Fr. Jeff Woolnough Ordinariate Mission Priest

First Sunday of Advent 2018 Sung Mass 10.15am . at St. Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Group Pastor & Parish Priest -  Fr Jeff Woolnough   also Masses at 8.30am and 6pm. __________________________________________________________ Heads Up: Scott Hahn Reflects on the First Sunday of Advent Download Audio File The Last Judgment, Jean Cousin the Younger, c. 1585 Readings: Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:4-5 , 8-10 , 14 1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2 Luke 21:25-28 , 34-36 Every Advent, the Liturgy of the Word gives our sense of time a reorientation. There’s a deliberate tension in the next four weeks’ readings—between promise and fulfilment, expectation and deliverance, between looking forward and looking back. In today’s First Reading, the prophet Jeremiah focuses our gaze on the promise God made to David, some 1,000 years before Christ. God says through the prophet that He will fulfil this promis

Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. 10.15am. Sung Mass  concluding with  Benediction Said Masses 8.30am & 6pm Saint Peter's Catholic Church Parish of Eastwood Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship Thursday evening 7.30pm A Royal Truth: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Solemnity of Christ the King Download Audio File Christ Surrounded by Musician Angels, Hans Memling, c. 1489 Daniel 7:13-14 Psalm 93:1-2 , 5 Revelation 1:5-8 John 18:33-37 What’s the truth Jesus comes to bear witness to in this last Gospel of the Church’s year? It’s the truth that in Jesus, God keeps the promise He made to David of an everlasting kingdom, of an heir who would be His Son, “the first born, highest of the kings of the earth” (see  2 Samuel 7:12–16 ;  Psalm 89:27–38 ). Today’s Second Reading, taken from the Book of Revelation, quotes these promises and celebrates Jesus as “the faithful witness.” The reading he

Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses    8.30am    10.15am      6pm 3pm Blessing of Graves at Sutton Road Cemetery-Southend ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship  Thursday evening 22 November 7.30pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea   EASTWOOD PARISH SS9 4BX Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission _____________________________________________ Hope in Tribulation: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Ancona Crucifixion, Titian, 1558 Readings: Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm 16:5 , 8-11 Hebrews 10:11-14 , 18 Mark 13:24-32 In this, the second-to-the-last week of the Church year, Jesus has finally made it to Jerusalem. Near to His passion and death, He gives us a teaching of hope—telling us how it will be when He returns again in glory. Today’s Gospel is taken from the end of a long discourse in which He descr

Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 'We will remember them' Masses    8.30am    10.15am of Requiem       6pm ______________________________ Mass from the Ordinariate Missal-Divine Worship  Tuesday evening 13 November 7.30pm _______________________________________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea   EASTWOOD PARISH SS9 4BX Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission ____________________________________________________ The Widows’ Faith: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File The Widow’s Mite, Basilica di Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, 6th c. Readings: 1 Kings 1:10–16 Psalm 146:7–10 Hebrews 9:24–28 Mark 12:41–44 We must live by the obedience of faith, a faith that shows itself in works of charity and self-giving (see  Galatians 5:6 ). That’s the lesson of the two widows in today’s liturgy. The widow in the First Reading isn’t even a Jew, yet s