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

OUR LADY OF LEBANON PARISH - TORONTO Maronite Catholic Church.

Served by the Antonine Maronite Order

Mass Intention

Sunday Jan, 6th, Epiphany

10:30 am -

12:30 pm - Memorial mass for the late Metri Elias and all the deceased of Elias and Awwad families offered by Mr. And Mrs. Ibrahim and Georgina Elias and family.

- Memorial mass for the late Jamileh Maroun Mansour offered by her son Georges Mansour and his family.

Sunday Jan, 13th,

10:30 am -

12:30 pm -

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

LEBANESE CALENDARS

are available for the cost of $15

The Patriarch’s Visit to Toronto

In May 30th and 11th , 2012

Are now available in 3 DVD set at the price of $ 30.00

For more information please call 416.534.7070

January 6th, 2013 - Epiphany

Our Lady of Lebanon First Communion classes

We are meeting every Saturday for Catechism and First Communion preparation beginning

Saturday Feb. 2nd, 2013 from 4 to 6pm. For registration please contact

the office of the parish.

CONGRATUALTIONS:

Our best wishes to Mr. & Mrs. Sami and Rania Kneifati on the baptism of their son Andrew on Jan. 5th, 2013 in our Church. May the Lord bless you little angel and Our Lady of Lebanon protect you.

Valentine’s Party 2013 at La Grill Restaurant

7880 Keele St ( Keele and Hwy 7 ) Sat Feb 9th, 2013. Tickets 40$

For reservations please call Wissam 416.993.0547; or Marwan 416.460.9434

Pilgrimage to Medjugorje & Rome

From April 28 to May 7, 2013 (9 days/8 nights) Total price $ 2900.00

For information and further inquiry please contact the church office. Brochures are available in the office

WEDDING BANNS: 1st Roy Moufawad & Doreen Askandar

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Please contact the Parish’s 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 neces-sary. Please call the Priest one year before the planned wedding date and before ar-ranging the hall.

Baptism

Please make an appointment one month in advance.

Ministry of the Sick

Inform the priest for assistance.

Confession

By appointment or before the Mass.

COLLECTION AND DONATIONS BALANCE

Dec 30th, 2012

Anonymous 500.00 Barakat Charbel 150.00

El-Maalouf Antoine 50.00 Issa Georges 250.00

Melki Rabih 125.00 Mossaad Georgette 140.00

Sabat Antoine 500.00 Salem Roy 200.00

Sawaya Elie 500.00 Sayde Antoine 1000.00

Total Collection 1272.00 Total Donations 3415.00 Grand Total 4687.00

The Season of Epiphany

This season commemorates the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan by John the Baptist. The Syriac word for epiphany is ‘Denho’. It has the same meaning as apparition and manifestation. It celebrates the betrothal between Christ and his people and is seen as a ‘new pas-sage’. It is the passage through water for a new people (the Church) toward a new promised land (the Kingdom). The season begins on January 6. Its duration varies from four to seven weeks according to the date of Easter each year. The weeks in-clude: Epiphany, Sunday of the Priests, Sunday of the Righteous and the Just, and Sunday of the Faithful Departed. On the Epiphany, people bring bottles of water to the church for a blessing ceremony during the liturgy. ( In contrast the Roman Catholic Liturgy celebrates the Epiphany as the presentation of the Magi and their gifts to the child Jesus, while the Sunday falling after 6 January is the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.)

OLOL parish thanks all the families for their annual donation of $250 CND. Your contribution are supporting our programs for our children and youth. Thank you and God bless you.

Keep in touch! Dear parishioners, if your address has recently changed,

please contact the parish office to update our records.

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A reading from the Letter of St. Paul the Apostle to Titus (2:11-3:7)

Your Blessing Father

The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, up-right, and godly, while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Je-sus Christ. He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds. Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one look down on you. Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another. But when the good-ness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Praise be to God always.

A reading from the Holy Gospel of the Lord

according to Saint Luke ; (3:15-22)

The Evangelist said: As the people were filled with expecta-tion, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” So, with many other exhortations, he proclaimed the good news to the people. But Herod the ruler, who had been rebuked by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil things that Herod had done, added to them all by shutting up John in prison. Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit de-scended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.”

This is the truth. Peace be with you.