Fr. Jeff Woolnough Ordinariate Mission Priest

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses  8.30am    10.15am     6pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm 4th Sunday after Trinity _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Arise!  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Jesus Raises Jarius’ Daughter from the Dead, Vasiliy Polenov, 1871 Readings: Wisdom 1:13-15 ,  2:23-24 Psalm 30:2 ,  4-6 ,  11-13 2 Corinthians 8:7 ,  9 ,  13-15 Mark 5:21-24 ,  35-43 God, who formed us in His imperishable image, did not intend for us to die, we hear in today’s First Reading. Death entered the world through the devil’s envy and Adam and Eve’s sin; as a result, we are all bound to die. But in the moving story in today’s Gospel, we see Jesus liberate a little girl from the possession of death. On one level,

THE SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST Masses  8.30am    10.15am     6pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship  Thursday evening 7.30pm for the   Vigil of SS. Peter and Paul FRIDAY 29th June HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION Solemnity of SS Peter and Paul, Apostles. 50th Anniversary of Eastwood Parish- - Golden Jubilee Mass at 7.30pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission He Must Increase: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist Download Audio File The Naming of John the Baptist, Fra Angelico, 1434-1435 Readings: Is 49: 1–6 Ps 139: 1–3 ,  13–15 Acts 13:22–26 Lk 1:57–66 ,  80 The people in this week’s Gospel are frightened and amazed by the mysterious events surrounding the birth of John. Only his mother and father, Elizabeth and Zechariah, know what this child will be. Joh

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses  8.30am    10.15am     6pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm 3rd Sunday after Trinity _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Tree of Righteousness: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Crucified Christ with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist and Cardinal Juan de Torquemada, Fra Angelico, 1440-1442 Readings: Ezekiel 17:22-24 Psalm 92:2-3 ,  13-14 ,  15-16 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 Mark 4:26-34 In the cryptic message of the prophet Ezekiel, long centuries before the Lord’s coming, God gave His people reason to hope. Ezekiel glimpsed a day when the Lord God would place a tree on a mountain in Israel, a tree that would “put forth branches and bear fruit.” Who could have predicted that the tree would be

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses  8.30am    10.15am     6pm ______________________________ 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 The Promised One: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Christ as a Warrior, Archbishop’s Chapel, Ravenna, 6th c. ( Source ) Readings: Gn 3:9–15 Ps 130:1–2 ,  3–4 ,  5–6 ,  7–8 2 Cor 4:13–5:1 Mk 3:20–35 In today’s Gospel Jesus has just been healing and casting out demons in Galilee. Along with the crowds, who flock to Him so that He can’t even take a break to eat, come people who do not understand what He is doing. Even His friends think He has lost His mind and needs to be taken away for a while. But the scribes who came down from Jerusalem are not just honestly mistaken; they a