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Sunday, April 24th, 2005
Fourth Sunday after the Resurrection
“We have a Pope!”
Gospel: Ephesians 2: 1 – 10
Readings: Mark 16: 15– 18 St. Paul declares in today’s epistle, to the Ephesians, “God loved us, made us alive together with Christ and raised us up with him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places.” By becoming Jesus’ disciples, we got our responsibility from Him, the Lord who saved us from the terrifying death.
From this moment, the apostles’ mission stopped working in its narrow horizon, fishing. Jesus created an escape for their mission by broadening it to the whole world. He made them able to fish eternal life for humankind, “Go into the whole world, and proclaim the Good News to the whole creation.”
In the beginning, when Jesus sent his disciples, they had different jobs, they were fishermen, tax collectors; they were jealous, non believers and doubtful.
God has melted them in the mold of love and service. Their mission was to build the kingdom and work its work to be as Jesus prayed: “One Parish for One Pastor.” For this reason, the Church belongs to Christ and does his will.
Even if they were persecuted for their faith, they were happy to follow their Teacher’s footsteps. The Church is not better than its Teacher who was wronged and then conquered the world. Let us pray to the Virgin Mother to help, her children in need.
Last Week's Collection $ 2,729.10 Please Remember St. Anthony's Church In Your Will.
Leamington Ministerial Association invites all the Christians to pray for each other. This week we pray for Mennonite Brethren Church
Masses & Celebrations during the week ending: May 1, 2005 Sun. April 24th, 2005
Fourth Sunday after the Resurrection
9:30AM
Sarkis Boula Boutros (3 Yrs. Mem. Mass) (Majdeline Boutros & Family)
11:00AM
Antonio Nohra Daoud (Chaker Nohra & Family)
Mon. April 25th, 2005
5:30PM
St. Anne’s Prayers6:00PM
Youssef Mansour Jabbour (Sarkis & Nawal Jabbour)
Tues. April 26th, 2005
5:30PM
St. Anthony’s Prayers6:00PM
Ben Najem (Family)
Wed. April 27th, 2005 5:00PM
Mother Mary’s Prayers6:00PM
Fr. Antoune Obeid (Antoune Obeid)
Thu. April 28th, 2005 5:30PM
Blessed Sacrament Adoration6:00PM
Alice Saad (Sam Jraige & Family)
Fri. April 29th, 2005 5:30PM
St. Charbel’s Prayers6:00PM
Joe & Georgette Maksoud (Donated)
Sun. May 1st, 2005
Fifth Sunday after the Resurrection9:30AM
Youssef Tannous Youssef & Wife & Deceased Children & Grandson (Max Abraham)11:00AM
Aziz Issa Touma (Wahid Issa)3:00PM
First Communion Celebration
Comunity News & Events May 1, 2005 Parish Council Meeting: Sunday, April 24th, 2005
Pastoral Committee: 6:00PM
Financial Committee: 7:00PM
20th Anniversary of Holy Communion:
This year we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of our Parish. We invited all the children who received their First Communion in St. Anthony’s Parish in 1985 – 1986 to come and commemorate this special occasion on Sunday, May 1st, 2005 at 11:00AM.
A Letter of Thanks:
We received a thank you letter from the Priest and Parish Council of St. Joseph’s Church in Moghr, North Lebanon for the $ 250.00 contribution from the calendars sale.
Thank you all and may God bless you all through the intercession of St. Joseph.
Bingo Sessions:
Please mark your calendars for our next Bingo Sessions which will be held on Tuesday, April 26th, 2005 at 12:15PM, and Sunday May 1st, at 12:15 & 6:30PM, at Leamington Bingo Country. For more information, please contact Mrs. Gladys Tannous at 326-7642.
Our Sympathies:
Our deepest sympathies: go out to the Nassar Family for the loss of Nouhad Nassar who passed away in Leamington on Sunday April 17th, 2005 at the age of 47.
The Funeral Mass was held for the rest of his soul on Wednesday, April 20th, 2005 at 10:00AM at St. Anthony’s Parish. May God rest his soul in peace and grant consolation for his family and relatives.
