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August 26th, 2007
Fourteenth Sunday of the Pentecost Season
Gospel: Luke 10: 38 – 42
Readings: 1 Thessalonians 2: 1 – 13 This Sunday’s Gospel takes us to the house of the Lazarus to witness the welcome for Jesus by Martha and her sister Mary. Martha is busy with the service, but Mary sat at Jesus’ feet to listen to his words.
Jesus insists on the importance of listening to the Gospel, “Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”
We see Mary and Martha in Luke’s Gospel on the way to Jerusalem with Jesus. We also find them in John’s Gospel and they carry the same qualities with a special role for Martha who repeated what was said by Peter: “You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God.”
She revealed Jesus’ identity. In Luke’s Gospel she seems only worried about the service. She wants her sister Mary to help her. For this reason, Jesus’ answer carried a little blame: “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things.” Jesus praised Mary: “Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”
Collection Last Week’s Collection: $ 2,19351
Fund Raising Goal: $ 250.000.00
$17,326.08 Total Received For the next phase of our plan.Church Roof Donations: $ 9,690.00
For the next phase of our plan.
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Leamington Ministerial Association invites all the Christians to pray for each other. This week we pray for Knox Presbyterian Church Masses & Celebrations during the week:
Sun. August 26th, 2007
Fourteenth Sunday of the Pentecost Season
الأحد الرابع عشر من زمن العنصرة
9:30AM: Antonios Tannous (Sam & Laura Tannous)
11:00AM: Denise Jacobs (6 Mths. Mem. Mass) (Family)
7:00PM: End of Summer Party.
Mon. August 27th, 2007
8:15AM: Devotion Prayers to St. Anne.
8:30AM: Nadim Kassas (Michel Kassas)
9:00AM: Rosary Prayers (4 Mysteries)
Tue. August 28th, 2007
8:15AM: Devotion Prayers to St. Anthony.
8:30AM: Soul in Purgatory (Maria Santos)
Wed. August 29th, 2007
7:30AM: Devotion Prayers to Mother Mary.
8:30AM: Antonios Hanna Sarkis & Wife Kounslia (Family)
Thu. August 30th, 2007
8:00AM: Devotion Prayers to St. Charbel.
8:30AM: Elias Obeid (Marie Obeid)
Fri. August 31st, 2007
8:00AM: Devotion Prayers to the Sacred Heart.
8:30AM: Youssef Iskandar Boutros (Donated)
3:00PM: Divine Mercy Chaplet.
Sun. September 2nd, 2007
Fifteenth Sunday of the Pentecost Season
الأحد الخامس عشر من زمن العنصرة
9:30AM: Raffoul Raffoul & Wife & Deceased Family Members George Raffoul & Family)
11:00AM: Martyrs of Hadchit (Tony Hadchiti)
Community News & Events During This Week
Thank You: We would like to thank Rev. Father Fadi Bou Chebl for being with us. May God bless him and keep him safe.
Congratulations to Marilyne Nouhra who won the title of Miss Canada International’s 2nd Runner Up. May God bless her and keep her safe.
1st Banns Between: Jason Raheb & Dawn Jean Ross
Bingo: Thursday, August 30, 2007 @ 1 & 7PM.
“Genial” Library on 24779 Howard Ave., Windsor, Ontario. Practical language learning materials for all ages and levels in French, English, Spanish & Arabic. A one stop resource centre for all your language needs. Noted local educator and author Antoine Khoury invites you to inquire about our variety of services including: free informative sessions for parents and children in French or French Immersion schools, free informal workshops for French teachers at all levels, free informative session for home-schooling parents, free reading sessions and visits to Day-care centres, free weekly French lessons to seniors, highly intensive French and Arabic courses for professionals and government employees (4 per group). For more information, contact Antoine Khoury at: (519)817-4763 or via email: akhoury@cogeco.ca or visit the authors’ website: www.ezfsl.com.
Knights of Columbus News:
- Executive Meeting: Tuesday Sep. 4th, 2007 @ 7PM at Church Hall.
