IAN SPACIE, RIP who died on Wednesday, 10th July. His Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday, 7th August at 2pm followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
TONY DOWNEY, RIP who died on Wednesday, 24th July.
Requiescant in pace
Music at 11.30am
Prelude: Voluntary in F—John Stanley (1712-86)
Postlude: Fugue in C minor—Jean Charpentier (1734-1794)
Responsorial Psalm
First Holy Communion 2025
If your child is going into Year 3 or above and you wish for them to make their First Holy Communion in May 2025, please submit the application by Friday 6th September.
This should be done via the parish website, under Sacraments - Communion
(https://lourdesleigh.org/sacraments)
Dates for your Diary
Friday 20th December—Sea of Voices Carol Service 7pm
Saturday 15th—Friday 21st March 2025—Parish Mission led by the Redemptorists
Repository
The Repository is now closed for the summer holiday period and will re-open in September.
March for Life UK - Saturday 7th September
Morning Events: 10.00am-1.00pm The Emmanuel Centre, SW1P 3DW
In the morning of March for Life we will be hosting a ‘Pro-life Health Summit’ 10.30-12.30 in The Emmanuel Centre where a variety of healthcare specialists will be looking in greater detail at our theme ‘Abortion isn’t Healthcare’.
Mass: 11.00am St George’s Cathedral, Southwark
The March: 1.30pm From The Emmanuel Centre
Ends at Parliament Square 4.30pm.
Contact: Isabel 07773 501721 or Ben 07885 505116 or info@marchforlife.co.uk
MISSIO Red Box Holders
I have received the Summer 2024 edition of the Missio. If you have not received one personally from me please take one from the back of the Church (on the ledge at the back usual place). If anyone has a box needing emptying please give to me or leave in the Office and I will pick it up. Please don't to forget to take your boxes back from the back of the Church after.
Thank you.
Joan Caunce, Secretary, 01268 757505.
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy:
Readings of Year B
The Nicene Creed
Preface of Sunday 7
Saturday 20
St Apollinaris, Bp, M
5.30pm Vigil Mass Fidelis & Lourdes Mary Pallis, RIP (DL)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 21 July
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Lucrecia & Jose Conlu, RIP & Lucille Tarrobel, RIP
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Intentions Fr Kevin—40th Anniversary (PL)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 22
St Mary Magdalene
9am Mass Bernadette Bikhit, RIP (AS)
Tuesday 23
St Bridget of Sweden, Rel
9am Mass Winifred Gover, RIP
Wednesday 24
St Charbel Makhlouf, Pr
9am Mass Edward Trindle, RIP (MM)
Thursday 25
St James, Ap
9am Mass Intentions of Julian Tisi Intentions (MT)
Friday 26
Ss Joachim and Anne, Parents of the BVM
12 Noon Mass Intentions of Rebecca Moseby (ES)
Saturday 27
Saturday Memorial of the BVM
10am Mass Steve Kim Keogh, RIP (MW)
10.30-11.30am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
5.30pm Vigil Mass Mary (Molly) McGuire, RIP (Anniv) (SW)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confession
Sunday 28 July
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8am Mass Kathryn Shepherd, RIP (Anniv) (SW)
9.30am Mass The People of the Parish
11.30am Mass Intentions of Lambert Family—anniversary of Ruth (PL)
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
We Pray for the Dead on their Anniversaries
Fr Patrick Taylor, Deacon David Balmer, Fr John Boardman Jones, Fr Michael Hannah, Fr Dermot Moore, Fr James Cooney, Fr Godfrey Anstruther OP, Jane Mawdsley, Alice Collins, Aislinn Lane, Elsie Witty, Irene Huggett, Frank McEvoy, Pamela Johnson, Francis Howard Kenney, Geraldine Hayter, Joan Farmer, Winifred Martin, Marian Bukowski, Leonard Betts, Arthur Koch, William Rhodes, David Hall, Eva Bartley, Sylvester Smolarczyk, Marie Ann Brand, John Maguire, Stefan Nowacki, John O’Brien, Gertrude Mortelman, Daisy Houlihan, Frederick James Hardy, Mrs Pearle, David Bavin, Margaret Hughes, Bertha Dock-Olsen, Emma Alexander & Anne Owen.
We pray for our sick
The Sick List is available on the website main menu, under Worship.
We pray for the sick of our parish
“Father,
by the power of your Spirit
you have filled the hearts of your faithful people
with gifts of love for one another.
Hear the prayers we offer for our relatives and friends.
Give them health of mind and body
that they may do your will with perfect love.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.”
Sanctuary Lamp
This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for the deceased members of the West & McManus Families.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of
IAN SPACIE who died on Wednesday, 10th July. His Requiem Mass will take place on Wednesday, 7th August at 2pm followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
Requiescat in pace
Music at 11.30am
Prelude: Recit de Tierce—Francois Couperin (1688-1733)
Postlude: Offertoire—Francois Couperin (1688-1733)
Responsorial Psalm
First Holy Communion 2025
If your child is going into Year 3 or above and you wish for them to make their First Holy Communion in May 2025, please submit the application by Friday 6th September.
This should be done via the parish website, under Sacraments - Communion
(https://lourdesleigh.org/sacraments)
Dates for your Diary
Monday 22nd—Friday 26th July 2024—Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes
Friday 20th December—Sea of Voices Carol Service 7pm
Saturday 15th—Friday 21st March 2025—Parish Mission led by the Redemptorists
Baptisms
We congratulate the parents of Selina Lewis-Moore and Jaxson Jorge who were Baptised recently at Our Lady of Lourdes. May God bless them and their families as they grow in His knowledge and love.
Repository
We are open this weekend after all Masses and we will then be closed for the summer holiday period and re-open in September . We would like to thank all Parishioners for your continued support.
MISSIO Red Box Holders
I have received the Summer 2024 edition of the Missio. If you have not received one personally from me please take one from the back of the Church (on the ledge at the back usual place). If anyone has a box needing emptying please give to me or leave in the Office and I will pick it up. Please don't to forget to take your boxes back from the back of the Church after.
Thank you.
Joan Caunce, Secretary, 01268 757505.
March for Life UK - Saturday 7th September
Morning Events: 10.00am-1.00pm The Emmanuel Centre, SW1P 3DW
In the morning of March for Life we will be hosting a ‘Pro-life Health Summit’ 10.30-12.30 in The Emmanuel Centre where a variety of healthcare specialists will be looking in greater detail at our theme ‘Abortion isn’t Healthcare’.
Mass: 11.00am St George’s Cathedral, Southwark
The March: 1.30pm From The Emmanuel Centre
Ends at Parliament Square 4.30pm.
Contact: Isabel 07773 501721 or Ben 07885 505116 or info@marchforlife.co.uk