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

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

 

Journey of Faith (RCIA)

A series of informal talks, designed to give an insight into the teachings and traditions of the Catholic church, continues on Monday 12th March at 8pm in the Parish Centre with Morality & Social Justice (Matthew 25).  You are welcome to attend some or all of these talks; if you would like more information please speak to Fr Kevin.

 

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 13th 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.

 

Third Sunday of Lent

Third Sunday of Lent

Dear Friends in christ

We hear of the incident when Jesus cleanses the Temple in the Gospel of this Sunday. It was a prelude to the Passion, and is one of those rare moments when Our Lord is filled with a righteous anger for the abuse of His Father's house. This passage from St John reminds us too, of the special and sacred nature of the places where God dwells amongst His people.  Our churches are holy and consecrated, set aside for the specific purpose of worship, so that we may have places on earth wherein we can encounter the living presence of God.

Third Sunday of Lent

THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT - Sunday 4th March 

Saturday 5.30pm Vigil Adrian Dann, RIP (K&LW)
6.30pm–7.30pm Exposition & Confession

8.00am Mass Sandie Hippard - Special Intention (K&LW)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Ann O’Connell, RIP (MD)
4.00pm Mass Kathleen Kelly, RIP - Ex Form (M&MD)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction 

Monday 5 Feria
9.00am Mass Alfredo Tisi, RIP (T&VT)

Tuesday 6 Feria
9.00am Mass Jan Harris, RIP (Anniv)(LY)

Wednesday 7 Feria
9.00am Mass Charles & Alice Whitefield, RIP (FM)
5.00pm Body in Church Pamina Edgeley, RIP    

Thursday 8 Feria
9.30am Requiem Mass Pamina Edgeley, RIP

Friday 9 Feria
6.30am Mass Barbara Sheaf, RIP (CR)
12Noon Mass Margaret Randall, RIP (C&AB)

Saturday 10 Feria
10.00am Mass Sheila Yorke,  RIP  (SC)    
10.30am-11.30am Exposition & Confession 

FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT - Sunday 11th March - Lætare Sunday

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

 

The Southend Deanery in the Diocese of Brentwood

Presents a series of Four Lent Talks at Nazareth House-Thursday Evenings in Lent, beginning at 7.30pm - ending with devotions and Benediction - Priests available to hear Confessions.

Thursday March 8th Fr. Graham Smith, Parish Priest of Southend and Prittlewell Diocesan Director of Vocations
‘Here I am Lord’

Thursday March 15th Speaker to be confirmed: The Pastoral Formation of our Young People
Abbotswick and Beyond…