Category: Weekly Newsletter

SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

The Spirit of God’s Life

The Holy Spirit is the soul of the Church, the principle of its life and unity. God is living in us because he lets us share his spirit.

MASS INTENTIONS FOR WEEK 12 – 20 MAY 2018

Sat 12 May     9am Holy Souls
                          6pm Parishioners

Sun 13 May     8.30am Tony Lobo RIP: 1st Anniversary (Kathy Connolly)
                         10.30am John Larkin RIP + Family (Helen & Family)

Mon 14 May     9am Wellbeing of Michael Frake (Tony Frake)

Tues 15 May     7pm Audrey O’Hara RIP: 1st Anniversary (Tony and Anne & Family)
    Adoration and Our Lady & St Pio’s Prayer Group

Wed 16 May     10am Foundation Mass for Serse Cima

Thu 17 May     9am Eucharistic Service

Fri 18 May     9am Collette & Brendan Mansell RIP (Anne & Brian Harris)

Sat 19 May     9am Holy Souls
                         6pm Dan & Julia Harrington + Patrick & Mary Sheehan RIP
                         (Eileen Sheehan & Family)

Sun 20 May     8.30am Parishioners
                         10.30am Deceased Relatives & Friends of The Lyons Family (Kay & Danny)
                         12.30pm First Holy Communion Mass

Reconciliation Times: Sat 9.30am-10.30am and Sat 7pm-8pm (following Masses)

Prayers for the Sick: Christine White, Kevin Harper, Ed Jones, John Bird, Gail Noel, Chris Neal, John Edwards, Tony Speed, Geoffrey Hildebrand, John Underwood, Mary Stubbs, John Harrington, Norma Brooker, Nina Szredski, Eileen Weald, Maureen Fitzpatrick, Eric May, Gracie Maddox, Anne Hastings, Tom Barrett, Timmy Lenihan, John Clarey, Tess Truman, Anne Comiskey, Irene Gannaway, David Collison, Mary Manners, George Waller, Peter Dent, Ray Smith, Teresa Fan, Tommy Otte.

Anniversaries: Frank Henin, Bertram Lemos, James Murrin, Angie Jones, Carrie & Harry Hollis, Bill Chipperfield & Mary Chipperfield, Susan Monkton, Lilian Higgs, Marie Huntington.

Feast Days: Monday: St Matthias, Apostle

ROTAS (week commencing Mon 14/5)
Readers: Sat 6.00pm Carol Anderson Sun 8.30 Bridie Haylett Sun 10.30 Tony Frake.   Copying of Newsletter Mollie Hobson.   Newsletter Typist: Molly Robins.   Collection for 8.30am Mass: Mrs T Li/Ray.   Parishioner Attending To Front of Church on Saturdays: Paul Rowlands.   Eucharistic Ministers: Saturday 6 pm Peter Whiffen Sun 8.30am Bridie 10.30am Kathy, Eileen, Patricia, John, Margaret. Washing of Purificators: Molly.   Flower Arranging: Mary J and Mary K.

OFFERTORY COLLECTION – 6th May 2018
1st Collection:  Gift Aid: £459.40 Loose: £186.43 Total: £645.83
Retiring Collection (Bexley Deanery Third World): £117.67
This week’s second collection is for communications.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2018 Our parish First Holy Communion Service will take place on Sunday 20th May 2018. This year we have 10 candidates. They are Jesse Dawson-Asaam, Tala Dean, Aoife Hadland, Olivia Kelly, Victoria Kopcynska-Walsh, Nathan Maroni, Michaella Merryman, Dean Onakinor, Faith Porter and Gabriel Riches Foot. All our communicants have been working very hard as they prepare to receive the Blessed Sacrament for the first time. They are very special children. Please remember them in your prayers. Thanks. Angela and Geraldine.

ARCHDIOCESE ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES WITH CLIFTON, EAST ANGLIA AND NORTHAMPTON DIOCESE is being led this year by Archbishop Peter Smith. On 24th-31st August 2018. Flights from Stansted. Visit http://www.catholicassociation.co.uk or http://www.tangney-tours/CA or call 01732 886666 or 0800 917 357. Thank you. Simon Fisher. Pilgrimage Administrator.

OUR LADY’S FILM EVENING Wednesday 13th June Documentaries on BI Francis Xavier Seelos and St Kateri Tekakwitha. Bar Open, admission free, all welcome 7pm for 7.30pm start.

