Our Lady Of Lebanon - Toronto

Maronite Catholic Church - Served by the Antonine Maronite Order

Q Y S I d - J Q h f , J e G d g f G f f G d Q h f
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.OurLadyoOfLebanon.ca office@OurLadyoOfLebanon.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,June 8
th
, 2014
PentecostSunday.
10:30am: For the intentions of our parishioners
12:30pm: 40 Days memorial mass for the late Samir Nuseir
offered by his family
7:00 pm: 40 Days memorial mass for the late Fr. John Sader
offered by the Antonin Community in Canada.
Sunday,June 15
th
, 2014
Sundayofthe Trinity
10:30am: Two weeks memorial mass for the late Rita Khayro
offered by Micheline Khayro wife of Raymond El-Daher & Dalida
Khayro wife of Tony Safadi and families.
12:30pm: 40 Days memorial mass for the late Assaad Habib
offered by his children George, Anna wife of Milad Chebli, Randa
wife of Joe Choueiri, Rita wife of Amer Hawchar, Rima wife of Philip
Pinto and their families.
Sunday, June 8
th
, 2014 : Pentecost Sunday . . . , _ - . . . i . . . . :
Pentecost Season
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Mass Intentions
June 14th, 2014. $50/person (Adult or child)
For more information please call: Church office: (416) 534-7070,
Saydeh: (416) 727-3014, Ramona: (647)2878421
Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Fatima Shrine (nearBuffalo)
Second Banns: Peter Amidi & Chantal Parnaviphana
Marriage Banns
June 29, July and August
Saturday Mass at 5:00 pm
Sunday Mass at 11:00 am
No Masses in Pickering during this time.
Usual schedule will resume on Sept. 7th, 2014.
Mass Schedule
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CATHOLIC CEMETERIES
ARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO
A CATHOLIC TRADITION
www.catholic-cemeteries.com
Assumption cemetery (905) 670-8801
Holy Cross cemetery (905) 889-7467
(416) 590-0059
Tony Jaja
Mutual Funds Representative
STATE FARM INVESTOR SERVICES (CANADA) CO.
9200 Bathrust Street, Unit 29
Thornhill, ON L4J 8W1
tony@jajainsurance.com
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
Space available Space available
Church Income (May 25
th
, 2014)
Collection, $1851.00 Donation, $1065.00 Grand Total, $2916.00
OLOL parish thanks all the families for their annual donation of $300 CND.
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Global logistics Management Inc.
Air Freight, Ocean freight,
Custom clearance
Beirut, Dubai, Jordan,
Saudi-Arabia, Doha
Tel : 905-501-9958
Cell : 416-300-5025
151 Brunel Road Units # 18 & 19,
Mississauga, L4Z 2H6
JK design Group, Inc
Joe Khalil, Tel: 416-939-2961
Granite-Quartz counter top, Tile & hardwood
www.jkdesigngroupinc.com
29 Hardwood Ave. South, Ajax, Ontario
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OLOL Summer camp 2014
Learn from Yesterday, Live for Today and Hope for Tomorrow
Children ages 10 to 18 are invited to come join us in the summer camp
from June 27th to July 1st 2014 at Blue Springs Scout Reserve,
Acton, Ontario (Address: 14014 6th Line Nassagaweya, Gate #3)
Spaces are limited. For more information please call:
Stephanie Daou (647) 239-9111, Steven Deeck (647) 274-0464.
Camp fee: $200/person, $350/2 siblings, $500/3 siblings, $650/4 siblings.
LAST DAY FOR CAMP REGISTRATION SUNDAY JUNE 15TH, 2014.
(Beyond that day a 20% will be added to the cost)
A reading from the Book of Acts. (2:1-21)
Yourblessings Father
Brothers and sisters, When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place
together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it
filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire,
which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the holy
Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim. Now
there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem. At this
sound, they gathered in a large crowd, but they were confused because each one heard
them speaking in his own language. They were astounded, and in amazement they asked,
"Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans? Then how does each of us hear them
in his own native language? We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of
Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and
the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome, both Jews and converts
to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the
mighty acts of God." They were all astounded and bewildered, and said to one another,
"What does this mean?" But others said, scoffing, "They have had too much new wine."
Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed to them, "You who
are Jews, indeed all of you staying in Jerusalem. Let this be known to you, and listen to my
words. These people are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the
morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: 'It will come to pass in the
last days,' God says, 'that I will pour out a portion of my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and
your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream
dreams. Indeed, upon my servants and my handmaids I will pour out a portion of my spirit
in those days, and they shall prophesy. And I will work wonders in the heavens above and
signs on the earth below: blood, fire, and a cloud of smoke. The sun shall be turned to
darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and splendid day of the
Lord, and it shall be that everyone shall be saved who calls on the name of the Lord.'
