Thirty- Third Week Week 1 15th November 2020

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

Please track and trace when you come into the church.

The Church is open throughout the day apart from when there is Mass or a service

Blessing of the graves at Watling Street Cemetery this weekend (and next)

Fr. Stephen and Fr. Henry will be present at the Watling Street cemetery today (Sunday) from 1.30pm – 2.30pm to bless graves. Fr. Pat Zammit will be there from 2.00pm. Please do not worry if you cannot make it this weekend.Fr. Stephen will also be there next week at 1.30pm for those who do not get this message on time, or cannot make it this weekend due to the short notice.

40 hours devotion:

8.00am Thursday 26th

November – 10.00am Saturday 28

th November

Exposition for 40 hours continuous apart from when there is Mass: Please sign the rota in the porch

I encourage you to support the 40 hour devotion we intend to have towards the end of the lockdown. It has a real tradition and many priests speak of its value. This devotion even has its own Wikipedia page. I ask that you consider signing up for an hour, and actually to be generous with the number of hours.

The precise origin of the Forty Hours' Devotion dates back many centuries. St. Charles Borromeo (d. 1584) speaks as if this practice of praying for forty hours was very ancient; and he refers it to the forty hours that Christ's Body remained in the tomb. The number 40 is also associated with the rain at the time of the flood, years on the way to the Promised Land, and Jesus fasting for 40 days before beginning his public ministry.[1

The Church is open all day apart from Mass times and 3 O’Clock

Online Masses and Devotions when the Church is not open Sunday Masses: Saturday 6.00pm Sunday: 8.30am 10.30am 6.30pm

Weekday Masses remain at the same time, with the Divine Mercy devotion said before Mass, the rosary after.

There is the 3 o’clock devotions and Night Prayer at 9.00pm every day

Instrumental at 10.15am before Mass. Petra will be playing hymns before Mass next week.

Three Holy hours on Monday – Friday

There is exposition at these times which one can attend

Monday-Thursday: 8.15am – 9.15am, 10.10am - 11.10am 6.00pm – 6.50pm

Friday: 8.45am – 9.45am, 10.40am – 11.40am, 5.50pm – 6.50pm

Saturday: 8.45am – 9.45am, 4.50pm -5.50pm

Sunday: 7.20am - 8.20am, 5.00pm – 6.00pm

Many thanks to those who are making contributions to the parish at this time.

Offertory Donations: Clearly no weekly collections now makes an impact on parish income. 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: RCAS Charity St Anselms 235468 Please use your name as a reference (gift aiders can add their envelope number). Thank you. Any donations you able to make will be greatly appreciated during this time

Promotion of Spiritual Communion: In this time when one may not receive ‘sacramental’

Communion, making a ‘spiritual’ Communion comes into focus. Here is one:

I wish, Lord, to receive you with the purity, humility and devotion with which

your most holy Mother received you, with the spirit and fervour of the saints.

“In a vision, Our Lord explained it to St. Catherine of Siena by showing her two chalices: one made of gold, the other of silver,” she wrote. “He told her that her sacramental Communions were preserved in the gold chalice and that her spiritual communions were in the silver chalice….”

Mass intentions : Many thanks for the mass intentions. We do our best to fulfil wishes for dates but now please choose dates after 4

th January 2021. Please do not hesitate to think of appropriate dates for the Masses, and leave your phone

number on the leaflet so that we can get back to you. .

Month of the Holy Souls envelopes: Envelopes in the porch. Money enclosed is used for masses for the Holy Souls. A stipend for one Mass is minimum £10. We ask that for as many envelopes as possible with stipends so that the parish offers as many masses as it can for the Holy Souls over the next year. It is the most powerful prayer for them and we are called to pray for souls that have no one to pray for them. Envelopes are left under the altar to be remembered at Masses in November.

