Sunday, April 27

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Season of The Glorious Resurrection
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Mass Intentions
We are having evening prayers in houses through the month of May,
dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Please contact the church or
the Immaculate Conception Confraternity to book your turn on these
numbers. (Note that no meals or refreshments are required). The
church 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 their
two sons Caleb-Ivan & Elias-Edward on April 26
th
, 2014.
Congratulations
Church Income (April 18
th
, 2014)
Collection, $9799.00 Donation, $4789.00 Grand Total, $13588.00
OLOL parish thanks all the families for their annual donation of $300 CND.
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Our Lady Of Lebanon Parish- Toronto
Maronite Catholic Church - Served by the Antonine Maronite Order
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Pastor: Fr. Maroun Abou Jaoude OAM Associate Pastor: Fr. Youssef Chedid OAM
1515 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario M6R 1A5 Phone: 416-534-7070. Fax: 416-530-4103.
www.ladyoflebanon.ca office@ourladyoflebanon.ca twitter.com/ololtoronto facebook.com/ololtoronto facebook.com/ololgta
Mass Schedule: Saturdays at 6:30 pm, Sundays at 10:30 am & 12:30 pm at OLOL church (1515 Queen St. W., Toronto, ON)
Sundays at 7:00pm at Holy Redeemer Church (796 Eyer Dr., Pickering, ON)
Sunday,April 27
th
, 2014
Second Sundayofthe Season ofthe Glorious Resurrection: New Sunday
10:30am: For the intentions of all our parishioners.
12:30pm: Memorial mass for the souls of all the Martyrs of
Daher-El-Mghara offered by Daher-El-Mghara's families in Toronto
Sunday, May 4
th
, 2014
Third Sundayofthe Season ofthe Glorious Resurrection
10:30am: For the intentions of all our parishioners.
12:30pm: 40 Days memorial mass for the late Mekhael Aoun
offered by his son Jean Aoun.
7:00pm (Pickering): 40 Days memorial mass for the late
Antoine Bechara Assaf offered by his brother Khalil Assaf and his
family.
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For the first time in Canada, the Maronite Eparchy is organizing the
very FIRST Maronite Youth Convention (MYC) that will be held on May
16-19, 2014 in MONTREAL!!! For the first time, all youth of all
seventeen (17) Canadian Lebanese Maronite Parishes will UNITE,
MEET, and LIVE one of the biggest Maronite events for youth ever
held in Canada. We encourage all the youth from 18 to 35 years old
in our parish to participate. It's only 100$/person for the 3 days
(Food, activities and transport included within Montreal) The
transport from Toronto to Montreal will be offered by the parish.
For more details and for reservation please contact Rita Mouannes
Mansourati (647)993-7482 or Michline Khalil (416)435-0987.
Check the facebook event: Canada's Maronite Youth Convention 2014.
Canada's Maronite Youth Convention 2014
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Tel: (905) 501-9959
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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4Z 2H6
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Phone: 905-882-9600 Fax: 905-882-9601
Toll Free: 1-866-996-2111 SFISCC Call Centre: 1-866-814-6597
Norma: Cell: 647 608 3143
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Areading from the Second LetterofSaint 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 persuade
others; but we are clearly apparent to God, and I hope we are also apparent to your
consciousness. We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you an
opportunity to boast of us, so that you may have something to say to those who boast
of external appearance rather than of the heart For if we are out of our minds, it is for
God; if we are rational, it is for you. For the love of Christ impels us, once we have
come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died. He indeed died for
all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their
sake died and was raised. Consequently, from now on we regard no one according to
the flesh; even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so
no 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 to
himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was
reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them
and 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 reconciled
to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might
become 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 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.
Gospel (John 20:26-31)
Now a week later his disciples were
again inside and Thomas was with them.
Jesus came, although the doors were
locked, and stood in their midst and
said, "Peace be with you." Then he said
to Thomas, "Put your finger here and
see my hands, and bring your hand and
put it into my side, and do not be
unbelieving, but believe." Thomas
answered and said to him, "My Lord and
my God!" Jesus said to him, "Have you
come to believe because you have seen
me? Blessed are those who have not
seen and have believed." Now Jesus did
many other signs in the presence of (his)
disciples that are not written in this
book. But these are written that you
may (come to) believe that Jesus is the
Messiah, the Son of God, and that
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HOMILY OF POPE FRANCIS, Holy Saturday, 19 April 2014
The Gospel of the resurrection of Jesus Christ begins with the journey of the women to
the tomb at dawn on the day after the Sabbath. They go to the tomb to honour the
body of the Lord, but they find it open and empty. A mighty angel says to them: Do
not be afraid! (Mt 28:5) and orders them to go and tell the disciples: He has been
raised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee (v. 7). The
women quickly depart and on the way Jesus himself meets them and says: Do not
fear; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me (v. 10). Do not be
afraid, do not fear: these are words that encourage us to open our hearts to receive
the message.
After the death of the Master, the disciples had scattered; their faith had been utterly
shaken, everything seemed over, all their certainties had crumbled and their hopes had
died. But now that message of the women, incredible as it was, came to them like a
ray of light in the darkness. The news spread: Jesus is risen as he said. And then
there was his command to go to Galilee; the women had heard it twice, first from the
angel and then from Jesus himself: Let them go to Galilee; there they will see me. Do
not fear and go to Galilee.
Galilee is the place where they were first called, where everything began! To return
there, to return to the place where they were originally called. Jesus had walked along
the 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 its
victory, fearlessly: do not be afraid. To re-read everything Jesus preaching, his
miracles, the new community, the excitement and the defections, even the betrayal to
re-read everything starting from the end, which is a new beginning, from this supreme
act of love.
