Fr. Jeff Woolnough Ordinariate Mission Priest

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time  Morning Masses 8.30 & 10.15am Evening 6pm     St Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX  Eastwood Parish Leigh on Sea Next Ordinariate Use Mass Low Mass Tuesday 3 September 7.30pm Sung Sunday Mass 12 noon 8th September ________________________________________ To Go up Higher: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Christ in the House of Simon the Pharisee, Philippe de Champaigne, 1656 Readings: Sirach 3:17–18 ,  20 ,  28–29 Psalm 68:4–7 , 10–11 Hebrews 12:18–19 ,  22–24 Luke 14:1 ,  7–14 We come to the wedding banquet of heaven by way of humility and charity. This is the fatherly instruction we hear in today’s First Reading, and the message of today’s Gospel. Jesus is not talking simply about good table manners. He is revealing the way of the kingdom, in which the one who would be greatest would be the servant of all (see  Luke 22:24–27 ). This is the way, too, t

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time  Morning Masses 8.30 & 10.15am Evening 6pm     St Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX  Eastwood Parish Leigh on Sea Next Ordinariate Use Masses Low Mass Tuesday 3 September 7.30pm Sung Sunday Mass 12 noon 8th September ___________________________________________________ Gateway to Life: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File The Church Militant and Church Triumphant, Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze, 1356-1357 Isaiah 66:18–21 Psalm 117:1 ,  2 Hebrews 12:5–7 ,  11–13 Luke 13:22–30 Jesus doesn’t answer the question put to Him in this Sunday’s Gospel. It profits us nothing to speculate on how many will be saved. What we need to know is what He tells us today—how to enter into salvation and how urgent it is to strive now, before the Master closes the door. Jesus is “the narrow gate,” the only way of salvation, the path by which all must travel to enter the kingdom of the Father (s

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time  Morning Masses 8.30 & 10.15am Evening 6pm    St Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX  Eastwood Parish Leigh on Sea Next Ordinariate Use Masses Low Mass Tuesday 3 September 7.30pm Sung Sunday Mass 12 noon 8th September Consuming Fire Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings: Jeremiah 38:4–6 , 8–10 Psalm 40:2–4 , 18 Hebrews 12:1–4 Luke 12:49–53 Our God is a consuming fire, the Scriptures tell us (see Hebrews 12:29 ; Deuteronomy 4:24 ). And in this week’s Gospel, Jesus uses the image of fire to describe the demands of discipleship. The fire He has come to cast on the earth is the fire that He wants to blaze in each of our hearts. He made us from the dust of the earth (see Genesis 2:7 ) and filled us with the fire of the Holy Spirit in Baptism (see Luke 3:16 ). We were baptized into His death (see Romans 6:3 ). This is the baptism our Lord speaks of in the Gospel this week. The b

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time  Morning Masses 8.30 & 10.15am Evening 6pm    Thursday 15 August-The Assumption of the BVM Masses 9.30am & 7.30pm  Next 7.30pm Low Mass in the Ordinariate Use Tuesday 3 September Next 12 Noon Sunday Sung Mass in the Ordinariate Use 8th September __________________________________________  SCOTT HAHN REFLECTS ON SUNDAY'S READINGS     Readings: Wisdom 18:6–9 Psalm 33:1 , 12 , 18–22 Hebrews 11:1–2 , 8–19 Luke 12:35–40 We are born of the faith of our fathers, descending from a great cloud of witnesses whose faith is attested to on every page of Scripture (see Hebrews 12:1 ). We have been made His people, chosen for His own inheritance, as we sing in this Sunday’s Psalm. The Liturgy this week sings the praises of our fathers, recalling the defining moments in our “family history.” In the Epistle, we remember the calling of Abraham; in the First Reading we relive the night of the Exodus

18 th Sunday in Ordinary Time  Morning Masses 8.30 & 10.15am Evening 6pm  St Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX Eastwood Parish-Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission ____________________________________________ Seventh Suday after Trinity August 4th 12 Noon Sunday Sung Mass in the Ordinariate Use  followed by Summer Lunch on the Presbytery Lawn __________________________ ________________  SCOTT HAHN REFLECTS ON SUNDAY'S READINGS  Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2 ; 2:21–23 Psalm 90:3–4 , 5–6 , 12–13 , 14 , 17 Colossians 3:1–5 , 9–11 Luke 12:13–21 Trust in God—as the Rock of our salvation, as the Lord who made us His chosen people, as our shepherd and guide. This should be the mark of our following of Jesus. Like the Israelites we recall in this week’s Psalm, we have made an exodus, passing through the waters of Baptism, freeing us from our bondage to sin. We too are on a pilgrimage to a promised homeland, the Lord in our midst, feeding