Also our heartfelt sympathies go out the Penner Family for the loss of Elizabeth Penner, mother of Henry and wife Goldie Penner. She passed away in Aylmer on Monday, April 18,2005 at the age of 57. May God rest her soul in peace and grant consolation for her family.
Congratulations:
Congratulations to the Knights of Columbus on their Third Degree Initiation at the Knights of Columbus Hal in Tecumseh, on Sunday April 17, 2005: Joseph Abbas, Joseph Boutros, Mike Makhlouf, Joe Jabbour & Michel Nouhra. God bless you.
First Communion Celebration at the Lebanese Club:
Celebrate Holy Communion at the Leamington Lebanese Club on May 1st, 2005.
Available for 10 people or more, $12.99. Menu includes: Pasta, salad, chicken, broasted potatoes, rolls, butter and coffee. For reservation please call 326-3883 on or before April 25, 2005.
Mother’s Day at the Lebanese Club:
Join us for Mother’s Day Party at the Lebanese Club, Hwy. 77, Leamington, on Sunday May 8th, 2005.
Featuring Elias Haddad and his Band. Lunch, dinner with live entertainment.
Doors open at 1:30PM. Tickets $ 30.00 Canadian includes dinner. For more info & Reservation, please call: (519) 326-3883. All are welcome to come and enjoy a special Mother’s Day celebration.
His All Holiness Pope Benedict XVI Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of congregation for the Doctrine of the faith, President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and International Theological Commission, Dean of the College of Cardinals, was born on April 16, 1927 in Marktl Am Inn, Germany.
He was ordained priest on June 29, 1951. His father a police officer, came from a traditional family of farmers from lower Bavaria. He spent his adolescent years in Traunstein, and was called into the auxiliary anti-craft service in the last months of World War II.
From 1946 to 1951, the year in which he was ordained a priest and began to teach, he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Munich and at the higher school in Freising. In 1953 he obtained a doctorate in theology with a thesis entitled: “The People and House of God in St. Augustine’s doctrine of the Church.”
Four years later, he qualified as a university teacher. He then taught dogma and fundamental theology at the higher school of philosophy and theology of Freising, then in Bonn from 1959 to 1969, Munster from 1963 to 1966, Tubinga from 1966 to 1969. From 1969, he was professor of dogmatic theology and of the history of dogma at the university of Regensburg and Vice President of the same university.
Already in 1962 he was well known when, at the age of 35, he became a consultor at Vatican Council II, of the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joseph Frings. Among his numerous publications, a particular post belongs to the ‘Introduction to Christianity’, a collection of university lessons on the profession of apostolic faith, published in 1968; Dogma and revelation, an anthology of essays, sermons and reflections dedicated to the pastoral ministry, published in 1973.
In March 1977, Paul VI elected him Archbishop of Munich and Freising and on May 28, 1977 he was consecrated, the first diocesan priest after 80 years to take over the pastoral ministry of this large Bavarian diocese.
Created and proclaimed Cardinal by Paul VI in the consistory of June 27, 1977, of the Title of the Suburbicarian Church of Velletri-Segni (April 5, 1993) and Suburbicarian Church of Ostia (November 30, 2002).
On November 25, 1981 he was nominated by John Paul II Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; President of the Biblical Commission and of the Pontifical International Theological Commission Retalor of the 5th General Assembly of the Synod of the Bishops (1980).
President Delegate to the 6th Synodal Assembly (1983). Honorary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, November 13, 2000. He was elected Pope on April 19, 2005.
Prayer for the most Forgotten SoulO Lord God Almighty, I beseech You by the Precious Body and Blood of Your divine Son Jesus, which He himself on the night before
His Passion gave as meat and drink to His beloved Apostles and bequeathed to His Holy Church to be the perpetual sacrifice and life-giving nourishment of His faithful people, deliver the souls in purgatory, but most of all, that soul which was mot devoted to this mystery of infinite love, in order that it may praise
You therefore, together with Your Divine Son and the Holy Spirit in glory for ever.
Amen.
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