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February 25th, 2007
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 dominate 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 us 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 the Baptism.
Collection Last Week’s Collection: $ 2,447.73
Fund Raising Goal: $ 250.000.00
$ 13,636.00 Total Received For the next phase of our plan.
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 St. John Lutheran Church Masses & Celebrations during the week:
Sun. February 25th, 2007
Sunday of the Man with Leprosy
أحد الأبرص
9:30AM: Fouad Azar (5 Years Mem. Mass) & Son John (Family)
11:00AM: Boula Laba (1 Yr. Mem. Mass) (Family)
Mon. February 26th, 2007
9:00AM: Rosary Prayers (4 Mysteries)
5:30PM: Devotion Prayers to St. Joseph.
5:45PM: Devotion Prayers to St. Anne.
6:00PM: Sarkis Jacobs (Marie Youssef)
Tue. February 27th, 2007
5:30PM: Devotion Prayers to St. Anthony.
6:00PM: Antonios Youssef Elbaresh & Daughter Cathy (Family)
Wed. February 28th, 2007
5:00PM: Devotion Prayers to Mother Mary.
6:00PM: Antonios Bakhos Nohra (Family)
Thu. March 1st, 2007
Blessed Sacrament Adoration Day
9:00AM: Rosary Prayers (4 Mysteries)
10:15AM: Prayers to St. Charbel.
10:45AM: Meditation.
11:00AM: Blessed Sacrament Adoration Hour.
12:00PM: Blessing & Conclusion of the Day.
6:00PM: Special Intention (Chaldean)
Fri. March 2nd , 2007
St. John Maroun’s Feast
6:00PM: Boula Mikhail & Deceased Family Members (Family)
6:30PM: Stations of the Cross.
Sun. March 4th, 2007
Sunday of the Hemorrhaging Woman
أحد المنزوفة
9:30AM: John Azar (6 Mths. Mem. Mass) (Family)
11:00AM: Boulos Yammouni (40 Days Mem. Mass) (Family)
Community News & Events During This Week
Thank you: Fr. Elie would like to thank each and every one of you for all your hard work in preparing the 20th Anniversary Party. May God bless you all and keep you safe.
Pilgrimage Trip: St. Anthony’s Parish is organizing a Pilgrimage Trip to France, Portugal and Spain. Price is: $ 3,700.00 per person and it includes: Airport taxes, service charges, hotel porterage, hotel tips, bus transfers between Leamington and Detroit. If you are interested in joining, please sign up your names on the sheet provided or call the Church Office at 322-2282. This is a chance to visit all the major pilgrimage sites in France, Spain and Portugal.
Easter Play: All children who are interested in being in the Easter Play, please sign up your names on the sheet provided at the Church entrance.
Stations of the 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.
First Communion: The First Communion Courses, every Friday from 5:00 to 6:30PM. All are welcome.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Icon will visit this week: St. Anthony’s Parish, 280 Talbot Rd. East, Leamington Phone # (519) 322-2282. If you like the icon to visit your home, please call St. Anthony’s Parish. All are welcome.
Bingo Sessions: Thursday, March 1st, 2007 at 1:00 & Friday, March 23rd, 2007 @ 7:00PM.
Founoun Presents Tabdeal or No Deal in Windsor, Thursday, March 1st, 2007 at E. J. Lajeunesse, 600 E C Row West, Windsor. Featuring: Carla Haddad, Toni Abou Jawdeh, Liliane Nemri & Michel Bou Sleiman. Tickets start at $ 25.00. Doors open at 8:00PM. Show starts at 8:30PM. For more information or rerservation, please call: (519) 999-3335.
Knights of Columbus News:.
- Executive Meeting: Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 at 7:00PM at Church Hall.
- Tootsie Roll Fund Raising: March 2, 3 & 4, 2007. Members of our council and St. Michael’s council will be offering Tootsie Roll Candles to the public at various major stores in town in exchange for a donation. This is an opportunity to maintain public awareness of the K of C in our community and the proceeds will benefit the Special Olympics Ontario and the Catholic Mission in Canada.
- St. Anthony’s Maronite K of C Council 13797 Cardinal Carter Secondary School Bursary: Eligibility and application are available from Students Services at Cardinal Carter for 4th Year graduating students in 2007.
Prayer for Lent
Dear Lord, we are not 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 we 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 numbers 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 Nazarety. Amen.
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