October 18th, 2015
St. Paul of the Cross was the founder of the Passionists in the year 1720. Born in northern Italy in 1694, Paul experienced conversion at the age of 15 and began a lifetime of devotion to prayer life as a soldier, but left after one year. Six years later, having had several visions, he determined that his vocation was to found an order dedicated to the passion of our Lord. Officials declared the visions authentic and Paul withdrew to write a rule. He was joined by his brother, who remained with him for the rest of his life. By 1747, the Passionists had three houses and were preaching missions throughout Italy. At his death in 1775, Paul was establishing a congregation for Passionist nuns.
Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, which is addressed to all men and women of good will, reminds us the earth is our common home; yet because humankind has not been using the gifts of creation responsibly, the earth is suffering, the poor and vulnerable amongst us are also suffering. We need to work towards an ecological conversion.
For all who are interested in getting to know more about the encyclical, and to reflect on it, a study group is being held at St. Gabriel’s. There are five more meeting, studying one chapter at each meeting.
The Co-leaders of the Study Group will be Fr. Steve Dunn, CP and Dr. Dennis O’Hara.
Dates of Remaining Meetings: Mondays: October 19th, November 2nd, 16th, 30th, and December 7th.
Time: 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM.
The meetings are free of charge, but donations will be gratefully accepted.
To register or for further enquiries, please call the Parish Office (416) 221-8866 or email Fatima Lee at fatimalee@bellnet.ca.
Special Collection – October 31st/November 1st
The situation in Syria and the news about the plight of Syrian refugees have touched many of our hearts. As reported earlier, the parish has decided to sponsor a refugee family again. A big “Thank You” to all who volunteered to help with the application and settlement process.
Through the past few weeks, the parish has been receiving financial donations to support this cause. To date, $18,714 has been received. We thank all who have already donated. To sponsor a Syrian refugee family of 4-5 people, we anticipate we would need $35,000. The parish also had a prior commitment to partially sponsor another Iraqi Christian family, the anticipated cost of which is $11,000. In total, the parish would need to raise $46,000 for sponsorship of the two refugee families, over a period of two years.
We are experiencing a real humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. Please consider and help as your means allow. Donations will be collected specially for our refugee sponsorship on the weekend of October 31st/November 1st.
Cardinal Collins has requested that a weekend Mass attendance count be conducted annually in all parishes and missions of the Archdiocese. This year the attendance count will continue on the weekends of October 17th /18th and 24th/25th. The purpose of the count is to have a more accurate assessment of the number of people attending Mass on a weekend.
As with last year, when you come in for Mass, you may notice a few “counters” clicking on tally counters at the doors of the church. The counters will be doing their jobs in a way as discreetly and non-intrusively as possible.
Thank you for your support.
Tuesday, November 3rd from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
On Tuesday, November 3rd from 7:30 to 9:00 PM the choir will be hosting a hymn sing! In preparation for full singing participation at all our masses, we will wander through our new blue Gather Hymn books. We will be focusing on new hymns for Advent and Christmas. Please join us for a good ol’ song-a-long!
October 19th to October 24th, 2015
MONDAY – MICHAEL McDONOUGH – Requested by the Family TUESDAY – ROMULO CHRISTIAN GONZALEZ – Requested by Rosa & Romulo Gonzalez WEDNESDAY – KENG OWYONG – Requested by Helen Owyong THURSDAY – VINCENT HA – Requested by Laura, Sylvia & Valerie Ha FRIDAY – THAY ONG – Requested by Maria Lourdes Luz SATURDAY – REBECCA WONG – Requested by Catherine Soong
Wednesday, October 28th at 7:30 PM
There will be a meeting for parents of children who will be receiving the Holy Eucharist for the first time on Wednesday, October 28th at 7:30 PM in the Gabriel Room.
