Stations of the Cross Friday Evenings at 7:30 PM Reconciliation Service Wednesday, March 24th at 7:30 PM Palm Sunday March 28th
Holy Thursday April 1st
Good Friday April 2nd
Holy Saturday April 3rd
Easter Sunday April 4th
Easter Monday April 5th
Extra parking at Elkhorn Public School.
March 1st to March 6th 2010 MONDAY –MARIE LEE FUNG YING Requested by Mary Chan TUESDAY –NIKOLA PETRANOVIC Requested by The Petranovic Family WEDNESDAY – BENITO L. MERCADO JR. Requested by Ryan Mercado THURSDAY – THE GODCHILDREN Requested by Peter & Gemma Baik FRIDAY –ALMA GUINNESS Requested by The Family SATURDAY – JOSEPHINE BADALI Requested by John, Sal & Patsy Badali
Stations of the Cross will take place each Friday evening during Lent at 7:30 PM. We also encourage your attendance at our daily Mass throughout Lent.
Sunday, March 7th & Monday, March 8th, 2010
This year’s National Catholic Mission, “A God For All Seasons,” will be taped for television at St. Gabriel’s Church this Sunday, March 7th and Monday, March 8th from 7:15-9:00 PM. It will be hosted by Spiritan Father, Pat Fitzpatrick and Benedictine Sister, Joan Chittister. They will be joined by Richard Foty, Marilyn Calderone and the St. Michael’s Choir School Alumni. We invite you all to attend. Mike McManus, the producer of the Mission, asks that we have a good turnout these two nights to participate in this pre-recording. Please keep this in mind and pray for another successful Lenten Mission. The Mission will be aired on Vision TV on Monday March 29th and Tuesday, March 30th at 9:00 PM and repeated at 11:00 PM.
Wednesday, March 24th at 7:30 PM
This is an opportunity to spend some time in peace and quiet, to reflect upon how we are responding to our call to be sons and daughters of God. Recognizing the fact that we are “good people,” we also accept the fact that good people can sin. Through an examination of Conscience we face those sins, admit them and are reconciled to God. For those who wish, individual confessions will be celebrated after the service. We encourage you to take advantage of this celebration.
Wednesday, March 31st at 7:00 PM in the Gabriel Room
This annual parish event is again being sponsored by the Pastoral team. Passover is the oldest festival of the Hebrew liturgical calendar. It has been observed by the Jewish people for more than 3,000 years. Passover is a religious family meal celebrating Jewish freedom from slavery. It occurs in the spring, the time of renewal in “Nissan”, the first month of the Hebrew year, and it lasts for eight days. Why do we celebrate this “meal” at St. Gabriel’s? First, this celebration helps us to understand our religious roots, which are Jewish. Second, it is an opportunity for us to celebrate our growth as a community and be together with families and friends at this most special time during Holy Week. Please call the Parish Office at 416-221-8866 by Friday, March 26th to book your table of 6 or 8, or to have your name added to a table.
The Orthodox Churches Tuesday, March 16th at 7:30 PM. Wednesday, March 17th at 10; 30 AM.
Thank you once again for your very generous support of Fr. Rick Frechette and the people of Haiti. Five hundred people responded, raising a total of $86,039 to help Fr. Rick in his work at St. Damien’s Children’s Hospital. Please remember Fr. Rick, his staff and the people he serves in your prayers.
The Wonder of Family…
Personal well- being and family stability are constantly challenged as we go through life. These challenges are amplified during periods of economic instability when job losses and financial stress can lead to low self-esteem, family breakdown, poverty, addictions and violence. ShareLife’s network of Catholic Family Services offices collectively served more than 110,000 people in 2008 through a myriad of service and programs, working wonders to ensure that no one has to face a crisis alone.
1st ShareLife Sunday – March 21st, 2010. You Can Work Wonders!
Thank you for your response to our appeal for more casseroles. 70 casseroles were prepared for the Good Shepherd Centre for the month of February. However, we still desperately need more volunteers to get involved. Please pick up a copy of the casserole recipe and a pan at the Parish Office. Your prepared chicken rice casseroles (frozen please) will be collected at all the Masses on the weekend of March 27th/28th. For more information, please contact Irene Albrecht at 416-221-2791.
We want to say a special word of thanks to all those good people who donated toward and worked so hard to make the celebration of the Lunar New Year such a wonderful success. Everyone who stayed for the celebration thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The food was plentiful and awesome! This is one of the nicest events we have though the year. Again, thanks to all. You’ll find photos on our website.
Daylight Savings time begins at 2:00 AM on March 14th. Set your clocks forward 1 hour.
March 27th 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
As you know, on March 27th, millions of people around the world will be shutting off their lights for one hour in a symbolic demonstration of their concern for climate change. As parishioners of Canada’s First Green Church, we at St. Gabriel’s will also be celebrating Earth Hour. Please join others from the Parish on March 27th here in the Church at 8:30 PM for an hour of prayer and reflection. All are welcome.
Tuesday, March 9th at 2:00 PM Blessed Trinity Parish Hall
The next meeting of the North York Retired Men’s Club will be held on Tuesday, March 9th at 2:00 PM in Blessed trinity Parish hall. Noted author, Ted Barris, will speak on “Canada in the Second World War.” All retired men and spouses are cordially invited to attend.
For Widowed, Separated and Divorced Persons St. Bonaventure’s Church (St Francis Room) 1300 Leslie Street, Toronto
April 13th at 8:00 PM: “Let’s Talk About Divorce”: Helping Children Cope – Ms. Liisa Kuuter, M.Sc., MFT For more information, please contact New Beginnings at 416-921-1163, Ext. 2246.
Please remember the Spring Concert on Saturday April 17th, 2010 at 7 pm at Blessed Sacrament Church. The featured choirs are: the Caribbean African Choir (fresh from their 10th Anniversary Black History Ecumenical service and Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Toronto) and the Voices in Christ Choir (Barbados). There will also be sacred music played live on the Steel Pan! For tickets, please contact usher Hilly Tan after the 12:30 pm Mass (or through the parish office). Alternatively, you can order tickets from Mark (416) 309-8877 or Kennie (905) 683-8359. Thank you for your support!
We use the Earth…we think of it as something like a lumberyard. In fact, we use the word “resource”. so that the Earth is full of resources that are there for us to use as we see fit… You can’t call a forest a resource. It’s filled with amazing beings. You can’t call the ocean with all those fish and the marine mammals a resource. Each of these species is the end result of 13.7 billion years of evolution..….to think of them as resources and to use them however we like is really what is driving our destruction.
Brian Swimme
This Bulletin entry was posted on Sunday, March 7th, 2010.
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