Dina Bakhit

Tel: (905) 501-9959

GLM Canadian Office
151 Brunel Road Units #30 & #31
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4Z 2H6
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Our Lady Of Lebanon - Toronto
Maronite Catholic Church - Served by the Antonine Maronite Order
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Pastor: Fr. Maroun Abou Jaoude OAM Associate Pastor: Fr. Youssef Chedid OAM
1515 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario M6R 1A5 Phone: 416-534-7070. Fax: 416-530-4103.
www.ladyoflebanon.ca office@ourladyoflebanon.ca twitter.com/ololtoronto facebook.com/ololtoronto facebook.com/ololgta
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,October6
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,2013 :Fourth Sundayafterthe Exaltation the Cross
CATHOLIC CEMETERIES
ARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO
A CATHOLIC TRADITION
www.catholic-cemeteries.com
Assumption cemetery (905) 670-8801
Holy Cross cemetery (905) 889-7467
(416) 590-0059
Tony Jaja
Mutual Funds Representative
STATE FARM INVESTOR SERVICES (CANADA) CO.
9200 Bathrust Street, Unit 29
Thornhill, ON L4J 8W1
tony@jajainsurance.com
Phone: 905-882-9600 Fax: 905-882-9601
Toll Free: 1-866-996-2111 SFISCC Call Centre: 1-866-814-6597
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Sunday, October 6
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The Holy Rosary: "Say the Rosary every day...Pray, pray a lot
and offer sacrifices for sinners... I'm Our Lady of the Rosary.- Our
Lady of Fatima
10:30 am: For the intentions of our Lady of Lebanon parishioners.
12:30 pm: For the intentions of our Lady of Lebanon parishioners.
Sunday, October 13
th
, 2013
10:30 am: Memorial mass for the late Elias Bou-Farah
offered by his wife siham and his children Gisele Toutounji, Mary
Assaf, Joe & Robert Bou-Farah and their families.
12:30 pm: For the Antonine fathers Albert Cherfane and
Suleiman Abi Khalil, disappeared Oct. 13, 1990 in Deir el-Kalaa
in Beit Mery.
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Norma: Cell: 647 608 3143
Mass Intentions Marriage Banns
Second Banns:
Yves Rizk & Jennifer Clement
Milad Safadi & Nadine Chalhoub
Third Banns: Marwan Saliba & Rita Issa
Congratulations
Our best wishes to Pele Dagher & Azalia- Mary Dindoust
who were joined in Holy Matrimony on September 28th, 2013 in our
Church. May the Lord Bless you as you begin your new life together.
Our best wishes to Victor Diab & Danielle Renaud who were
joined in Holy Matrimony on October 5th, 2013 in our Church.
May the Lord Bless you as you begin your new life together.
Collection $ 1127.00 Donation $ 655.00
Grand Total $ 1782.00
Thank you for your generosity.
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The DVDs of the 2013 First communion are ready. Please
pick them up from the Church office.
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Our Lady Of Lebanon Sunday School
Every Sunday from 9:45am-12:15pm.
For registration please call the office of the parish.
G O P Q R S T U V h G
G O P Q R S T U V h G
Gospel (Mattew 24: 45-51)
Who, then, is the faithful and prudent
servant, whom the master has put in
charge of his household to distribute to
them their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that servant whom his master
on his arrival finds doing so. Amen, I say
to you, he will put him in charge of all his
property. But if that wicked servant says
to himself, 'My master is long delayed,'
and begins to beat his fellow servants,
and eat and drink with drunkards, the
servant's master will come on an
unexpected day and at an unknown hour
and will punish him severely and assign
him a place with the hypocrites, where
there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
This is the truth. Peace be with you.
A reading from the First Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians. (5: 1-11)
Your blessings Father
Brothers and sisters,
Concerning times and seasons, brothers, you have no need for anything to be written to
you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at
night. When people are saying, "Peace and security," then sudden disaster comes upon
them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers,
are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of you are children of
the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us
not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober. Those who sleep go to sleep at
night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. But since we are of the day, let us be
sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation.
For God did not destine us for wrath, but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live together with him.
Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do.
Praise be to God always.
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Keep in touch!
Dear parishioners, if your address has recently
changed, please contact the office of the parish
to update our records.
Contact us
Please 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 pm
Marriage: A marriage preparation course is
necessary. Please call the Priest one year before
the 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.
Save the Date
Our Lady of Lebanon
Christmas Banquet
Dec. 14.2013
Sponsors are welcome to
contribute in advertisements
in the church Christmas booklet.
(Half page $ 300.
Full page $ 500.
Front, back and middle $ 750.)
Donations and gifts for TOMBOLA
are greatly appreciated.
