Fr. Jeff Woolnough Ordinariate Mission Priest

First Sunday of Lent Morning Masses in the Novus Ordo 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 Tuesday 3 March Low Mass Divine Worship 7.30pm  Tale of Two Adams:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the First Sunday of Lent The Temptation on the Mount, Duccio, 1308-1311 Readings: Genesis 2:7–9 ;  3:1–7 Psalm 51:3–6 ;  12–14 ,  17 Romans 5:12–19 Matthew 4:1–11 In today’s Liturgy, the destiny of the human race is told as the tale of two “types” of men—the first man, Adam, and the new Adam, Jesus (see  1 Corinthians 15:21–22 ;  45–59 ). Paul’s argument in the Epistle is built on a series of contrasts between “one” or “one person” and “the many” or “all.” By one person’s disobedience, sin and condemnation entered the world, and death came to reign over all. By the obedience of another one, grace abounded, all were justified, and life came t

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time   Parish Masses at 8.30am 10.15am and 6pm.     at  St. Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Tuesday 25th February Low Mass in the Oedinariate Use 7.30pm    Confessions before Lent -  Tuesday 25th February 10am & 6pm                                  Sunday 1st March 12 Noon Sung Ordinariate Use Mass                                                   ASH WEDNESDAY Masses 9.30am & 7.30pm                               __________________________________________    Holy as God: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time   Leviticus 19:1–2 , 17–18 Psalm 103:1–4 , 8 , 10 , 12–13 1 Corinthians 3:16–23 Matthew 5:38–48 We are called to the holiness of God. That is the extraordinary claim made in both the First Reading and Gospel this Sunday. Yet how is it possible that we can be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect? Je

  Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time   Parish Masses at 8.30am 10.15am and 6pm.     at  St. Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX                                                     Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission __________________________________________  Affair of the Heart:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time                       The Sermon on the Mount, Henrik Olrik, c. 1880 Download Audio File Sirach 15:15–20 Psalm 119:1–2 , 4–5 , 17–18 , 33–34 1 Corinthians 2:6–10 Matthew 5:17–37 Jesus tells us in the Gospel this week that He has come not to abolish but to “fulfill” the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets. His Gospel reveals the deeper meaning and purpose of the Ten Commandments and the moral Law of the Old Testament. But His Gospel also transcends the Law. He demands a morality far greater than that accomplished by the most pious of Jews, the scribes and Pharisees. Outward ob

   Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time   Morning Masses in the Novus Ordo 8.30 & 10.15am- Evening 6pm     St Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX  Eastwood Parish - Leigh on Sea   The Sunday called Septuagesima 12 noon Today -Sung Mass in the Ordinariate Use Tueday 11 February Low Mass Divine Worship 7.30pm     _________________________     Light Breaking Forth:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time     Download Audio File                                                                                              Isaiah 58:7–10 Psalm 112:4–9 1 Corinthians 2:1–5 Matthew 5:13–16 Jesus came among us as light to scatter the darkness of a fallen world. As His disciples, we too are called to be “the light of the world,” He tells us in the Gospel this Sunday (see John 1:4–4 , 9 ; 8:12 ; 9:5 ). All three images that Jesus uses to describe the Church are associated with the identity and vocation of Israel. God