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Thirteenth Sunday of the Pentecost Season.
August 23rd, 2009
الأحد الثالث عشَر من زمن العنصرة.
23 آب سنة 2009
Gospel: Luke 8: 1 – 15 Readings: 1 Corinthians 3: 1 – 11
This Sunday’s Gospel focuses on preaching the good news. The parable of the sower is a tool to make the mystery of the kingdom more comprehensible. St. Paul insists on mentioning that he and all the apostles are not philosophers with great theories. They are servants of Christ the Lord.
The disciple’s missionary work doesn’t end with his own will and tiredness but with the Lord’s will and grace. The base of the disciple’s life is Jesus who is the cornerstone. We are in a real partnership with the Father and his Son Jesus and his Holy Spirit.
The laws of his partnership are: avoid sin, live the commandments, especially love, keep away from the earthly riches and false messiahs. The center of the Christian Church is: Jesus who preached to the cities and towns and the twelve disciples and some ladies.
In this parable we have four kinds of soil: the path, the rock, the thorns and the good soil. Four destinies face these kinds of soil: the seed that fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up, the seed that grew and then withered for lack of moisture, the seed that fell among the thorns and the thorns that grew with it and choked it, the seed that fell into good soil, and when it grew, it produced a hundredfold.
Collection Last week’s Collection: $ 5,597.46
Fund Raising Goal: $ 250.000.00
Land Purchase: Our Goal: $ 105,000.00 Total Received: $ 10,855.50
$ 10,525.50: Total Received (After 3 loan payments)
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 Faith Mennonite Church
Masses & Celebrations During The Week:
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost.
الأحد الثالث عشَر من زمن العنصرة.9:30AM: Theresa Nehmetallah (Family)
10:00AM: Emily Najem (40 Days Mem. Mass) (Family)
Monday, August 24th, 2009
8:00AM: Devotion Prayers to St. Anne.
8:30AM: Hanné Yacoub & her sisters Susanne Andary & Alice Saad (Sadie Jraige)
9:00AM: Rosary Prayers (4 Mysteries)
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
8:00AM: Devotion Prayers to St. Anthony.
8:30AM: Fr. Louis Georges (Paul Georges & Family)
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
7:30AM: Devotion Prayers to Mother Mary.
8:30AM: All Forgotten Souls (Donated)
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
8:00AM: Devotion Prayers to St. Charbel.
8:30AM: Warde Ishak (Family)
Friday, August 28th, 2009
8:00AM: Devotion Prayers to the Sacred Heart.
8:30AM: Denise Jacobs (Paul & Adel Thomas)
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
الأحد الرابع عشَر من زمن العنصرة.9:30AM: Iskandar Boutros & Wife Ghazale & Deceased Family Members (Family)
12:00PM: Betty Semaan (40 Days Mem. Mass) (Family)
This Weeks News & Events
Children Choir Practice: Tuesday from 5 to 6 PM.
Bingo: Monday, August 31st, 2009 @ 9:00PM.
We received the Masses and Donations to St. Anthony’s Building Fund in memory of Marzouka Youssif. Thank you all for your generosity. May God rest her soul in peace and grant consolation for her family and relatives.
Jeita Grotto: Jeita Grotto made it to the finals of the World’s Seven Natural Wonders: Lebanon’s Jeita Grotto has been selected as one of 28 finalists in a worldwide campaign to choose the “New 7 Wonders of Nature,” organizers said. Jeita was chosen from 77 nominees by a panel of experts who assessed 261 international landmarks picked by the public. Jeita Grotto, often referred to as the “Pearl of Nature in Lebanon,” comprises two crystallized limestone caves and an underground river.
New 7 Wonders: Please vote for Jeita Grotto, which current rank is 6. To cast your vote, please go to:
www.new7wondersClick Here to cast Your Vote For Jeita
The 2009 Lebanese Festival in USA: The Third Annual Lebanese Festival will take place on Friday & Saturday, August 28, 29, 2009 at Town Square in Downtown Northville, Michigan. This festival is a vibrant world-class Celebration of heritage, culture & Arts. We invite you to bring your family and friends and come savor the sights, sounds and tastes if a traditional mahrajan, including an evening of Middle Eastern Stars (Osama Baalbaki & Amalia Kaddo). Live entertainment & Dabke, children’s fun play area, mouth-watering pastries & homemade ice cream & so much more. Festival runs until 11:00PM both nights, and remember to bring a law chair to sit on to enjoy the festival. For more information, please call (248) 330-7300 or visit www.lebanesefestival.org.
Lebanese Kataeb-Windsor cordially invites you to attend our annual family B.B.Q., here in Windsor, on Sunday, August 30th, 2009. It is important to be present with us in this social occasion. This invitation is open to all St. Anthony’s Parish of Leamington to come and celebrate with their Windsor Family. The B.B.Q. will be held from 1:00PM till 7:00PM at Co-An Park 11071, 11th Concession, McGregor, ON. Please inform us if you are attending. For more info, please call: Tony Sakr at (519) 969-466 or (519) 995-4666 or Emile Nabbout at (519) 737-6069 or (519) 251-7579.
The Queenship of Mary, August 22nd
Following the Feast of Mary’s Assumption into heaven on August 15, the feast of her Queenship celebrates her place among the angels and saints as the Queen of heaven and earth.
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope.
To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, your eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile show us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
St. Bartholomew, August 24th
St. Bartholomew, one of the twelve apostle, was born in Galilee and is probably the same person as Nathaniel, whom Philip brought to see Jesus of Nazareth. “Can anything good come from that place?” Nathaniel asked. (John 1: 45 – 51) Jesus called him an Israelite incapable of deceit, an honest, straightforward man, and promised that heaven would open for him and the mysteries of God would be revealed before his eyes. Like some apostles, little is known about St. Bartholomew’s activity after Pentecost. According to some reports, he preached the Gospel in Armenia and India and was beaten and beheaded by King Astyages for his faith in Christ.
Lord, keep strong the faith which made Bartholomew believe in your Son. May we too witness to what we believe wherever we go.