It is critical for you to know that to be hired to teach in any Catholic school board in Ontario, as part of your application for employment there must be a letter of reference from your pastor. If you (or if your adult child) is planning to apply to teach in a Catholic school, it is highly recommended you contact the pastor as soon as possible. Please plan to have a conversation with your pastor early in the process and you will avoid disappointment and stress at the time when applications are to be submitted.
Cardinal Collins has designated the weekend of Oct. 24th/25th for D&P’s “Create a climate of change” campaign.
In his recent encyclical Laudato Si’ (161), Pope Francis reminds us that: “The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet’s capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes, such as those which even now periodically occur in different areas of the world. The effects of the present imbalance can only be reduced by our decisive action, here and now.”
Today in the Gathering Space, you will get to know more about the “Create a climate of change” Campaign of Development and Peace. Please pick up prayer cards, pamphlets, and other information material about why and how we are asked to create a climate change.
During the next weekend, you will be invited to consider signing a pledge card to commit to reducing your carbon footprint, and at the same time, ask our Government to commit to taking action on climate change. Here are some of the ways suggested on the pledge card on how one can reduce one’s carbon footprint. You may wish to first give it some thought as to what you can do:
o Making my home more energy-efficient and reducing my energy use. o Carpooling, using public transport, walking, and bicycling whenever possible. o Choosing local, organic, and fair trade options whenever possible. o Reducing waste by buying less, re-using, repairing, recycling, and composting. o Other …
For the Good Shepherd Centre and Rosalie Hall
Thank you to all the parishioners who supported the Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. Food collected was sent to the Good Shepherd Centre and Rosalie Hall. Both organizations are very grateful for your generosity!
Thank you to all who provided casseroles for the Good Shepherd in September. For October, your prepared casseroles (frozen please) will be collected at the Masses next weekend for delivery to the Good Shepherd Centre.
More volunteers are urgently needed to help feed the hungry in our city. Please get a copy of a casserole recipe and a pan and give it a try. Three recipes are available on St. Gabriel’s web site under “Ministries”. Printed copies of the recipes are also available in the Parish Office. Remember to mark the label on the pan lid with the name of the casserole. For more information, you may contact Irene Albrecht at 416 221-2791.
Jesuit Volunteers Canada (JVC) is a formation program where young adults live out the values of Christian spirituality, social and eco-justice, community and simple living. Placement opportunities include working with First Nations communities, young adult programming, community development and outreach, education, food justice, and working with the urban poor.
Jesuit Volunteers Canada is currently accepting applications for September 2016, with possible communities and work placements in northern Ontario, Toronto and Regina.
For more information visit www.jesuitvolunteers.ca or call 519-820-8204. JVC is part of a 50-year movement dedicated to inspire young adults!
Saturday, October 24th from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM
St. Wilfrid’s Church 1675 Finch Ave. West
Suffering is really difficult for everyone to handle. In some cases people feel crushed by its burden. Some even find themselves asking, “What did I do that God is punishing me?” Please join us for a New Beginnings Fall Retreat entitled, “How Do I Manage the Suffering in My Life?” Saturday, October 24th, from 9:30 AM. to 1:00 PM. at St. Wilfrid’s Church 1675 Finch Ave. W. It will be facilitated by Fr. Fred Scinto, CR and the New Beginnings Team. All are welcome to attend. There is no cost for this event. Please register by calling 416-921-1163 Ext. 2235.
St. Gabriel’s Parish Weekend of February 12th to 14th, 2016
A Marriage Preparation course will be offered here at St. Gabriel’s the weekend of February 12th to 14th, 2016.
The course will be held Friday from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, Saturday from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM. For a registration package please email Marie Deans at deansm@sympatico.ca. Note that this course usually fills up quickly and spaces are limited.
Weekly Offertory
Our operating expenses average $14,550 per week. Collection for last weekend: Envelopes 387 $ 9,175 Loose Change 1,140 Weekly Portion of Pre-Authorized Giving 163 3,060 Total 550 $ 13,375
If you are moving out of the Parish or have a change of address, please contact the Parish Office at 416-221-8866 so that we can update our records. Thank you.
