OUR LADY OF LEBANON PARISH - TORONTO

Maronite Catholic Church. Served by the Antonine Maronite Order

Pastor : Fr. Maroun Abou Jaoude OAM Associate Pastor : Fr. Youssef Chedid OAM

October 7th, 2012 , (Rosary Sunday ) Fourth Sunday of the Cross

"Say the Rosary every day... Pray, pray a lot and offer sacrifices for sinners... I'm Our Lady of the Rosary.

Mass Intention Sunday Oct 7th,

10:30 am - Memorial mass for the late Elias Bou-Farah offered by his wife Siham and his children Joe, Robert, Gisele, Mary and their families. 12:30pm -

- Our Lady of Fatima

The word Rosary means "Crown of Roses". Our Lady has revealed to several people that each time they say a Hail Mary they are giving her a beautiful rose and that each complete Rosary makes her a crown of roses. The rose is the queen of flowers, and so the Rosary is the rose of all devotions and it is therefore the most important one. The Holy Rosary is considered a perfect prayer because within it lies the awesome story of our salvation. With the Rosary in fact we meditate the mysteries of joy, of light, of sorrow and the glory of Jesus and Mary. It's a simple prayer, humble so much like Mary. It's a prayer we can all say together with Her, the Mother of God. With the Hail Mary we invite Her to pray for us. Our Lady always grants our request. She joins Her prayer to ours. Therefore it becomes ever more useful, because what Mary asks She always receives, Jesus can never say no to whatever His Mother asks for... www.ourladyweb.com

Saturday Oct 13th

6:30 pm - 40 Days Memorial mass for the late Therese Nahhas offered by her sons Joe, John, Chad and their families

Sunday Oct 14th,

10:30 am 1- 40 Days Memorial Mass for the late Farhat Farhat offered by Leila & Gloria Farhat and Joe Abi-Chedid. 2- Memorial mass for the late Gabriel Charbine offered by his wife Sylvie and her children peter and pascal 3 3 years Memorial mass for the late Gerges Farhat 12:30pm - Memorial mass for the souls of the martyrs of the Lebanese Army and the martyrs of October 13, 1990 offered by COLCO-Toronto

Rizzo Italian Banquet Hall (Humberline & Albion Rd)

Our Lady of Lebanon has a great pleasure to invite you to its Christmas Party event that will be held on Saturday December 15th at Rizzo Italian Banquet Hall. A full served dinner with the Lebanese Super Star Georges Hadchiti , along with the star Rami Badr. Prizes and gifts will be distributed to winners. For reservation please call: Sam Dagher : 416-493-8945 Edmond Dagher: 416.371.2826 Claude Dagher : 416-294-9503 MASS SCHEDULE

Friday Activities
6:30 pm Children Choir 8:30 pm Youth group

The DVD and pictures of the 2012 First communion are ready. Please pick them up from the Church office.

Saturdays at 6:30 pm; Sundays at 10:30 & 12:30 in OLOL church (1515 Queen St W, Toronto ON); Sunday at 7 pm in Holy Redeemer Church (796 Eyer Dr, Pickering ON). Our Lady of Lebanon Parish; 1515 Queen St. West; Toronto, ON, M6R 1A5; Tel: 416-534-7070; Fax: 416-530-4103; www.ourladyoflebanon.ca; office@ourladyoflebanon.ca; mjaoude1@hotmail.com; ololtoronto, @ololtoronto

COLLECTION AND DONATIONS BALANCE Sept 30th, 2012 Bou-Saab Joseph Elias Ibrahim Khoury Jean Total Collection 100.00 200.00 200.00 1763.00 Grand Total Boutros Rami Kiwan Joseph Saad Nezar Total Donations 2813.00 250.00 50.00 250.00 1050.00

Please contact the Parishs office to arrange for any sacrament of the Church.

Office hours
Monday, Wednesday: 3pm - 8 pm Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 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.

OLOL parish thanks all the families for their annual donation of $250 CND. Your contribution are supporting our programs for our children and youth. Thank you and God bless you.

Baptism
Please make an appointment one month in advance.

. 250$
Keep in touch! Dear parishioners, if your address has recently changed, please contact the parish office to update our records.

Ministry of the Sick

Inform the priest for assistance.

Confession
By appointment or before the Mass.

THANKSGIVING in CANADA In Canada, the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Indians in an autumn celebration. Its origin in Canada dates back to the offering of thanks given by early explorers and settlers. In the early 1500s, Champlain visited the longhouse of the Huron Indians, along the Trent Water System of south-central Ontario. While he was there, he saw ceremonies being held inside the smoke-filled longhouses. The Indians were giving thanks for the bountiful harvest of food. Champlain could see that the village people were content and very thankful. They prayed that this abundance of food would stay with them. During their first Thanksgiving, both the Indians and Pilgrims gave thanks for a bountiful harvest. They prepared a feast of the foods that they grew and could hunt and gather at that time Thanksgiving truly was a time to give thanks.

A reading from the First Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Your blessings Father; (5:1-11) 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.

A reading from the Holy Gospel of the Lord according to Saint 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.