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Mass IntentionsWe are having evening prayers in houses through the month of May,dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Please contact the church orthe Immaculate Conception Confraternity to book your turn on thesenumbers. (Note that no meals or refreshments are required). Thechurch office: 416-534-7070 or Saydeh :416- 727-3014.
Marian Prayers during May
First Banns: Milad Minooie & Lara Dagher
Marriage Banns
Our best wishes to :• Mr. Edward & Mrs. Christina Khalaf on the Baptism of theirtwo sons Caleb-Ivan & Elias-Edward on April 26th, 2014.
Congratulations
Church Income (April 18th , 2014)
Collection, $9799.00 Donation, $4789.00 Grand Total, $13588.00OLOL parish thanks all the families for their annual donation of $300 CND.
Mass Schedule: Saturdays at 6:30 pm, Sundays at 10:30 am & 12:30 pm at OLOL church (1515 Queen St. W., Toronto, ON)Sundays at 7:00pm at Holy Redeemer Church (796 Eyer Dr., Pickering, ON)
Sunday, April 27th, 2014Second Sunday of the Season of the Glorious Resurrection: New Sunday
10:30am: For the intentions of all our parishioners.12:30pm: Memorial mass for the souls of all the Martyrs ofDaher-El-Mghara offered by Daher-El-Mghara's families in Toronto
Sunday, May 4th, 2014Third Sunday of the Season of the Glorious Resurrection
10:30am: For the intentions of all our parishioners.12:30pm: 40 Days memorial mass for the late Mekhael Aounoffered by his son Jean Aoun.7:00pm (Pickering): 40 Days memorial mass for the lateAntoine Bechara Assaf offered by his brother Khalil Assaf and hisfamily.
For the first time in Canada, the Maronite Eparchy is organizing thevery FIRST Maronite Youth Convention (MYC) that will be held on May16-19, 2014 in MONTREAL!!! For the first time, all youth of allseventeen (17) Canadian Lebanese Maronite Parishes will UNITE,MEET, and LIVE one of the biggest Maronite events for youth everheld in Canada. We encourage all the youth from 18 to 35 years oldin our parish to participate. It's only 100$/person for the 3 days(Food, activities and transport included within Montreal) Thetransport from Toronto to Montreal will be offered by the parish.For more details and for reservation please contact Rita MouannesMansourati (647)993-7482 or Michline Khalil (416)435-0987.Check the facebook event: Canada's Maronite Youth Convention 2014.
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A reading from the Second Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. (2 Cor 5: 11-21)Your blessings Father
Brothers and sisters, Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuadeothers; but we are clearly apparent to God, and I hope we are also apparent to yourconsciousness. We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you anopportunity to boast of us, so that you may have something to say to those who boastof external appearance rather than of the heart For if we are out of our minds, it is forGod; if we are rational, it is for you. For the love of Christ impels us, once we havecome to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died. He indeed died forall, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for theirsake died and was raised. Consequently, from now on we regard no one according tothe flesh; even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him sono longer So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away;behold, new things have come. And all this is from God, who has reconciled us tohimself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God wasreconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against themand entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ,as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciledto God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we mightbecome therighteousness of God in him. Praise be to God always.
Keep in touch!Dear parishioners, if your address has recently changed, please contact the office of theparish to update our records.
Contact usPlease contact the office of the parish to arrange for any sacrament of the Church.Office hours: Mon, Thurs: 3pm - 8 pm. Tues, Wed, Fri: 11am - 8 pmMarriage: A marriage preparation course is necessary. Please call the Priest one year beforethe planned wedding date and before arranging the hall. Baptism: Please make an appointment one month in advance.Ministry of the Sick: Inform the priest for assistance. Confession: By appointment or before the Mass.
Gospel (John 20:26-31)
Now a week later his disciples wereagain inside and Thomas was with them.Jesus came, although the doors werelocked, and stood in their midst andsaid, "Peace be with you." Then he saidto Thomas, "Put your finger here andsee my hands, and bring your hand andput it into my side, and do not beunbelieving, but believe." Thomasanswered and said to him, "My Lord andmy God!" Jesus said to him, "Have youcome to believe because you have seenme? Blessed are those who have notseen and have believed." Now Jesus didmany other signs in the presence of (his)disciples that are not written in thisbook. But these are written that youmay (come to) believe that Jesus is theMessiah, the Son of God, and thatthrough this belief you may have life inhis name. "This is the truth. Peace bewith you.
