2nd week of Christmastide 3rd January 202189, West Hill, Dartford DA1 2HJ Fr. Stephen Boyle – Parish Priest Tel: 01322 220075 Fr Henry Mukasa - Assistant Priest, Fr James TolhurstE-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/dartfor d 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 Louise Cole and Carmel Fraser. We pray for their families, and all who mourn their loss at this time.We pray for Victor Viegas and John and Christine Gay who ask for our prayers at this time

We wish you a joyful Christmas and a Blessed New Year

Many many thanksIn the most unique of years Fr. Stephen, Fr Henry and Fr James wish to express thanks to so many who have helped to make Christmas 2020 and the New Year still a blessed time at St. Anslems. 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.

Wednesday Night/ Thursday: Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord: SolemnityOn this important feastday we encourage Mass attendance, and thus to ensure social distancing

there are extra masses. This feast day in normal times would be a holiday of obligation.

The Mass times are: Tuesday 7.00pm Wednesday 9.30am, 4.30pm, 7.00pm, 8.15pm

Friday Devotions : 8.00pm – 9.10pm: Back to normal this weekExposition, Stations of the Cross, Seven sorrows rosary, night prayer and Benediction

Crib Offerings: Catholic Children’s Society: This provides emergency support for families in our Archdiocese and has been very effective in giving immediate help to families who have found themselves in need.Please be generous with your offerings for this.

2 nd Collection next week: The White Flower Appeal: 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. If we could have volunteers to give out the white flower stickers after the Masses please come forward. We encourage the filling in of the postcards in the porch

Everyday online:3.00pm -3.30pm: 3 O’Clock prayer, Divine Mercy, Rosary

9.00pm Night PrayerExposition of the Blessed Sacrament:

Weekdays: one hour before and after every morning mass, one hour before the evening Mass.

Saturday: one hour before morning Mass, ½ hour after massSunday: 7.30am before 8.30am MassConfessions: 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.

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-BioNTechWe 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 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: 16586727Name: 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 PrayerO Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, 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.

Mass Times: 2nd Sunday of ChristmastideSat. 2nd Second Sunday 4.30pm Raphael Emezie’s Life in Christ Dorisanne Emezie

after the 6.00pm Richard & Kathleen Ayres Tom & JeanSun 3rd Nativity 7.30am Exposition, Rosary at 8.00am

8.30am Christina Braganza Anna & Victor Viegas 10.30am People of the parish

4.30pm Margaretta Valcarel 80th Birthday Valcarel family6.30pm Irene Sterling Casey Family

Mon 4th Feria of 9.30pm Denis Murphy Pat RevellChristmas Time 7.00pm Fr. Stephen & Fr. Henry Jackie & Stephen Ferriter

Tues 5th Feria of Christmas Time 9.30am Katherine Begley Dad, Bernie, Anne & JulietteVigil Mass of the Epiphany 7.00pm Janet Campkin Foundation Mass

Wed 6th The Epipahny 9.30am Vincy de Souza RIP Dolla & familyOf 4.30pm Victor Viegas for good health Elavia & family

the Lord 7.00pm Freddie Braganza RIP Braganza family 8.15pm Carmel Fraser RIP Mary & Michael Cadden

Thurs 7th Feria of Christmas 9.30pm Tom Lazre RIP Enkeleda LazriTime 7.00pm Derek Whittaker Foundation Mass

Fri 8th Feria of Christmas 10.00am Deceased Relatives and friends Bridie KnightConfessions 10.30am - 10.45amConfessions 6.15pm – 6.30pm

Time 7.00pm Jessica Fernandes Int Cliff & Astrid 8.00pm – 9.10pm Stations of the Cross for the Holy Souls , Seven Sorrows Rosary, Night Prayer

Sat 9th Feria of Christmas 10.00am Good Counsel NetworkTime Confessions: 10.30 – 11.00amThe 4.30pm Mr Alan Murphy wife and family Frances Murphy

Baptism 6.00pm Bernard Patricio RIP Dolla & familySun: 10th Of the Lord 7.30am Exposition, Rosary at 8.00am D

8.30am Liam Bryne RIP Anniv: E. Bryne10.30am Harry & Mary Shelton Patricia Shelton4.30pm 96th birthday of the late Jacqueline Prior Wendy & Trevor Blain6.30pm People of the parish Mary Martin

Anniversaries: 2nd Jan. –10th Jan: Paul McCarthy; John Ashcroft; Christine Hyland; Maisie Gallager;Martin Sullivan, Antoni Polom, Matthew Daley,Peter Engel, William Needham Brendan Molyneux; William Thompson; Maurice Nolan; Carla Buttignon; Maud Spencer; Elizabeth Atkins;. Bronislaw Dembrinski; Dorothy Lelliot; Patrick Kelly; Lottie Strover; Rachael Norcott; Rosemary Wilden; Piero Valori; Reginald Humphreys; Cecilia Preston; Agnes Coe; Emma Nolan; Nellie Engel Juliette O’Flaherty; Dennis Buckley; Kathleen Steel;Derek Whitaker;

Winifred Chadwick; Dorothy Brenda Levett; Eva Burton; Vincenzo Cavero; John Smith; Mary Amos; Patrick Devaney; James Hamerton; Henry Dyer; Neville Saunders; Percy Nolan; Bernadette Rouessant; Ellen Barnett; Richard Cooke; Jeanne Bison; William Hughes; Brother Marcellus; Emma Byrne; Ronald Button; Elizabeth King; Elizabeth Hearn; Diago Bernard Patricio; Keith Blacker;

. 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. AnthonyBlessed 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 

WednesdaySt. 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 PioDear God, You generously blessed Your servant,St. Pio of Pietrelcina, with the gifts of the Spirit. You marked his body with the five woundsof 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 Christin 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 rosarySunday: Rosary before mass in May

Please stand in front of the Divine Mercy

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Fr. Stephen, Fr. Henry and Fr. James wish you a joyful Christmas and a

Blessed New Year