January 3rd, 2021 Vol. 42, No. 1

Technical Difficulties 10 People in the Church We have been experiencing technical Please note that we are only allowed to have Mass Intentions difficulties transmitting sound to some 10 people in church at one time. As you enter Holy Communion devices. If you’re participating in Mass using the church foyer, you’ll notice a binder with a MONDAY, January 4th K + M + B 2021 Holy Communion will be distributed in the a computer, you should be able to see and large number indicating the number of people 800 ○ For an intention known to God – Good Shepherd Catechetical Centre on hear everything. If you are using a tablet or presently in the church. If the number is less Grazyna 00 Sunday, January 3rd from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. phone, you may be unable to hear anything. than 10, turn the page and go in. If the number 19  Halina Trzcinska-Kowalczyk – husband Today we bless incense and chalk. Maximum 10 people in the building, including As a temporary solution, try plugging in a set is already at 10, please wait for someone to and children After returning home from the church, the priest. Face masks are mandatory. of headphones or speakers. Otherwise, please leave the church. As you leave the church, turn ○ For God’s grace for Mike and Justin – we use the chalk to write the initials wait patiently while we fix the problem. Sorry the page back. This way we’ll be able to keep parents of the names of the three kings for the inconvenience. track of the number of individuals inside the and the current year. Upcoming Devotions th th church building. Thank you for your TUESDAY, January 5 First Thursday of the month, January 7 00 cooperation. 8  Wincenty, Maria, Andrzej Butrym Prayer for vocations at 6:30 p.m. Marriage and Family Counselling 00 You may also write C + M + B 19  Brother Tadeusz and niece Monika (Christus Mansoni Benedicat) Free marriage and family counselling is which means “May Christ bless this house.” Confession available at our parish. If your family needs WEDNESDAY, January 6th Sacrament of Reconciliation is available by guidance, please call (647) 677-1142 and leave COVID-19 and Our Parish 800  Emilia Serwin your name and phone number. A qualified The letters on the door are a visible sign appointment only. If you have access to the Recognizing the health and safety measures ○ In thanksgiving for all graces received that a Christian family lives in the house. Internet, please go to our parish website counsellor will call you to schedule a meeting. and for Mother Mary’s continued By the time the wise men arrive, the announced by the Province of Ontario on www.kolbe.ca, click on Confession, and November 20, 2020, Cardinal Thomas Collins protection for family in Poland and Canada Gospel recounts that they find Jesus in a 1900 choose a date and time. If you don’t have directed parishes to implement the following Group intentions house. This detail – which I haven’t noticed An Act of Spiritual Communion access to the Internet, you may call the parish Thank You for Supporting ProLife in the Toronto and Peel regions: th before – is comforting to me. Somewhere after My Jesus, I believe that You are present office at (905) 848-2420 and we will book an THURSDAY, January 7 the unanticipated stable delivery, room was in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I love appointment for you. Confession takes place in ● Parishes throughout the region of Peel must St. André Bessette found for the fledgling family. The wise men You above all things, and I desire to the Good Shepherd Catechetical Centre. Face restrict attendance inside the church building 800 ○ For an intention known to God 00 go seeking Jesus surrounded by his family, receive You into my soul. Since I cannot masks are mandatory. to 10 people, including priests hearing 19 ○ For God’s blessing for family – Halina held by another family. now receive you sacramentally, come at confessions or a staff member/volunteer  Anna Onaszkiewicz – husband and We are the people making room for Jesus daughter with family least spiritually into my heart. I embrace Oblate Retreat Kolbe ProLife Group would like to thank required to monitor capacity restrictions. Due and for the people who are seeking him in the You as if You were already here, and I From January 11th to January 15th all everyone who supported the Change for Life to these measures, public Masses are th world today. Right in the middle of the FRIDAY, January 8 unite myself wholly to you. Never permit Oblates will be attending their annual (virtual) campaign. Your donation will allow us to temporarily cancelled. Priests are asked to Christmas leftovers, the decoration which will celebrate private Mass daily for the intentions St. Raymond of Penyafort me to be separated from You. study days. Please pray for God’s blessing and continue the work of protecting life from 00 soon be put away, and the ache to get back to of parishioners and for those suffering from 8  Anna & Piotr Rogoza ~St. Alphonsus Liguori guidance for our priests during this time. conception to its natural death and will allow 1900 routine after feasting, Jesus is with us. The star COVID-19. ○ In thanksgiving for Jolanta & Krzysztof us to support those in need. th could be stopping over our imperfect, crowded Gogol on their 20 wedding anniversary or messy homes. 2020 Parish Statistics Sunday Collection ● Churches, wherever possible and according and for God’s continued blessing – brother

