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Sunday, April 6
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, 2014 : The healing of the Blind Man
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Season of The Great Lent
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Norma: Cell: 647 608 3143
Mass Intentions
Space available Space available Space available
We are having evening Bible Study in houses through Lent Season.
Please contact the church to book your turn on this number
416-534-7070.
Bible Study During Lent Season
Every Friday following 6:30 pm Mass.
Stations of the Cross during Lent
Church Income (March 30
th
, 2014)
Collection, $1794.00 Donation, $1800.00 Grand Total, $3594.00
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 6
th
, 2014
The healing ofthe Blind Man
10:30am: Memorial mass for the late Juliette Harouni and
Habib Ghanemoffered by their son Fadel Ghanem and his family.
12:30pm:
Memorial mass for the souls of all the Martyrs of Zahle offered
by Zahle's families in Toronto.
Memorial Mass for the late Therese Adib Dagher offered by her
husband Youssef and her children: Jean, Feryal and Dr. Fadi and
their families.
One week memorial for the late Haikal Elkoreh offered by his
son Emile and his family.
Saturday,April 12
th
, 2014
10:00am: 40 Days memorial mass for the late Fares Youssef
Kattar offered by his family.
Sunday,April 13
th
, 2014
Palm Sunday
10:30am & 12:30pm: For the intentions of our Parishioners
7:00pm (Pickering): For the intentions of our Parishioners
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The Our Lady of Lebanon Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception
provides the following items for the Holy Week events:
- Decorated candles for Palm Sunday
- Roses for the Holy Friday,
- Lent dinner following Holy Friday Celebration.
All income will be for the church support.
Candles - Roses - Dinner
Our Lady of Lebanon Parish Pastoral Council is an advisory
working group that attempts to identify, reflect, and make
recommendations for pastoral planning regarding issues relating
to the unique spiritual needs of our parish community. The council
thereby assists our pastors, by seeking to provide wise and
prudent advice based on a knowledgeable representation of the
parish population and works on various activities aimed at
supporting our parish, religious beliefs and community. The Spirit
of God moves within our parish community and we all strive to
listen to its presence...
With heartfelt gratitude, we would like to acknowledge and thank
the outgoing (December 2013) OLOL Council members for
sharing their time, talents and contributions over the past 6 years.
Also, congratulations to the new 2014-2015 Parish Pastoral
Council Members: Joseph Daou, Claude Dagher, Ghada Sadaka,
Marwan Saliba, Rony Dagher, Cozette Dagher, Joe Fakhri, Rita
Mouannes, Rami Mansourati, Maroun Hage, Fadi Melhem and Rita
Bou-Abboud.
Parish Pastoral Council
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Areading from the Second LetterofSaint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. (2cor 10: 1-7)
Your blessings Father
Brothers and sisters, I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of
Christ--I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold to you when I am away! I
beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such
confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of acting in worldly
fashion. For though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war, for the
weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take
every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when
your obedience is complete. Look at what is before your eyes. If any one is confident
that he is Christs, let him remind himself that as he is Christs, so are we. 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 (Mark 10:46-52)
They came to Jericho. And as he was
leaving Jericho with his disciples and a
sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man,
the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside
begging. On hearing that it was Jesus of
Nazareth, he began to cry out and say,
"Jesus, son of David, have pity on me."
And many rebuked him, telling him to be
silent. But he kept calling out all the
more, "Son of David, have pity on me."
Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." So
they called the blind man, saying to him,
"Take courage; get up, he is calling you."
He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and
came to Jesus. Jesus said to him in
reply, "What do you want me to do for
you?" The blind man replied to him,
"Master, I want to see." Jesus told him,
"Go your way; your faith has saved you."
Immediately he received his sight and
followed him on the way.
"This is the truth. Peace be with you.
Canada's Maronite Youth Convention 2014
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).
