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St Francis Bulletin Inside Cover1_Kelly 02/10/18 7:36 AM Page 1
TWENTY SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Sat October 13, 2018 and Sun October 14, 2018 – all Masses
We would like to offer you the opportunity to join us in our work
for God and neighbor. As a member of our council, you will
strengthen your faith and become a better Catholic, husband, and
father through your support of our parish and community. You
will form friendships with fellow Knights that can last a lifetime.
As much good as our council has done over the past year, we
could do even more with your help.
We invite you to join our council today.
MONDAY, 8 OCTOBER 9:00 AM S.I. JONATHAN BURAGA
TUESDAY, 9 OCTOBER 9:00 AM + ANNA JOSEPH
+ MR. & MRS. STANISLAUS WEDNESDAY, 10 OCTOBER 9:00 AM + GABRIEL LAMBERT
THURSDAY, 11 OCTOBER 9:00 AM AVAILABLE
FRIDAY, 12 OCTOBER 7:00 PM + ALFIE LAMBE
+ EDUARDO BERNAL
SATURDAY, 13 OCTOBER 9:00 AM + MARIANNA MORRA
+ ELEONORA LAN CHOW + RESTITUTO JR., RESTITUTO SR. & TERESITA BADILLES
5:00 PM S.I. IN THANKSGIVING FOR MICHAEL FERRIOLS + MARJORIE SKELTON + LARRY LYNCH
SUNDAY, 14 OCTOBER 8:30 AM S.I. FOR PEGGY & MALCOLM
FERNANDEZ + THOMAS WALSH + BAPTIST & HELEN D’SOUZA
10:15 AM + MAUREEN STUART-SHEPPERD + MARK ANTHONY VIEIRA + ANASTACIA NARDO
12:00 PM FOR THE PEOPLE OF OUR PARISH
7:00 PM + N.T. JOSEPH + GABRIEL & PATRICIA LAMBERT + WALTER & MATILDA HENWELLA
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MASS INTENTIONS
Volunteers needed to help on Wednesday, October 10th. Please
call Sandra at 905-683-8504 to help!
Attention parents of children interested in receiving
the sacraments of
First Reconciliation & First Communion
A very special welcome to all of the children who have
registered for their First Reconciliation/Communion this year
during the registration meeting dates. We are so excited to
get to know you and your family and to begin this beautiful
journey together.
Please drop off your registration forms a.s.a.p. to the Parish
office if you have not done so already. Passport stamping
began last weekend and we kindly ask that you wait until
Father has given the final blessing and the procession is at the
back of the church before sending your children to have their
passport stamped. We look forward to celebrating Mass
together each week as we prepare for these very special
sacraments.
A reminder to parents and Confirmandi that passport stamping
continues at the end of each Mass. Please remember to wait
until Mass has ended and Father has made his way to the back
of the Church before coming up to get your passport stamped.
Also, if you have not done so already, please remember to drop
off your registration packages to the parish office as soon as
possible. Have a blessed week!
This week, we begin another advertising
cycle. Please thank the advertisers when
you can and give them the support of your
business. Please recommend them to your
family and friends. Also, please mention
that you saw their ad in the parish bulletin.
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS
There will be a meeting for all
Eucharistic Ministers with Father
Joe on Saturday 13 October at
10:00 a.m. in the Church.
LECTOR’S MEETING
There will be a Lector’s Ministry
meeting on 20 October at 10:00
a.m. with Father Joe in the
Church.
7 OCTOBER 2018
PARISH MISSION/RETREAT
"Homecoming": How to bring loved ones home to the
Catholic Church
Seminar Series at St Francis DeSales Parish
We all have loved ones who have left the Catholic Church.
They are our children. Our grandchildren. Siblings and other
relatives. Friends, neighbours and coworkers. Our hearts break
for them as they brave the wilderness of life, outside the hearth
and home of the Catholic Church. How do we bring them home?
And why did they leave in the first place?
Understanding the answer your loved one gives to that last
question is just as important as the first — if we don’t grasp the
real reasons people leave the Church, we’ll never be effective in
our attempts to help them home.
