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St. Anselm’s Dartford Parish Newsletter The Baptism of the Lord
10th January 2021
89, West Hill, Dartford DA1 2HJ Fr. Stephen Boyle – Parish
Priest Tel: 01322 220075 Fr Henry Mukasa - Assistant Priest, Fr
James Tolhurst E-mail: [email protected] Website:
www.stanselmsdartford.wordpress.com Parish Centre Enquiries:Tel:
07963 794 842 Or 01322 280130,or
email:[email protected]
Our Lady’s Catholic Primary School: King Edward Avenue, Dartford
Tel: 01322 222759. Headteacher: Miss Isabel Quinn M.A, PGCE. NPQH
Website: www.our-ladys.kent.sch.uk
24 hour Live streaming: See website:
www.churchservices.tv/dartford
Normal Sunday Masses:Saturday 4.30pm, 6.00pm Sunday: 8.30am
10.30am 4.30pm 6.30pm
Please track and trace when you come into the church.
We pray for the repose of the soul of Carmel Fraser. Her funeral
is on Tuesday 26th January 10.00am.
We pray for Victor Viegas, who is very ill at this time, and
Karen Turner who is ill at this time The January 100 club winners
are:Eithne Dachtler,Kate Brindley, Mary Horgan Each receive £70
Mass at St. George’s. In the present climate it is thought best
to start Mass back on 21st March at 12noon.
We wish you a Blessed New Year: Many many thanks
Fr. Stephen, Fr Henry and Fr James wish to express thanks to so
many who have made Christmas 2020 and the New Year a blessed time
at St. Anselms. We thank you for your faithfulness to your prayers
and devotions. We thank the stewards, the cleaners and all who
contributed to the look of the Church. Fr. Stephen, Fr. Henry, and
Fr. James thank you for the cards and good wishes expressed at this
time. We wish all in the parish a Blessed 2021.
2nd Collection this week: The Pro-Life White Flower Appeal:
The Card machine now has this charity on its screen
This second collection goes to the great work the Society of the
Protection of the Unborn children (SPUC) does in saving babies and
fighting the cause for the unborn. Please give generously to this
cause. We encourage the filling in of the postcards in the
porch
We ask that you respond to Department of Health consultation to
stop home abortions
The Department of Health is holding a public consultation on
whether to continue the practice of allowing abortion providers to
send abortion pills to women so that they can perform their own
abortion at home. We need as many pro-life people as possible to
complete the Department of Health’s questionnaire in order to help
stop dangerous DIY abortions becoming permanent. SPUC has prepared
a briefing which gives a step by step guide to completing the
consultation questionnaire. Please go to
https://www.spuc.org.uk/Get-Involved/Campaigns/England-DIY-Abortion-Consultation
The consultation ends on 26 February 2021.
The Year of St. Joseph: .
Pope Francis announced a special year dedicated to St. Joseph
starting from 8 December 2020 until 8 December 2021, on the
occasion of the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of St. Joseph
as the Patron of the Universal Church, as well as the Solemnity of
the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady
A good website: www.yearofstjoseph.org/consecration/
Consecration in the Year of St. Joseph The parish will start 33
days of prayer to St. Joseph from Friday 19th March (Feast of St.
Joseph) to Wednesday 21st April, with consecration to St. Joseph on
the 21st April.
Plenary indulgence for year of St. Joseph with normal
conditions: The plenary indulgence is granted to those who will
meditate for at least 30 minutes on the Lord’s Prayer, or take part
in a Spiritual Retreat of at least one day that includes a
meditation on St. Joseph.” It is granted to the communal saying of
the rosary
Friday Devotions : 8.00pm – 9.10pm: Exposition, Stations of the
Cross for the Holy Souls, Seven sorrows rosary, night prayer,
Benediction
Everyday online:
3.00pm -3.30pm: 3 O’Clock prayer, Divine Mercy, Rosary
9.00pm: Night Prayer
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Ethical Nature of the various vaccines:A good website is
www.tinyurl.com/ETHICALVACCINES. It would seem that this is the
case: Ethical: Moderna, Novavax, Merck , Sanofi, Pfizer-BioNTech We
are encouraged to promote the ethical vaccines, while recognizing
that due to the remote nature of its connection it is not a sin to
take any of the vaccines. Confessions: Friday 10.30am -10.45am,
6.15pm – 6.30pm, Saturday morning 10.30am - 11.00am, Saturday
afternoon/Sunday Masses, New Card Machine in the porch: It helps
with donations both to the Church and to Charities. Once you have
put in your gift aid details they do not need to be entered in
again. We commend this way of donating to the parish.
