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Second Sunday after the Holy Cross.
September 27th, 2009
الأحد االثاني بعد عيد الصّليب.
27 أيلول سنة 2009
Gospel: Matthew 24: 1 – 14 Readings: 1 Corinthians 15:19 – 34
This Sunday we hear a text from the Gospel of Matthew. This text frightens human beings and makes them question the natural disasters which occurred in the past and are happening in the present.
Matthew shows us how Jesus opened the kingdom prepared for them. The disciples asked Jesus a series of questions: when will the destruction of Jerusalem be? What will be the sign of the coming of the Son of Man and the end of the age?
They considered all these incidents connected one to another. We know as Matthew knew the day he wrote the Gospel that Jerusalem and its temple have been destroyed, the end is not yet.
The coming of the Son of Man in his glory declares the end of the history. Matthew tells us that the judgment won’t happen at the end of the age but every minute of our daily lives and that the Son of Man is standing near by to encourage us to be patient, courageous and to stay alert: “Keep awake therefore.”
Collection Last week’s Collection: $ 3,126.02
Fund Raising Goal: $ 250.000.00
Land Purchase: Our Goal: $ 105,000.00 Total Received: $ 14,565.50
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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 United Pentecostal Church
Masses & Celebrations During The Week:
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Second Sunday after the Cross.
الأحد الثاني بعد الصليب.3:00PM: Joe Boutros (6 Mths. Mem. Mass) (Family)
6:00PM: Warde Rizk (Mem. Mass) (Family)
The Church will be open every day from: 8:00 to 3:00PM.
The Rosary Prayers will take place every Monday at 9:00AM.
Daily Devotion Prayers will take place every day at 8:30AM.
All are welcome.
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Third Sunday after the Cross
Sunday of the Holy Rosaryالأحد الثالث بعد الصليب.
أحد الوردية.
10:00AM: Rosary Prayers (4 Mysteries)
11:00AM: Sarkis Obeid (40 Day Mem. Mass) (Family)
This Weeks News & Events
We would like to thank Rev. Father Chaaya Akkari for his presence with us this Sunday. May God bless him and keep him safe.
Sunday of the Rosary: Next Sunday, October 4th, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Rosary. We will pray the 4 mysteries of the Holy Rosary before the Mass at 10:00AM and every day during the week at 9:00AM for the month of October. May God bless you all through the intercession of Mother Mary the Lady of the Rosary.
Arabic School: Please note that the Arabic Classes will take place every Saturday from 9:30AM to 12:00PM at Cardinal Carter Secondary School. All are welcome.
Bingo: Monday, September 28th, 09 @ 12 PM.
Our deepest sympathies to the Rizk and Andary family for the loss of Warde Rizk who passed away in Lebanon. The Memorial Mass for the rest of her soul is held today, September 27 at St. Anthony’s Parish. May God rest her soul in peace and grant consolation for her family and relatives in Canada and abroad.
Festival of faith: October 15 – 17, 2009. Come and take part in the first annual Festival of Faith, a celebration of the Living Word through thought-provoking lectures, informative workshops, song and prayer. For more information about events and registration, go to www.spicf.ca. St. Peter’s Institute for Catholic Formation, London, Ontario.
St. Therese of the Child Jesus, October 1st
Marie-Françoise-Therese Martin, born on January 2, 1873, at Alençon, France, was the youngest of nine children born to Louis and Azélie-Marie Martin.
Her father was a successful watchmaker and her mother a seamstress. Her mother died when Therese was four years old and the child suffered a deep sadness and sense of loss that affected her for the next eight years of her life. After the death of her mother in 1877.
Mr. Martin moved the family to Lisieux, where Therese was cared for by two older sisters, Mary and Pauline, and an aunt, Mrs. Guérin. On Christmas Day, 1886, the young girl experienced a profound conversion.
She developed a great love for missionary life of the Church, her desire for prayer increased, and she began to make plans for entering the Carmelite Convent in Lisieux, where her two older sisters, Mary and Pauline, were members. By special dispensation she entered the Carmelites on April 9, 1888, and was professed on September 8, 1890.
For the next seven years, she lived a life of prayer, fulfilling her routine duties with extraordinary faithfulness and love. She guided the novices of her community for the last four years of her life until she died on September 30, 1897, from a painful condition of tuberculosis.
After her death her spiritual autobiography, The Story of a Soul, revealed to the world her remarkable interior life of which, even many of her own sisters in the convent were unaware. Also known, as “the Little Flower,” Therese inspired millions of people by the spirit of her “Little Way.”
She became holy, Pope Pius said, “Without going beyond the ordinary circumstances of life.” Her love transformed everything she did, however small, into a pleasing gift for God.
Guardian Angels, October 2nd
“He has given his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.” (Ps. 91)
Both the Old and New Testaments recognize that God gives each person born into this world a guardian. Jesus, calling a little child to him, said that the angels in heaven watch over children such as this one. By a loving providence God reaches into human life to guard, protect and lead us in our way to salvation.
Prayer of St. Therese of the Child Jesus
Lord Jesus, I am not an eagle. All I have are the eyes and the heart of one. In spite of my littleness, I dare to gaze at the sun of love, and long to fly toward it.
I want to imitate the eagles, but all I can do is flap my small wings. What shall I do? With cheerful confidence
I shall stay gazing at the sun, till I die. Nothing will frighten me, neither wind nor rain.
O my beloved sun, I delight in feeling small and helpless in your presence; and my heart is at peace.