Fr Jeff Woolnough Southend Ordinariate Mission Priest

Fr Jeff Woolnough Southend Ordinariate Mission Priest Group Pastor to the Southend Ordinariate Mission which covers the entire Southend Postal Code

28/08/2026

Dear Brothers and Sisters, most of you will know that earlier this year I had the great privilege of meeting with Pope Leo...

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28/08/2026

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Full communion doesn't have to start with a dramatic conversion story. Sometimes it just starts with a question: "Could this be my home?"

The Ordinariate was founded in 2011 under Pope Benedict XVI's Anglicanorum coetibus, but you don't have to be a former Anglican to belong. Many who join us are baptised Catholics discovering our patrimony for the first time, or people from other traditions (or none at all) seeking full communion with Rome.

If you're single and exploring what that path looks like, our new guide walks through exactly how it begins: an individual petition and profession of faith, made alongside a local pastor who meets you wherever you're starting from.

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28/08/2026

Today is the feast of St Augustine, the great Doctor of the Church. We wish a very happy feast day to our friends at Norbertine Priory of Our Lady of Sorrows, Peckham!

At the end of the Apostolic Letter Augustinum Hipponensem, John Paul II wished to ask the Saint himself what he would have to say to the people of today and answers first of all with the words Augustine entrusted to a letter dictated shortly after his conversion: "It seems to me that the hope of finding the truth must be restored to humankind"; that truth which is Christ himself, true God, to whom is addressed one of the most beautiful prayers and most famous of the Confessions:

"Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all. "You called and cried aloud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours".

Here then, Augustine encountered God and throughout his life experienced him to the point that this reality - which is primarily his meeting with a Person, Jesus - changed his life, as it changes the lives of everyone, men and women, who in every age have the grace to encounter him. Let us pray that the Lord will grant us this grace and thereby enable us to find his peace.

27/08/2026

My sentiments exactly!

24/08/2026
Attending talk given by Fr Donald Calloway⚜️Ave Maria!
17/08/2026

Attending talk given by
Fr Donald Calloway⚜️
Ave Maria!

14/08/2026

‘Do come home, we need you..’

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