A Big Heart Open to God
September 30, 2013 , Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
The exclusive interview with Pope Francis
Thinking With the Church
I keep my questions focused on the theme of the church and I ask Pope Francis what it means
exactly for him to think with the church, a notion St. Ignatius writes about in the Spiritual
Exercises. He replies without hesitation and by using an image.
The image of the church I like is that of the holy, faithful people of God. This is the definition I
often use, and then there is that image from the Second Vatican Councils Dogmatic
Constitution on the Church (No. 12). Belonging to a people has a strong theological value. In
the history of salvation, God has saved a people. There is no full identity without belonging to a
people. No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the
complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this
dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.
The people itself constitutes a subject. And the church is the people of God on the journey
through history, with joys and sorrows. Thinking with the church, therefore, is my way of being a
part of this people. And all the faithful, considered as a whole, are infallible in matters of belief,
and the people display this infallibilitas in credendo, this infallibility in believing, through a
supernatural sense of the faith of all the people walking together. This is what I understand
today as the thinking with the church of which St. Ignatius speaks. When the dialogue among
the people and the bishops and the pope goes down this road and is genuine, then it is assisted
by the Holy Spirit. So this thinking with the church does not concern theologians only.
This is how it is with Mary: If you want to know who she is, you ask theologians; if you want to
know how to love her, you have to ask the people. In turn, Mary loved Jesus with the heart of
the people, as we read in the Magnificat. We should not even think, therefore, that thinking with
the church means only thinking with the hierarchy of the church.
After a brief pause, Pope Francis emphasizes in a very direct manner the following point, in
order to avoid misunderstandings: And, of course, we must be very careful not to think that
this infallibilitas of all the faithful I am talking about in the light of Vatican II is a form of populism.
No; it is the experience of holy mother the hierarchical church, as St. Ignatius called it, the
church as the people of God, pastors and people together. The church is the totality of Gods
people.
I see the sanctity of Gods people, this daily sanctity, the pope continues. There is a holy
middle class, which we can all be part of, the holiness Malgue wrote about. The pope is
referring to Joseph Malgue, a French writer (18761940), particularly to the unfinished trilogy
Black Stones: The Middle Classes of Salvation. Some French literary critics have called Malgue
the Catholic Proust.
I see the holiness, the pope continues, in the patience of the people of God: a woman who is
raising children, a man who works to bring home the bread, the sick, the elderly priests who
have so many wounds but have a smile on their faces because they served the Lord, the sisters
who work hard and live a hidden sanctity. This is for me the common sanctity. I often associate
sanctity with patience: not only patience as hypomon [the New Testament Greek word], taking
charge of the events and circumstances of life, but also as a constancy in going forward, day
by day. This is the sanctity of the militant church also mentioned by St. Ignatius. This was the
sanctity of my parents: my dad, my mom, my grandmother Rosa who loved me so much. In my
breviary I have the last will of my grandmother Rosa, and I read it often. For me it is like a
prayer. She is a saint who has suffered so much, also spiritually, and yet always went forward
with courage.
This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can
hold only a small group of selected people. We must not reduce the bosom of the universal
church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. And the church is Mother; the church is fruitful. It
must be. You see, when I perceive negative behavior in ministers of the church or in
consecrated men or women, the first thing that comes to mind is: Heres an unfruitful bachelor
or Heres a spinster. They are neither fathers nor mothers, in the sense that they have not been
able to give spiritual life. Instead, for example, when I read the life of the Salesian missionaries
who went to Patagonia, I read a story of the fullness of life, of fruitfulness.
Another example from recent days that I saw got the attention of newspapers: the phone call I
made to a young man who wrote me a letter. I called him because that letter was so beautiful,
so simple. For me this was an act of generativity. I realized that he was a young man who is
growing, that he saw in me a father, and that the letter tells something of his life to that father.
The father cannot say, I do not care. This type of fruitfulness is so good for me.
Gospel (Mattew 24: 45-51)
Who, then, is the faithful and prudent
servant, whom the master has put in
charge of his household to distribute to
them their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that servant whom his master
on his arrival finds doing so. Amen, I say
to you, he will put him in charge of all his
property. But if that wicked servant says
to himself, 'My master is long delayed,'
and begins to beat his fellow servants,
and eat and drink with drunkards, the
servant's master will come on an
unexpected day and at an unknown hour
and will punish him severely and assign
him a place with the hypocrites, where
there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
This is the truth. Peace be with you.
A reading from the First Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians. (5: 1-11)
Your blessings Father
Brothers and sisters,
Concerning times and seasons, brothers, you have no need for anything to be written to
you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at
night. When people are saying, "Peace and security," then sudden disaster comes upon
them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers,
are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of you are children of
the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us
not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober. Those who sleep go to sleep at
night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. But since we are of the day, let us be
sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation.