The Gospel doesn’t talk about what the In the year 2020 we welcomed 108 new We are very grateful to our parishioners who to the judgement of the pastor, are encouraged with wife wise men ate, where they slept or whether members into our parish community through regularly bring their Sunday collection and Thank You So Much to remain open for private prayer and for the ○ In thanksgiving for Janina & Andrzej Szaflarski on their 30th wedding things were cleaned up. The star stopped over the sacrament of Baptism, 94 children received support the parish in these challenging times. faithful to receive the Sacrament of anniversary and for God’s continued the place where they could encounter Jesus. their First Holy Communion, 122 were Sunday collection can be placed in a secure Reconciliation. Weddings, funerals and blessing – brother with wife And when they saw that the star had stopped, confirmed, 24 marriages were blessed, and 94 box found on the steps of the altar or by the baptisms (without Mass) are restricted to 10 they were overwhelmed with joy.” members passed from this to eternal life. parish office door. Donations can also be made persons, including those who are involved in th ministry (priest, cantor, etc.). SATURDAY, January 9 Who is overwhelmed with joy at the light Our community is quite large. Please online at www.kolbe.ca by clicking on Donate 00 th 8  Piotr Derecki (13 anniv.) – family God has set over you? Who needs the Jesus remember to take care of one another, raise Now and choosing St. Maximilian Kolbe Thank you to Sister Karolina who helped set ● Parishioners are encouraged to view 1700  Ted Rynkun – Rynkun family that resides in your heart and home? We our children and youth with kindness and Church from the list of parishes. up our Christmas Manger and to all the online/livestream/televised Masses. A full list 1900 ○ In thanksgiving for all graces received celebrate Epiphany not so that we can pay concern for others, let us respect each other Thank you for your understanding volunteers who cleaned and disinfected the is available at www.archtoronto.org and for God’s blessing for Jozef on his homage with the kings of Jesus’ time, but so and above all, let us grow and develop and continued support. church in preparation for Christmas. Your time birthday – wife that we can practice being overwhelmed with spiritually within our families and our and talent are very much appreciated. Thank ● No meetings should take place in parish joy by the places in our lives where the star community. Offertory Envelopes for 2021 you to all who donated poinsettias for the halls or other church spaces at this time. The SUNDAY, January 10th only exception would be those deemed as has stopped – even when that place is within Offertory envelopes for 2021 are available for Christmas Manger. We have received close to Baptism of the Lord us. 70 beautiful plants. Thank you so much for essential services. 800 pick-up in the parish hall. The church and the ○ For God’s blessing for children, Leah Perrault; Saskatoon, SK The Sacrament of Marriage parish hall are open outside of Mass times. your generosity. May God bless you all. ● Parish offices are closed to the public; grandchildren, and great granddaughter – Please join us in praying for Please write your complete name and address limited essential appointments only. parents and grandmother 930  Stanislaw Gdyczynski (2nd anniv.) – wife First Reading: Isaiah 60.1-6 on the first envelope of the 2021 set. Agata Brozda, and children Thank You to Our Sponsors 00 Responsorial Psalm: daughter of Mariola & Kazimierz 11 ○ For Parishioners and Benefactors Mass Intentions Did you know? 00 Lord, every nation on earth will adore you. & Michal Mularski, 13  Janina Dobosz There are no more individual Mass Jan. 7th ● Known to many in Montreal as ○ For God’s grace for family – Justyna & Second Reading: Ephesians 3.2-3a, 5-6 son of Miroslawa & Jerzy intentions available for the year 2021. Brother André, André Bessette served for Mariusz Gospel: Matthew 2.1-12 Intentions for Wednesday evening Mass years as the porter at the Collège Notre-Dame, 1900  Sebastian Kosiba – parents and children Gabriela Wisniewska, should be submitted by phone. where he welcomed the sick and afflicted,

daughter of Czeslawa & Zbigniew Each year, various businesses and individuals praying with them through the intercession of Rosary Intention for January & Alexander Podgorzec, 2021 Calendars advertise their services in our parish bulletin. Saint Joseph. May the Lord give us the grace son of Danuta & Bogdan Religious calendars highlighting the life and By doing so, they offset the printing cost of Jan. 8th ● Raymond of Penyafort had a Parish Website to live in full fellowship with our brothers missionary work of Brother Antoni the bulletin. We thank them for their continued profound influence on the original code of and sisters of other religions, who are preparing for Holy Matrimony. Kowalczyk are available for purchase at the support and encourage our parishioners to canon law. www.kolbe.ca praying for one another, open to all. parish office at $5 each. Exact change, please. support these fine businesses and individuals.