Fr. Jeff Woolnough Ordinariate Mission Priest

Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses    8.30 am     10.15 am       6 pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm 14 th  Sunday after Trinity _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea   EASTWOOD PARISH Pure Religion: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File The Pharisees Question Jesus, James Tissot, 1886-1894 Readings: Deuteronomy 4:1–2 , 6–8 Psalm 15:2–5 James 1:17–18 ,  21–22 ,  27 Mark 7:1–8 ,  14–15 ,  21–23 Today’s Gospel casts Jesus in a prophetic light, as one having authority to interpret God’s law. Jesus’ quotation from Isaiah today is ironic (see  Isaiah 29:13 ). In observing the law, the Pharisees honour God by ensuring that nothing unclean passes their lips. In this, however, they’ve turned the law inside out, making it a matter of simply performing certain external actions.

Twenty First Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses    8.30 am     10.15 am       6 pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm 13 th Sunday after Trinity _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea   EASTWOOD PARISH A Choice to Make: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File The Last Supper, Dieric Bouts, 1464-1467 Readings: Joshua 24:1-2 ,  15-18 Psalm 34:2-3 ,  16-23 Ephesians 5:21-32 John 6:60-69 This Sunday’s Mass readings conclude a four-week meditation on the Eucharist. The Twelve Apostles in today’s Gospel are asked to make a choice—either to believe and accept the New Covenant He offers in His Body and Blood, or return to their former ways of life. Their choice is prefigured by the decision Joshua asks the Twelve Tribes to make in today’s First Reading. Joshua gathers them at Shechem—where God fir

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses  8.30am    10.15am      6pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm 12th Sunday after Trinity _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea                                                                            EASTWOOD PARISH Wisdom’s Feast: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Disputation of the Sacrament, Raphael, 1509-1520 Readings: Proverbs 9:1–6 Psalm 34:2–3 ,  10–15 Ephesians 5:15–20 John 6:51–58 The Wisdom of God has prepared a feast, we hear in today’s First Reading. We must become like children (see  Matthew 18:3–4 ) to hear and accept this invitation. For in every Eucharist, it is the folly of the Cross that is represented and renewed. To the world, it is foolishness to believe that the crucified Jesus rose from the dead. And for many, as for

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses  8.30am    10.15am      6pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Tuesday evening 7.30pm Vigil of the Assumption of the BVM _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Eastwood Parish-Leigh on Sea Take and Eat: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File The Prophet Elijah in the Desert, Dieric Bouts, c.1465 Readings: 1 Kings 19:4-8 Psalm 34:2-9 Ephesians 4:30-5:2 John 6:41-51 Sometimes we feel like Elijah in today’s First Reading. We want to lie down and die, keenly aware of our failures—that we seem to be getting no better at doing what God wants of us. We can be tempted to despair, as the prophet was on his forty-day journey in the desert. We can be tempted to “murmur” against God, as the Israelites did during their forty years in the desert (see  Exodus 16:2 ,  7 ,  8 ;  1 Corinthians 10:10 ). T

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses  8.30am    10.15am      6pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm 10th Sunday after Trinity _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Endurance Test: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File The Gathering of the Manna, c. 1460-1470 Readings: Exodus 16:2–4 ,  12–15 Psalm 78:3–4 ,  23–25 ,  54 Ephesians 4:17 ,  20–24 John 6:24–35 The journey of discipleship is a life-long exodus from the slavery of sin and death to the holiness of truth on Mount Zion, the promised land of eternal life. The road can get rough. And when it does, we can be tempted to complain like the Israelites in this week’s First Reading. We have to see these times of hardship as a test of what is in our hearts, a call to trust God more and to purify the motives for our faith