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October 28th, 2007
Seventh Sunday after the Holy Cross, Christ the King October 28th, 2007
Gospel: Matthew 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 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 good 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 not 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: $ 2,770.33
Fund Raising Goal: $ 250.000.00
$ 17,326.08 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 South Point Community Masses & Celebrations during the week:
Sun. October 28th, 2007
Seventh Sunday after the Holy Cross, Christ the King
9:30AM: Yvette Tannous (Family)
11:00AM: Assad Haifa (6 Mths. Mem. Mass.)
3:30 – 6:30PM: Halloween Party at Church Hall.
Mon. October 29th, 2007
9:00AM: Rosary Prayers (4 Mysteries)
5:30PM: Devotion prayers to St. Anne.
6:00PM: Mass or Liturgy of the Word. Sarkis Jacobs (Mr. & Mrs. Paul Jouraij)
Tue. October 30th, 2007
5:30PM: Devotion prayers to St. Anthony.
6:00PM: Mass or Liturgy of the Word. All Forgotten Souls (Donated)
Wed. October 31st, 2007
5:00PM: Devotion Prayers to Mother Mary.
6:00PM: Mass or Liturgy of the Word. Emile Obeid (Mr. & Mrs. Valère Gaspard)
Thu. November 1st, 2007
All Saints Feast
عيد جميع القدّيسين
Blessed Sacrament Adoration Day
9:00AM: Rosary Prayers (4 Mysteries)
10:15AM: Devotion Prayers to St. Charbel.
10:45AM: Devotion Prayers to the Sacred Heart.
11:00AM: Blessed Sacrament Adoration Hour.
12:00PM: Blessing & Conclusion of the Day.
5:45PM: Faithfully Departed Prayers.
6:00PM: Mass or Liturgy of the Word. Antonios Youssef Elbaresh & Daughter Cathy (Family)
Fri. November 2nd, 2007
All Souls Day تذكار الموتى
10:00AM: Rite of Incense @ Evergreen Memorial Cemetery صلاة وضع البخور
10:30AM: Rite of Incense @ Erie Memorial Gardens. صلاو وضع البخور
3:00PM: Divine Mercy Chaplet.
5:45PM: Faithfully Departed Prayers.
6:00PM: Mass or Liturgy of the Word.
For the Intention of all Deceased Parishioners
Sun. November 4th, 2007
Sunday of the Renewal of the Church
أحد تجديد البيعة
9:30AM: For the Speedy Restoration of Fr. Elie’s health (Knights of Columbus)
11:00AM: Alec Mouawad (1 Yr. Mem. Mass.) (Family)
Community News & Events During This Week
Prayers at the Cemeteries: On Friday, November 2nd, we celebrate All Souls Day. We will pray the Rite of Incense @ Evergreen Memorial Cemetery at 10:00AN and 10:30AM @ Erie Memorial Gardens. All are welcome to attend.
Time Change, Fall Back: Next Sunday, November 4th, 2007, Daylight Saving Time ends, please turn your clocks back one hour. Thank you.
Halloween Party: Today, Sunday October 28th, at St. Anthony’s Parish for all the children from 3:30 to 6:30PM.
Knights of Mary: Meeting every Friday, 4:30 to 5:30PM.
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.
Congratulations to Juliana Kasia Miecz who received the Sacraments of Baptism & Confirmation at St. Anthony’s Parish on Sunday, October 21st, 2007. May God bless her with her family.
Bingo: Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 @ 1:00PM.
Knights of Columbus News;
- Nov. 4th, 2007: The 9:30AM Mass on Sunday, November 4th will be offered by St. Anthony’s Knights of Columbus Council for the intention of Fr. Elie’s speedy recovery to full health. Please join the brother Knights to pray for this intention.
- Nov. 4th, 2007: 1st & 2nd Degree, 1PM, Fr. Victor Cote Council 9671 at St. Gregory Church. For further information and if you are planning on attending, contact GK Joe Raffoul or membership director Michel Nouhra before Oct. 30, 2007.
- Nov. 6th, 2007: Executive Meeting, at Church Hall at 7PM.
- Nov. 10th, 2007: Banquet: Kingsville. Mass at 5PM, Dinner at 7PM.
- Nov. 17th, 2007: Banquet: St. Michael’s. Details to follow.
- Nov. 17th, 2007: St. Peter’s Maronite Council 13335 Hospice of Windsor Annual K of C Fundraiser at 7PM at Church Hall.
- Nov. 18th, 2007: 3rd Degree, 1PM District 88, Council 2844 McGregor.
- Nov. 20th, 2007: General Meeting at Church Hall at 7PM.
- Nov. 29th, 2007: Thursday Bingo Session at 7PM.
- Jan. 26th, 2008: St. Anthony’s Banquet.
Marriage Preparation Courses: All couples planning on getting married in 2008 at St. Anthony’s Parish are asked to attend Marriage Preparation Courses.
The first available sessions for this fall are scheduled at St. Michael’s Parish, Leamington on Thursday and Friday, November 1st & 2nd, 2007 from 1:00PM to 6:00PM. To register for the Fall courses at St. Michael’s Parish, please contact St. Michael’s Parish, please contact St. Michael’s Parish at 326-2643. Fee $ 75.00 per couple.
Learn English: Friday afternoons, 1 to 3 Pm at Ontario Early Years Centre at Mill St. School. Learn Reading & Writing. Childcare provided. Free admission. To register: (519) 326-7743 or drop in to the Community Education Centre, 94 Talbot St. East, Leamington.
Second Banns Between:
Gaby Tannous & Sanaz Abdollahi.
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.
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 all 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 a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be freed from their sins, she offers her suffrages for them.
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