HOMILY OF POPE FRANCIS, Holy Saturday, 19 April 2014
The Gospel of the resurrection of Jesus Christ begins with the journey of the women tothe tomb at dawn on the day after the Sabbath. They go to the tomb to honour thebody of the Lord, but they find it open and empty. A mighty angel says to them: “Donot be afraid!” (Mt 28:5) and orders them to go and tell the disciples: “He has beenraised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee” (v. 7). Thewomen quickly depart and on the way Jesus himself meets them and says: “Do notfear; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me” (v. 10). “Do not beafraid”, “do not fear”: these are words that encourage us to open our hearts to receivethe message.After the death of the Master, the disciples had scattered; their faith had been utterlyshaken, everything seemed over, all their certainties had crumbled and their hopes haddied. But now that message of the women, incredible as it was, came to them like aray of light in the darkness. The news spread: Jesus is risen as he said. And thenthere was his command to go to Galilee; the women had heard it twice, first from theangel and then from Jesus himself: “Let them go to Galilee; there they will see me”. “Donot fear” and “go to Galilee”.Galilee is the place where they were first called, where everything began! To returnthere, to return to the place where they were originally called. Jesus had walked alongthe shores of the lake as the fishermen were casting their nets. He had called them,and they left everything and followed him (cf. Mt 4:18-22).To return to Galilee means to re-read everything on the basis of the cross and itsvictory, fearlessly: “do not be afraid”. To re-read everything – Jesus’ preaching, hismiracles, the new community, the excitement and the defections, even the betrayal – tore-read everything starting from the end, which is a new beginning, from this supremeact of love.For each of us, too, there is a “Galilee” at the origin of our journey with Jesus. “To goto Galilee” means something beautiful, it means rediscovering our baptism as a livingfountainhead, drawing new energy from the sources of our faith and our Christianexperience. To return to Galilee means above all to return to that blazing light withwhich God’s grace touched me at the start of the journey. From that flame I can light afire for today and every day, and bring heat and light to my brothers and sisters. Thatflame ignites a humble joy, a joy which sorrow and distress cannot dismay, a good,gentle joy.In the life of every Christian, after baptism there is also another “Galilee”, a moreexistential “Galilee”: the experience of a personal encounter with Jesus Christ whocalled me to follow him and to share in his mission. In this sense, returning to Galileemeans treasuring in my heart the living memory of that call, when Jesus passed myway, gazed at me with mercy and asked me to follow him. To return there meansreviving the memory of that moment when his eyes met mine, the moment when hemade me realize that he loved me.Today, tonight, each of us can ask: What is my Galilee? I need to remind myself, to goback and remember. Where is my Galilee? Do I remember it? Have I forgotten it? Seekand you will find it! There the Lord is waiting for you. Have I gone off on roads andpaths which made me forget it? Lord, help me: tell me what my Galilee is; for you knowthat I want to return there to encounter you and to let myself be embraced by yourmercy. Do not be afraid, do not fear, return to Galilee!The Gospel is very clear: we need to go back there, to see Jesus risen, and to becomewitnesses of his resurrection. This is not to go back in time; it is not a kind ofnostalgia. It is returning to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus haskindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.Go back to Galilee, without fear! “Galilee of the Gentiles” (Mt 4:15; Is 8:23)! Horizon of the Risen Lord, horizon of theChurch; intense desire of encounter… Let us be on our way!
Save the date
Jun 7th, 2014for the Our Lady Of Lebanon Parish
Annual Dinner
A reading from the Second Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. (2 Cor 5: 11-21)Your blessings Father
Brothers and sisters, Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuadeothers; but we are clearly apparent to God, and I hope we are also apparent to yourconsciousness. We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you anopportunity to boast of us, so that you may have something to say to those who boastof external appearance rather than of the heart For if we are out of our minds, it is forGod; if we are rational, it is for you. For the love of Christ impels us, once we havecome to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died. He indeed died forall, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for theirsake died and was raised. Consequently, from now on we regard no one according tothe flesh; even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him sono longer So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away;behold, new things have come. And all this is from God, who has reconciled us tohimself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God wasreconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against themand entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ,as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciledto God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we mightbecome therighteousness of God in him. Praise be to God always.
Keep in touch!Dear parishioners, if your address has recently changed, please contact the office of theparish to update our records.
