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142 -1 FROM A SERMON BY SAINT LEO THE GREAT, OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE- December 12 SUTTON KESWICK POPE The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Juan Diego MASS SCHEDULE & INTENTIONS MASS SCHEDULE & INTENTIONS Thurs. Dec 17 8:30am +Michael J. Clancy Christian, remember your dignity in the 16th century in Mexico City, Mexico when he Mon. Dec 14 8:30am: +Julius & Elizabeth req. Una Findlay Dearly beloved, today our Saviour is born; let saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the Hill of Hancko Fri. Dec 18 8:30am: Special intentions of us rejoice. Sadness should have no place on the Tepeyac on Dec. 9, 1531, the feast day of the Tues. Dec 15 8:30am: +Angelo DePalma req. Luciano Conte birthday of life. The fear of death has been swallowed Immaculate Conception in that time. Our Lady Anna Masciarelli Sat. Dec 19 4:00pm: +Concetta Simone up; life brings us joy with the promise of eternal requested that a church be built on that site, which Wed. Dec 16 8:30am: +Daniel Haze req. K req. Kathy Perruzza happiness. Juan Diego dutifully relayed to the bishop. Bingham Sun. Dec 20 10:30am: +Luis & Anna No one is shut out from this joy; all share the The bishop wanted proof of her identity. Our same reason for rejoicing. Our Lord, victor over sin Lady asked Juan Diego to gather roses that were Sat. Dec 19 5:30pm: Blessings & Health Calderon and Luis Calderon and death, finding no man free from sin, came to fee growing on the hill (which were neither native to the upon the Fanelli Family req. Jr. req. Atkins, Moniz & Miller us all. Let the saint rejoice as he sees the palm of area nor in season) and take them to the bishop. Juan Fanelli Family families victory at hand. Let the sinner be glad as he receives Diego obeyed and placed the roses in his tilma (cloak) Sun. Dec 20 8:30am: +Angela Kalichak req. COLLECTION – Thank you for your generosity the offer of forgiveness. Let the pagan take courage to carry back to the bishop as evidence of Our Lady's the Estate Weekly Offertory: Dec 6: $2,705.00 as he is summoned to life. appearance. Upon opening the tilma to reveal the In the fullness of time, chosen in the miraculous roses, there was something even more ST: PARISH DEBT as of November 1 $361,500.00 unfathomable depths of God’s wisdom, the Son of miraculous present in the tilma—a striking image of CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR MASS SCHEDULE God took for himself our common humanity in order to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Our Lady of Guadalupe Christmas Eve: 3:30pm Keswick Upcoming Bills: Building Insurance: $5,200.00 reconcile it with its creator. He came to overthrow the image revealed for the first time on St. Juan Diego's (December 24) 5:00pm Keswick Interest payment on debt due Jan. 2021: $2,500.00 devil, the origin of death, in that very nature by which tilma. 9:00pm Sutton he had overthrown mankind. Facts about Our Lady of Guadalupe image itself:

1st HOLY COMMUNION PRE-REGISTRATION - And so at the birth of our Lord the angels sing •The image is proven to not be painted by human Christmas Day: 8:30am Sutton 2021 in joy; Glory to God in the highest, and they proclaim hands (December 25) 10:30am Keswick Visit website for very important details and Pre- peace to his people on earth as they see the heavenly •The image and fabric have miraculously lasted in its 12:00pm Keswick Registration Form. https://ollakeke.archtoronto.org or Jerusalem being built from all the nations of the world. original condition for nearly 500 years

https://immaculateconceptionsu.archtoronto.org When the angels on high are so exultant at this •The weak cactus fiber, of which the tilma was made, New Year’s Eve ..4:30pm - Holy Hour - Sutton We have received 12 pre-registrations for children to marvelous work of God’s goodness, what joy should it should have decomposed within 15-20 years of being (December 31) 5:00pm Sutton receive their 1st Holy Communion next year. Deadline not bring to the lowly hearts of men? woven

for Pre-Registration December 18, 2020. Beloved, let us give thanks to God the Father, •No natural or animal mineral colorings, or paint, are New Year’s Day 8:30am Sutton through his Son, in the Holy Spirit, because in his found on the image (January 1) 10:30am Keswick CONFIRMATION PRE-REGISTRATION 2021 great love for us he took pity on us, and when we were •The image itself is iridescent, which cannot be Visit website for very important details and Pre- dead in our sins he brought us to life with Christ, so produced by hand Parish office is closed from December 24th to Registration Form. https://ollakeke.archtoronto.org or that in him we might be a new creation. Let us throw •Mary stands on a crescent moon, the same crescent January 5th. https://immaculateconceptionsu.archtoronto.org off our old nature and all its ways and, as we have moon in the sky on the day of her apparition Deadline for Pre-Registration December 18, 2020. come to birth in Christ, let us renounce the works of •Mary's mantel is a constellation map, the same the flesh. constellations in the sky as on the day of her PRAYER OF ST. NICHOLAS ************************************************************* Christian, remember your dignity, and now that apparition Heavenly Father, as Christmas draws near we St. Paul summarizes perfectly the beauty and you share in God’s own nature, do not return by sin to •These constellations tell the story of the Gospel with commemorate the feast-day of your beloved Bishop mercy of Christmas in the following passage from your former base condition. Bear in mind who is your the arrangements of Leo in the womb of Virgo and Saint, Nicholas. St. Paul’s letter to Timothy. head and of whose body you are a member. Do not •On her rose garment is a topographic map of the We love and honour his memory because of Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of forget that you have been rescued from the power of geographic location of her apparition his tender concern for children and for the poor. these I am the foremost. But for that reason I was darkness and brought into the light of God’s kingdom. •On Mary's neck is a small black cross, identifying her We thank you for the merriment that his feast mercifully treated, so that in me, as the foremost, Through the sacrament of baptism you have with the Catholic missionary priests has brought down all the centuries. Christ Jesus might display all his patience as an become a temple of the Holy Spirit. Do not drive away •Over her womb on her dress is a four-petal flower, We ask you from the bottom of our hearts to example for those who would come to believe in him so great a guest by evil conduct and become again a the Aztec symbol of life and deity help us to remember, on his feast-day, that we should for everlasting life. To the king of ages, incorruptible, slave to the devil, for your liberty was bought by the •In the image Mary is "clothed with the sun" with "the try to retain the innocence of childhood and a sincere invisible, the only God, honor and glory forever and blood of Christ. moon at her feet" as described in Revelation 12:1 faith in you all our lives. ever. Amen. (1 Timothy 1:15-17) •A doctor once heard a heartbeat coming from the Show us, too, how to share the good things ************************************************************* image through a stethoscope over the womb that we have with others, and to imitate St Nicholas in •The eyes of the image have the refractory generosity and goodwill. Don’t allow the sad sight of human injustice to sadden characteristics of human eyes We ask him to pray for us from his place in your soul; someday you will see the unfailing justice of •The eyes, when examined through a microscope, Heaven. God triumph over it! St. Padre Pio reflect the images of the witnesses present at its unveiling, including Juan Diego and the bishop. THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT DECEMBER 13, 2020