Sunday of the Deceased January 21traditionally, 2018 honored as a great opportunity to do penance. Sunday January 21 Sunday of the Deceased Priests 9:00 am The Deceased Priests of Our Lady of Lebanon Req. by:

Chorbishop Khairallah Stephan ChorbishopDear Francis Parishioners Wakim and Friends: Chorbishop Mansour Stephens Elias ShaheenThis week we celebrate the Fourth Sunday of Chorbishop George Webby ArchbishopPentecost Francis Zayek and the Feast of Peter and Paul. Bishop Stephen Hector Doueihi Msgr. Ignace Sadek The Feast of Peter and Paul, or as the 11:30 am 40 Day for Otis Evan "Peter"Roman Root CatholicReq. by: John refers and toChris it as Root the & Solemnity Msgr. James

of Peter and Paul, is a liturgical feast in honor of the Monday January 22 Saint Timothy, Disciple of Saint Paul - Apostle 10:00 am NO LITURGY martyrdom in Rome of the apostles and 7:30 pm Saint Sharbel Devotions EvangelinaSaint Gomez Paul, whichReq. is by: observed Jill Fitzgerald on 29 June annually. This celebration is of ancient origin, the date selected Tuesday January 23 Saint Sergius I- being the anniversary of their death or of the 10:00 am Norma Halpin translation of theReq.ir relics. by: William Halpin By referring to this Feast as a Solemnity, tells Wednesday January 24 Saint Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church - Confessor us that it is a first-class feast. Similar to the Feasts of 10:00 am Eva Boumoussa Mary's AssumptionReq. andby: Shaia Immaculate Family Conception. For

us as Maronites it is a Holy Day of Obligation, as it is Thursday January 25 The Conversion of Saint Paul - Apostle 10:00 am Norma Halpin in the RomanReq. Church. by: William Halpin Howev er, Individual conferences of can suppress the obligation. In Friday January 26 our case it has not been suppressed. 10:00 am Peter Root The twoReq. by: Dr. on and the Mrs. altar Avram wall of our Sanctuary are adorned with the two great Apostles, Saturday January 27 reminding us to witness as they did to the Gospel of 10:00 am Norma Halpin Req. by: William Halpin

Sunday January 28 Sunday of the Righteous and the Just

9:00 am Peter Root Req. by: Dr. and Mrs. Avram 11:30 am 10th Anniversary of Nicholas Machalani Req. by: Wife and Family

Weekly Offering Readings Collection: $ 3,838.00 Candles: $ 216.00 January 21, 2018 Sunday of the Deceased Priests Debt Reduction: $ 370.00 Donations: $ 1,000.00 Dividends: $ 58.43 Reading: I Timothy 4: 6 - 16 Memorials: $ 125.00 Gospel: Luke 12: 42 - 48 Rentals: $ 24,833.33 Lectors: 9:00 am Raymond Gill Total: $ 30,440.76 11:30 am Adonis El Asmar - Arabic

Weekly Collections 11:30 am Denise Abou Chrouch - English

Yearly Budget – 2018 January 28, 2018Summer is stillSunday upon of us the for Righteous at least and the Just next 6 weeks, temperature wise. I know parents are spending

Annual Operating Budget: $ 400,000.00 moneyReading: on their childrenHebrews to get 12: them 18 - "ready"24 for back

to school.Gospel: You may haveMatthew spent 25: more 31 - 46on your vacation Collections to Date: $ 3,838.00 than Lectors:you planned . You9:00 may am be Raymond hoping Gillfor a few more Candles to Date: $ 216.00 weeks at the beach or 11:30on vacation. am Norma Haddad - Arabic Donations to Date: $ 1,000.00 We also have11:30 many am Lydia expenses Gordon here - English at the Cathedral Stipends to Date: $ Cathedral. Even though we have been getting a good Memorials to Date: $ 125.00 February 4, 2018 Sunday of the Faithful Departed D ividends to Date: $ 58.43 sum of money from our rent, we still have to maintain Parish Celebration of Saint Rentals to Date: $ 24,833.33 our Budget. We have been depending too much on the Fund Raising/Advertising: $ outsideReading: income. Over I theThessalonians past seven 5: 1 or - 11 eight weeks Debt ReductionDear Parishioners to Date: and Friends:$ 370.00 the collectionGospel: has beenLuke very 16: 19 poor. - 31 I am asking all Easter /Christmas Flowers: $ This week we begin our Lenten Journeys of parishionersLectors: to help in9:00 making am Raymond up their Gill sacrificial - Bishop’s Appeal to Date: $ Faith. Lent is, throughout the Church, a special time 11:30 am Edouard Antonio - Arabic Altar Bread/Wine/Sanctuary Lamps $ 11:30 am Melissa Safi - English of fasting and abstinence designed to lead us to

