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MASS INTENTIONS MONDAY, 8 OCTOBER 9:00 AM S.I. JONATHAN BURAGA MEMBERSHIP DRIVE TUESDAY, 9 OCTOBER Sat October 13, 2018 and Sun October 14, 2018 – all Masses 9:00 AM + ANNA We would like to offer you the opportunity to join us in our work + MR. & MRS. STANISLAUS for God and neighbor. As a member of our council, you will WEDNESDAY, 10 OCTOBER strengthen your faith and become a better Catholic, husband, and father through your support of our parish and community. You 9:00 AM + LAMBERT will form friendships with fellow Knights that can last a lifetime. THURSDAY, 11 OCTOBER As much good as our council has done over the past year, we 9:00 AM AVAILABLE could do even more with your help. We invite you to join our council today. FRIDAY, 12 OCTOBER 7:00 PM + ALFIE LAMBE This week, we begin another advertising + EDUARDO BERNAL cycle. Please thank the advertisers when you can and give them the support of your SATURDAY, 13 OCTOBER business. Please recommend them to your 9:00 AM + MARIANNA MORRA family and friends. Also, please mention + ELEONORA LAN CHOW that you saw their ad in the parish bulletin. + RESTITUTO JR., RESTITUTO SR. &

TERESITA BADILLES 5:00 PM S.I. IN THANKSGIVING FOR FERRIOLS + MARJORIE SKELTON + LARRY LYNCH SUNDAY, 14 OCTOBER 8:30 AM S.I. FOR PEGGY & MALCOLM Attention parents of children interested in receiving FERNANDEZ the sacraments of + THOMAS WALSH + BAPTIST & HELEN D’SOUZA First Reconciliation & First Communion 10:15 AM + MAUREEN STUART-SHEPPERD A very special welcome to all of the children who have + MARK ANTHONY VIEIRA registered for their First Reconciliation/Communion this year + ANASTACIA NARDO during the registration meeting dates. We are so excited to 12:00 PM FOR THE PEOPLE OF OUR PARISH get to know you and your family and to begin this beautiful 7:00 PM + N.T. JOSEPH journey together. + GABRIEL & PATRICIA LAMBERT Please drop off your registration forms a.s.a.p. to the Parish + WALTER & MATILDA HENWELLA 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

Volunteers needed to help on Wednesday, October 10th. Please back of the church before sending your children to have their call Sandra at 905-683-8504 to help! passport stamped. We look forward to celebrating Mass together each week as we prepare for these very special EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS sacraments. 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 A reminder to parents and Confirmandi that passport stamping continues at the end of each Mass. Please remember to wait There will be a Lector’s Ministry until Mass has ended and Father has made his way to the back meeting on 20 October at 10:00 of the Church before coming up to get your passport stamped. a.m. with Father Joe in the Also, if you have not done so already, please remember to drop

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QUESTION & ANSWER PARISH MISSION/RETREAT I find that the veneration of Mary is excessive. How can "Homecoming": How to bring loved ones home to the we justify this? Mary is only a . Does the bible support this excessive veneration? Seminar Series at St Francis DeSales Parish

From the gospel of St. Luke, we find that there is angelic and We all have loved ones who have left the Catholic Church. human veneration of Mary. They are our children. Our grandchildren. Siblings and other In the Annunciation scene of St. Luke 1:28, the literal relatives. Friends, neighbours and coworkers. Our hearts break translation of Gabriel’s greeting is thus: “Greetings O Woman for them as they brave the wilderness of life, outside the hearth who has been graced, the Lord is with you.” It is unusual for and home of the Catholic Church. How do we bring them home? angels to praise those to whom they are sent. Usually persons And why did they leave in the first place? are called by their name or simply given a curt instruction. Understanding the answer your loved one gives to that last You can look in vain for an angelic greeting in the Old question is just as important as the first — if we don’t grasp the Testament. No angel calls a human being “graced” or real reasons people leave the Church, we’ll never be effective in “favoured” prior to being called by their name. Only our attempts to help them home. and have been declared to have “found favour in the This is the subject of "Homecoming: How to Bring Family and eyes of the Lord” (Gen 6:8; Exod 33:17). So at the very least, Friends Home to the Catholic Church" by Cale Clarke, Director Gabriel’s greeting suggests tat Mary is on par with the saviour of The Faith Explained Seminars, here at St Francis DeSales of humanity (Noah) and the saviour of Israel (Moses). Gabriel Parish on October 15, 22, and 29 at 7:30 PM. Hope to see you is showing honour and veneration to Mary in an there! 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 A LETTER FROM THE CARDINAL and Elizabeth were two women of vastly different social September 7th, 2018 standing. Mary was a teenager (by our standards today) My dear friends, around the age of 15 engaged to a manual laborer. By contrast, Families are the heart and soul of our Catholic community. As Elizabeth is an elderly woman of high status. Elizabeth lived such, I am pleased to invite families across the Archdiocese of near Jerusalem, the cultural and economic capital of Judea and Toronto to our first official diocesan gathering of families, her husband, Zachariah was a high ranking priest. “Family at the Heart of Service”. In ancient societies, honour flows from younger to older, from Grandparents, parents, and children of all ages are invited to join low statue to high status. But this is overturned. When Mary us on Saturday, November 17 at Our Lady Queen of Poland shows up at Elizabeth’s home, the elderly woman “exclaimed Church in Scarborough from 9am – 4pm. The day will be filled in a loud cry” her young cousin from the north. This with talks from families, prayer, praise and worship, and hands exclamation is very same way a Levite priest would do when on service activities. I will also be speaking on the importance of he was in the presence of the Ark of the (old) Covenant. family life in our faith journey. Indeed Mary is the Ark of the (New) Covenant, for she carried I am grateful for all that families do to make faith a central focus in her womb, God Himself. Moreover, Elizabeth’s greeting and priority of their family life. By sharing our gifts of time and is “over the top”: “Blessed are you among women.” This is a talent with one another, families not only enrich their homes but Hebrew idiom meaning: “you are the most blessed of all also strengthen our parishes, modeling the example of Jesus to women.” love and to serve. In the words of St. Peter, “Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever It’s biblical. Mary is already venerated in Sacred Scripture. 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 MOTHER’S GROUP from God – one that we must work at infusing with mutual Please come join us for the first SFDS Mother's Group meeting of support, patience, and boundless love. I pray that our time the season! Mother's Group meetings will commence on together will be an opportunity for renewal and inspiration in the Wednesday, October 10th in the church foyer at 7:45 PM company of your loved ones. where we will begin with the , time of prayer and a fruitful Sincerely in Christ, 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 Thomas Cardinal Collins welcome to come, recharge your batteries and meet fellow Archbishop of Toronto Catholic moms in your church community. Hope to see you there!

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