Fr. Jeff Woolnough Ordinariate Mission Priest

The Feast of The Holy Family    MASSES 8.30am  10.15am   6pm St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission __________________________________________ Saving Family: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Feast of the Holy Family Download Audio File The Nativity, Gerhard David, c. 1510–1515 Sirach 3:2–6 ,  12–14 Psalm 128:1–5 Colossians 3:12–21 Matthew 2:13–15 ,  19–23 Underlying the wisdom offered in today’s Liturgy is the mystery of the family in God’s divine plan. The Lord has set father in honor over his children and mother in authority over her sons, we hear in today’s First Reading. As we sing in today’s Psalm, the blessings of the family flow from Zion, the heavenly mother of the royal people of God (see  Isaiah 66:7 ,  10–13 ;  Galatians 4:26 ). And in the drama of today’s Gospel, we see the nucleus of the new people of God—the Holy Family—facing persecution from those who would seek to destroy the

Fourth Sunday of Advent Masses  8.30am    10.15am    6.30pm _________________________ 4pm Carols & Readings for Christmas ____________________________ ___________ Christmas Mass Times St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Christmas Eve  6pm Vigil Mass  especially for families with young children 11.30pm Mass of the Nativity and the Blessing of the Crib ________________________________ Christmas Day 25th December Mass of the Day 9.30am Octave Masses see website www.stpetereastwood.org ______________________________________ God Is with Us: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Fourth Sunday of Advent Download Audio File The Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1898 Readings: Isaiah 7:10–14 Psalm 24:1–6 Romans 1:1–7 Matthew 1:18–24 The mystery kept secret for long ages, promised through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, is today revealed (see  Romans 16:25–26 ). T

Third (GAUDETE) Sunday  of Advent 2019 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   Said Masses at 8.30am and 6pm.   Tuesday 17th December Low Mass - Divine Worship 7.30pm  Here is Your God:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Third Sunday of Advent Readings: Isaiah 35:1–6 , 10 Psalm 146:6–10 James 5:7–10 Matthew 11:2–11 John questions Jesus from prison in today’s Gospel—for his disciples’ sake and for ours. He knows that Jesus is doing “the works of the Messiah,” foretold in today’s First Reading and Psalm. But John wants his disciples—and us—to know that the Judge is at the gate, that in Jesus our God has come to save us. The Liturgy of Advent takes us out into the desert to see and hear the marvelous works and words of God—the lame leaping like a stag, the dead raised, the go

Second Sunday of Advent  Morning Masses 8.30 & 10.15am Evening 6pm     St Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX  Eastwood Parish Leigh on Sea ____________________________________________ 12 noon Today -Sung Mass in the Ordinariate Use  -with reception and Confirmation Next Ordinariate Use weekday Mass Tuesday 10 November 7.30pm       Kingdom Come: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Second Sunday in Advent   Readings: Isaiah 11:1–10 Psalm 72:1–2 , 7–8 , 12–13 , 17 Romans 15:4–9 Matthew 3:1–12 “The kingdom of heaven is at hand,” John proclaims. And the Liturgy today paints us a vivid portrait of our new king and the shape of the kingdom He has come to bring. The Lord whom John prepares the way for in today’s Gospel is the righteous king prophesied in today’s First Reading and Psalm. He is the king’s son, the son of David—a shoot from the root of Jesse, David’s father (see Ruth 4:17 ). He will be the Messiah, anoi

Our Lord Jesus Christ The King Masses  8.30am    10.15am concluding with Benediction     6pm ____________________________ ___________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission   ______________________________________________   Next Sunday Mass in the Ordinariate Use 2nd of Advent 8th December at 12 noon   Our Group Pastor will be leading a pigrimage to the Holy Land -thus  our next Weekday evening Mass in the Ordinarioate Use will be on Tuesday 10th December  ________________________________________________________     Icon of the Crucifixion, Ioannes Moskos, 1711     Kingdom of the Son:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Solemnity of Christ the King Readings: 2 Samuel 5:1–3 Psalm 122:1–5 Colossians 1:12–20 Luke 23:35–43 Week by week the Liturgy has been preparing us for the revelation to be made on this, the last Sunday of the Church year. Jesus, we have been shown, is truly

Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time  World Day of the Poor Morning Masses 8.30 & 10.15am Evening 6pm     St Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX  Eastwood Parish Leigh on Sea ____________________________________________   Next Weekday Ordinariate Use Mass 7.30pm  Wednesday 20th November-Transferred from Tuesday this week   __________________________________________________________  “Today” is the Day:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time       The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, Francesco Hayez, 1867   Readings: Malachi 3:19–20 Psalm 98:5–9 2 Thessalonians 3:7–12 Luke 21:5–19 It is the age between our Lord’s first coming and His last. We live in the new world begun by His life, death, Resurrection, and Ascension, by the sending of His Spirit upon the Church. But we await the day when He will come again in glory. “Lo, the day is coming,” Malachi warns in today’s First Reading. The prophets taught

32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time  Morning Masses 8.30 & 10.15am Evening 6pm Blessing of Graves at Sutton Road at 3pm    St Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX  Eastwood Parish Leigh on Sea              _________________________________________________ Next Ordinariate Use Mass Low Mass Wednesday 20 November 7.30pm Next Sunday Sung Mass in the Ordinariate Use - Second Sunday of Advent 8 December _________________________________________________ To Rise Again:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Thirty-Second Sunday  in Ordinary Time Readings: 2 Maccabees 7:1–2 , 9–14 Psalm 17:1 , 5–6 , 8 , 15 2 Thessalonians 2:16–3:5 Luke 20:27–38 With their riddle about seven brothers and a childless widow, the Sadducees in today’s Gospel mock the faith for which seven brothers and their mother die in the First Reading. The Maccabean martyrs chose death—tortured limb by limb, burned alive—rather than betray God’s Law. Their story is g

31st  Sunday in Ordinary Time  Morning Masses 8.30 & 10.15am Evening 6pm     St Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX  Eastwood Parish Leigh on Sea ____________________________________________ Today-Sung Mass in the Ordinariate Use - Twentieth Sunday after Trinity 12 noon 3rd November   Next Ordinariate Use weekday Mass Tuesday 5 November 7.30pm Requiem for our Deceased Members    __________________________________________     Lover of Souls: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time   Zacchaeus and Christ, c. 1170 Readings: Wisdom 11:22–12:2 Psalm 145:1–2 , 8–11 , 13–14 2 Thessalonians 1:11–2:2 Luke 19:1–10 Our Lord is a lover of souls, the Liturgy shows us today. As we sing in today’s Psalm, He is slow to anger and compassionate toward all that He has made. In His mercy, our First Reading tells us, He overlooks our sins and ignorance, giving us space that we might repent and not perish in our sinfu