The Advent Wreath

Second Sunday of Advent

At the beginning of Mass, the Priest will call a family to light the

Advent Candle. At the end, the congregation prays:

Father, You sent John the Baptist to prepare the way of the Messiah. Help us to prepare our hearts that Christ may be born in them, and to prepare the world that Christ may restore the Kingdom.

We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen. Parish Week  6 Dec. 2020 Today’s Candle lighters are:

5.00 pm: Delma Singh & Shirley Persaud Saturday, 5 Dec. 8.00 am Mass: Int. Fr. Elias Chachati (friend) 9.00 am: Carla Borgono 2.30 pm St. Maria Goretti School 1st Communication Mass (3) 10.30 am: Samanthi Rajapakse 5.00 pm Mass: † Rose Garcia (Go family) 12.00 pm: SVDP Conference, St. Maria Goretti Council 7.00 pm: Francesca Lavecchia SUNDAY, 6 DEC. / ADVENT 2-B

■ Homilist: Fr. Edwin Galea Pray for the Deceased 9.00 am Mass: † Josefina Ombac (family) 10.30 am Mass: † All Souls in Purgatory (D’Souza family) OPP Constable Marc Hovingh 12.00 pm Mass: † Claire Solomon-Copeland (Anne-Marie) Arlunantham Augustiampillai st 2.30 pm St. Maria Goretti School 1 Communion Mass (#4) Erlinda Lumibao 7.00 pm Mass: Pro Populo The 14 victims of the motorcycle bombing Monday, 7 Dec. / St. Ambrose, bishop & suicide attack in Jolo, Philippines 8.00 am Mass: † Leonila Ting (Pauli & Rose Chan) 7.00 pm Mass: † Patricia Kong (Go family) 7.40 pm Infant Baptism Parent/Godparent meeting Advent Day of Confessions

Tue., 8 Dec. / Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Wednesday, 9 December: 4 – 5 pm, 6 – 8 pm 8.00 am Mass: Int. Fr. Elias Chachati (friend) As part of our ongoing program of spiritual growth, Cardinal 7.00 pm Mass: † Froilan Senario (Potal family) Collins invites Catholics of the Archdiocese to receive the Wednesday, 9 Dec. / St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin Sacrament of Reconciliation on a DAY OF CONFESSIONS in Advent.

■ Advent Day of Confessions In our parish, it will be on: Wednesday, 9 December.

8.00 am Mass: † Violeta Tolentino (Ruby Devera) Parishioners may come for Confession in the afternoon, 4.00 – 4.00 pm Confessions (to 5 pm) 5.00 pm, and in the evening, 6.00 – 8.00 pm. 6.00 pm Confessions (to 8 pm) 7.00 pm Mass: † Lydia Marquez (Dolores)

Thursday, 10 Dec. Stewardship 2021 Sunday Envelopes 8.00 am Mass: † Christa Eisenblatter (Sofie Salve) 5.30 pm St. Maria Goretti School 1st Communion Mass (#6) Parishioners are invited to pick up 7.00 pm Mass: † Christa Eisenblatter (CWL) their 2021 Sunday Offertory Envelopes in the Vestibule. Friday, 11 Dec. / St. Damasus I, pope

8.00 am Mass: † Baltazar, Maria & Philip Mendonca (Tessie & family) COMING UP 12a20 7.00 pm Mass: † Ossie Ameresekere (family) 20 Dec. 4th Sunday of Advent

Saturday, 12 Dec. / Our Lady of Guadalupe 22 Dec. Fr. Armand Joseph Desaulniers: death anniversary (1988)

8.00 am Mass: † Susairj Pimulnathan (Senegal Gudur family) 24 Dec. Christmas Eve Masses begin at 7.00 pm 12.30 pm Memorial Mass: † J. Lalicon 25 Dec. Christmas: Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord 2.30 pm St. Maria Goretti School 1st Communion Mass (#7)

5.00 pm Mass: † Lalita D’Souza (Joseph) Website stmariagoretti.archtoronto.org

SUNDAY, 13 DEC. / ADVENT 3-B

■ Homilist: Fr. Edwin Galea No Public Masses: During the current pandemic lockdown, there

9.00 am Mass: † Kevin Pierre (family) will be no public Masses in Toronto and Peel. Our Church will be 10.30 am Mass: † The Deverno & Shea families (Pamela) open for personal prayer every day from 8 am to 6 pm. The Mass 12.00 pm Mass: † Eddie Juan (wife Shirley) Intentions that were booked for December before the lockdown 1.30 pm Infant Baptism was imposed on 23 November 2020, will all be honoured by the 7.00 pm Mass: Pro Populo Priests in their private Masses. See the website bulletin.

1st Communion and Confirmation Bishop Ivan The celebrations of 1st HOLY COMMUNION and CONFIRMATION, Camilleri which were re-scheduled from earlier this year to December 2020, have all been suspended due to the current lockdown in Toronto born in Malta 18 April 1969 and Peel, which began on 23 November. No Sacrament has been ordained Priest 12 May 2007 cancelled; but they will have to re-scheduled again after the canon law degree 2011 lockdown is lifted. The Parish catechists are working with the named Bishop 28 Nov. 2020 school staffs to ensure that all records are retained, and that these important celebrations can be held as soon as possible. has appointed Fr.