CHURCH HEATING: Work to repair the heating has now been completed. The new pipe around the Church has been installed and the whole system cleaned. Hopefully it will make the heating more efficient although we won’t know how effective it is until next winter. Most of you will have noticed the shiny new pipework, this will gradually darken. Although we would have liked to fit the pipe behind the woodwork, that would have meant removing the old pipe. We were advised that to do so would be more complicated, cause much more disruption, take much longer and consequently cost considerably more. The Premises Committee

NORTH WEST KENT LIFE GROUP EVENTS AGM of North West Kent Life Group with Coffee Morning and Guest Speaker on Thursday 19 July 2018 at 11am. St Anselm’s Parish Centre, 89 West Hill, Dartford, DA1 2HJ. Contact Rebecca Luton 07956 111909 or rebeccaluton@yahoo.co.uk.

Sixth Sunday of Easter

The Spirit of God’s Love

We celebrate the coming of the Spirit of God’s love on the Church. And because God does not have favourites, the Spirit is communicated through the Church to the whole world.

 

MASS INTENTIONS FOR WEEK 5 – 13 MAY 2018

Saturday 5 May:     9:00am June Saxby RIP: recently died (Maureen Fitzpatrick)
                                 6:00pm Sonny Sheehan RIP (Eileen & Family)

Sunday 6 May:     8:30am Wellbeing of Artemio Ugale (unknown donor)
                                 10:30am Intentions of Joan Aspeek (Maureen & David Watkins)

Monday 7 May:     10:00am Wellbeing of Teresa Fan (Diane Melaugh)

Tuesday 8 May:     7:00pm Tony Sullivan RIP: Birthday (Marie)
     Followed by Adoration & Our Lady & St Pio’s Prayer Group.

Wednesday 9 May:     10:00am Daniel Harrington RIP (Eileen Sheehan & Family)

Thursday 10 May:          9:00am Wellbeing of Tony Frake (OLPG)
Ascension Holy Day of Obligation:  8.00pm Holy Souls

Friday 11 May:     9:00am Wellbeing of Tom & Maureen Barrett (Margaret Weeks)

Saturday 12 May:     9:00am Holy Souls
                                 6:00pm Parishioners

Sunday 13 May:     8:30am Tony Lobo RIP: 1st Anniversary (Kathy Connolly)
                                 10:30am John Larkin RIP + Family (Helen & Family)

Reconciliation Times: Sat 9:30am – 10:30am and Sat 7:00pm – 8:00pm (following Masses).

Prayers for the Sick: Christine White, Kevin Harper, Ed Jones, John Bird, Gail Noel, Chris Neal, John Edwards, Tony Speed, Geoffrey Hildebrand, John Underwood, Mary Stubbs, John Harrington, Norma Brooker, Nina Szredski, Eileen Weald, Maureen Fitzpatrick, Eric May, Gracie Maddox, Anne Hastings, Tom Barrett, Timmy Lenihan, John Clarey, Tess Truman, Anne Comiskey, Irene Gannaway, David Collison, Mary Manners, George Waller, Peter Dent, Ray Smith, Teresa Fan.

Anniversaries: Mairead McKenna, John Dennis Harrington, Kathleen Holland.

Feast Days: Tue: Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Thurs: The Ascension of the Lord Sat: St Nereus & Achilleus, Martyr. St Pancras, Martyr

ROTAS: Readers: Saturday 6:00pm Kathy Fogarty Sunday 8:30am Larissa O’Halloran 10:30am Katherine Bernarte.   Copying of Newsletter: John Stanton.   Newsletter Typist: Ruth Powers. Collection for 8:30am Mass: Mrs M Weeks.   Parishioner Attending to Front of Church on Saturdays: Ken Crump.   Eucharistic Ministers: Saturday 6:00pm Ivan Sun 8:30am Ann Hyde Sun 10:30am Volunteer, Mary, Volunteer, Volunteer, Eileen.   Washing of Purificators: Kathy.   Flower Arranging: Lynn Cayford & Graziella Highland

OFFERTORY COLLECTION: Sunday 29th April 2018
1st Collection: Gift Aid – £482.40; Loose – £119.11; Total: £601.51
2nd Collection: Gift Aid – £119.16; Loose – £91.82; Total: ££210.98
This week’s retiring collection: Bexley Deanery Developing World Group
13th May 2018: 2nd collection: Communications.

DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: A day with Mary will be held at St Anselm’s, Dartford on Saturday 26th May 2018. Please see details in porch.

OUR LADY’S FILM EVENING – Wednesday 9th May: Part 2 (including a part 1 recap) of the incredible life of the great St Augustine of Hippo as he rose from his reckless days as a youth to become a most highly influential Father & Doctor of the Church. Bar open, admission free, all welcome, 7:00pm for 7:30pm start.

THE ARCHDIOCESE ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES: With Clifton, East Anglia and Northampton Diocese is being led this year by Archbishop Peter Smith. 24th – 31st August 2018, flights from Stansted Airport. Visit http://www.catholicassociation.co.uk or http://www.tangney-tours.com/CA or call 01732 886666 or 0800 917357.

