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 18th, 2012 - Advent - Announcement to Zechariah

Mass Intention 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.

Sunday Nov 25th,

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 (after the two masses) Nov.18-25. Everyone is invited to help them grow within our community. Thank you for your participation.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION

2012

10:30am

12:30pm - Memorial mass for the late Pierre Amine El-Gemayel offered by Kataeb Toronto One year memorial mass for the late Georges Koussa offered by his wife Jamileh and his sons Efram and Elie and their families. pm - Pickering - One year memorial mass for the late Jean Ghanem offered by his daughter Therese Yorgy and her family.

Friday Activities

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

Our Lady of Lebanon Christmas Banquet

Condolences to the Hanna Family

Our deepest sympathy to the Maronite Diocese in Canada and to the family of Msgr. Raymond Hanna, who passed away last week (Nov. 15. 2012) in Ottawa. May the Lord rest his soul in peace and grant consolation to his family especially to his two brothers Paul and Jean Hanna and their families and relatives.

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) A memorial mass for the late Msgr Raymond Hanna will take place in Our Lady of Lebanon Church on Sunday December 2nd, 2012, at 12:30 pm 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 11th, 2012 Abou-Atallah Edmond Boutros Milia Saba Antoun Total Collection 300.00 100.00 100.00 1252.00 Grand Total Alakji Georges Khoury.S.Joseph Younes Abdo Total Donations 1952.00 50.00 100.00 100.00 700.00

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 $250 CND. Your contribution are supporting our programs for our children and youth. Thank you and God bless you. . 250$

Baptism
Please make an appointment one month in advance.

Ministry of the Sick 6922 LEBANONS INDEPENDENCE DAY NOV. 22 Dont forget to remember our motherland in your prayers .
Inform the priest for assistance.

Confession
By appointment or before the Mass.

Announcement to Zechariah
The angel Gabriel announced Gods promise of a son to Zechariah in the temple in Jerusalem, the place where Gods people always centered their hopes. Zechariah asked for proof that it would happen. Because of his lack of faith, Zechariah was made mute until the promise was fulfilled. God gave Zechariah and Elizabeth a child, performing the same impossible work for them that he did for several couples we read about in scripture: Abraham and Sarah, Elkanah and Hanna, and Manoah and his wife. In Elizabeths sixth month, the Lord proclaimed: Nothing will be impossible for God. The Lord has demonstrated time and again that nothing is impossible for him. When Sarah laughed upon hearing the promise of a son, the Lord said to Abraham: Is anything too wonderful for the LORD?. Abrahams faith in Gods promise never wavered. He was fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. When God revealed himself to Job, he too was convinced of Gods power and declared: I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. Jeremiah acknowledged to the Lord that Nothing is too hard for you. Jesus himself said: What is impossible for mortals is possible for God. God accomplished the ultimate impossibility through his Son. Jesus was born of a woman, though he was old; he suffered and died on a cross for us, even though we rejected him. He rose from the dead, destroying the power of sin, Satan and the world; he made

us Gods sons and daughters, coheirs with him of eternal life. Since God worked the impossible for us through Jesus, will he not also do the seemingly impossible in our lives and in our families this Advent? Perhaps there is a need to heal family resentments or divisions, to bring someone to faith in God, to heal someone who is ill, to help someone find a job, or to restore peace. We need to have faith that God can do the impossible even in our own lives.

Keep in touch! Dear parishioners, if your address has recently changed,

please contact the parish office to update our records.

A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Romans, Your blessings Father; (4:13-25)

The promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation. For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, as it is written, I have made you the father of many nations) in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Praise be to God always.

the right side of the altar of incense. When Zechariah saw him, he was terrified; and fear overwhelmed him. But the angel said to him, Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John. You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great in the sight of the Lord He will turn many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts of parents to their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. Zechariah said to the angel, How will I know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is getting on in years. The angel replied, I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. But now, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time, you will become mute, unable to speak, until the day these things occur. This is the truth. Peace be with you.

Holy Gospel; Saint Luke (1:1-25) In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah His wife was a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord. But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were getting on in years. Once when he was serving as priest before God and his section was on duty, he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and offer incense. Now at the time of the incense offering, the whole assembly of the people was praying outside. Then there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing at the
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