bulletin – January 21

ANNOUNCED MASSES

Date Time Intentions
Jan. 23 9:00AM TAT LAU req Agnes Lau
Jan. 25 9:00AM TULIO ENRIQUE RAMIREZ req Nubia Soda
Jan. 26 9:00AM MARCELINO FERNANDES req Tita & Family
Jan. 27 4:30PM JEFF PAOLINI req Family

SUNDAY COLLECTION: January 13/14, 2007

Total: $9,965.11

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4:30 8:30 10:30 12:30
Loose
Env. $
Total 2,357.00 2,068.63 3,747.44 1,792.04
# of Env. 144 108 204 91

2007 OFFERTORY ENVELOPES

There are still some envelopes to be picked up in the Gathering Space. Please enter your full name, address with postal code and telephone number on your envelopes. It is important to throw away any envelopes that you may have from previous years, as old numbers are reassigned to new parishioners.

TO RECEIVE AN INCOME TAX RECEIPT, USE THE NUMBER ON YOUR NEW BOX

INTERNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

Every four years, the universal Church gathers to celebrate Jesus living and present in the Eucharist. It is a time of prayer, of reflection and of commitment. The conference will take place in Quebec City, June 15 to 22, 2008.

To help Christians to discover, deepen and celebrate the Eucharistic Mystery as a gift of God for the world, THE ARK OF THE NEW COVENANT was created.

THE ARK OF THE NEW COVENANT, which is travelling across Canada, will be here in Toronto in January 2007. The closest locations are as follows:

  • Sunday, January 21 – St. Michael’s Cathedral
  • Tuesday, January 23 – Radio Maria / St. Timothy’s, North York
  • Wednesday, January 24 – St. Justin Martyr, Unionville
  • Thursday, January 25 – St. Elizabeth Seton, Newmarket
  • Friday, January 26 – St. Paschal Baylon, Thornhill

For more information, please visit the Diocese website at: www.archtoronto.org

ECOLOGY CONCERNS

We are forming an environmental focus group here at St. Gabriel’s. We will meet once a month on the first Thursday of each month beginning on February 1st at 7:30PM in the Gabriel Room. Everyone is welcome to join us and share your ideas. For more information please phone Mary Landry at 416-293-3760.

NEW CHURCH – OLD AND NEW IDEAS

10:30AM to NOON
PLACE: Gabriel Room
on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24th (repeat of January 17th )
This presentation will also be offered on TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23rd at 7:30PM.

FAITH TRADITIONS

TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30th
7:30 – 9:00PM
Library
“How are our Christian life and ethics similar to those of other faith traditions? How are they different?”

CASSEROLES FOR THE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTRE

Your prepared chicken rice casseroles (frozen please) will be collected at the Masses next weekend for delivery to the Good Shepherd Centre. More volunteers are encouraged to get a copy of the casserole recipe and a pan and give it a try. For more information, please contact Irene Albrecht at 416-221-2791.

Letter of thanks from the Good Shepherd Centre

Dear Fr. Paul and Parishioners,

I want to thank you personally for participating in Good Shepherd Centre’s Christmas food drive.

Your generous participation in the Christmas food drive has helped the Centre fill its pantries, ready to serve more than 260,000 meals and snacks in 2007. Thank you for giving us such a great start to the year.

Your gift of food will help sustain and comfort thousands of individuals who would otherwise go hungry: the homeless and people who live on fixed incomes (seniors, the disabled) who might have to choose between eating and paying the rent.

Thank you for taking the time this holiday season to remember those most in need in our community.

Come and See

A “Come and See” Weekend for single Catholic men and older who are considering a possible call to the Diocesan Priesthood will be held at St. Augustine’s Seminary on Friday, February 2nd to Sunday, February 4th, 2007. To register or for further information, please contact The Office of Vocations at 416-968-0997 or by email at: vocations@vocations.ca

MEAGAN’S WALK / DINNER AND DANCE

is a fundraising project to raise funds for “b.r.a.i.n. Child”
which supports research into brain cancer in children and the Meagan Bebenek Endowment Fund at
SickKids.

Friday, February 23, 2007 at 6:00PM
The Liberty Grand, Governor’s Ballroom
25 British Columbia Drive, Exhibition Place
Toronto, Ontario
$100.00 per person
Call 416-239 – 7843 or meganswalk.com

THEOLOGY ON TAP

Is a thought-provoking social evening for adults (19 – 39 years) where a speaker provides opportunity for discussion.

MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2007 from 7:00 – 9:00PM at Duke of York Pub

“Dying to Live: Desperate & Dangerous Immigration on the US-Mexico Border”

CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES

MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2007 from 2:30 – 7:30PM at St. Gabriel’s Church in the Gathering Space. Please help by donating the ‘Gift of Life’.