AGM of North West Kent Life Group: With coffee morning and guest speaker on Thursday 19th July 2018 at 11:00am. St Anselm’s Parish Centre, 89 West Hill, Dartford DA1 2HJ.

FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (B)

CHRIST THE TRUE VINE

When, like St Paul, we ‘believe in the name of Jesus Christ’, God lives in us and we in him. We become branches of the true vine, Jesus Christ.

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK:

Saturday 28 April   9.00am Wellbeing of Christine McDonald
                                    (Pat, Siobhan & Seamus McQuaid)
                                 6.00pm June Rose Smythe RIP (Oonagh Wood)

Sunday 29 April   8.30am Parishioners
                               10.30am Private Intention (Marie Sullivan)

Monday 30 April   9.00am Wellbeing of Teresa Fan (Kate Kennedy)

Tuesday 1 May   7.00pm Wellbeing of Peter & June Dent (Tony Frake)
  Adoration and Our Lady & St Pio’s Prayer Group

Wednesday 2 May   10.00am Elizabeth McCarthy RIP (Eileen Sheehan & Family)

Thursday 3 May   No Eucharistic Service due to inspection of heating repairs in church

Friday 4 May   9.00am Jack Carvalho RIP (Alex & Dahlia Fernandes)
  No 1st Friday Adoration as Deanery 24hr Adoration at Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen

Saturday 5 May   9.00am June Saxby RIP: recently died (Maureen Fitzpatrick)
                                6.00pm Sonny Sheehan RIP (Eileen & Family)

Sunday 6 May   8.30am Wellbeing of Artemio Ugale (Unknown Donor)
                           10.30am Intentions of Joan Aspeek (Maureen & David Watkins)

Reconciliation Times: Sat. 9:30am-10:30am and Sat. 7pm-8pm (Following Masses).

Prayers for the Sick: Christine White, Kevin Harper, Ed Jones, John Bird, Gail Noel, Chris Neal, John Edwards, Tony Speed, Geoffrey Hildebrand, John Underwood, Mary Stubbs, John Harrington, Norma Brooker, Nina Szredski, Eileen Weald, Maureen Fitzpatrick, Eric May, Gracie Maddox, Anne Hastings, Tom Barrett, Timmy Lenihan, John Clarey, Tess Truman, Anne Comiskey, Irene Gannaway, David Collison, Mary Manners, George Waller, Peter Dent, Ray Smith, Teresa Fan.

Anniversaries: George Lott, David Smythe, Mary Brady, Madeline Bull, Sean Rahim, Margaret McQuaid.

Feast Days: Sunday: St Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church, Patron of Europe. Monday: St Pius V, Pope. Tuesday: Day of prayer for God’s blessing on human work. Wednesday: St Athanasius, Bishop. Thursday: Saints Philip and James, Apostles. Friday: The English Martyrs.

ROTAS: Readers: Saturday 6pm Peter Harris Sunday 8.30am Peter Wilkes 10.30am Lota Emeka-Onah. Photocopying of Newsletter: Emma Fox. Newsletter Typist: Venus Barnarte. Collection for 8.30 Mass Mrs M Lee. Parishioner Attending To Front of Church on Saturdays: Giovanni Aletta. Flower Arranging: Theresa & Doune. Saturday 6 pm: Rob. Sun 8.30am Bridie. Sun 10.30am: Volunteer, Eileen, Peter Hammond, Dorothy, John (Host). Washing of Purificators: Norma.

OFFERTORY COLLECTION: 23/04/18:
1st Gift Aid: £413.80 Loose: £ 208.10 TOTAL £ 621.90
2nd (Ecclesiastical Education) Gift Aid:£115.10 Loose: £ 129.50 TOTAL £ 244 60
This week’s 2nd collection is for St George’s Cathedral.
Next week’s retiring collection is for: Bexley Deanery Developing World Group

ROSARY ON THE COAST: SUNDAY 29TH APRIL 2018: There will be a Mass at 3pm at Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen.

OUR LADY’S FILM EVENING: Wednesday 9th May: Part 2 (including a part 1 recap) of the incredible life of the great St Augustine of Hippo as he rose from his reckless days as a youth to become a most highly influential Father & Doctor of the Church. Bar open, admission free, all welcome, 7pm for 7.30pm start.

PARISH CABARET EVENING: Last Saturday’s cabaret event was a most enjoyable evening. Singers, musicians and monologues provided great entertainment. Over £500 was raised specifically for the Church Maintenance Fund. Thanks to Carol Anderson, along with Anne Rayer and the Events Team and others and we thank everybody for their support.

Church Heating repairs. The main part of the work has been completed with a new copper pipe installed around the top of the church. Although we would have liked to have been able to lower it out of view, that would have meant removing the old pipework which was installed as the church was being built. Getting rid of it would have involved considerable disruption and expense.