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October 11th, 2015
So much of today’s gospel centers on men and women who depend on their wealth to see them thru life. So often wealth means power and power deludes us into thinking we can do whatever we want. We don’t need anybody, even God. If one is rich enough, one can begin to think of oneself as the center of the world. Who comes to mind is a braggart like Donald Trump.
Mark tells us of a good young man who kept the commandments all his life. Jesus saw the good that was in him and challenged him to do and be more. ‘Sell what you own, give your money to the poor and come follow me. This wasn’t what this pious young man expected. This was too much. He couldn’t bring himself to do this – end of conversation. His property ran his life, and he was not free enough to follow Jesus’ way of losing self to find oneself.
But let’s go back to when this young man approached Jesus and asked his question,’ what must I do to inherit eternal life? In a way he was asking how can I earn brownie points so I can be on God’s good side. We can get into that mentality sometimes. We say so many prayers, make so many novenas, visit this or that shrine and we get brownie points. In a way we think God owes us. In the early church there was a heresy named Pelagianism named after a 4th century theologian Pelagius. He taught a very strict, rigid moralism but he emphasized a natural, innate human ability to attain salvation. By dint of our natural abilities we could, so to speak, lift ourselves up by our own spiritual boot straps. He stressed human autonomy and freedom of the will and claimed that we have a [natural sanctity and a natural moral capacity to choose to live a holy life. He opposed St. Augustine’s teaching that good works can only come with the help of God’s grace.
As Christ told us,’ without me you can do nothing.’ St. Paul teaches that before the world began God chose us to be his adopted sons and daughters to holy and spotless in his sight such was God’s will and pleasure. St. Paul says of himself as we can say of ourselves,’by God’s grace I am what I am and his grace in me has not been in vain.’ Paul asks us,’ what have you that you have not received and if you have received it why do you act as if you had not receive it? Our basic reality is we are a graced and gifted people. Without me you can do nothing.’ That’s why we always seek the help of God’s grace to do what we must to gain the eternal life that is already ours thru the passion, death and resurrection of Christ. That’s why we answer the invitation of Jesus, ‘come to me you who labor and are heavily burdened and I will refresh you’, that’s we pray,’ give us this day our daily bread.
What must I do to gain eternal life? Jesus told the young man to keep the commandments. He tells us that if seek eternal life we are to live his great commandment, love all others as he has loved us. We are to be there for others. Spouses are to be there with love and patience for one another. Parents are to be there with love and patience for their sons and daughters. We are to be there for the stranger, the hungry, the homeless, those who mourn, we are to be there for the friend or stranger who needs us in any way. ‘As often as we are there for others we are there for Christ and Christ will be there us.
We are a graced and gifted people. We recognize that truth at every Mass when we are invited to give thanks to the Lord our God and we respond, ‘it is truly right and just our duty and our salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks Lord Holy Father almighty and eternal God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Tomorrow we celebrate Thanksgiving Day. Can we make every day a day of thanksgiving knowing that we are a graced and gifted people? Can we begin each day remembering that before the world God chose us to be his adopted sons and daughters and that through the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus we are restored to love and friendship with God? Can we spend a moment at the beginning of the day to thank God for the gift of life, the gift of family, the gift of faith, the gift of health, the gift of sight, the gift of mobility and so many other blessings?
What must we do to inherit eternal life? Be loving and be grateful.
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October 10th, 2015
O, heavenly Father: We thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, that thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.
Mass will be celebrated on Thanksgiving Day, Monday, October 12th at 10:00 AM.