For each of us, too, there is a Galilee at the origin of our journey with Jesus. To go
to Galilee means something beautiful, it means rediscovering our baptism as a living
fountainhead, drawing new energy from the sources of our faith and our Christian
experience. To return to Galilee means above all to return to that blazing light with
which Gods grace touched me at the start of the journey. From that flame I can light a
fire for today and every day, and bring heat and light to my brothers and sisters. That
flame 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 more
existential Galilee: the experience of a personal encounter with Jesus Christ who
called me to follow him and to share in his mission. In this sense, returning to Galilee
means treasuring in my heart the living memory of that call, when Jesus passed my
way, gazed at me with mercy and asked me to follow him. To return there means
reviving the memory of that moment when his eyes met mine, the moment when he
made me realize that he loved me.
Today, tonight, each of us can ask: What is my Galilee? I need to remind myself, to go
back and remember. Where is my Galilee? Do I remember it? Have I forgotten it? Seek
and you will find it! There the Lord is waiting for you. Have I gone off on roads and
paths which made me forget it? Lord, help me: tell me what my Galilee is; for you know
that I want to return there to encounter you and to let myself be embraced by your
mercy. 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 become
witnesses of his resurrection. This is not to go back in time; it is not a kind of
nostalgia. It is returning to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has
kindled 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 the
Church; intense desire of encounter Let us be on our way!
Save the date
Jun 7
th
, 2014
for the Our Lady Of Lebanon Parish
Annual Dinner
Areading from the Second LetterofSaint 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 persuade
others; but we are clearly apparent to God, and I hope we are also apparent to your
consciousness. We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you an
opportunity to boast of us, so that you may have something to say to those who boast
of external appearance rather than of the heart For if we are out of our minds, it is for
God; if we are rational, it is for you. For the love of Christ impels us, once we have
come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died. He indeed died for
all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their
sake died and was raised. Consequently, from now on we regard no one according to
the flesh; even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so
no 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 to
himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was
reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them
and 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 reconciled
to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might
become 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 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.
Gospel (John 20:26-31)
Now a week later his disciples were
again inside and Thomas was with them.
Jesus came, although the doors were
locked, and stood in their midst and
said, "Peace be with you." Then he said
to Thomas, "Put your finger here and
see my hands, and bring your hand and
put it into my side, and do not be
unbelieving, but believe." Thomas
answered and said to him, "My Lord and
my God!" Jesus said to him, "Have you
come to believe because you have seen
me? Blessed are those who have not
seen and have believed." Now Jesus did
many other signs in the presence of (his)
disciples that are not written in this
book. But these are written that you
may (come to) believe that Jesus is the
Messiah, the Son of God, and that
through this belief you may have life in
his name. "This is the truth. Peace be
with you.
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The Gospel of the resurrection of Jesus Christ begins with the journey of the women to
the tomb at dawn on the day after the Sabbath. They go to the tomb to honour the
body of the Lord, but they find it open and empty. A mighty angel says to them: Do
not be afraid! (Mt 28:5) and orders them to go and tell the disciples: He has been
raised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee (v. 7). The
women quickly depart and on the way Jesus himself meets them and says: Do not
fear; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me (v. 10). Do not be
afraid, do not fear: these are words that encourage us to open our hearts to receive
the message.
After the death of the Master, the disciples had scattered; their faith had been utterly
shaken, everything seemed over, all their certainties had crumbled and their hopes had
died. But now that message of the women, incredible as it was, came to them like a
ray of light in the darkness. The news spread: Jesus is risen as he said. And then
there was his command to go to Galilee; the women had heard it twice, first from the
angel and then from Jesus himself: Let them go to Galilee; there they will see me. Do
not fear and go to Galilee.
Galilee is the place where they were first called, where everything began! To return
there, to return to the place where they were originally called. Jesus had walked along
the 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 its
victory, fearlessly: do not be afraid. To re-read everything Jesus preaching, his
miracles, the new community, the excitement and the defections, even the betrayal to
re-read everything starting from the end, which is a new beginning, from this supreme
act of love.
For each of us, too, there is a Galilee at the origin of our journey with Jesus. To go
to Galilee means something beautiful, it means rediscovering our baptism as a living
fountainhead, drawing new energy from the sources of our faith and our Christian
experience. To return to Galilee means above all to return to that blazing light with
which Gods grace touched me at the start of the journey. From that flame I can light a
fire for today and every day, and bring heat and light to my brothers and sisters. That
flame 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 more
existential Galilee: the experience of a personal encounter with Jesus Christ who
called me to follow him and to share in his mission. In this sense, returning to Galilee
means treasuring in my heart the living memory of that call, when Jesus passed my
way, gazed at me with mercy and asked me to follow him. To return there means
reviving the memory of that moment when his eyes met mine, the moment when he
made me realize that he loved me.
Today, tonight, each of us can ask: What is my Galilee? I need to remind myself, to go
back and remember. Where is my Galilee? Do I remember it? Have I forgotten it? Seek
and you will find it! There the Lord is waiting for you. Have I gone off on roads and
paths which made me forget it? Lord, help me: tell me what my Galilee is; for you know
that I want to return there to encounter you and to let myself be embraced by your
mercy. 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 become
witnesses of his resurrection. This is not to go back in time; it is not a kind of
nostalgia. It is returning to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has
kindled 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 the
Church; intense desire of encounter Let us be on our way!
Save the date
Jun 7
th
, 2014
for the Our Lady Of Lebanon Parish
Annual Dinner