OUR LADY OF LEBANON PARISH - TORONTO

Maronite Catholic Church. Served by the Antonine Maronite Order

Pastor : Fr. Maroun Abou Jaoude OAM Associate Pastor : Fr. Youssef Chedid OAM

December 9th, 2012 - Advent - Birth of John the Baptist

Mass Intentions Sunday Dec 9th,
10:30 am 12:30 pm 7:00 pm (Pickering) - One year memorial mass for the late Mariette Chibani offererd by her husband Georges Chibani and her children.

Sunday Dec 16th,

10:30 am -

Revelation to Joseph

12:30 pm - One year memorial mass for the late Nabiha Abou-jaoude offered by the family. 7:00 pm (Pickering) - Two years memorial mass for the late Josephine Fadel offered by her husband Georges Fadel and her children Mansour and fadi Fadel. LEBANESE CALENDARS

are available for the cost of $15 Our Lady of Lebanon Christmas Banquet

Saturday Dec 15th, 2012

Rizzo Italian Banquet Hall ( 1941 Albion Road ) Entertainment: Lebanese Super Star Georges Hadchiti Lebanese star Rami Badr

The name John means God is gracious. His birth signals the beginning of a new era in God-human relationship, an era to be characterised by grace and not by law. God himself gave John that name and it was revealed to his father Zachary in a vision (Luke 1:13). In John we see that God already has a purpose for His children before they come into this world, and so the challenge of life is for them to discover this purpose and to be faithful to its demands. OLOL Youth Christmas Party 2012 A night full of Christmas Spirit! Sat. Dec. 22nd at 8pm in the church's hall. Food, Games, Music! Cost of tickets $ 10 Ho, Ho, Hope to see you there. For tickets please contact the Church office @ 416.534.7070

Doors open at 7:00 pm Dinner at 8:30 pm

Adults $ 80 Kids $ 40 ( age 5-11) For reservation please call Maha : (416) 534-7070 Sam Dagher : (416) 493-8945 Edmond Dagher : (416) 371-2826 Claude Dagher : (416) 294-9503 MASS SCHEDULE

Saturdays at 6:30 pm; Sundays at 10:30 & 12:30 in OLOL church (1515 Queen St W, Toronto ON); Sunday at 7 pm in Holy Redeemer Church (796 Eyer Dr, Pickering ON). Our Lady of Lebanon Parish; 1515 Queen St. West; Toronto, ON, M6R 1A5; Tel: 416-534-7070; Fax: 416-530-4103; www.ourladyoflebanon.ca; office@ourladyoflebanon.ca; mjaoude1@hotmail.com; ololtoronto, @ololtoronto

COLLECTION AND DONATIONS BALANCE

Dec 2nd, 2012

Alakji Georges Chehade Marlene El-Azzi Youssef Habash Issa Homsy Norman Saad Gerard Sahlani Walid Total Collection 50.00 100.00 50.00 50.00 250.00 50.00 300.00 2486.00 Grand Total Bou-Saab Joseph Diab Barakat Ghostine Charbel Harfouche Samir Naoum Elie Sadaka Elias 50.00 250.00 100.00 250.00 250.00 50.00

Please contact the Parishs office to arrange for any sacrament of the Church.

Office hours
Monday, Wednesday: 3pm - 8 pm Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 11am - 8 pm

Marriage
A marriage preparation course is necessary. Please call the Priest one year before the planned wedding date and before arranging the hall.

Total Donations 4286.00

1800.00

Baptism
Please make an appointment one month in advance.

OLOL parish thanks all the families for their annual donation of $250 CND. Your contribution are supporting our programs for our children

Ministry of the Sick

Inform the priest for assistance.

Keep in touch!
Dear parishioners, if your address has recently changed, please contact the parish office to update our records.

Confession
By appointment or before the Mass.

OLOL Parish Christmas Schedule 2012 CHRISTMAS NOVENA Sat Dec 15th to Sun Dec 23rd from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm CHRISTMAS CONFESSIONS Sat Dec 15th to Sun Dec 23rd from 5:30-6:30 pm Mon Dec 24th from 11:00 to 11:30 pm CHRISTMAS MASSES 11:30 pm (Midnight) 10:30 am and 12:30 pm 7:00 pm in Pickering 6:30 pm (Marys Congratulations) 10:30 am and 12:30 pm NEW YEAR EVE MASS 6:30 8:00 pm Blessed Sacrament Adoration and thanksgiving Mass

Mon Dec Tue Dec 25th

24th

Wed Dec 26th Sun Dec 30st

Mon Dec 31st

Tue Jan

1st,

NEW YEAR MASS 2013 12:30 noon

A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Galatians, Your blessings Father; (4:21-5 : 1)

Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law, will you not listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and the other by a free woman. One, the child of the slave, was born according to the flesh; the other, the child of the free woman, was born through the promise. Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One woman, in fact, is Hagar, from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. But the other woman corresponds to the Jerusalem above; she is free, and she is our mother. For it is written, Rejoice, you childless one, you who bear no children, burst into song and shout, you who endure no birth pangs; for the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than the children of the one who is married. Now you, my friends, are children of the promise, like Isaac. But just as at that time the child who was born according to the flesh persecuted the child who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also. But what does the scripture say? Drive out the slave and her child; for the child of the slave will not share the inheritance with the child of the free woman. So then, friends, we are children, not of the slave but of the free woman. For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. !
Praise be to God always.

A reading from the Holy Gospel of the Lord according to Saint Luke; (1:57-66)
Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father. But his mother said, No; he is to be called John. They said to her, None of your relatives has this name. Then they began motioning to his father to find out what name he wanted to give him. He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, His name is John. And all of them were amazed. Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue freed, and he began to speak, praising God. Fear came over all their neighbors, and all these things were talked about throughout the entire hill country of Judea. All who heard them pondered them and said, What then will this child become? For, indeed, the hand of the Lord was with him.