October 12th to October 17th, 2015
MONDAY – THANKSGIVING DAY – Thanksgiving Mass at 10:00 AM TUESDAY – BICK JING FONG – Requested by Mei Yung Fong WEDNESDAY – CAROLE FYFLE – Requested by Margaret Anne Leckie & Mary Alice O’Mahony THURSDAY – RUTH LEDUC – Requested by Mary Ann & Fergus O’Connell FRIDAY – HENRY & CECILIA NG – Requested by the Ng Family SATURDAY – PASQUALE GATTI – Requested by Linda Gatti
For Children from Other Catholic Schools Saturday, October 18th at 12:00 Noon
There will be a meeting for Confirmation candidates attending Catholic Schools other than St. Gabriel’s on Saturday, October 18th at 12:00 PM in the Gabriel Room.
The Altar Service is now recruiting new members. If you are in Grade 4 or higher and are interested in becoming an altar server, please contact Colin Meharchand at cmeharchand@bell.net or leave your name and phone number with the Parish Office at 416-221-8866.
“The St. Gabriel Youth Group is now recruiting new members. Any interested youth, grades 7 and up are welcome to sign up in the Gathering Space after all the Masses next weekend.”
For all who are interested in getting to know more about the encyclical, and to reflect on it, a study group will be held at St. Gabriel’s. We’ll be meeting six times, beginning October 5th, studying one chapter at each meeting.
The Co-leaders of the Study Group will be Fr. Steve Dunn, CP and Dr. Dennis O’Hara .
Dates of Meetings: Mondays: October 19th, November 2nd, 16th, 30th, and December 7th. Time: 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM.
Through the past few weeks, the parish has been receiving financial donations to support this cause. To date, $16,537 has been received. We thank all who have already donated. To sponsor a Syrian refugee family of 4-5 people, we anticipate we would need $35,000. The parish also had a prior commitment to partially sponsor another Iraqi Christian family, the anticipated cost of which is $11,000. In total, the parish would need to raise $46,000 for sponsorship of the two refugee families, over a period of two years.
Cardinal Collins has requested that a weekend Mass attendance count be conducted annually in all parishes and missions of the Archdiocese. This year the attendance count will continue on the weekends of October17th /18th and 24th/25th. The purpose of the count is to have a more accurate assessment of the number of people attending Mass on a weekend.
Cardinal Collins has designated the weekend of Oct. 24th/25th for D&P’s “Create a Climate of Change” campaign.
On this beautiful Thanksgiving weekend, we give thanks for all our blessings – food, water, clean air, loving relationships, and the privilege to live in a country as blessed as ours! In this spirit of thanksgiving, perhaps we can reflect too, at the invitation of Pope Francis, on whether there is a “cost to our abundance”
Fair trade organic coffees will be on sale after all the Masses next weekend.
Regular ground coffee: $5.50 Decaffeinated: $6 Whole Beans: $5.50 Chocolate Bars: $4.50 incl. taxes Hot Chocolate and Cocoa: $5.00 Teas: $4.25
You can make a difference in the lives of the hungry and homeless this Thanksgiving by participating in the annual Good Shepherd Ministries Thanksgiving Food Drive.
Urgently needed items include: rice, pasta sauces, canned tuna, canned soups, stews, canned meats, fruits and vegetables, peanut butter, jam, oatmeal, pancake mix, teabags, ground or instant coffee, sugar, cookies and crackers.
Each month some of the food we collect is sent to Rosalie Hall. Rosalie Hall assists young parents in need and their children to realize their potential through the provision of a wide range of community, residential, educational and child development services.
With everyone struggling at this time, your food donations are more important than ever. Please check the expiry dates before donating since we cannot pass on food that has expired. Thank you for your generous support.
On Tuesday, November 3rd from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM the choir will be hosting a hymn sing! In preparation for full singing participation at all our masses, we will wander through our new blue Gather Hymn books. We will be focusing on new hymns for Advent and Christmas. Please join us for a good ol’ song-a-long!
The course will be held Friday from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, Saturday from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM.
For a registration package please email Marie Deans at deansm@sympatico.ca. Note that this course usually fills up quickly and spaces are limited.
