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Sunday 1 October 2017

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26 th   Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses  8.30am    10.15am     6pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission The Humble Path: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Readings: Ezekiel 18:25-28 Psalm 25:4-9 Philippians 2:1-11 Matthew 21:28-32 Echoing the complaint heard in last week’s readings, today’s First Reading again presents protests that God isn’t fair. Why does He punish with death one who begins in virtue but falls into iniquity, while granting life to the wicked one who turns from sin? This is the question that Jesus takes up in the parable in today’s Gospel. The first son represents the most heinous sinners of Jesus’ day – tax collectors and prostitutes – who by their sin at first refuse to serve in the Lord’s vineyard, the kingdom. At the preaching of John the Baptist, they repented and did what is right and

Sunday 24th September 2017

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25th  Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses  8.30am    10.15am (Sung Mass of the Harvest)  6pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission The 6pm Mass will be offered for the Solemnity of Our Lady of Walsingham which falls today First and Last: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Readings Isaiah 55:6-9 Psalm145:2-3 ,  8-9 ,  17-18 Philippians 1:20-24 ,  27 Matthew 20:1-16 The house of Israel is the vine of God – who planted and watered it, preparing the Israelites to bear fruits of righteousness (see  Isaiah 5:7 ;  27:2-5 ).  Israel failed to yield good fruits and the Lord allowed His vineyard, Israel’s kingdom, to be overrun by conquerors (see  Psalm 80:9-20 ). But God promised that one day He would replant His vineyard and its shoots would blossom to the ends of the earth (see  Amos 9:15 ;  Hosea 14:5-10 ).  T

Sunday 17th September 2017

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24th  Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses  8.30am    10.15am (Sung)    6pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission We look forward to welcoming and hearing from Mr David Chapman of The Walsingham Association at our morning masses.   The Debt We Owe: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Readings: Sirach 27:30-28:7 Psalm 103:1-4 ,  9-12 Romans 14:7-9 Matthew 18:21-35 Mercy and forgiveness should be at the heart of the Christian life. Yet, as today’s First Reading wisely reminds us, often we cherish our wrath, nourish our anger, refuse mercy to those who have done us wrong. Jesus, too, strikes close to home in today’s Gospel, with His realistic portrayal of the wicked servant – who won’t forgive a fellow servant’s debt, even though his own slate has just been wiped clean by their Master. It can’t be this way in the

Sunday 10th September 2017

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23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses  8.30am    10.15am (Sung)    6pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission To Win Them Back: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Readings: Ezekiel 33:7-9 Psalm 95:1-2 ,  6-9 Romans 13:8-10 Matthew 18:15-20 As Ezekiel is appointed watchman over the house of Israel in today’s first Reading, so Jesus in the Gospel today establishes His disciples as guardians of the new Israel of God, the Church (see  Galatians 6:16 ). He also puts in place procedures for dealing with sin and breaches of the faith, building on laws of discipline prescribed by Moses for Israel (see  Leviticus 19:17-20 ;  Deuteronomy 19:13 ). The heads of the new Israel, however, receive extraordinary powers – similar to those given to Peter (see  Matthew 16:19 ). They have the power to bind and loose, to forgive sin

Sunday 3 September 2017

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22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses  8.30am    10.15am (Sung)    6pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission CONGRATULATIONS TO MRS. FRANCES CAWSON-100 today!! perhaps the most senior member of the Personal Ordinariate (worldwide)? For Your Life: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Readings: Jeremiah 20:7-9 Psalm 63:2-6 ,  8-9 Romans 12:1-2 Matthew 16:21-27 Today’s First Reading catches the prophet Jeremiah in a moment of weakness. His intimate lamentation contains some of the strongest language of doubt found in the Bible. Following God’s call, he feels abandoned. Preaching His Word has brought him only derision and reproach. But God does not deceive—and Jeremiah knows this. He tests the just (see  Jeremiah 20:11–12 ), and disciplines His children through their sufferings and trials (see  Hebrews 12:5–7