For easy fundraising for the Church while shopping online go to
website:
www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/stanselmschdartford
Many thanks to those who are making contributions to the parish
at this time. If you wish to make a weekly donation to the church
you can make an online donation – as a ‘one-off’ payment or to
setup a standing order to make regular donations. Our bank details
are as follows;NatWest BankSort Code: 60 06 33 Account No: 16586727
Name: St Anselms Please use your name as a reference (gift aiders
can add their envelope number). .
Post Communion Prayer for January O Angel of God, my Guardian
dear,to whom God’s Love commits me here, ever this day (night) be
at my side,to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.
Prayer for the year 2021: The Angel’s Prayer
O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee
profoundly. I offer Thee the
most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ
present in all the tabernacles of
the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and
indifferences by which He is offended.
By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the
Immaculate Heart of Mary I beg the
conversion of poor sinners. Amen. A prayer given to the three
children of Fatima by the Angel of Peace. There was a Eucharistic
host and chalice
suspended in the air, and the angel led them in kneeling before
it and praying this prayer.
Anniversaries: 10th
Jan. –17th Jan: Ronald Button; Elizabeth King; Elizabeth Hearn;
Diago Bernard Patricio; Keith Blacker; William Cairns,
Patrick McCarthy, Elizabeth Nye; Edward Sanson; William
Kinsella; Bridget Shelton; Henry Steel; Thomas Cherry; Christina
Connoe; Nora Alford; Mrs Agnes Saunders; Bartholomew Henegan; Elsie
Pedlingham; John Henderson; Eileen Jefferys; Rosalie Ferrari.;
Audrey May Crawford; Sheila Marshall; Rose Bright; William
Summerbell; Ellen Goff; Dorothy Skiddy; John Summerbell; William
White; Nellie Lobley; Francis Coughlan; Laurence Jamieson; Joan
Hill; Mary Walden; Joe Matson; Marquerite Wood; Nicholas Flynn;
Nesta Monica Nahapiet; Eliza Bell; Kazimierz Czajkowski; Mary
Hackney; William Loveridge; Margaret Cooke; Kenneth Sanga Elad
Mass Times: 1st
week of ordinary time
Sat. 9th The 4.30pm Mr Alan Murphy wife and family Frances
Murphy
Baptism 6.00pm Bernard Patricio RIP Dolla & family Sun
10
th Of the Lord 7.30am Exposition, Rosary at 8.00am
8.30am Liam Bryne RIP Anniv E. Bryne
10.30am Harry & Mary Shelton Patricia Shelton
4.30pm 96th
birthday of the late Jacqueline Prior Wendy & Trevor
Blain
6.30pm People of the parish Casey Family
Mon 11th
Feria 9.30pm Derek & Carmel Fraser RIP Mary Chapman
7.00pm Angela Frances Murphy
Tues 12th Saint Aelred of Reivaulx 9.30am Charles Robert Le
Cordier Tim Bowman
7.00pm Nina Stafford Wellbeing Kevin & Susan Gilmer
Wed 13th Saint Hilary 9.30am Zoe Anne Machan RIP Anne & Les
Vaughan
7.00pm Kathleen Meehan RIP Kevin, Juliette & family
Thurs14th Feria 9.30pm Ende Blacker - Birthday Jude Pimenta
7.00pm Rev. J. P. Prendergast & relatives Foundation
Mass
Fri15th Feria 10.00am Grace D’Souza Juliette & family
Confessions 10.30am - 10.45am
Confessions 6.15pm – 6.30pm
7.00pm Cornelius Regan RIP Luton family
8.00pm – 9.10pm Stations of the Cross for the Holy Souls , Seven
Sorrows Rosary, Night Prayer
Sat 16th The Blessed Virgin Mary 10.00am Sheila Whitehead Helen
Rees
Confessions: 10.30 – 11.00am
Second Sunday of 4.30pm Victor Viegas wellbeing Monica &
Becky
Ordinary Time 6.00pm Kathleen Wilson RIP Soshana & Chick
Sun: 17th
7.30am Exposition, Rosary at 8.00am
8.30am People of the parish
10.30am Jackie Prior RIP Prior family
4.30pm Pete Coyne & Collette Walker Dachtler family
6.30pm Denis & Msty Byrne Deal family
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. Monday
Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese
O Glorious St. Therese, whom Almighty God has raised up to aid
and inspire the
human family, I implore your Miraculous Intercession. You are so
powerful in
obtaining every need of body and spirit from the Heart of God.
