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Sunday 29th November 2015

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ADVENT SUNDAY 11 am. Solemn Mass  at St John Fisher-Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Celebrant & Preacher: The Ordinary-The Rt. Rev.Keith Newton. Heads Up:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the First Sunday of Advent Visit:  https://stpaulcenter.com Download Audio File Readings: Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:4-5 , 8-10 , 14 1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2 Luke 21:25-28 ,  34-36 Every Advent, the Liturgy of the Word gives our sense of time a reorientation. There’s a deliberate tension in the next four weeks’ readings - between promise and fulfillment, expectation and deliverance, between looking forward and looking back. In today’s First Reading, the prophet Jeremiah focuses our gaze on the promise God made to David, some 1,000 years before Christ. God says through the prophet that He will fulfill this promise by raising up a “just shoot,” a righteous offspring of David, who will rule Israel in justice (see  2 Samuel 7:16 ;  Jeremiah 33:17 ;  Psal

Sunday 22nd November

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Our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King 11 am. Solemn Mass  concluding with Benediction at St. John Fisher Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Celebrant: Fr. Lee Bennett      Preacher: Deacon Richard Cerson A Royal Truth: Scott Hahn Reflects  on the Solemnity of Christ the King https://stpaulcenter.com/reflections/a-royal-truth-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-solemnity-of-christ-the-king Download Audio File Readings: Daniel 7:13-14 Psalm 93:1-2 , 5 Revelation 1:5-8 John 18:33-37 What’s the truth Jesus comes to bear witness to in this last Gospel of the Church’s year? It’s the truth that in Jesus, God keeps the promise He made to David - of an everlasting kingdom, of an heir who would be His Son, “the first born, highest of the kings of the earth” (see  2 Samuel 7:12-16 ;  Psalm 89:27-38 ). Today’s Second Reading, taken from the Book of Revelation, quotes these promises and celebrates Jesus as “the faithful witness.” The reading h

Sunday 15th November 2015

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33rd in Ordinary Time 11 am Ordinariate Sung Mass at St John Fisher Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Celebrant: Fr. Bob White Scott Hahn reflects on this Sunday's Readings: https://stpaulcenter.com/reflections/hope-in-tribulation-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-thirty-third-sunday-ordinaryr eadings: Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm 16:5 , 8-11 Hebrews 10:11-14 , 18 Mark 13:24-32 In this, the second-to-the-last week of the Church year, Jesus has finally made it to Jerusalem. Near to His passion and death, He gives us a teaching of hope--telling us how it will be when He returns again in glory. Today’s Gospel is taken from the end of a long discourse in which He describes tribulations the likes of which haven’t been seen “since the beginning of God’s creation” (see  Mark 13:9 ). He describes what amounts to a dissolution of God’s creation, a “devolution” of the world to its original state of formlessness and void. First, human community--nations and kingdo

Sunday 8th November 2015

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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY   11am. Mass of Requiem for the War Dead at St John Fisher RC Church - home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission. Celebrant: Fr. Lee Bennett - Preacher: Deacon Michael Halsall They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.