Primary School Link Adviser Opportunity

The Diocese of Brentwood is seeking to appoint a Primary School Link Adviser who is a practising Catholic, to support the Diocesan Board of Education and its family of schools. This is likely to be a part-time post of either 3 or 4 days a week, however, consideration will also be given to applicants who are seeking a full-time or secondment opportunity. The Primary Link Adviser will report to the Diocesan Director of Education and Deputy Director. It is expected that applicants will have an established and successful track record as a head teacher, a senior leader in a primary school or have recent, relevant advisory/consultancy experience. Applicants must be able to demonstrate school improvement experience and the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. Working closely as part of a team, the successful candidate will:
• Support the development of Catholic schools as providers of high quality educational, religious and spiritual standards
• Play a leading role in the effectiveness of organisational services and operations
• Support projects in and across schools on an ad-hoc or commissioned basis
• Deliver training
• Participate in the formulation of local level education policy.

Further details and an application form can be obtained via the following link: Primary Link Adviser – Brentwood Diocesan Education Service or by emailing: victoriabarnes@dioceseofbrentwood.org

Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Liturgy:
Readings of Year A
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 7

Saturday 30th September
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

5:30pm Vigil Mass Brian Tobias & Gloria O'Sullivan, RIP
6:30 Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions

Sunday 1st October
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Thanksgiving (PF)
11.30am Mass Jim O'Connell, RIP (PO’C)
4pm Mass Intentions of Margaret M Hiscock (MS)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction

Monday 2
The Holy Guardian Angels
9am Mass Jose Camara RIP (LS)

Tuesday 3
Feria
9am Mass Paddy & Detta Nolan, RIP (Anniv) (AM)

Wednesday 4
St Francis of Assisi, Rel
9am Mass Intentions of Jimmy & Pauline Martin (sick)

Thursday 5
St Faustina Kowalska, Rel
9am Mass Intentions of Bernardette Lane (80th Birthday) (MM)

Friday 6
St Bruno, Pr. First Friday of the month
9am Requiem Mass Christopher Kellehar, RIP

12 Noon Mass Intentions of Dr Zena Rokan (KR)
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass until Holy Hour 7—8pm

Saturday 7
Our Lady Queen of the Most Holy Rosary
10am Mass Thomas Warren, RIP (CS)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions

5.30pm Vigil Mass Adrian Ausareny, RIP (AA)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions

Sunday 8 October
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

8am Mass Intentions of Mary Christadaul (SM)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Maureen Stevenson, RIP (P&BO’C)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction

We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries

Fr Michael Hopkins, Fr Henry Healy, Fr David Logue, Canon Edward Henry, Fr Harold Cahill, Canon William O’Neill, John Martin, Percy Sentinel, William Spedding, Ronnie Ollie, Margaret Price, Rudolph Banocy, Sarah Duffy, Colleen Worley, Sophie Shapiro, Fr Michael Hopkins, Eileen Pearson, Ursula Turner, John Butler, Kathleen Wetton, Tom Atkinson, Jean-Marie Mahieu, Doris Kelly, Derick Wheeler, James Wood, Sheelagh Sheridan, Adele Petronius, Ethel Shepherd, Jean Buck, Alan Adamson, Kathleen Lionet, Walter Wood, Daphne Sounes & Dymphna Addecott.

