Fr. Jeff Woolnough Ordinariate Mission Priest

The Feast of The Holy Family Masses  8.30am    10.15am     6pm ____________________________ ___________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Our True Home:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Feast of the Holy Family Download Audio File Readings: Sirach 3:2-6 , 12-14 Psalm 128:1-2 ,  3 ,  4-5 Colossians 3:12-21 Luke 2:22-40 Why did Jesus choose to become a baby born of a mother and father and to spend all but His last years living in an ordinary human family? In part, to reveal God’s plan to make all people live as one “holy family” in His Church (see  2 Corinthians 6:16-18 ). In the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, God reveals our true home. We’re to live as His children, “chosen ones, holy and beloved,” as the First Reading puts it. The family advice we hear in today’s readings – for mothers, fathers and children – is all solid and practical. Happy homes are the fruit of our faithfulness to the

Fourth Sunday of Advent Masses 6pm Saturday Vigil 23rd December Sunday 24th  8.30am    10.15am    ____________________________ ___________ Christmas Mass Times St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Christmas Eve  6pm Vigil Mass especially for families with young children 12 am Mass of Midnight and the Blessing of the Crib ________________________________ Christmas Day Monday 25th December Mass of the Dawn 8.30am  Mass of the Day 10.15am Octave daily Masses 9.30am A joyful and Holy Christmas to you all! from Frs Jeff, Bob, Michael & Deacon Richard

First Sunday of Advent Masses  8.30am    10.15am     6pm ____________________________ ___________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Watch for Him:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the First Sunday of Advent Download Audio File Readings: Isaiah 63:16-17 ,  19 Psalm 80:2-3 ,  15-16 ,  18-19 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:33-37 The new Church year begins with a plea for God’s visitation. “Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,” the prophet Isaiah cries in today’s First Reading. In today’s Psalm, too, we hear the anguished voice of Israel, imploring God to look down from His heavenly throne – to save and shepherd His people. Today’s readings are relatively brief. Their language and “message” are deceptively simple. But we should take note of the serious mood and penitential aspect of the Liturgy today – as the people of Israel recognize their sinfulness, their failures to keep God’s covenant, the