Ivan Camilleri as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Annual Finance Report

Toronto. Following his episcopal The Annual Finance Council Report is being ordination, the new Bishop will prepared, and will be given at all Masses on join the three Auxiliary Bishops currently assisting the Sunday, 5/6 December. Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Collins, in serving the faithful. Fr. Camilleri commented: Sunday Missals

“I am very humbled by the trust that Pope Francis and The 2021 Sunday Missals are available at the Parish Office for $5. Cardinal Collins have placed in me to serve the Archdiocese of Toronto in this ministry.”

Cardinal Collins welcomed the announcement: RCIA, RCIC

“I am most grateful to Pope Francis for the appointment of Rites of Christian Initiation of Adults & Children

Bishop-designate Camilleri as our newest Auxiliary Bishop. Pray for all in our parish R.C.I.A. process, who preparing for He knows the community well and has been a tremendous the Sacraments of Initiation; as well as the youth in our source of support during my time as archbishop. I welcome parish R.C.I.C. process. him to the episcopacy and invite the priests of the archdiocese as well as the faithful to pray for him as he We have a number of Candidates who are eagerly awaiting their Baptism, originally scheduled for Easter this year. prepares for this new chapter of ministry.”

Fr. Camilleri was born 18 April 1969 in Sliema, Malta. His The RCIA meets regularly on Friday evenings at 7.30 pm, family moved to Canada in 1980. He studied at Laurentian and the RCIC meets periodically on Saturday mornings; University earning a Bachelor of Commerce and then at The their next meeting is on 2 January 2021.

Edinburgh Business School earning a Master of Business Administration. After some years working in finance, he entered the seminary in 2001, completing a Bachelor of ADVENT PREPARATIONS

Sacred Theology and a Master of Divinity. He was ordained to the priesthood on 12 May 2007. Fr. Camilleri also studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. Christmas Flowers completing a Licentiate in Canon Law in 2011. Parishioners are invited to sponsor this year’s display of CHRISTMAS POINSETTIAS Following ordination, Bishop-designate Camilleri was in our Sanctuary. Donation envelopes appointed as Associate Pastor at Merciful Redeemer Parish. are at the Office window.

He is currently serving as Chancellor of Spiritual Affairs, If you wish to dedicate your flowers, please fill out the “Christmas Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia. Fr. Camilleri also Flower” form in the donation envelope. Dedications will be served as a sessional lecturer at St. Augustine’s Seminary, accepted until noon on Monday, 21 December. and a Judge at the Matrimonial Tribunal of Toronto. The forms are intended to remember one person for each pot

Fr. Camilleri will be ordained a Bishop at a date to be donated. If you wish to honour more than one person, you may submit the name of a pair who share a common family name; or, determined before beginning his new duties. The Toronto for many persons, “For the members of the _____ Family.” Archdiocese stretches from the GTA (Mississauga in the West to Oshawa in the East) North to Georgian Bay (Collingwood to Orillia). It is home to two million Prayer to St. Michael Catholics and 225 Churches, with Mass celebrated in more than 30 languages each week. There are four Regions; three Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, have their own Auxiliary Bishop: be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, Central Bishop Robert Kasun, c.s.b. O Prince of the Heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust Eastern Bishop Vincent Hieu Nguyen into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the Western Bishop John A. Boissonneau world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

The iconic Alex Trebek Palms to honour our King 22 July 1940 – 8 November 2020

Alex Trebek, a Canadian-born American The blessed Palms of Passion Sunday (at the outset of Holy who was educated in Catholic schools, Week) were distributed at all the Masses on CHRIST THE died of pancreatic cancer at his home 8 KING Sunday, 22 November. Some Palms remain. November 2020 at the age of 80. The Parishioners who would like to pick up a few for family iconic host and winner of multiple Emmy members who are not able to come to Church on their own awards announced in last year that he had been diagnosed will find Palms available during the hours that the Church is with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. A year later, this March, he open daily for private prayer: gave another video update saying there had been “moments 8.00 am – 6.00 pm. of great pain... and massive attacks of great depression that made me wonder if it really was worth fighting on.”

To give up, he said, would have betrayed his friends and family who were helping him survive. In an interview last year with ABC's “20 20,” he said: “Laughter is one of the greatest cures that we can possibly have. It's right up there with prayer, believe me.” He also said he wanted to be remembered as a “nice man” who “helped people through his charity work” and was “kind to everybody he encountered.”

