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Sunday March 5th 2006
Sunday of the Man with Leprosy
Gospel: Mark 1: 35 – 45
Readings: Romans 6: 12 – 23 Jesus healed the man with leprosy with an act of grace. He became a new man, a clean person free from the punishment of sin that dominated his life in the past. What should we do? We should do the same as the leper. We should reach out and touch the Lord’s merciful hand which took the hand of the leper.
By doing so, we will rise from our falls and receive the graces of the Holy Spirit. We will be completely cured when the sin leaves our dying body without destroying our lives.
God and his servant Paul did not forbid us from enjoying innocently the goods and joys of life, instead they encourage us to learn how not to be selfish, how to stop the hatred. Jesus died, we ought to kill our obsession with sin and our wicked desires. We can ignore that and live far away from God.
St. Paul asks to offer our bodies as living sacrifices to God. We have a choice either righteousness, freedom and live as children of God or sin, slavery and death. When we do evil, we will be covered with the leprosy of our evil doing and what consequences come from the weakness, illness and eternal suffering.
Let us all kneel before Jesus. He alone can heal us like he healed the man with leprosy physically and spiritually. He is capable of giving us, once again the innocence of Baptism.
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Leamington Ministerial Association invites all the Christians to pray for each other. This week we pray for St. John Lutheran Church Masses & Celebrations during the week:
Sunday of the Man with Leprosy
أحد الأبرص
Sun. March 5th, 2006
Ø 9:30AM: Boutros Nasr & Wife Maria & Habib Nasr & Wife Afifé
(Hanna Eid & Family)
Ø 11:00AM: Daniel Nohra & Wife Wadad (Family)
Mon. March 6th, 2006
Ø 10:00AM: Rosary Prayers (4 Mysteries)
Ø 5:30PM: Joseph’s Prayers.
Ø 6:00PM: Youssef Aziz & Wife Badiha (Family)
Tue. March 7th, 2006
Ø 5:30PM: St. Joseph’s Prayers.
Ø 6:00PM: Wajih Nohra (Mr. & Mrs. Jabar Alagha)
Wed. March 8th, 2006
Ø 4:45PM: Mother Mary’s Prayers.
Ø 5:45PM: St. Joseph’s Prayers.
Ø 6:00PM: Hanna Nehmetallah & Wife Pauline & Najib Nehmetallah & Wife
Madam & Daughter Hind (Nehmetallah Nehmetallah & Family)
Thu. March 9th, 2006
Ø 5:30PM: St. Joseph’s Prayers.
Ø 6:00PM: Youssef Tannous Jabbour & Wife Latife & Son Antonios
(Marzouka Youssef)
Fri. March 10th, 2006
Ø 5:30PM: St. Joseph’s Prayers. .
Ø 6:00PM: Youssef Eid & Wife & Deceased Family Members
(Assad Eid & Family)
Ø 6:30PM: Stations of the Cross.
Sun, March 12th, 2006
Sunday of the Hemorrhaging Woman
أحد النازفة
Ø 9:30AM: Antonios Nohra Daoud (Daoud Youssef Nohra & Family)
11:00AM: Jamil Sarkis (1 Yr. Memorial Mass) (Family)
Community News & Events During This Week
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Ø Stations of Cross: During Lent Season, we pray the Stations of the Cross every Friday evening at 6:30PM. All are welcome to attend and remember the passion of Christ our salvation.
Ø St. Joseph: St. Joseph’s Prayers will take place every evening at 5:30PM during the month of March consecrated to St. Joseph. All are welcome to attend.
Ø Volleyball For Adults: Every Thursday at St. Michel School @ 7:00PM. All Parents whose children attend St. Michel should be involved in forming a volleyball team for adults from St. Anthony’s Parish. Thanks.
Ø NAM Convention: The NAM Convention will be held this year in Chicago, July 5 – 9, 2006. This convention is open for persons aged 14 and up. If you are interested in participating, please sign up your names on the sheet provided at the Church entrance.
Ø University of Windsor: Volunteers are needed to participate in an M. A. research project dealing with the Significant Symbols of Lebanese – Canadian Maronite Wedding ceremonies. If you are between the ages of 1 8 – 70 and are first or second generation Lebanese Maronite or are new to Canada and you would like to participate in this research project, please contact Paul Gebrael ASAP at: Gebrael@uwindsor.ca or 965-7395. This event will take place at Catholic Central High School in Windsor on Saturday March 18th, 2006.
Ø Congratulations to Michael Xavier Jraige who received the Sacraments of Baptism & Confirmation in St. Anthony’s Parish on Sunday, February 26th, 2006. May God bless him with his family.
Ø Bingo Session: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 1:00PM.
Ø First Communion: Friday, 5 to 6:30PM.
Ø Knights of Mary: Saturday, 4:30 to 5:30PM.
Ø and friends with this request. Thank you for helping us help the less fortunate.
Ø Knights of Columbus News:
- Executive Meeting: Tuesday March 7th, 2006 at 7:00PM at Church Hall.
- General Membership Meeting: Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 at 7:00PM at Church Hall.
- Car Raffles, tickets are available with the KOC Members to purchase $ 2.00 per ticket, proceeds toward the Arthritis Society of Canada, and 20% goes toward the Church special project.
- Euchre Game: District Tournament, Third round in Amherstburg, Council 1250, on March 9th, 2006. Cost $12.00 includes Dinner at 7:00PM. The Game will start at 8:00PM. We need at least 12 players. We encourage all members to get involved. Final day of tournament is May 11, 2006 at Leamington Lebanese Club.
- Card Night: Every Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00PM. There will be a card night Euchre or Tarneeb. Everyone is welcome. $ 3.00 Admission. We had our first game on March 1st, 2006. 12 Members and guests attended. We thank all those who participated and encourage everyone to come out for a fun night. Next game will be on Wednesday March 8th, at the Church Hall. For any questions, please contact Brother Elias Khayat at 322-2187.
Prayer for Lent
Dear Lord, we are now in the Holy Season of Lent. We begin to realize anew that these are the days of salvation, these are the acceptable days.
We know that we are all sinners. We know that in many things are have all offended your infinite majesty. We know that sin destroys your life in us as a drought withers the leaves.
Help us now, Lord, in our feeble attempts to make up for past sin.
Bless our efforts with the rich blessing of your grace. Make us realize ever more our need of penance and of mortification.
Help us to see, in our ordinary difficulties and duties, in the trials and temptations of every day, the best opportunity of making up for past infidelities. Amen.
Prayer to Mother Mary for families
O Mary, bright dawn of the world, Mother of the living, to you do we entrust the cause of life.
Look down, O Mother, upon the vast number of babies not allowed to be born, of the poor whose lives are made difficult, of men and women who are victims of brutal violence, of the elderly and the sick killed by indifference or out of misguided mercy.
To you do we entrust the future of the family formed in the image of the Holy Family of Nazareth. Amen.
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