For more details and for reservation please contact Michline Khalil 416-435-0987
Check the Facebook event: Canada's Maronite Youth Convention 2014
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2014 Holy Week & Easter program
Palm Sunday April 13th
10:00 am & 12:30 pm Mass with Palm procession
7:00 pm Mass with Palm procession (Pickering)
Monday April 14th and Tuesday April 15 th
7:00 pm: Mass & Ziah el Salib
Wednesday April 16th
7:00 pm Mass & Blessing of the Holy Oil
Thursday of the Mysteries April 17th
7:00 pm Mass & Washing of feet
8:30 pm till midnight Exposition and Adoration of the blessed Sacrament.
Good Friday April 18th
11:00 am Ceremony of the Adoration of the Cross in Holy Redeemer Church
(Pickering)
3:00 pm Via Crucis, Stations of the Holy Cross and
Ceremony of the Adoration of the Cross in Our Lady of Lebanon Church
Saturday of the light April 19th
11:00 pm Prayer of forgiveness and confessions.
12:00 am Easter Midnight Mass
Easter Sunday April 20th
10:30 am & 12:30 pm Mass in OLOL
7:00 pm Mass in Holy Redeemer Church (Pickering)
Confessions
From Monday to Thursday (6 7 pm)
Pope Francis reflected on the need for repentance and the awareness of our spiritual blindness.
(Vatican City, March 31, 2014 - Zenit.org)
The gospel of the day was on the story of Jesus healing the blind man. Each of us has a need to reflect on the state of our spiritual life
during the time of Lent. We need to repent and journey closer to the light of Christ.
Todays Gospel presents us with the episode of the man born blind to whom Jesus gives sight. The long narrative opens with a blind
man who begins to see and closes this is curious with those who presumably see and who continue to be blind in their soul. John
tells of the miracle in just 6 verses because he wants to draw attention not to the miracle but to what happens afterward, that is, to the
discussions that the miracle causes. He also wants to draw attention to the gossip. Often a good work, a charitable work causes
gossip and discussion, because there are some who do not wish to see the truth. The evangelist John wants to draw attention to this,
which also happens today when a good work is done. The blind man who is healed is first interrogated by the astonished crowd they
saw the miracle and they interrogate him. Then he is interrogated by the doctors of the law; and they also interrogate his parents. In
the end, the blind man who is healed arrives at faith, and this is greatest grace that Jesus bestows upon him: not only to see him but to
know him, to see him as the light of the world (John 9:5)
Our life is sometimes similar to that of the blind man who is open to the light, who is open to God, who is open to his grace.
Sometimes, unfortunately, our life is a little like that of the doctors of the law: from the height of our pride we judge others, and, in the
end, the Lord!
Today we are invited to open ourselves up to the light of Christ to bear fruit in our life, to eliminate non-Christian ways of acting; we are
all Christians, but all of us, at times act in ways that are not Christian, we act in ways that are sinful. We must repent, we must stop
acting in these ways so we can set out decisively on the road of sanctity
I would like to suggest to you today, when you return home, to open the Gospel of John and read this passage of chapter 9. It will do
you well, because in this way you will see this road from blindness to light and the other, wicked road toward deeper blindness. Let us
ask ourselves about the state of our heart. Do I have an open heart or a closed one? Open or closed to God? Open or closed to my
neighbor? We always have some closure in us born of sin, of mistakes, of errors. We must not be afraid! Let us open ourselves up to
the Lord. He awaits us always to help us see better, to give us light, to forgive us. Let us not forget this! To the Virgin Mary we entrust
the Lenten journey, so that we too, like the blind man who was healed, can with the grace of Christ come to the light, make progress
toward the light and be reborn to a new life.
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. (2cor 10: 1-7)
Your blessings Father
Brothers and sisters, I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of
Christ--I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold to you when I am away! I
beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such
confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of acting in worldly
fashion. For though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war, for the
weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take
every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when
your obedience is complete. Look at what is before your eyes. If any one is confident
that he is Christs, let him remind himself that as he is Christs, so are we. 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 (Mark 10:46-52)
They came to Jericho. And as he was
leaving Jericho with his disciples and a
sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man,
the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside
begging. On hearing that it was Jesus of
Nazareth, he began to cry out and say,
"Jesus, son of David, have pity on me."
And many rebuked him, telling him to be
silent. But he kept calling out all the
more, "Son of David, have pity on me."
Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." So
they called the blind man, saying to him,
"Take courage; get up, he is calling you."