Trebek was born in northern Ontario, Canada, and attended Jesuit schools there until age 12 when he went to a boarding school run by an order of women religious. At first, he pursued a career in journalism, but in 1966, he began hosting Diego Maradona a Canadian game show. Seven years later, he went to the 30 Oct. 1960–25 Nov. 2020 United States for various roles hosting TV game shows before settling into “Jeopardy!” Diego Maradona was born in Lanús, Argentina and grew up in Buenos In early January, Trebek and his wife, Jean, received Aires. Religion was a huge part of Fordham University's Founders' Award in Los Angeles. “If his football career. He once said: there's one thing I have discovered in the past year, it is the “God makes me play well. That is power of prayer,” he said in accepting the Fordham award. why I always make the Sign of the Cross when I walk out “I learned it from the Jesuits when I was a kid. I learned it onto the field. I feel I would be betraying Him if I didn’t.” from the Oblates of Mary Immaculate when I was in boarding school.” Perhaps Maradona’s most controversial and infamous quote has to do with a goal he scored when Argentina was playing In her remarks, Jean Trebek said: “We understand how England in the 1986 World Cup. Inadvertently, Maradona education, and probably more importantly, higher education, scored a goal as the ball bounced off of his hand and the is one of the linchpins of society.” Jesuit Father Joseph referees let it stand. Maradona said: McShane, president of Fordham, called Trebek, who was “I scored the goal a little with the head of Maradona, and a raised a Catholic, “a brilliant man who is the nation's little with the hand of God.” schoolteacher.” If people think the “Jeopardy!” host is a good man, “you don't know the half of it.” Below left: “Capello miracoloso di Diego Armando Maradona,” in the Nilo district of Naples; Right: Jersey given to Pope Francis. “He teaches us about how to live each day with purpose, with focus, with determination, with love, and without being obsessed with oneself,” he added. The Trebeks’ two children graduated from Jesuit schools: Emily graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 2015 and Matthew graduated from Fordham College at Rose Hill, New York, in 2013. On Nov. 8, Fordham University tweeted that it “mourns the death of Alex Trebek, Fordham parent, benefactor, and Founder’s Award recipient.”

Comedian Jeremy McLellan tweeted: “You can tell Alex Trebek was trained by Jesuits because he invented a game show where you have to reply to everything with a question.”

[ Cardinal Wilton Gregory (USA) receives his biretta]

13 New Cardinals

On 28 November, Pope Francis elevated 13 pastors to the . Two work in the : th 500 Anniversary of Maltese , the Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops the first Mass in Chile Italian , former Bishop of Albano and Although COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have shuttered the new Prefect for the Congregation of the Causes of Saints public celebrations around the world, Catholics in Chile still Six other pastors in the Church are joining them: th should find ways to commemorate the 500 anniversary of Jose Fuerte Advincula, Archbishop of Capiz, Philippines the first Mass celebrated in the country, Pope Francis said. Celestino Aós Braco, Archbishop of Santiago, Chile Despite the limitations, “there is no obstacle that can silence Wilton Gregory, Archbishop of Washington, USA the gratitude that springs from the hearts of all of you, sons , Archbishop of , Rwanda and daughters of the pilgrim church in Chile,” the pope said , Archbishop of Siena, Italia in a Nov. 9 letter to Chilean Bishop Bernardo Bastres of Cornelius Sim, the Apostolic Vicar of Punta Arenas and to all dioceses in the country. He wrote: The Pope has also appointed the Guardian of the Franciscan “I encourage you to live the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacro Convento in Assisi, . mystery, which unites us to Jesus, with a spirit of adoration Pope Francis created four other Cardinals who are over 80: and thanksgiving to the Lord, because it is the principle of new life and unity for us and impels us to grow in fraternal Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, Archbishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico service to the poorest and most disinherited of our society.”

In 1520, Friar Pedro De Valderrama, chaplain of the famed Silvano Tomasi, former Apostolic Nuncio and permanent observer at the United Nations in Geneva, who then worked expedition of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, in the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development celebrated Sunday Mass in Fortescue Bay, near the area known today as Punta Arenas. , Capuchin Father, preacher of the , Vatican City Quoting the Second Vatican Council, the pope said that today, like 500 years ago, the celebration of the Eucharist is , pastor of the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine where “grace is poured forth upon us; and the sanctification Love in Castel Levati, of men in Christ and the glorification of God is achieved in the most efficacious possible way.”

“For this reason, in this fifth centenary, we can rightly say, as the motto of the Diocese of Punta Arenas states, that 'God entered from the South,' since that first Mass celebrated with faith, in the simplicity of an expedition in a then unknown territory, gave birth to the church that continues to go on pilgrimage in that beloved nation.”

Pope Francis said he joined Chilean Catholics in their “thanksgiving to the Lord who in the Eucharist continues to make himself 'bread' that satisfies the deepest hunger of every man and woman, calling everyone in his love to live a brotherhood that is in solidarity and effective, that does not exclude, that does not oppress, that does not ignore.” [ Cardinal Mario Grech (Malta) speaks at a Synod.]

Dennis & Narisa De Guzman

25th Wedding Anniversary blessing

On 21 November 2020, following the Parish 5.00 pm Mass, Dennis and Narisa De Guzman gathered with their immediate family and some good friends to seek God’s blessing on their 25th Wedding Anniversary.

Memories of St. Maria Goretti Feast Day celebrations

New Year Eve Mass for the Christmas Season with the Faithful Departed Music Ministry

Parish 60th Anniversary Mass neighbouring Pastors and with Cardinal Thomas Collins, school Principals, 2016.

16 April 2016