Fr. Jeff Woolnough Ordinariate Mission Priest

26th Sunday in Ordinary Time  HARVEST THANKSGIVING Morning Masses 8.30 & 10.15am Evening 6pm     St Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX  Eastwood Parish Leigh on Sea Next Ordinariate Use Masses Tuesday 1 October 7.30pm Sunday Sung Mass 12 noon  6 October              Please Bring your Harvest offerings for the homeless at any of our Masses      _________________________________________________________ A Great Chasm: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings: Amos 6:1 , 4–7 Psalm 146:7–10 1 Timothy 6:11–16 Luke 16:19–31 The rich and powerful are visited with woe and exile in today’s Liturgy—not for their wealth but for their refusal to share it; not for their power but for their indifference to the suffering at their door. The complacent leaders in today’s First Reading feast on fine foods and wines, reveling while the house of Joseph, the kingdom of Israel (see Amos 5:6 ), collapses around

25th 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 Solemn Sung Tuesday 24th September 7.30pm SOLEMNITY OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM Day of Obligation for members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham  _____________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Prudent Stewards: Scott Hahn Reflects  on the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings: Amos 8:4–7 Psalm 113:1–2 , 4–6 , 7–8 1 Timothy 2:1–8 Luke 16:1–13 The steward in today’s Gospel confronts the reality that he can’t go on living the way he has been. He is under judgment. He must give account for what he has done. The exploiters of the poor in today’s First Reading are also about to be pulled down, to be thrust from their stations (see Isaiah 22:19 ).

24th 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 17th September 7.30pm   _________________________________________________   Seeking the Lost: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time  The Golden Calf, Laurent d’Orleans, c. 1325-1350     Readings: Exodus 32:7–11 , 13–14 Psalm 51:3–4 , 12–13 , 17 , 19 1 Timothy 1:12–17 Luke 15:1–10 The episode in today’s First Reading has been called “Israel’s original sin.” Freed from bondage, born as a people of God in the covenant at Sinai, Israel turned aside from His ways and fell to worshipping a golden calf. Moses implores God’s mercy, just as Jesus will later intercede for the whole human race. Just as He still pleads for sinners at God’s right hand and through the ministry of the Church. Israel’s sin is the sin of the world. It is

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time St Peter's Catholic Church Eastwood Parish Leigh on Sea Morning Masses 8.30 & 10.15am Evening 6pm 12 Noon  SUNG MASS    IN THE ORDINARIATE USE 12th Sunday after Trinity Tuesday 10 September 7.30pm Low Mass - Ordinariate Use  ________________________________________________________________ Counting the Cost... Scott Hahn Reflects on this Sunday's readings: Readings: Wisdom 9:13–18 Psalm 90:3–6 , 12–17 Philemon 1:9–10 , 12–17 Luke 14:25–33 Like a king making ready for battle or a contractor about to build a tower, we have to count the cost as we set out to follow Jesus. Our Lord today is telling us up front the sacrifice it will take. His words aren’t addressed to His chosen few, the Twelve, but rather to the “great crowds”—to anyone, to whoever wishes to be His disciple. That only makes His call all the more stark and uncompromising. We are to “hate” our old lives, to renounce all the earthly things we rely