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Sunday 3 June 2018

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Corpus et Sanguis Christi Masses  8.30am    10.15am     6pm 4 pm Procession of the Blessed Sacrament at Our Lady of Lourdes, Leigh on Sea. ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm followed by a talk by Dame Joanna Bogle _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission O Bread of Heaven, beneath this veil Thou dost my very God conceal: My Jesus, dearest treasure, hail! I love Thee and, adoring, kneel; Each loving soul by Thee is fed With Thine own Self in form of Bread. O food of life, Thou Who dost give The pledge of immortality; I live, no 'tis not I that live; God gives me life, God lives in me: He feeds my soul, He guides my ways, And every grief with joy repays. O Bond of love that dost unite The servant to his living Lord; Could I dare live and not requite Such love - then death were meet r

Sunday 27 May 2018

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The MOST HOLY TRINITY Masses  8.30am    10.15am     6pm 2pm Holy Baptism ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Family of Love:   Scott Hahn Reflects on the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity Download Audio File The Holy Trinity, Hendrick van Balen, 1620 Readings: Dt 4:32–34 ,  39–40 Ps 33:4–6 ,  9 ,  18–20 ,  22 Rom 8:14–17 Mt 28:16–20 Last Sunday, we celebrated the sending of the Spirit, which sealed God’s new covenant and made a new creation. In this new creation, we live in the family of God, who has revealed himself as a Trinity of love. We share in His divine nature through His Body and Blood (see  2 Peter 1:4 ). This is the meaning of the three feasts that cap the Easter season—Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi. These feasts sho

Sunday 20 May 2018

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Pentecost Sunday Masses  8.30am    10.15am CONFIRMATION     6pm Join us for the cutting of the Confirmation Cake after the Confirmation Mass  ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission A New Wind: Scott Hahn Reflects on Pentecost Sunday Download Audio File Pentecost, Botticelli, 1495-1505 Readings: Acts 2:1–11 Ps 104:1 ,  24 ,  29–31 ,  34 1 Cor 12:3–7 ,  12–13 Jn 20:19–23 The giving of the Spirit to the new people of God crowns the mighty acts of the Father in salvation history. The Jewish feast of Pentecost called all devout Jews to Jerusalem to celebrate their birth as God’s chosen people in the covenant Law given to Moses at Sinai (see  Leviticus 23:15–21 ;  Deuteronomy 16:9–11 ). In today’s First Reading, the mysteries prefigured in that feas

Sunday 13 May 2018

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Seventh Sunday of Easter Masses  8.30am    10.15am     6pm 3pm DEVOTIONS at NAZARETH HOUSE  for the FEAST of OUR LADY of FATIMA ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission www.stpetereastwood.org “Continue to pray the Rosary every day.” – Our Lady of Fatima to Sister Lucia

Sunday 6 May 2018

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Sixth Sunday of Easter Masses  8.30am    10.15am     6pm ______________________________________ Ascension Day 2018 Holy Day of Obligation Weds 9th May Vigil Mass 7.30pm Thurs 10th May Masses 9.30am & * 7.30pm ______________________________ * Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship  _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission www.stpetereastwood.org Begotten By Love: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Sixth Sunday of Easter Download Audio File The Baptism of Cornelius, Francesco Trevisani (1656-1746) Readings: Acts 10:25–26 ,  34–35 ,  44–48 Ps 98:1–4 1 Jn 4:7–10 Jn 15:9–17 God is love, and He revealed that love in sending His only Son to be a sacrificial offering for our sins. In these words from today’s Epistle, we should hear an echo of the story of Abraham’s offering of Isaac at the dawn of salvation history. Because Abraham obeye