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Sunday October 29th, 2006
Seventh Sunday after the Holy Cross, Christ the King
Gospel: Mathew 25: 31 – 46
Readings: Romans 12: 9 – 21 This Gospel concludes Jesus’ life as a Teacher and it is used by the Church to close the Liturgical Year. It is the best learning tool on how to prepare to meet the Lord upon his second coming and the final judgment. This scene is not a parable; it is in fact a prophetic event.
Jesus invites us through this event to be ready to answer the final question of the final judgment. “Did you really love me?” St. John of the Cross notices that we will only be judged by love, which is general and is deeds. If we focus on the face of the Son of Man, we notice that he is the subject in this Gospel.
He is the glorified one, surrounded by angels, the King, the Judge, the Shepherd, the Son, and the incarnate in all cases of the human kind especially the hardest situations: hungry, thirsty, naked, stranger, sick, prisoner. What shocks us is the discovery that the subject becomes suddenly the object.
He is only all the least ones, he is instead the center for gathering and waiting for God’s mercy. He accepted willingly to live humbly.
Collection Last Week’s Collection: $ 1,789.13
Fund Raising Goal: $ 250.000.00
$ 10,500.00 Total Received For the next phase of our plan.
Mass Books Collection:
Our Target: $ 1,000.00 USD = $1,121.99 Cad.
Total Received: $ 425.50 Cad.
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 South Point Community Masses & Celebrations during the week:
Sun. October 29th, 2006
Seventh Sunday after the Holy Cross, Christ the King
الأحد السابع بعد عيد الصليب، عيد يسوع الملك
9:30AM: Sarkis & Alia Raffoul & Son Philip (Donated)
11:00AM: Cathy Jacobs (40 Days Mem. Mass) (Family)
3:00PM: John Azar (40 Days Mem. Mass) (Family)
5:00PM: Halloween Party @ Church Hall.
Mon. October 30th, 2006
9:00AM: Rosary Prayers (4 Mysteries)
5:30PM: Devotion Prayers to St. Anne.
6:00PM: For the Intention of Wilson Chamoun & Deceased Family Members (Chaldean)
Tue. October 31st, 2006
Conclusion of the Month of the Rosary
9:00AM: Rosary Prayers (4 Mysteries)
5:30PM: Devotion Prayers to St. Anthony.
6:00PM: Special Intention (Chaldean) Procession with the Statue.
Wed. November 1st, 2006
All Saints
5:00PM: Devotion Prayers to Mother Mary.
6:00PM: Antonios Youssef Elbaresh & Daughter Cathy (Family)
Thu. November 2nd, 2006
All Souls
10:00AM: Rite of Incense @ Evergreen Memorial Cemetery.
10:30AM: Rite of Incense @ Erie Memorial Gardens.
5:45PM: Faithfully Departed Prayers.
6:00PM: For the Intention of all Deceased Parishioners.
Fri. November 3rd, 2006
Blessed Sacrament Adoration Day.
9:00AM: Rosary Prayers (4 Mysteries)
10:15AM: St. Charbel’s Prayers.
10:45AM: Meditation.
11:00AM: Blessed Sacrament Adoration Day.
12:00PM: Blessing & Conclusion of the Day.
5:45PM: Faithfully Departed Prayers.
6:00PM: Boutros Yacoub Boutros (Annie Boutros & Family)
Sun. November 5th, 2006
Sunday of the Renewal of the Church
أحد تجديد البيعة
9:30AM: Cenira Sarkis (Family)
11:00AM: Litfallah Hanna & Barjoute & Deceased Family Members (Family)
Community News & Events During This Week
Second Banns Between: Michael Lombardi & Chantal Georges
Rite of Incense: On Thursday, November 2nd, we celebrate All Souls Day. We will pray the Rite of Incense @ Evergreen Memorial Cemetery at 10:00AM and 10:30AM @ Erie Memorial Gardens. All are welcome to attend and remember in prayers the faithfully departed.
November is the Month consecrated for prayers for the Faithfully Departed. Rosary & Prayers will take place every evening in November at 5:45PM. All are welcome.
Halloween Party: Today, Sunday, October 29th, 2006, 5:00PM to 7:00PM.
Bingo Session: Monday, November 6th, 2006 at 7:00PM.
Vote: Let your voice be heard. Send your ballot by mail from now until November 3rd, 2006.
Two Women share about Palestine: Sharing information, pictures, Sunday November 5th, 2006 at 7PM at UMEI, School Chapel, 614 Rd. 6, R. R. 5, Leamington.
Haddad Entertainment proudly presents Super Star Fares Karam in Windsor & the popular singer Bassam Saleh & Samar Chaker on Friday November 17, 2006 at the Caboto Club, 2175 Parent Ave., Windsor. Ticket Price starts at $ 60.00 (no dinner), $85.00 (with dinner). Doors open at 7:30PM. Dinner at 9PM. For reservations: Windsor: (519) 971-9075, Leamington: Zina’s Chocolate (519) 326-6434.
Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Icon of our Lady of Guadalupe will visit our Parishioners. This week the Icon will visit the Residence of:
- George Harb, 71 Foundry St., Leamington, Phone # (519) 326-4633.
Knights of Columbus News:
- Executive Meeting: Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 7:00PM at Church Hall.
- General Meeting: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 7:00PM at Church Hall.
- K O C Bingo Sessions: Saturday, November 11th, 2006 at 1:00PM & Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 at 7:00PM.
- 2nd Annual Banquet: Tentatively scheduled for January 27, 2007. Plans and preparations starting soon. Keep this day open in your future plans and hope to see you all there.
- St. Anthony’s K of C Bursary: A new bursary will be set up and awarded to a graduating student from Cardinal Carter this year. Details and criteria to follow and will be available at the school.
- Ontario K of C Bursary: This bursary is open to a graduating student that is the son or daughter of a member of K of C that is in good standing. Every year 10 students across Ontario are selected as recipients.
All Saints, November 1st
This feast which has its beginning in the Christian churches of the fifth and sixth centuries celebrates all those saints, canonized or not, who enjoy the happiness of the kingdom of heaven.
Our relatives and friends, multitudes unknown “which no one can number from all tribes and peoples and tongues,” stand before God’s throne in joyful praise. They are remembered this day. God’s amazing grace has brought them home.
The feast of All Saints turns our eyes to that “great clouds of witnesses” who are with God, yet still with us. We share in their love and are inspired by their example. They attract us to journey to the kingdom of God.
For all the saints who from their labours rest, who thee by faith before the world confessed, thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest!
All Souls, November 2nd
The early Christians, like their pagan ancestors, remembered their dead on certain days of the year. The present date for our yearly commemoration of the dead was established in the tenth century.
We remember the dead with prayers so that God will “Strengthen our hope that al our departed brothers and sisters will share in Christ’s resurrection.”
In the words of Vatican Council II, “Fully conscious of the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, the Church on earth honours with great respect the memory of the dead, because it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, because it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be freed from their sins, she offers her suffrages for them.
Lord God, Maker of all, Master of life and death, guard and gift of our souls, receive those who go before us on the pilgrimage of death; in due time receive us too when our days are done. Amen.
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