Monday, October 19th at 6:30 PM
Catholic Pastoral Centre, 1155 Yonge St. 4th Floor
New Beginnings presents “The Role of Spirituality/Religiosity in the Movement through Loss and Grief” with Dr. Ken Fung, M.D. F.R.C.S. on Monday, October 19th at 6:30 PM at the Catholic Pastoral Centre, 1155 Yonge St. 4th Floor. Dr. Fung will explore the benefits of spirituality and religiosity in our movement through loss and grief, illustrating how the pathways of faith – experienced, affiliative, searching, and owned – inspire well-being. All are welcome to attend. There is no cost for this event.
Weekly Offertory Our operating expenses average $14,550 per week.
Collection for last weekend: Envelopes 385 $ 8,191 Loose Change 1,126 Weekly Portion of Pre-Authorized Giving 162 3,062 Total 547 $ 12,379
October 4th, 2015
I imagine that Pope Francis picked this day and these scripture readings on marriage to begin the Synod on Marriage which will run from the 4th til the 25th of this month. Bishops from around the world will meet with Pope Francis in Rome to discuss and give us guidance on different issues that are part and parcel of family life today. The theme of this second synod on the family is, The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and the Contemporary World’. Hopefully our bishops will encourage and re-inforce good people who are living in stable and life giving relationship and hopefully, following the example of Pope Francis they will walk pastorally with those men and women whose marriages are on the rocks and especially those who have found new life and love in new relationships.
After last year’s Synod those in charge sent out a questionnaire to the bishops of the world which they were to pass on to their people in order to get feedback on what the people of the church thought about the present situation of married life today and what might be pastoral responses to these issues. Many bishops used this questionnaire others did not.
In February a group of Catholics from Germany wrote to Pope Francis pointing out the weaknesses of this synod’s questionnaire saying they thought “The questionnaire is far too complex and, with its abstract language and juridical views of marriage, it is largely incomprehensible to even the most well educated Catholics. It will not gather the much-need input from Catholic families themselves. The questionnaire should allow respondents to voice their personal sense of the faith and how they understand marriage and family. With freedom of expression in such a survey, new perspectives can emerge, and the Church may find fresh ways of showing compassion and providing pastoral care. Clearly, the synod’s questionnaire will not do this.
Family is a very important topic for Catholics around the world and so important that it has been reported that over 12,000 people from 42 countries responded to a single questionnaire handed out in parishes. Other groups in different countries have done the same thing, they believe this a truer way of finding the people’s concerns and desires. It should be our prayer that these new questionnaires will be given a hearing at the synod.
I think too many people have unreal expectations of this synod of bishops. The ‘foreverness’ of marriage cannot be changed and hopefully the good men and women who are faithful to their marriage commitments will be recognized and praised. The pastoral issues of this synod will centered around those whose marriages did not live up to their expectations, for whatever reasons; the walking wounded of the family of the church. How can we, as church, walk with them and welcome them home – if indeed they want to come home.
As we know from the press there are differences of opinion in these matters. There are strong personalities who want to hold the line and there are others who want to change the lines of look at the lines in a new way. One churchman described struggle in this way, he says ‘it will either be the brutality of rigorist or the gentleness of mercy.’Lines have been drawn. Pope Francis described the church as a field hospital in which peoples wounds are treated and then sent on their way. The focus of this synod will first of all assert the permanency of marriage and try to heals the wounds of weakened and broken marriages and find a way to bring the victims of broken marriages back into the life of the church making them know they are welcome at the table of the Lord.
These bishop’s synods are the product of Vatican 2 and they were meant to facilitate free and open discussions among the bishops concerning the subject matter being discussed. Pope Paul’s vision of the synod was never realized. The synods held by John Paul 2 and Pope Benedict was totally controlled by cardinals in the Vatican chosen by the Pope. They set and controlled the agenda and set and controlled the final report of the agenda. Pope Francis wants a free and open discussion on all the matters with which this synod is concerned. No one will get fired if they disagree with the Pope because he wants an open and listening church.