- General Meeting: Tuesday, Sep. 18th, 2007 @ 7PM at Church Hall.
- 1st & 2nd Degree: There is a 1st and 2nd Degree coming up on Sunday Sep. 9th, 2007 at 1PM in Kingsville. All current 1st degree members should consider getting their 2nd degree on that day. Also, any new candidates with Form 100 filled and approved can become a 1st and 2nd degree that same day. If anyone that wants to become a member. Please fill a Form 100 and give it to an executive member or drop it off at the mailbox in the Church before our next executive meeting on Tuesday Sep. 4th, 2007. All degree candidates should meet at St. Anthony’s Church parking lot at 12:30PM so that we can leave together and share a ride.
- K of C Bingo Sessions: Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 7PM. If anyone is available to help please contact Bechara Daher.
- K of C Baseball Challenge: 29 and under members or potential members vs, 30 and over members or potential members on Saturday Sep. 29th 2007 at 12:30PM at Leamington Kinsmen’s Diamonds. Contact Tony Zeiter, P. J. Tawil or Elias Khayat for further details.
Our deepest sympathies to the family of Rose Anna Kelly who passed away on August 17th, 2007 at the age of 94. The Funeral Mass was held for the rest of her soul at St. Joseph’s Church on Monday, August 20th, 2007. May God rest her soul in peace and grant consolation for her family and relatives.
St. Augustine, Bishop & Doctor, August 28
One of the great Christian teachers of all time, St. Augustine was born at Tagaste, North Africa, on November 13, 354. His father, Patricius, was a pagan and his mother was St. Monica.
Patricius was converted to Christianity in 370 and died one year later. Augustine went to Carthage in 370 to study rhetoric and philosophy. He thirsted for wisdom.
He found what he was seeking as he listened to the preaching of St. Ambrose in Milan. Augustine describes his spiritual journey in his Confessions, which recall his great struggle with evil and sin and his final experience of God’s guiding grace.
Augustine’s later life echoes with grateful praise for the God he discovered to be so good. Monica followed him to Milan in 386 and was present at his baptism by St. Ambrose on Easter in 387. After his baptism, Augustine deepened his own understanding of Christianity in the company of some friends.
He died at Hippo on August 28th, 430 and is a Doctor of the Church.
O God, to turn from you is to fall, to turn to you is to rise, and to stand with you is to abide forever.
The beheading of St. John the Baptist, August 29th
St. John was born at Ain-Karim, near Jerusalem. His father was Zachary, a priest in Jerusalem, and his mother was Elizabeth, a kinswoman of the Virgin Mary.
He lived as a hermit in the desert of Judea until 27. He began to preach along the banks of the Jordan River and stated, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Many people came to hear him, including several who would become Christ’s apostles.
It was John who baptized Jesus and pointed him out as “The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” After the baptism, John continued to preach along the banks of the Jordan.
The Gospel of Mark records the circumstances of John the Baptist’s death. Herod had John imprisoned because the Baptist had condemned the ruler’s marriage to Herodias, his brother’s wife.
Infuriated with John, Herodia plotted to kill him.
At a birthday banquet Herod, delighted by the dancing of Herodia’s daughter told her he would give her anything she requested.
At her mother’s prompting, she told him, “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist, here and now, on a dish.” John’s death is celebrated by a feast, because it resembles in so many ways the death of Jesus.
Like his master, John went to death silently and helplessly, a victim of petty revenge, human cowardice and cruelty.
His death in such absurd circumstances was his confession of faith in God, who alone sustains the human heart when it seems crushed by evil and injustice.
O God, make us faithful to truth and justice, as you did your servant, John the Baptist, herald of your Son’s birth and death.
The PRAYER, the FRUIT
The fruit of SILENCE is PRAYER.
The fruit of PRAYER is FAITH.
The fruit of FAITH is LOVE.
The fruit of LOVE is SERVICE.
The fruit of SERVICE is PEACE.
“Mother Theresa.”
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