We Pray for our Sick

Richard Poole, Pamela Uglietti, Michael Mapson, Deana Ince, Susan Griffin, Eva Paviour, Gy Rampersaud, Mary O’Sullivan, Ian Spacie, Bobby Newman, Paul Watts, Christine Reid, Rose D’Souza, Jimmy & Pauline Martin, James Fegan, Muriel Matthews, David Lesley, Kenneth Biebuyck, Zach Stokes, Andrew Stokes, Noel Conroy, Marjorie Jay, Paul Sutton, John Murphy, Jennifer Biebuyck, Moira Scott, Jill Yates, Leonora Maguire, Brian Mountier, Renata Butler, Margaret Bartle, Tony Downey, Kristy Monferrari, Fred Ring, Russell Short, Marie Kharas, Garry Pearman, Patricia Ann Darroch, Patricia Vanner, Amy Louise Fox, Sarah Savage, Bill O’Connell, Charlotte O’Neil, Ella Williams, David Kislingbury, Mark Shepherd, Breege McCaffrey, Mark Hartley, John Lavery, Paul Keane, Rosemary Bragard, Pat Lynch, Ben Wilson, Christian Ryan, Tina Doveaston, Addi Brady, Patricia Fleming, Nicky Wigmore, Rose Craft, Patricia Spikin, Sandra Fagan, Edna Wallace, Beryl Dixon, Nick Evans, Vicky Jack, Mary Boyce, Kristin Hallenga, Anne O’Neill, Cheryl Shallis, Justin Stark, Sheila Netherton, David Blyth, Janet Woods, Lynne Hilkene, June Moncaster, Laura & Anne Breen, Breda Lynch, Maria Clark, Roy Widdecombe, Johanna Lynch, Anthony King, Norma McCleverty, Belinda Balazsi, Johnny Poole, Edward Martin, Joanna Luciani, Pauline Wilsher, Simon Marshall, Kriston Barnes, Hugh Isaacs, Dawn Deleigh, Lorraine Hart, Linda Dean, Georgina Cornwell, Antonella McConalogue, Sharon Levill, Annie Holland, Ivor & Joanne Knight, Brian Beresford, Rebecca Peake, Connor Bourke, Mattia Mollica, Bernadette Lane, Irena Solecki, Ianto Bellis, Marguerite Harris, Andrew Exley, Elizabeth McConalogue, Kean Smith, Keith Maliff, Bradley, Florence Hownam & children: Thomas Ball, Liam Davis, Connie Price, Albert Chambers, Fergus Grant, Mary Isherwood, Lucy Price, Frazer Gregory & baby Forest Gallagher.

JOURNEY OF FAITH—RCIA

RCIA will meet on Monday, 2nd October and is specifically for those who are not Catholics but who are enquiring with a view to finding out more about the Catholic Faith and Reception into the Chruch. These evenings begin at 8pm, are held in the Newman Room of the Parish Centre (the door is beside the Memorial Garden) and usually last just over an hour. Names may be given in advance to Fr Kevin or the Parish Office.

CAFOD Harvest Family Fast Day—Friday 6th October

This harvest fast day CAFOD is focussing on the work of the amazing mobile medical clinic which operated in 2022 in Pakistan, getting help from doctors and local health experts to communities suffering from diseases caused by contaminated water and lack of food. The mobile clinic travelled across hundreds of miles to provide that care and support.

With extreme disasters like floods occurring more and more, there is an increasing need for medical support for local communities, and CAFOD is working to help provide it.

Please pray for the work of CAFOD and if you are able to make a donation to their work, gift envelopes will be available at the back of church or you can make electronic donations at the back of the church too. Thank you.

OLOL Ladies Group

Our next Meeting in the Parish Centre is on Thursday 5th October from 10 am. All ladies in the Parish are welcome.

This week one of our own members will be our guest speaker so please come along and support Chantal who will recall what prompted her to change her life and move from her home country “ From France to England” .

As usual subs are just £1.00 plus a fun Raffle. Refreshments are available at no extra cost.

Certificate of Catholic Practice for Schools

If you are applying for a place in a Catholic School for your child you may wish to include a Certificate of Catholic Practice. As our local Schools are currently undersubscribed with Catholics, the need for this Certificate is not as pressing as it has been previously. However, if you wish your application to be endorsed then these Certificates may be obtained from the Parish Office either on a Thursday or Friday morning between 10am—1pm.

Site Manager—Cathedral House

The successful applicant will identify and carry out effectively, routine and reactive maintenance tasks, regular health and safety checks and other general duties associated with the management of buildings and grounds comprising the Cathedral House and the Brentwood Parish. The candidate will also be responsible for cleaning duties at Cathedral House.

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: £23,000 - £27,000 p/a depending on experience

Start Date: ASAP

Apply by sending a CV and covering letter (no longer than A4) hr@brcdt.org.

Closing date for applications is 5th October 2023.

Sea of Voices Choir

Our community choir, based at the Parish Centre, have returned from Summer break to start putting our Christmas programme together for a fundraiser charity concert . It’s great that we have 4 new members but would welcome more (especially male basses and male/female tenors).

So budding singers out there, would you like to sing with us? Know anyone locally who would? Young (over 18s) or still young at heart welcome!

We meet Thursday evenings from 7.45pm to 9.30pm and costs just £3 per session. Free first time ‘see if you like it’ session. Contact Darrell 07825686249 or the Parish Office.