Contact usPlease contact the office of the parish to arrange for any sacrament of the Church.Office hours: Mon, Thurs: 3pm - 8 pm. Tues, Wed, Fri: 11am - 8 pmMarriage: A marriage preparation course is necessary. Please call the Priest one year beforethe planned wedding date and before arranging the hall. Baptism: Please make an appointment one month in advance.Ministry of the Sick: Inform the priest for assistance. Confession: By appointment or before the Mass.
Gospel (John 20:26-31)
Now a week later his disciples wereagain inside and Thomas was with them.Jesus came, although the doors werelocked, and stood in their midst andsaid, "Peace be with you." Then he saidto Thomas, "Put your finger here andsee my hands, and bring your hand andput it into my side, and do not beunbelieving, but believe." Thomasanswered and said to him, "My Lord andmy God!" Jesus said to him, "Have youcome to believe because you have seenme? Blessed are those who have notseen and have believed." Now Jesus didmany other signs in the presence of (his)disciples that are not written in thisbook. But these are written that youmay (come to) believe that Jesus is theMessiah, the Son of God, and thatthrough this belief you may have life inhis name. "This is the truth. Peace bewith you.
HOMILY OF POPE FRANCIS, Holy Saturday, 19 April 2014
The Gospel of the resurrection of Jesus Christ begins with the journey of the women tothe tomb at dawn on the day after the Sabbath. They go to the tomb to honour thebody of the Lord, but they find it open and empty. A mighty angel says to them: “Donot be afraid!” (Mt 28:5) and orders them to go and tell the disciples: “He has beenraised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee” (v. 7). Thewomen quickly depart and on the way Jesus himself meets them and says: “Do notfear; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me” (v. 10). “Do not beafraid”, “do not fear”: these are words that encourage us to open our hearts to receivethe message.After the death of the Master, the disciples had scattered; their faith had been utterlyshaken, everything seemed over, all their certainties had crumbled and their hopes haddied. But now that message of the women, incredible as it was, came to them like aray of light in the darkness. The news spread: Jesus is risen as he said. And thenthere was his command to go to Galilee; the women had heard it twice, first from theangel and then from Jesus himself: “Let them go to Galilee; there they will see me”. “Donot fear” and “go to Galilee”.Galilee is the place where they were first called, where everything began! To returnthere, to return to the place where they were originally called. Jesus had walked alongthe shores of the lake as the fishermen were casting their nets. He had called them,and they left everything and followed him (cf. Mt 4:18-22).To return to Galilee means to re-read everything on the basis of the cross and itsvictory, fearlessly: “do not be afraid”. To re-read everything – Jesus’ preaching, hismiracles, the new community, the excitement and the defections, even the betrayal – tore-read everything starting from the end, which is a new beginning, from this supremeact of love.For each of us, too, there is a “Galilee” at the origin of our journey with Jesus. “To goto Galilee” means something beautiful, it means rediscovering our baptism as a livingfountainhead, drawing new energy from the sources of our faith and our Christianexperience. To return to Galilee means above all to return to that blazing light withwhich God’s grace touched me at the start of the journey. From that flame I can light afire for today and every day, and bring heat and light to my brothers and sisters. Thatflame ignites a humble joy, a joy which sorrow and distress cannot dismay, a good,gentle joy.In the life of every Christian, after baptism there is also another “Galilee”, a moreexistential “Galilee”: the experience of a personal encounter with Jesus Christ whocalled me to follow him and to share in his mission. In this sense, returning to Galileemeans treasuring in my heart the living memory of that call, when Jesus passed myway, gazed at me with mercy and asked me to follow him. To return there meansreviving the memory of that moment when his eyes met mine, the moment when hemade me realize that he loved me.Today, tonight, each of us can ask: What is my Galilee? I need to remind myself, to goback and remember. Where is my Galilee? Do I remember it? Have I forgotten it? Seekand you will find it! There the Lord is waiting for you. Have I gone off on roads andpaths which made me forget it? Lord, help me: tell me what my Galilee is; for you knowthat I want to return there to encounter you and to let myself be embraced by yourmercy. Do not be afraid, do not fear, return to Galilee!The Gospel is very clear: we need to go back there, to see Jesus risen, and to becomewitnesses of his resurrection. This is not to go back in time; it is not a kind ofnostalgia. It is returning to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus haskindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.Go back to Galilee, without fear! “Galilee of the Gentiles” (Mt 4:15; Is 8:23)! Horizon of the Risen Lord, horizon of theChurch; intense desire of encounter… Let us be on our way!
