Fr. Jeff Woolnough Ordinariate Mission Priest

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

30th 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 29 October 7.30pm Next Sunday Sung Mass in the Ordinariate Use - 12 noon 3rd November _______________________________________________________________________ No Favourites: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Christ in the Synagogue of Nazareth, c. 1350 Readings: Sirach 35:12–14 ,  16–18 Psalm 34:2–3 ,  17–19 ,  23 2 Timothy 4:6–8 ,  16–18 Luke 18:9–14 Jesus draws a blunt picture in today’s Gospel. The Pharisee’s prayer is almost a parody of the thanksgiving psalms (see for example Psalms 30, 118). Instead of praising God for His mighty works, the Pharisee congratulates himself for his own deeds, which he presents to God in some detail. The tax collector stands at a distance, too ashamed even to raise his

29th 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 22 October 7.30pm _____________________________________________________- Hope from on High:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Ninth Sunday  in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Victory O Lord!, John Everett Millais, 1871 Readings: Exodus 17:8-13 Psalm 121:1-8 2 Timothy 3:14-4:2 Luke 18:1-8 The Lord is our guardian, beside us at our right hand, interceding for us in all our spiritual battles. In today’s Psalm we’re told to lift our eyes to the mountains, that our help will come from Mount Zion and the Temple—the dwelling of the Lord who made heaven and earth. Joshua and the Israelites, in today’s First Reading, are also told to look to the hilltops. They are to find their help there—through the intercession of Moses—as they defend them

27th 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 16th Sunday after Trinity    Wednesday  9th October 7.30pm  Feast of Blessed John Henry Newman Mass in the Ordinariate Use  ________________________________________________________________        Life by Faith:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time ____________________________________ Readings: Habakkuk 1:2–3 ; 2:2–4 Psalm 95:1–2 , 6–9 2 Timothy 1:6–8 , 13–14 Luke 17:5–10 Because of his faith, the just man shall live. We hear in today’s First Reading the original prophetic line made so central by St. Paul (see Romans 1:17 ; Galatians 3:11 ; Hebrews 10:38 ). We are to live by faith in Christ who loved us and gave Himself on the Cross for us (see Galatians 2:20 ). The world, though, can seem to us as seventh-century Judah seemed to