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 14:15-20)
"If you love me, you will keep my
commandments. And I will ask the
Father, and he will give you another
Advocate to be with you always, the
Spirit of truth, which the world cannot
accept, because it neither sees nor
knows it. But you know it, because it
remains with you, and will be in you. I will
not leave you orphans; I will come to
you. In a little while the world will no
longer see me, but you will see me,
because I live and you will live. On that
day you will realize that I am in my
Father and you are in me and I in you.
This is the truth. Peace be with you.
Thank You
A great big thank you to the Pastoral
Council and to the Social Committee for
the effort put in to our Annual Party. Also
to all who made donations and worked
behind the scene to make this special event
as successful as it was. Thanks to all who
came out and supported us. God Bless!
Spiritual Retreat June 21st, 2014
Please join us on Saturday June 21st, 2014. 10am to 6pm at: MARYLAKE RETREAT
CENTRE, 13760 Keele St., King city, Ontario, Canada, L7B 1A7 (opposite the Western
end of Bloomington Rd.)
http://www.marylakemonastery.com/
Fees: $10.00 per car (Parking Donation only) Please provide your own lunch
For more information please contact:
Jean Aoun: 416-834-8585; Church Office: 416-534-7070
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Save the date
AUG. 16 & 17
Our Lady Of Lebanon
First Annual Festival
POPE FRANCIS: " Catecheses on the gifts of the Holy Spirit"
You know that the Holy Spirit constitutes the soul, the life blood of the Church and of every in-
dividual Christian: He is the Love of God who makes of our hearts his dwelling place and en-
ters into communion with us. The Holy Spirit abides with us always, he is always within us, in
our hearts.
The Spirit himself is the gift of God par excellence (cf. Jn 4:10), he is a gift of God, and he
in turn communicates various spiritual gifts to those who receive him. The Church identifies
seven, a number which symbolically speaks of fullness, completeness; they are those we
learn about when we prepare for the Sacrament of Confirmation and which we invoke in the
ancient prayer called the Sequence of the Holy Spirit. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are: wis-
dom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord.
1. The first gift of the Holy Spirit according to this list is therefore wisdom. But it is not simply
human wisdom, which is the fruit of knowledge and experience. In the Bible we are told that
Solomon, at the time of his coronation as King of Israel, had asked for the gift of wisdom (cf.
1 Kings 3:9). And wisdom is precisely this: it is the grace of being able to see everything with
the eyes of God. It is simply this: it is to see the world, to see situations, circumstances,
problems, everything through Gods eyes. This is wisdom. Sometimes we see things accord-
ing to our liking or according to the condition of our heart, with love or with hate, with envy....
No, this is not Gods perspective. Wisdom is what the Holy Spirit works in us so as to enable
us to see things with the eyes of God. This is the gift of wisdom.
2. And obviously this comes from intimacy with God, from the intimate relationship we have
with God, from the relationship children have with their Father. And when we have this relation-
ship, the Holy Spirit endows us with the gift of wisdom. When we are in communion with the
Lord, the Holy Spirit transfigures our heart and enables it to perceive all of his warmth and
predilection.
3. The Holy Spirit thus makes the Christian wise. Not in the sense that he has an answer for
everything, that he knows everything, but in the sense that he knows about God, he knows
how God acts, he knows when something is of God and when it is not of God; he has this wis-
dom which God places in our hearts.
The heart of the wise man in this sense has a taste and savour for God. And how important it
is that there be Christians like this in our communities! Everything in them speaks of God and
becomes a beautiful and living sign of his presence and of his love. And this is something that
we cannot invent, that we cannot obtain by ourselves: it is a gift that God gives to those who
make themselves docile to the Holy Spirit. We have the Holy Spirit within us, in our heart; we
can listen to him, we can listen to him. If we listen to the Holy Spirit, he teaches us this way of
wisdom, he endows us with wisdom, which is seeing with Gods eyes, hearing with Gods
ears, loving with Gods heart, directing things with Gods judgement. This is the wisdom the
Holy Spirit endows us with, and we can all have it. We only have to ask it of the Holy Spirit.
we must ask the Lord to grant us the Holy Spirit and to grant us the gift of wisdom, that wis-
dom of God that teaches us to see with Gods eyes, to feel with Gods heart, to speak with
Gods words. And so, with this wisdom, let us go forward, let us build our family, let us build
the Church, and we will all be sanctified. Today let us ask for this grace of wisdom. And let us
ask Our Lady, who is the Seat of Wisdom, for this gift: may she give us this grace. Thank you!
A reading from the Book of Acts. (2:1-21)
Yourblessings Father
Brothers and sisters, When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place
together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it
filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire,
which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the holy
Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim. Now
there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem. At this
sound, they gathered in a large crowd, but they were confused because each one heard
them speaking in his own language. They were astounded, and in amazement they asked,
"Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans? Then how does each of us hear them
in his own native language? We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of
Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and
the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome, both Jews and converts
to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the
mighty acts of God." They were all astounded and bewildered, and said to one another,
"What does this mean?" But others said, scoffing, "They have had too much new wine."
Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed to them, "You who
are Jews, indeed all of you staying in Jerusalem. Let this be known to you, and listen to my
words. These people are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the
morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: 'It will come to pass in the
last days,' God says, 'that I will pour out a portion of my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and
your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream
dreams. Indeed, upon my servants and my handmaids I will pour out a portion of my spirit
in those days, and they shall prophesy. And I will work wonders in the heavens above and
signs on the earth below: blood, fire, and a cloud of smoke. The sun shall be turned to
darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and splendid day of the
Lord, and it shall be that everyone shall be saved who calls on the name of the Lord.'
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 14:15-20)
"If you love me, you will keep my
commandments. And I will ask the
Father, and he will give you another
Advocate to be with you always, the
Spirit of truth, which the world cannot
accept, because it neither sees nor
knows it. But you know it, because it
remains with you, and will be in you. I will
not leave you orphans; I will come to
you. In a little while the world will no
longer see me, but you will see me,
because I live and you will live. On that
day you will realize that I am in my
Father and you are in me and I in you.
This is the truth. Peace be with you.
Thank You
A great big thank you to the Pastoral
Council and to the Social Committee for
the effort put in to our Annual Party. Also
to all who made donations and worked
behind the scene to make this special event
as successful as it was. Thanks to all who
came out and supported us. God Bless!
Spiritual Retreat June 21st, 2014
Please join us on Saturday June 21st, 2014. 10am to 6pm at: MARYLAKE RETREAT
CENTRE, 13760 Keele St., King city, Ontario, Canada, L7B 1A7 (opposite the Western
end of Bloomington Rd.)
http://www.marylakemonastery.com/
Fees: $10.00 per car (Parking Donation only) Please provide your own lunch
For more information please contact:
Jean Aoun: 416-834-8585; Church Office: 416-534-7070
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Save the date
AUG. 16 & 17
Our Lady Of Lebanon
First Annual Festival
POPE FRANCIS: " Catecheses on the gifts of the Holy Spirit"
You know that the Holy Spirit constitutes the soul, the life blood of the Church and of every in-
dividual Christian: He is the Love of God who makes of our hearts his dwelling place and en-
ters into communion with us. The Holy Spirit abides with us always, he is always within us, in
our hearts.
The Spirit himself is the gift of God par excellence (cf. Jn 4:10), he is a gift of God, and he
in turn communicates various spiritual gifts to those who receive him. The Church identifies
seven, a number which symbolically speaks of fullness, completeness; they are those we
learn about when we prepare for the Sacrament of Confirmation and which we invoke in the
ancient prayer called the Sequence of the Holy Spirit. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are: wis-
dom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord.
1. The first gift of the Holy Spirit according to this list is therefore wisdom. But it is not simply
human wisdom, which is the fruit of knowledge and experience. In the Bible we are told that
Solomon, at the time of his coronation as King of Israel, had asked for the gift of wisdom (cf.
1 Kings 3:9). And wisdom is precisely this: it is the grace of being able to see everything with
the eyes of God. It is simply this: it is to see the world, to see situations, circumstances,
problems, everything through Gods eyes. This is wisdom. Sometimes we see things accord-
ing to our liking or according to the condition of our heart, with love or with hate, with envy....
No, this is not Gods perspective. Wisdom is what the Holy Spirit works in us so as to enable
us to see things with the eyes of God. This is the gift of wisdom.
2. And obviously this comes from intimacy with God, from the intimate relationship we have
with God, from the relationship children have with their Father. And when we have this relation-
ship, the Holy Spirit endows us with the gift of wisdom. When we are in communion with the
Lord, the Holy Spirit transfigures our heart and enables it to perceive all of his warmth and
predilection.
3. The Holy Spirit thus makes the Christian wise. Not in the sense that he has an answer for
everything, that he knows everything, but in the sense that he knows about God, he knows
how God acts, he knows when something is of God and when it is not of God; he has this wis-
dom which God places in our hearts.
The heart of the wise man in this sense has a taste and savour for God. And how important it
is that there be Christians like this in our communities! Everything in them speaks of God and
becomes a beautiful and living sign of his presence and of his love. And this is something that
we cannot invent, that we cannot obtain by ourselves: it is a gift that God gives to those who
make themselves docile to the Holy Spirit. We have the Holy Spirit within us, in our heart; we
can listen to him, we can listen to him. If we listen to the Holy Spirit, he teaches us this way of
wisdom, he endows us with wisdom, which is seeing with Gods eyes, hearing with Gods
ears, loving with Gods heart, directing things with Gods judgement. This is the wisdom the
Holy Spirit endows us with, and we can all have it. We only have to ask it of the Holy Spirit.
we must ask the Lord to grant us the Holy Spirit and to grant us the gift of wisdom, that wis-
dom of God that teaches us to see with Gods eyes, to feel with Gods heart, to speak with
Gods words. And so, with this wisdom, let us go forward, let us build our family, let us build
the Church, and we will all be sanctified. Today let us ask for this grace of wisdom. And let us
ask Our Lady, who is the Seat of Wisdom, for this gift: may she give us this grace. Thank you!