St. Anselm’s Dartford Parish Newsletter First Sunday of Lent 21st February 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: dartford@rcaos.org.uk Website: www.stanselmsdartford.wordpress.com Parish Centre Enquiries:Tel: 07963 794 842 Or 01322 280130,or email:stanselmparishcentre@gmail.com

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

Devotions everyday for consideration in Lent: 3.00pm 3 O’clock prayer, divine mercy devotion, rosary, 9.00pm Night Prayer (to be seen online Next week Monday 1st March: Start of Divine Mercy 9 Day novena. Before every Mass and at 3.00pm.

Sunday evenings: 5.30pm Exposition, Stations of the cross followed by silent prayer and benediction.

2021: Year of St. Joseph

Quotes from the saints: Padre Pio: Ite ad Joseph. Go to Joseph with extreme confidence, because I do not remember having asked anything from St. Joseph, without having obtained it readily

Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father by Donald H Calloway: Sorry!. Amazon saying it is now sold out. Have ordered books for the future.

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..We will be using the book but also broadcasting the youtube clips: Search under: Consecration to St. Joseph (day1)

We ask that you respond to Department of Health consultation to stop home abortion:

Please go to www.spuc.org.uk/Get-Involved/Campaigns/England-DIY-Abortion-Consultation The consultation ends this Friday 26 February 2021

The website is really great and the youtube clip on the site, online briefing session is so well done.To do the consultation takes less than an hour, but is a key witness in our wish to help both unborn children and mothers to be.

February 100 club winners: Anne Marie McEwan, A. Hammond, J. Giddings.

Stations of the Cross this week Wednesday 7.25pm Friday 8.00pm Sundays 5.30pm

Confessions this week: Friday 7.30pm – 7.45pm, Saturday morning 10.30am - 11.00am, Saturday afternoon/Sunday Masses,

We pray for the repose of Victor Viegas and his family and all who mourn his lose. The funeral is this Friday 26th February at 10.30am. At 5.00pm the day before there is the vigil service and at 7.00pm there is Mass. There will be a mass at 9.00am in the morning. At the funeral there is a limit of 30. We will use the hall, thus bringing our capacity to 60, but the family have indicated that they will fill those numbers for the 10.30am Mass.

We pray for the repose of the soul of Mrs Fetsum Robson and all who mourn her loss. Her funeral service is this Thursday 25th 11.00am. Fr. Henry asks for prayers for his mother Alexandria Namukasa who is not well at this time. We pray for Greg and Anne Mc Kinney, Vincent and Cecilia D’Mello who are ill at this time.

There will always be one charity that one can donate to on the card machine. For this final week it is Survive Miva. See their brilliant website: www.survive-miva.org

The funds they receive (voluntary donations from generous supporters) are converted into grants for all types of transport: this may be a bicycle, a moped, a trail bike, a 4wd ambulance, a pickup, an outboard motor - it is the people on the ground who know what best suits their terrain. Some examples of vehicles/modes of transport are on the website.

Please note that this money to the charity will not be gift aided if you are using the machine. Only money given to the parish and to diocesan charities can be gift aided.

So for next week when we have a diocesan collection for poorer churches, that can be gift aided.

Sr. Helen Omeje, who works with disadvantaged children and was going to give the Lenten appeal last year passed on this link: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/helenchidimmaomeje/god-is-love

Ethical Nature of the various vaccines: It seems it is the case that the Pfizer Vaccine is the most ethical out of those available. If you ask for this vaccine it is possible that the NHS will help you to have this vaccine as opposed to the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. 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. For full arguments 1. www.bioethics.org.uk/images/user/covidbriefing2.pdf 2. www.cogforlife.org/2020/11/16/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-facts-not-fiction/ 3. www.cogforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/vaccineListOrigFormat.pdf for full details of vaccines in general.

Many thanks to those who are making contributions to the parish at this time. 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 February: Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel :Holy Michael the Archangel, defend us in this day of battle. Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust down to hell Satan and all the wicked spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls

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.

Anniversaries: 21st Feb – 28th Feb: Elizabeth Thompson; Margaret Noctor; Emily Burridge; William Guest; Albert Kemp; Bernadette Bridgend Shields; Mavis Whitehead; Anna Hornby, Ronald Hardy, Rose Bright, Bruce Isbister, Elzaebth Grey, Beatrice McMurray, Peter Francis Dolan, Mary Wolfe-Hogan; Mary Page; Elizabeth Silby; George King; Lillian Ellis; Mary Ferrari; Evelyn Robertson; Noreen Clark; Nora Jamieson; Edith Whiteside; Elia Spaducci; Ann Needham; Julie Carey; George Tanner; Margaret Nicholson; Renee Kierans; Leonildes Bertha Braganza; Alexander Wilkins; Hilda Button; Bella Spellacy; Kim John Wilkins; John Humble; Michael Wise; Jean Jocolyn; Ethel May Terry; Agata Immacolata Del Grosso; Mary Courtney; Nina McCrossan; Florence Rudman; Samuel Saunders; Helen Dennis; John Curwen; Edward Stephen Aokrill; Raymond John Richens;Mark Cole.

Mass Times: First Week of the Season of Lent

Sat. 20th February First 4.30pm Gary Hickey RIP Chick

Sunday 6.00pm Kathleen & Ron Wilson RIP Shoshana & Chick

Sun 21st Of 7.30am Exposition, Rosary at 7.55am Benediction. Divine Mercy Devotion

Lent 8.30am People of the parish

10.30am Alan Daly RIP Daly Family

4.30pm Dave Murphy: Wellbeing Alan Ashfield

5.30pm Stations of the Cross & Exposition

6.30pm Thanksgiving:Marigold Chiyuto Fernandez Marigold Chiyuto-Fernandez

Mon 22nd

The Chair of St. Peter 9.30pm Mrs Patrick RIP Tim Bowman

Apostle 7.00pm Eric Sherlock: Wellbeing Luton family

Tues 23rd

St. Polycarp 9.30am Kathleen Gilmartin Intention Pat. Percy Burke

7.00pm Mically family Carmela Stafford

Wed 24th Feria 9.30am Welfare of Kathleen Tully Paul Tully

7.00pm Fr. Stephen Intention Amalia Liguori

7.25pm Stations of the Cross

Thurs 25th Feria 9.30pm Bertha Braganza Anniv: RIP Braganza family

11.00am Requiem Service for Mrs Fetsum Robson

5.00pm Vigil Service for Victor Viegas

7.00pm Victor Viegas RIP Victor Coelho & family

Fri 26th Feria 9.00pm Victor Viegas RIP Ronnie & Delilah D’Souza

10.30am Requiem Mass for Victor Veigas RIP

7.00pm Jenny Chambers

7.25pm Exposition rosary Confessions 7.30pm - 7.45pm

8.00pm – 9.10pm Stations of the Cross for Holy Souls, Seven Sorrows, Rosary Night Prayer

Sat: 27th Feria 10.00am George Greenwood RIP Wife, daughter, Grandson

Confessions: 10.30 – 11.00am

Second Sunday 4.30pm Leon Brown RIP Braganza family

of 6.00pm Dorothy Mielczarek RIP Chick

Sun:28th Lent 7.30am Exposition, Rosary at 8.00am, Benediction,

8.30am Genovy Coelho RIP Victor & family

10.30am People of the parish

4.30pm Bridid Hickey Intention Pat & Percy Burke

5.30pm Stations of the Cross & Exposition

6.30pm John Farey Brown RIP Mrs Katy Grazebrook and Mr Daniel Brown

. 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

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