Parish Priest of St Peter's Eastwood in the Diocese of Brentwood and Pastor to the Southend Ordinariate Mission based at St. Peter's Eastwood Parish, Leigh on Sea. 01702 525323 e: fatherjeffw@gmail.com
Sunday 24th February
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Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Masses 8.30am 10.15am 6pm
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Mass from the Ordinariate Missal -
Divine Worship Thursday evening - 7.30pm
NB: FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH (FROM MARCH 3rd)
SUNG ORDINARIATE USE MASS 12 NOON
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St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea SS9 4BX
EASTWOOD PARISH
Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission
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Davids and Sauls: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings: 1 Samuel 26:2, 7–9, 12–13, 22–23 Psalm 103:1–13 1 Corinthians 15:45–49 Luke 6:27–38
The story of David and Saul in today’s First Reading functions almost
like a parable. Showing mercy to his deadly foe, David gives a concrete
example of what Jesus expects to become a way of life for His
disciples.
The new law Jesus gives in today’s Gospel would have us all become
“Davids”—loving our enemies, doing good to those who would harm us,
extending a line of credit to those who won’t ever repay us.
The Old Law required only that the Israelites love their fellow countrymen (see Leviticus 19:18). The new law Jesus brings makes us kin to every man and woman (see also Luke 10:29–36).
His kingdom isn’t one of tribe or nationality. It’s a family. As
followers of Jesus, we’re to live as He lived among us—as “children of
the Most High” (see Luke 6:35; 1:35).
As sons and daughters, we want to walk in the ways of our heavenly
Father, to “be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” Grateful for
His mercy, we’re called to forgive others their trespasses because God
has forgiven ours.
In the context of today’s liturgy, we’re all “Sauls”—by our
sinfulness and pride we make ourselves enemies of God. But we’ve been
spared a death we surely deserved to die because God has loved and shown
mercy to His enemies, “the ungrateful and the wicked,” as Jesus says.
Jesus showed us this love in His Passion, forgiving His enemies as
they stripped Him of cloak and tunic, cursed Him and struck Him on the
cheek, condemned Him to death on a cross (see Luke 22:63–65; 23:34). “He redeems your life from destruction,” David reminds us in today’s Psalm.
That’s the promise, too, of today’s Epistle: that we who believe in
the “last Adam,” Jesus, will rise from the dead in His image, as today
we bear the image of the “first Adam,” who by his sin made God an enemy
and brought death into the world (see 1 Corinthians 15:21–22).
The journey has well and truly begun my friends! Fr Keith Newton , our former Bishop and now Ordinary of The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England & Wales , is along with The Rt Rev Thomas McMahon, Bishop of Brentwood, very excited about the prospect of our shared mission to proclaim the faith once delivered to the Saints to the people of Essex as part of the Ordinariate! Our Ordinariate group is a lively mix of explorers from churches in the Southend area, Hockley and South Benfleet... it's not a secret!!! We meet on Tuesday evenings 7.30pm at Kilnfield House, Foundry Business Park, Station Approach, Hockley, SS5 4TW where the Parish Priest of the RC parish of Rochford & Hockley is presenting the 'Evangelium,' RCIA course. Great fun, terrific teaching, wonderful fellowship, along side our RC brothers and sisters who join us each week to support and encour
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time PARISH MASS Our Live stream Mass for this Sunday will begin at 10.30am + + + 6pm Devotions St Peter's Catholic Church, Eastwood Parish in the Diocese of Brentwood Served by Clergy of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham Live Streaming on www.facebook.com/StPeterEastwood PLEASE SEE WEBSITE FOR INFORMATION RE: RETURNING TO HOLY MASS www,stpetereastwood.org PLEASE NOTE ST. PETER'S REMAINS CLOSED-WE H OPEN OUR DOORS AGAI the WEEKEND OF 25/26 JULY- Mass attendance by registration only The Word’s Return: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Sower, Laurent d’Orléans, c. 1300 Readings: Isaiah 55:10–11 Psalm 65:10–14 Romans 8:18–23 Matthew 13:1–23 Today’s readings, like last week’s, ask us to meditate on Israel’s response to God’s Word—and our own. Why do some hear the word of the
Tuesday evening RCIA-Evangelium 7.30pm at Kilnfield House, Hockley . Weds 7.30pm St Pius X Stations of the Cross led by Fr Jeff Friday morning liturgy at St Pius X, cancelled so that we can attend the Funeral Mass of the late Christine Thompson RIP at Our Lady of Ransom, Rayleigh 10.30am. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SOCIAL for the Boys (and girls) Ordinariate Boys Club meets 12 noon at Fr Jeff's Saturday morning for a helping of very severe religion...it's Spurs V West Ham , live on TV. I'm expecting Paul & Warick, (Spurs fans), so I need to balance things by asking for some Hammers fans to balance the volume in the Vicarage living room? C'mon you Irons!
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