He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and
came to Jesus. Jesus said to him in
reply, "What do you want me to do for
you?" The blind man replied to him,
"Master, I want to see." Jesus told him,
"Go your way; your faith has saved you."
Immediately he received his sight and
followed him on the way.
"This is the truth. Peace be with you.
Canada's Maronite Youth Convention 2014
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).
For more details and for reservation please contact Michline Khalil 416-435-0987
Check the Facebook event: Canada's Maronite Youth Convention 2014
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2014 Holy Week & Easter program
Palm Sunday April 13th
10:00 am & 12:30 pm Mass with Palm procession
7:00 pm Mass with Palm procession (Pickering)
Monday April 14th and Tuesday April 15 th
7:00 pm: Mass & Ziah el Salib
Wednesday April 16th
7:00 pm Mass & Blessing of the Holy Oil
Thursday of the Mysteries April 17th
7:00 pm Mass & Washing of feet
8:30 pm till midnight Exposition and Adoration of the blessed Sacrament.
Good Friday April 18th
11:00 am Ceremony of the Adoration of the Cross in Holy Redeemer Church
(Pickering)
3:00 pm Via Crucis, Stations of the Holy Cross and
Ceremony of the Adoration of the Cross in Our Lady of Lebanon Church
Saturday of the light April 19th
11:00 pm Prayer of forgiveness and confessions.
12:00 am Easter Midnight Mass
Easter Sunday April 20th
10:30 am & 12:30 pm Mass in OLOL
7:00 pm Mass in Holy Redeemer Church (Pickering)
Confessions
From Monday to Thursday (6 7 pm)
Pope Francis reflected on the need for repentance and the awareness of our spiritual blindness.
(Vatican City, March 31, 2014 - Zenit.org)
The gospel of the day was on the story of Jesus healing the blind man. Each of us has a need to reflect on the state of our spiritual life
during the time of Lent. We need to repent and journey closer to the light of Christ.
Todays Gospel presents us with the episode of the man born blind to whom Jesus gives sight. The long narrative opens with a blind
man who begins to see and closes this is curious with those who presumably see and who continue to be blind in their soul. John
tells of the miracle in just 6 verses because he wants to draw attention not to the miracle but to what happens afterward, that is, to the
discussions that the miracle causes. He also wants to draw attention to the gossip. Often a good work, a charitable work causes
gossip and discussion, because there are some who do not wish to see the truth. The evangelist John wants to draw attention to this,
which also happens today when a good work is done. The blind man who is healed is first interrogated by the astonished crowd they
saw the miracle and they interrogate him. Then he is interrogated by the doctors of the law; and they also interrogate his parents. In
the end, the blind man who is healed arrives at faith, and this is greatest grace that Jesus bestows upon him: not only to see him but to
know him, to see him as the light of the world (John 9:5)
Our life is sometimes similar to that of the blind man who is open to the light, who is open to God, who is open to his grace.
Sometimes, unfortunately, our life is a little like that of the doctors of the law: from the height of our pride we judge others, and, in the
end, the Lord!
Today we are invited to open ourselves up to the light of Christ to bear fruit in our life, to eliminate non-Christian ways of acting; we are
all Christians, but all of us, at times act in ways that are not Christian, we act in ways that are sinful. We must repent, we must stop
acting in these ways so we can set out decisively on the road of sanctity
I would like to suggest to you today, when you return home, to open the Gospel of John and read this passage of chapter 9. It will do
you well, because in this way you will see this road from blindness to light and the other, wicked road toward deeper blindness. Let us
ask ourselves about the state of our heart. Do I have an open heart or a closed one? Open or closed to God? Open or closed to my
neighbor? We always have some closure in us born of sin, of mistakes, of errors. We must not be afraid! Let us open ourselves up to
the Lord. He awaits us always to help us see better, to give us light, to forgive us. Let us not forget this! To the Virgin Mary we entrust
the Lenten journey, so that we too, like the blind man who was healed, can with the grace of Christ come to the light, make progress
toward the light and be reborn to a new life.
Save the date
Jun 7
th
, 2014
for the Our Lady Of Lebanon Parish
Annual Dinner