St Anthony of Padua Anerley

Please Remember in Your Prayers Deceased Parishioners of the St. Anthony of Padua Parish

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The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

Fresh and green are the pastures where he gives me repose.

Near restful waters he leads me, to revive my drooping spirit.

He guides me along the right path; he is true to his name.

If I should walk in the valley of darkness no evil would I fear.

You are there with your crook and your staff; with these you give me comfort

You have prepared a banquet for me in the sight of my foes.

My head you have anointed with oil; my cup is over flowering.

Surely goodness and kindness shall follow me all the days of my life.

In the Lord’s own house shall I dwell for ever and ever

(Psalm 22)

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SORROW TURNING INTO JOY

Neither our natural attachment to life nor our courage in bearing suffering, neither earthly wisdom nor even faith – however great – none of these can preserve us from the sorrow for the dead.

Death is a twofold phenomenon: there is the death of the departed, and the suffering and deadening in our own soul, occasioned by this painful process sorrow, gloom and despondency is forbidden to the Christian.

He must not recoil when faced with suffering nor remain impotently passive before it.

He must exert his spiritual powers to the utmost in order to emerge from it stronger, deeper and wiser.

No matter if we are weak in our faith and unstable in our spiritual life – the love we bear towards the departed is not weak; and our sorrow is so deep, precisely because our love is so strong.

Through the tension of our love, we too shall cross the fatal threshold which they crossed.

By an effort of our imagination, let us enter into the world which they have entered: let us give more place in our life to that which has become their life; and slowly, imperceptibly, our sorrow will turn into joy which no one can take from us.

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Book of Remembrance

(March) 

Settima Tomei, Charles Long,

Lilian Sines, Elvira Jones,

Mosunmola Lalenu, John Cowlard,

Vincent Kelly, Michael Brosnan,

Thomas Sullivan, William Hankard,

Rose Kelly, Constance Smith,

Sara Kennedy, Daniel Sullivan,

Adele Nicholas, Jill Elizabeth Tooher,

Lawrence Sines, Joseph Frost,

Florence Simpson, Thomas McCarthy,

John Hart, Gladys Wiseman,

James Arnold, Eugenia Orska,

Stamstoava Dmochowska, Donald Ramsey,

Osmond Gregory, Joe Sines,

Jessie Henry, Arthur Jones,

Ellen Millea, Wynford Pechham,

Bridget Grimwood, Maurice Fitzgerald,

Margaret Manning, Fr. Frederick Coffey,

David Baxtaby, Julia Graves,

Kay Leach, Martin Phillip Cullen,

Giusepina Calleja, Irene Hennessy,

Bridget Curran, Kathleen Kennedy,

John Philbin, Jane O’Shaughnessy,

Martin Bevis, Mary Higgins,

Patrick O’Meara, John Regan,

Francis Grandini, Katherine Keily,

Suzanne Marie Baker, Judith Moore,

Edgar Small, Joe McNamara,

Ian Harris,Patrick Begbie,

John Jones, Maurice Kiernan,

Bill O’Regan, Mary Botha,

Alfred Bishop, Sophia Neary,

Collette Agu, Amelia Corbett,

Laurence Joseph Dwyer, Brian McKee,

Margaret Prosser, Robin Harold Paul,

Albert Alberto, David Robert Gibbs,

Derek Robert Gibbs, Marguerite Peters

and Baby Reis Ramiro

 May they rest in peace

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A LOVED ONE HAS DIED

“We give back to you, O God, those whom you gave to us.

You did not lose them when you gave them to us, and we do not lose them by their return to you.

Your dear Son has taught us that life is eternal and love cannot die.

So death is only an horizon, and an horizon is only the limit of our sight.

Open our eyes to see more clearly, and draw us closer to you that we may know that we are nearer to our loved ones, who are with you.

You have told us that you are preparing a place for us: prepare us also for that happy place, that where you are we may also be always.

O dear Lord of life and death.”