Holy Mother
Church proclaims you “Prodigy of Miracles… the greatest saint of
Modern
Times.” Now I fervently beseech you to answer my petition
(mention here) and
to carry out your promises of spending heaven doing good on
earth… of letting
fall from Heaven a Shower of Roses. Little Flower, give me your
childlike faith,
to see the Face of God in the people and experiences of my life,
and to love
God with full confidence. St. Therese, my Carmelite Sister, I
will fulfill your plea
“to be made known everywhere” and I will continue to lead others
to Jesus
through you. Amen.
Tuesday
Unfailing Prayer to St. Anthony
Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints
St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love for God and charity
for his creatures,
made you worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers.
Miracles
waited on your word, which you were ready to speak for those in
trouble or
anxiety. Encouraged by this thought, I ask you to obtain for me
the favors that I
seek (mention your request here).
The answer to my prayer may require a miracle, even so, you are
the Saint of
Miracles.
O gentle and loving St. Anthony, whose heart was full of
sympathy, whisper my
petition into the ears of the Infant Jesus, who loved to be held
in your arms; and
the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. Amen
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Wednesday
St. Joseph
Oh, St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so
prompt before the throne of God. I
place in you all my interests and desires. Oh, St. Joseph, do
assist me by your powerful
intercession, and obtain for me from your divine Son all
spiritual blessings, through Jesus
Christ, our Lord. So that, having engaged here below your
heavenly power, I may offer my
thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of Fathers.
Oh, St. Joseph, I never weary of contemplating you, and Jesus
asleep in your arms; I dare not
approach while He reposes near your heart. Press Him in my name
and kiss His fine head for me
and ask him to return the Kiss when I draw my dying breath. St.
Joseph, Patron of departing
souls - Pray for me
Thursday
Prayer for the Intercession of St. Padre Pio
Dear God, You generously blessed Your servant,St. Pio of
Pietrelcina,
with the gifts of the Spirit. You marked his body with the five
wounds
of Christ Crucified, as a powerful witness to the saving Passion
and Death of Your
Son. Endowed with the gift of discernment,
St. Pio labored endlessly in the confessional for the salvation
of souls.
With reverence and intense devotion in the celebration of
Mass,
he invited countless men and women to a greater union with Jesus
Christ
in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
Through the intercession of St. Pio of Pietrelcina,I confidently
beseech You to grant
me the grace of (here state your petition). Amen.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as
it was in the beginning,is
now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen (Say Glory be
...three times)
Friday:
O most holy heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore
you, I love you,
and with lively sorrow for my sins I offer you this poor heart
of mine. Make me
humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to your will. Grant,
Good Jesus, that I
may live in you and for you. Protect me in the midst of danger.
Comfort me in my
afflictions. Give me health of body, assistance in my temporal
needs, your
blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy death.
Amen.
Saturday: Our Lady: The rosary
Sunday: Rosary before mass in May
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Please stand
in front of the
Divine Mercy
picture
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Fr. Stephen, Fr. Henry
and Fr. James wish you
a joyful Christmas and a
Blessed New Year
