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

November 11th, 2012 - 2nd Sunday of Advent - DEDICATION OF THE CHURCH

Mass Intention Sunday Nov 11th, 2012
10:30am - 3 years Memorial mass for the late Charbel Jarjoura offered by his sister Rima Edmond Fares and his brother George Jarjoura and their families. Any parents having children in grade 2 this year and wish to have their First Communion in our Parish are asked to contact the Church office. Our Youth Group is organizing a Bake Sale as a fundraising event for their activities. On Sundays (between the two masses) Nov.11-18-28. Everyone is invited to help them growing within our community. Thank you for your participation.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION

12:30pm -

Sunday Nov 18th, 2012

10:30am 12:30pm One year memorial mass for the late Nouhad Badr offered by her husband Elias boulos Badr and her children Jean & Malvina Badr and their families. Is It Nothing to You? Lest We Forget On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month ... Today, let us remember all the brave men and women who fought for our freedom and for our country ( The Royal Canadian Legion) World War I: 1 . 628,736 Canadians served. 2. 66,573 died and 138,166 were wounded. 3. 2,818 were taken prisoner of war. 4. 175 merchant seamen died by enemy action. World War II: 1. 1,031,902 Canadian men and 49,963 Canadian women served. 2. 44,927 died and 43,145 were wounded. 3. 8,271 were taken prisoner of war. 4. 1,146 merchant seamen died by enemy action.

Friday Activities

7:30 pm S.H. family & Youth group

Our Lady of Lebanon Christmas Banquet

Saturday Dec

15th,

2012.

@ Rizzo Italian Banquet Hall . (Humberline & Albion Rd) Entertainment: Lebanese Super Star Georges Hadchiti Lebanese star Rami Badr

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Dinner at 8:30 p.m.

Adults $ 80 Kids $ 40 ( age 5-11) For reservation please call: Maha 416.534.7070 Sam Dagher : 416-493-8945 Edmond Dagher: 416.371.2826 Claude Dagher : 416-294-9503

MASS SCHEDULE

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 Nov 4th, 2012 Abou-Jaoude Ramona Annouza Ibrahim Bou-Saab joseph El-Azzi Youssef Fares Simon Karram Joseph Total Collection 50.00 100.00 100.00 50.00 250.00 250.00 1441.00 Grand Total Abou-Atallah Michel Alakji Georges Chehade Tom Dagher Bassam Fawaz fadi Zabbal Nazih Total Donations 2991.00 250.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 300.00 50.00 1550.00

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.

Baptism
Please make an appointment one month in advance.

OLOL parish thanks all the families for their annual donation of $250 CND. Your contribution are supporting our programs for our

Ministry of the Sick

Inform the priest for assistance.

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

Confession
By appointment or before the Mass.

Year of Faith
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI to make it ours and to develop it according to its

Today, (Oct.11.2012) fifty years from the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, we begin with great joy the Year of Faith. I am delighted to greet all of you, particularly His Holiness Bartholomaois I, Patriarch of Constantinople, and His Grace Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury. A special greeting goes to the Patriarchs and Major Archbishops of the Eastern Catholic Churches, and to the Presidents of the Bishops Conferences. In order to evoke the Council, which some present had the grace to experience for themselves - and I greet them with particular affection - this celebration has been enriched by several special signs: the opening procession, intended to recall the memorable one of the Council Fathers when they entered this Basilica; the enthronement of the Book of the Gospels with the same book that was used at the Council; the consignment of the seven final Messages of the Council, and of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I will do before the final blessing. These signs help us not only to remember, they also offer us the possibility of going beyond commemorating. They invite us to enter more deeply into the spiritual movement which characterized Vatican II,

true meaning. And its true meaning was and remains faith in Christ, the apostolic faith, animated by the inner desire to communicate Christ to individuals and all people, in the Churchs pilgrimage along the pathways of history. The Year of Faith which we launch today is linked harmoniously with the Churchs whole path over the last fifty years: from the Council, through the Magisterium of the Servant of God Paul VI, who proclaimed a Year of Faith in 1967, up to the Great Jubilee of the year 2000, with which BlessedJohn Paul II re-proposed to all humanity Jesus Christ as the one Saviour, yesterday, today and forever. Between these two Popes, Paul VI and John Paul II, there was a deep and complete convergence, precisely upon Christ as the centre of the cosmos and of history, and upon the apostolic eagerness to announce him to the world. Jesus is the centre of the Christian faith. The Christian believes in God whose face was revealed by Jesus Christ. He is the fulfilment of the Scriptures and their definitive interpreter. Jesus Christ is not only the object of the faith but, as it says in the Letter to the Hebrews, he is the pioneer and the perfecter of our faith (12:2).
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A reading from the Letter to the Hebrews, Your blessings Father; (9:11-15) But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be, passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not belonging to this creation, he entered once for all into the sanctuary, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a heifer's ashes can sanctify those who are defiled so that their flesh is cleansed, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God. For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance. Praise be to God always.

Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods"'? If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be set aside, can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? If I do not perform my Father's works, do not believe me; but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize (and understand) that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." (Then) they tried again to arrest him; but he escaped from their power. He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and there he remained. Many came to him and said, "John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true." And many there began to believe in him.

Gospel: John (10/22-42)

The feast of the Dedication was then taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter. And Jesus walked about in the temple area on the Portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly." Jesus answered them, "I told you and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father's name testify to me. But you do not believe, because you are not among my sheep. My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Father's hand. The Father and I are one." The Jews again picked up rocks to stone him. Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me?" The Jews answered him, "We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God."
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Prayer

Heavenly Father, you have spoken to the world through Your prophets in ancient times and then through Your only Son. Your message is in the Scriptures and Your Word is living and dynamic. It is more penetrating than a two-edged sword, reaching the very depths of human beings. Help us to listen for Your Word in the Bible, in the Church, and in the world. Let us be transformed by its power and bring it to others in our turn.