Advent Appeal: Envelopes will be given out on the first Sunday of Advent for the appeal to for the,old, sick and orphans in

Kasana-Luweero Diocese (Fr. Henry’s diocese). In this initiative of the Bishop of Kasana-Luweero, it would be great to support him at this difficult time

Confession times: the normal time of Saturday 10.30am - 11.00am. There will be a consideration of other times next week.

November Post Communion Prayer:

Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace Amen. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Prayer for the year 2020: My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love you. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you. (Angel to three children at Fatima)

Anniversaries: 15th – 22nd November:; Austin Mooney; Kathleen King; Olive Marguerita Mason; Ellen Batten; Charles Frank

Wellman; Patricia Golding; Winifred Bignell; Mary Page; Gloria Pirio; David John Hopper; Zbigniew Ryszard Boronski; Elizabeth Lawrence, Kathleen Mary Ilhoeugh, Lucy D’Souza, Kenneth Juan Stanton, Francis Firman, Wamala Galica, Thomas Humphrey, Alfred rudman, Anne Kench, Bertram van Hagen, Robert Baker, Matteo Mucci, Luigi Verrino, Francis Colin Force, Eugenie Mary Buny, Pietrio Matarazza, Madeleine Howard, Mary Scott, George Johnson, Arthus Smith, anna Marks, Beatrice Ellard, Gertrude Parish, Thomas Farrelley, Stanley Hood, Katherine Blunt.

Mass Times: Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time

Thirty - Third 6.00pm Bernard Patricio RIP Dolla & family

Sun 15th Sunday 7.20am Exposition ends at 8.20am

November 8.30am Lucy De Souza RIP Delilah De Souza

10.30am Edna Blacker Birthday Jude Pimenta

6.30pm People of the parish

Mon 16th St. Edmund of Abingdon 9.30am Eddie Kenny RIP Terry & Sheila Frost

7.00pm Samantha, Paul Murphy and family: Wellbeing

Pat & Percy Burke

Tues 17th St. Elizabeth of 9.30am Victor & Anna Viegas: Well Being Dolla, Patricio, and family

Hungary 7.00pm Natasha Ghosal: Wellbeing Monica & Becky Pereira

Wed 18th Dedication of the Basilicas 9.30am Angelina Machado RIP Alex & Clara

of Sts.’ Peter and Paul 7.00pm Richard Bironski RIP Heddy Bironska

Thur 19th Feria 9.30am Derek Fraser: RIP Bridie Knight

7.00pm Anthony Jacobs Fran Arinze

Fri 20

th Feria 10.00am Sandra Williams Birthday Jude Pimenta

7.00pm Colin Tolhurst RIP Kevin & Susan Gilmer

8.00pm Stations of the Cross, Seven Sorrows Rosary, Night Prayer

Sat 21st Presentation of the

Blessed Virgin Mary 10.00am Meyrellas Morenas RIP Dolla, Patricio, & family

Our Lord Jesus Christ 6.00pm Stan & Kathleen Bakowski Bakowski family

Sun 22nd King of the Universe 7.20pm Exposition ends at 8.20am

8.30am Chrissie Braganza Braganza & family

10.30am Protection of the Mintah family Richard Mintah

6.30pm People of the parish

It is with heavy hearts that we must leave St. Anselm’s parish after 45 years to move closer to our familt in Sheffield. We have made many good friends, enjoyed many holidays and pilgrimages and participated in the Senior Parishioners social group. The Night Vigils and Masses have been a special part of my life. We shall miss everyone. A big thank you to Fr. Stephen and Fr. Henry for their love and dedication to the parish. Jackie and Stephen Ferriter.

. The church is open at these times

Monday – Thursday:

7.45am - 9.20am,

10.10am – 2.55pm,

3.30pm – 6.50pm

Friday:

7.45am – 9.50am, 10.40pm – 2.50pm,

3.30pm – 6.50pm

Saturday:

8.00am – 9.50am, 10.30am – 2.50p m,

3.30pm – 5.50pm Sunday:

7.20am – 8.20am,

11.00am - 2.50pm,

3.30pm – 6.20pm

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