For God did not destine us for wrath, but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live together with him.
Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do.
Praise be to God always.
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Keep in touch!
Dear parishioners, if your address has recently
changed, please contact the office of the parish
to update our records.
Contact us
Please 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 pm
Marriage: A marriage preparation course is
necessary. Please call the Priest one year before
the 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.
Save the Date
Our Lady of Lebanon
Christmas Banquet
Dec. 14.2013
Sponsors are welcome to
contribute in advertisements
in the church Christmas booklet.
(Half page $ 300.
Full page $ 500.
Front, back and middle $ 750.)
Donations and gifts for TOMBOLA
are greatly appreciated.
A Big Heart Open to God
September 30, 2013 , Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
The exclusive interview with Pope Francis
Thinking With the Church
I keep my questions focused on the theme of the church and I ask Pope Francis what it means
exactly for him to think with the church, a notion St. Ignatius writes about in the Spiritual
Exercises. He replies without hesitation and by using an image.
The image of the church I like is that of the holy, faithful people of God. This is the definition I
often use, and then there is that image from the Second Vatican Councils Dogmatic
Constitution on the Church (No. 12). Belonging to a people has a strong theological value. In
the history of salvation, God has saved a people. There is no full identity without belonging to a
people. No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the
complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this
dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.
The people itself constitutes a subject. And the church is the people of God on the journey
through history, with joys and sorrows. Thinking with the church, therefore, is my way of being a
part of this people. And all the faithful, considered as a whole, are infallible in matters of belief,
and the people display this infallibilitas in credendo, this infallibility in believing, through a
supernatural sense of the faith of all the people walking together. This is what I understand
today as the thinking with the church of which St. Ignatius speaks. When the dialogue among
the people and the bishops and the pope goes down this road and is genuine, then it is assisted
by the Holy Spirit. So this thinking with the church does not concern theologians only.
This is how it is with Mary: If you want to know who she is, you ask theologians; if you want to
know how to love her, you have to ask the people. In turn, Mary loved Jesus with the heart of
the people, as we read in the Magnificat. We should not even think, therefore, that thinking with
the church means only thinking with the hierarchy of the church.
After a brief pause, Pope Francis emphasizes in a very direct manner the following point, in
order to avoid misunderstandings: And, of course, we must be very careful not to think that
this infallibilitas of all the faithful I am talking about in the light of Vatican II is a form of populism.
No; it is the experience of holy mother the hierarchical church, as St. Ignatius called it, the
church as the people of God, pastors and people together. The church is the totality of Gods
people.
I see the sanctity of Gods people, this daily sanctity, the pope continues. There is a holy
middle class, which we can all be part of, the holiness Malgue wrote about. The pope is
referring to Joseph Malgue, a French writer (18761940), particularly to the unfinished trilogy
Black Stones: The Middle Classes of Salvation. Some French literary critics have called Malgue
the Catholic Proust.
I see the holiness, the pope continues, in the patience of the people of God: a woman who is
raising children, a man who works to bring home the bread, the sick, the elderly priests who
have so many wounds but have a smile on their faces because they served the Lord, the sisters
who work hard and live a hidden sanctity. This is for me the common sanctity. I often associate
sanctity with patience: not only patience as hypomon [the New Testament Greek word], taking
charge of the events and circumstances of life, but also as a constancy in going forward, day
by day. This is the sanctity of the militant church also mentioned by St. Ignatius. This was the
sanctity of my parents: my dad, my mom, my grandmother Rosa who loved me so much. In my
breviary I have the last will of my grandmother Rosa, and I read it often. For me it is like a
prayer. She is a saint who has suffered so much, also spiritually, and yet always went forward
with courage.
This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can
hold only a small group of selected people. We must not reduce the bosom of the universal
church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. And the church is Mother; the church is fruitful. It
must be. You see, when I perceive negative behavior in ministers of the church or in
consecrated men or women, the first thing that comes to mind is: Heres an unfruitful bachelor
or Heres a spinster. They are neither fathers nor mothers, in the sense that they have not been
able to give spiritual life. Instead, for example, when I read the life of the Salesian missionaries
who went to Patagonia, I read a story of the fullness of life, of fruitfulness.
Another example from recent days that I saw got the attention of newspapers: the phone call I
made to a young man who wrote me a letter. I called him because that letter was so beautiful,
so simple. For me this was an act of generativity. I realized that he was a young man who is
growing, that he saw in me a father, and that the letter tells something of his life to that father.
The father cannot say, I do not care. This type of fruitfulness is so good for me.