This is the subject of "Homecoming: How to Bring Family and
Friends Home to the Catholic Church" by Cale Clarke, Director
of The Faith Explained Seminars, here at St Francis DeSales
Parish on October 15, 22, and 29 at 7:30 PM. Hope to see you
there!
QUESTION & ANSWER
I find that the veneration of Mary is excessive. How can
we justify this? Mary is only a saint. Does the bible
support this excessive veneration?
From the gospel of St. Luke, we find that there is angelic and
human veneration of Mary.
In the Annunciation scene of St. Luke 1:28, the literal
translation of Gabriel’s greeting is thus: “Greetings O Woman
who has been graced, the Lord is with you.” It is unusual for
angels to praise those to whom they are sent. Usually persons
are called by their name or simply given a curt instruction.
You can look in vain for an angelic greeting in the Old
Testament. No angel calls a human being “graced” or
“favoured” prior to being called by their name. Only Noah
and Moses have been declared to have “found favour in the
eyes of the Lord” (Gen 6:8; Exod 33:17). So at the very least,
Gabriel’s greeting suggests tat Mary is on par with the saviour
of humanity (Noah) and the saviour of Israel (Moses). Gabriel
is showing honour and veneration to Mary in an
unprecedented way.
In the Visitation scene of St. Luke 1:41-45, we find that St.
Elizabeth’s greeting of Mary is way out of proportion. Mary
and Elizabeth were two women of vastly different social
standing. Mary was a teenager (by our standards today)
around the age of 15 engaged to a manual laborer. By contrast,
Elizabeth is an elderly woman of high status. Elizabeth lived
near Jerusalem, the cultural and economic capital of Judea and
her husband, Zachariah was a high ranking priest.
In ancient societies, honour flows from younger to older, from
low statue to high status. But this is overturned. When Mary
shows up at Elizabeth’s home, the elderly woman “exclaimed
in a loud cry” her young cousin from the north. This
exclamation is very same way a Levite priest would do when
he was in the presence of the Ark of the (old) Covenant.
Indeed Mary is the Ark of the (New) Covenant, for she carried
in her womb, God Himself. Moreover, Elizabeth’s greeting
is “over the top”: “Blessed are you among women.” This is a
Hebrew idiom meaning: “you are the most blessed of all
women.”
It’s biblical. Mary is already venerated in Sacred Scripture.
September 7th, 2018
My dear friends,
Families are the heart and soul of our Catholic community. As
such, I am pleased to invite families across the Archdiocese of
Toronto to our first official diocesan gathering of families,
“Family at the Heart of Service”.
Grandparents, parents, and children of all ages are invited to join
us on Saturday, November 17 at Our Lady Queen of Poland
Church in Scarborough from 9am – 4pm. The day will be filled
with talks from families, prayer, praise and worship, and hands
on service activities. I will also be speaking on the importance of
family life in our faith journey.
I am grateful for all that families do to make faith a central focus
and priority of their family life. By sharing our gifts of time and
talent with one another, families not only enrich their homes but
also strengthen our parishes, modeling the example of Jesus to
love and to serve. In the words of St. Peter, “Like good stewards
of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever
gift each of you has received”.
Please be assured of my prayers as you journey with your family
through the ups and downs of daily life. The family unit is a gift
from God – one that we must work at infusing with mutual
support, patience, and boundless love. I pray that our time
together will be an opportunity for renewal and inspiration in the
company of your loved ones.
Sincerely in Christ,
Thomas Cardinal Collins
Archbishop of Toronto
A LETTER FROM THE CARDINAL
MOTHER’S GROUP
Please come join us for the first SFDS Mother's Group meeting of
the season! Mother's Group meetings will commence on
Wednesday, October 10th in the church foyer at 7:45 PM
where we will begin with the Rosary, time of prayer and a fruitful
meeting on how we can find more time of prayer and solitude in
the busy lives we lead as moms and within our families. If you
have not had a chance to come out to a meeting before, please feel
welcome to come, recharge your batteries and meet fellow
Catholic moms in your church community. Hope to see you there!
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