Christmas Day Christmastide 25th December 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.

Normal Sunday Masses:Saturday 4.30pm, 6.00pm Sunday: 8.30am 10.30am 4.30pm 6.30pm

We pray for Louise Cole and Carmel Fraser, who have passed away in the previous week. We pray for their families, and all who mourn their loss at this time.

We pray for Christine Gay and Victor Viegas who ask for our prayers at this time.

We wish you all a joyful Christmas and a Blessed New Year

The rosary will be said before all the Christmas masses as a present of love to Our Lady and Jesus

Everyday online: 3.00pm 3 O’Clock prayer and devotions, 9.00pm Night Prayer

These continue and are commended to all to join online as many do throughout the country and Ireland. The 3 O’Clock prayer and devotions are a great way to say the prayers recommended by Our Lord to St. Faustina, the night prayer is a lovely way to end the day.

Confessions: During Christmas masses and Saturday afternoon/Sunday

Masses on the weekend and Saturday morning 10.30am - 11.00am.

This Weekend: Pastoral letter from the Archbishop for the Solemnity of the Holy Family: Copies will be available in the porch at the weekend

Thursday 31st: Bringing in the New Year with Our Lord and Our Lady 10.30pm Exposition, rosary confessions 11.45pm Benediction

12.00pm Midnight Mass In honour of Mary, the Mother of God

The parish will be consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart at the end of Mass adapting the consecration Pope John Paul used at Fatima on March 25th 1982.

Friday 1st – Saturday 2nd All night Vigil for the First Friday and First Saturday

10.00pm Mass, 10.30pm – 5.45am Exposition 6.00am Mass

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 contributing to the parish.

Crib Offering Catholic Children’s Society: This is to support the Catholic Children’s Soceity Crisis Fund. They support families who have desperate need of targeted help at a specific time in their lives.

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.

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). .

December Post Communion Prayer: Prayer of St. Ignatius

Lord, teach me to be generous,to serve you as you deserve, to give and not to count the cost,to fight and not to heed the wounds,

to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to look for any reward, save that of knowing that I do your holy will. Amen.

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: 25th

Dec. –2nd

Jan: Ida Dimascio; James Murphy; Thomas Mannion,; Mervyn Bunyan; Gladys Spencer; Joaquim Colaco; Nancy Stewart;

Mary Jean Lloyd, Lilian Mary Whitnell; Br. Hubert Harrington;Kenneth Gallowa; Joan Patience Anne Kelly; Francis Rudman; Eleanor Dineen; Anthony Charter; Patrick Sargan; Kathleen Mary Alice King; Alexander Humphreys, John Wright, Margaret Scott; Antohny Peters; Horace Martin; Irene Grant; Margaret Sandford; Pauline Kelly; William Redmond; Ray Osborne; Wright, Margaret Scott, Antohny Peters, Horace Martin, Irene Grant, Margaret Sandford, Pauline Kelly, William Redmond, Ray Osborne; Doris Frith; Mary Dunwoodie; William Childerley; Murial Smith; William Miller; Karoline Booker; Beatrice Sandom; Ester Honora Attlesey; Elsa Giglio-Vigna; Pewter Pryke; Jeff Mongon;Henry Steel; Winifred Dolan; Konrad Birbaumer; David Kearney; Annie Hawkwood; Sarah Ann Richard’s; Paul McCarthy; John Ashcroft; Christine Hyland; Maisie Gallager;

Mass Times: Christmastide

Thurs 24th Feria 3.00pm Thanksgiving for St. Anselm Jackie & Seve Ferriter Christmas Eve 5.00pm Newson Bourne From his family

Vigil 7.00pm Notarianni family Allen Notarianni

12.00pm Midnight Emezie family Emezie family

Friday 24th The Nativity 7.00am Genovy Coelho RIP Victor Coelho & family

Of the Lord 8.30am Bertha & Freddie Braganza RIP Braganza family

10.30am Gladys & Fred Spencer Mary Purcell

Sat. 26th Saint Stephen 10.00am Maria Coelho RIP Victor Coelho & family

Confessions: 10.30 – 11.00am

The Holy 4.30pm Holy Souls

Family 6.00pm Braz Goes RIP

Sun 27th 7.30am Exposition, Rosary at 8.00am

8.30am Maurice Williams RIP Dolla & family

10.30am Yonatan Michael family

4.30pm People of the parish

6.30pm Irene Sterling Mary Martin

Mon 28th

9.30pm Derek Fraser RIP Iona

7.00pm For the family of Mr Emmanuel Anyac-Gowa

Tues 29th 9.30am Bernard Patricio RIP Much love Dolla

7.00pm Mrs Victoria Akubue RIP & family KSC Council Dartford

Wed 30th 9.30am Genovy Coelho RIP Victor & family

7.00am Ellen William Gerald Childerley Foundation Mass

Thurs 31st 9.30pm Thomas Katherine Larkin RIP Bridie Knight

7.00pm Thanksgiving to Sacred Heart for our Health: Anne Kwong

Exposition, Rosary, confessions: 10.30pm – 11.45pm

Fri 1st 12.00pm Midnight Mass Good Counsel Network

10.00am Joan Bourne Her family

7.00pm Mrs Olalowpe Olayiwola Fran Arinze

10.00pm Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

10.30pm – 5.45am All Night Vigil

Sat 2nd

6.00am Reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Jesus

10.00am Ray Blackman RIP

Confessions: 10.30 – 11.00am

4.30pm Raphael Emezie’s Life in Christ Dorisanne Emezie

6.00pm Richard & Kathleen Ayres Tom & Jean

. 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