Fr. Jeff Woolnough Ordinariate Mission Priest

LAETARE SUNDAY 4th In Lent-All Public celebrations of the Mass-suspended due to the outbreak of Covid19 Please Like St Peter's Roman Catholic Church Eastwood Facebook page for daily updates  Please be assured -Fr Jeff offers Private Masses daily for your intentions at St Peter's 11.30am God love and bless us all at this time of great distress: Our Lady of Walsingham  pray for us!  Published below is what we, under 'normal circumstances'  would be celebrating this Sunday and why...  Our Lenten pilgrimage is already half over or, to express it more positively, we are already halfway to Easter. On this Sunday, the Church lightens the liturgical atmosphere, replacing somber violet vestments with bright rose, putting flowers on the altar, and allowing greater use of the organ. These are external symbols of the joy that we are meant to feel as we prepare for the Easter feast – whether we are new Catholics preparing to receive the sacraments of

  Third Sunday of Lent Morning Masses in the Novus Ordo 8.30 & 10.15am- Evening Mass 6pm     St Peter's Catholic Church SS9 4BX  Eastwood Parish - Leigh on Sea   Please Note-Tuesday Evening Masses in the Ordinariate Use are Temporarily suspended   _______________________________  Striking the Rock:  Scott Hahn Reflects on the Third Sunday of Lent   The Woman at the Well, Carl Heinrich Bloch, 1872  Readings: Exodus 17:3–7 Psalm 95:1–2 , 6–9 Romans 5:1–2 , 5–8 John 4:5–15 , 19–26 , 39–42 The Israelites’ hearts were hardened by their hardships in the desert. Though they have seen His mighty deeds, in their thirst they grumble and put God to the test in today’s First Reading—a crisis point recalled also in today’s Psalm. Jesus is thirsty, too, in today’s Gospel. He thirsts for souls (see John 19:28 ). He longs to give the Samaritan woman the living waters that well up to eternal life. These waters couldn’t be drawn fr

Second 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   Low Mass in the Ordinariate Use Tuesday 10 March 7.30pm   _______________________________       Listen to Him: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Second Sunday of Lent   Readings: Genesis 12:1-4 Psalm 33:4-5 , 18-20 , 22 2 Timothy 1:8-10 Matthew 17:1-9 Today’s Gospel portrays Jesus as a new and greater Moses. Moses also took three companions up a mountain and on the seventh day was overshadowed by the shining cloud of God’s presence. He too spoke with God and his face and clothing were made radiant in the encounter (see Exodus 24, 34). But in today’s Lenten Liturgy, the Church wants us to look back past Moses. Indeed, we are asked to contemplate what today’s Epistle calls God’s “design . . . from before time began.” With His promises to Abram in today’s First Reading, Go