Total: personal and communal conversion.$ 30,440.76 It has been (-369,559.24)

4 300.00 Each Quarter we must generate $100,000.00 in revenue to stay on budget. Total: $ 2,167.00

Dear Parishioners and Friends: Lectors I wish to take this opportunity to express my Lector or , is a ministry. We are asking sincerest thanks for the overwhelming outpouring of that if you wish to become a Lector at the divine love shown to my family and myself with the death of Liturgy to please contact the Cathedral Office. We our father, Peter. I honestly do not know how to thank will go through a training session for anyone who may each and everyone of you other than my continued be new at this. Thank you for your services. prayers daily. On behalf of my John and sister-in-law Altar Servers Christine and my nieces and their families, thank you. We encourage the young boys, ages 8 to 18, to Know that you are in all of our prayers. I hope that all assist us at the Altar. What better way to serve the of you will be avalable for the mercy meal immediately Lord than at His table. If interested please contact following the today. It is just a simple either Peter or Norbert. way of showing my appreciation and love. In Our Lord and His Mother, I remain Lenten Schedule The Lenten Season will begin on Sunday, Aboona James February 11, 2018, with the Wedding Feast of Cana. Ash Monday is February 12th. I am asking for you to start bringing in your old Palms in order to prepare Maronite Christian Formation them for Ash Monday. Please give them to either MCF will meet today beginning at 10:00 am. Deacon Peter or Subdeacon Norbert in the Sacristy. We will have speakers each Friday evening Pilgrimage and Confessions will be available. A full list will be We are still accepting reservations for our available by February 11, 2018. trip to the Holy Land April 23, 2018 to May 2, 2018. The absolute deadline for registering is this Lenten Meals Tuesday, January 23, 2018. The first Lenten meal will be held on Friday, February 16th immediately following the Stations and Saint Maron Day Celebration Service of the Cross. The Knights are going to The Feast of Saint Maron will take place on sponsor the first meal. A list of sponsors is being Sunday, February 4, 2018 immediately following the prepared. We also ask that we limit the menu to no 11:30 am Divine Liturgy. It will be held at the Hotel more than 6 items. Thank you. One at the Brooklyn Bridge adjacent to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Liturgical Schedule We will be honored to have with us that weekend Mrs. Nabiha Yazbek. She will assist us at the *Saint Sharbel Liturgy and Devotions on Divine Liturgy at 11:30 that day and then will give a January 22, 2018 at 7:30 pm in the Cathedral. short recital at the Luncheon at the Hotel. Reservations are coming in and the Floor *Candlemass will be held on Friday, Plan should be available this weekend at the Coffee February 2, 2018 at 7:30 pm. We will have the Hour. Please note that tables at the banquet are set for blessing of candles. If you wish to bring in your own 8 persons per table. This is how their facility is set up. candles please feel free to do so. However, we will also If you wish to pay be credit-card you may do have candles available free of charge as well. so. William Abou Chrouch, Adonis ElAsmar, roger There is a good possibility that Nabiha Shammas and Vivian Akel are taking reservations. Yazbek will serve that Liturgy as well. You may also call the Cathedral Office to make your reservations. *Saint Maron Day celebration will take place on Thursday, February 8th at 7:30 pm and Friday, Maronite 2018 Calendars February 9th at 10:00 am. The Feast of Saint Maron The 2018 Maronite Calendars are available is a Holy Day of Obligation. We will have a social in free of charge at the doors of the Cathedral. the lower hall on Thursday, February 8, 2018 We wish to thank McLaughlin and Sons immediately following the Divine Liturgy. Funeral Home for sponsoring the calendars this year. we ask that each family take no more than 2 Calendars. Thank you.

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