Fr. Jeff Woolnough Ordinariate Mission Priest

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses    8.30am    10.15am      6pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship  Tuesday evening 6 November 7.30pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea   EASTWOOD PARISH SS9 4BX Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission _______________________________________________ The Law of Love: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law, Rembrandt, 1659 Deuteronomy 6:2–6 Psalm 18:2–4 ,  47 ,  57 Hebrews 7:23–28 Mark 12:28–34 Love is the only law we are to live by. And love is the fulfilment of the Law that God reveals through Moses in today’s First Reading (see  Romans 13:8–10 ;  Matthew 5:43–48 ). The unity of God—the truth that He is one God, Father, Son, and Spirit—means that we must love Him with one love, a love that serves Him with all our hearts an

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses    8.30am    10.15am      6pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Wednesday evening 7.30pm Vigil of the Solemnity of ALL SAINTS _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea   EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission _______________________________________________ Seeing the Son of David:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Christ Giving Sight to Bartimaeus, William Blake, 1799-1800 Readings: Jeremiah 31:7–9 Psalm 126:1–6 Hebrews 5:1–6 Mark 10:46–52 Today’s Gospel turns on an irony—it is a blind man, Bartimaeus, who becomes the first besides the apostles to recognize Jesus as the Messiah. And His healing is the last miracle Jesus performs before entering the holy city of Jerusalem for His last week on earth. The scene on the road to Jerusalem evokes the jo

Twenty - eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses    8.30am    10.15am      6pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm Feast of St Luke, Evangelist _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea   EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission __________________________________________ Wisdom and Riches: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Christ and the Rich Young Ruler, Heinrich Hoffman, 1889 Readings: Wisdom 7:7–11 Psalm 90:12–17 Hebrews 4:12–13 Mark 10:17–30 The rich young man in today’s Gospel wanted to know what we all want to know—how to live in this life so that we might live forever in the world to come. He sought what today’s Psalm calls “wisdom of heart.” He learns that the wisdom he seeks is not a programme of works to be performed or behaviours to be avoided. As Jesus tel

Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses    8.30am    10.15am      6pm ______________________________ Holy Baptism 2pm ROSARY UNDER THE CROSS 3pm ___________________________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Tuesday evening 7.30pm 9th October-Memorial of Blessed John Henry Newman _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea   EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission ___________________________________________________ What God Has Joined:   Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File The Sacrament of Matrimony, Rogier van der Weyden, 1445-1450 Readings: Genesis 2:18–24 Psalm 128:1–6 Hebrews 2:9–11 Mark 10:2–16 In today’s Gospel, the Pharisees try to trap Jesus with a trick question. The “lawfulness” of divorce in Israel was never an issue. Moses had long ago allowed it (see  Deuteronomy 24:1–4 ). But