Come along and bag a bargain. If you wish to help on the day please contact Sue Lawford 07816141492 or Angela Clements 07940183452.
Christmas Shoebox Appeal
Leaflets are available at the back of the Church giving instructions how to fill a shoebox with gifts for a child this Christmas, who otherwise would receive nothing. Filled and ready to collect shoeboxes should be taken to the nearest drop off point, Leigh Road Baptist Church (opposite the Church in Marguerite Drive) tel no: 478698, by the closing date, Friday 17th November 2017. Please do not leave filled shoeboxes at Our Lady of Lourdes Church.
Diocesan Centenary Concert at Brentwood Cathedral
On Saturday 28th October at 7pm, featuring Schubert’s ‘Mass in G’ and other works. Tickets £12 (£6 for students). For further details please contact the Diocesan Music Office: music@dioceseofbrentwood.org or 01277 265288.
Scripture Group
Fr. Con's Scripture Group will re-commence on Thursday 19th October in the Parish Centre from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, and will meet fortnightly after that date.
All welcome.
Parish Social Events in the Parish Centre
Saturday 28th October Family Disco - 7.30pm to 10.30pm £5 ticket or family ticket for £20 (2 adults + your children)
Friday 3rd November Kai McKenzie is Michael Bublé in a tribute evening for adults. One of the UK’s leading Michael Bublé acts and previously entertained at the Parish Centre in 2014 and in Southend Cliffs in March. 8pm to 10.30pm. Tickets £10. Bring your own drinks.
Friday 24th November Quiz starts 7.30pm. Tickets £6 each (includes Mulled Wine and mince pie).
Sunday 31st December New Year’s Eve party with Disco, 8pm to 12.15am Tickets £5 (family ticket £20).