In these coming weeks we should all pray for all those participating in this important meeting. May they be open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit and open to all the men and women of the world who struggle to be faithful to the teaching of Jesus, ‘what God has joined let no one put asunder’. We pray too for all the walking wounded of our church that they may find peace and hope in their lives.
October 3rd, 2015
Dates of Meetings: Mondays: October 5th, 19th, November 2nd, 16th, 30th, and December 7th. Time: 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM.
Special Collection – October 31/November 1st
The situation in Syria and the news about the plight of Syrian refugees have touched many of our hearts. As reported earlier, the parish is considering sponsoring a refugee family again.
A big “Thank You” to all those who volunteered to help with the application and settlement process.
The parish has also been receiving financial donations to support this cause. To date, $14,842 has been received.
We thank all who have already donated.
This is a real humanitarian crisis. Please consider and help as your means allow. Donations will be collected specially for our refugee sponsorship on the weekend of October 31st/November 1st.
October 5th to October 10th, 2015
MONDAY – THE KIM & YANG FAMILIES – Requested by the Kim Family TUESDAY – Sr. Charlotte Bergin I.B.V.M. – Requested by Margaret Anne Leckie WEDNESDAY – KATHLEEN DROHAN – Requested by Marie Meagher THURSDAY – JOSEPH RORAI – Requested by Sheila & Family FRIDAY – LUCIA DE CORREDOR – Requested by her Family SATURDAY – VICTOR PAUL & DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE PAUL FAMILY – Requested by Sophie & Candida Pereira
Wednesday, October 7th at 7:30 PM.
St. Gabriel’s Church
There will be a meeting here at the Church on Wednesday, October 7th at 7:30 PM. for parents of children receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation this year.
The Altar Service is now recruiting new members.
If you are in Grade 4 or higher and are interested in becoming an altar server, please contact Colin Meharchand at cmeharchand@bell.net or leave your name and phone number with the Parish Office at 416-221-8866.
Sunday, October 4th at 11:30 AM in the Gabriel Room
On the first Sunday of each month, the Passionist Centre for Ecology and Spirituality facilitates a 30 minute reflection and discussion prompted by the readings for that Sunday’s liturgy. All are welcome.
If you have, or know of, school age children (ages 7 to 14) who wish to prepare for Baptism, please contact the Parish Office, or Fatima Lee directly, at (416) 221-8866. Classes for them will begin after Thanksgiving.
Meetings in preparation for the R.C.I.A. (Rites of Christian Initiation of Adults) will begin soon. These meetings are for persons interested in learning more about the Catholic Faith. The exploration may lead the candidate to seek baptism, and become a member of the Catholic Christian community; or for Christians already baptized into another Christian denomination, the reception into the Catholic Church.
Adult Catholics who have not received the sacrament of Confirmation but who wish to do so are also encouraged to attend these sessions.
As well, these meetings may be an opportunity for “Born Catholics” to deepen their understanding of our faith. Very often, especially for those of us who received our religious instruction at an early age, we tend to grow physically, mentally, psychologically etc., but the understanding of our faith does not grow correspondingly. The RCIA may serve as a good opportunity for us to ask questions and to develop a more adult understanding of our faith.
If you are interested in joining the RCIA meetings or if you would like to have more information about it, please call the Parish Office at 416-221-8866. You can also contact Fatima Lee directly at ext. 228.
A loving father of three and grandfather of seven is urgently seeking a living donor for a liver transplant. He has been waiting, desperately, on the transplant list for several years now and time is of the essence as his body continues to struggle and fight to survive.
Anyone between the ages of 16 and 60, having Type B or Type O blood can potentially and generously become a donor and help save this man’s life. Typically, a donor’s liver re-growth occurs within 6 weeks and regular activities can be fully resumed within 2-3 months or less. General information about the liver transplant process can be obtained by contacting The Living Donor Liver Transplant Office, Toronto General Hospital at 416-340-4800, Ext. 6581 or online at www.uhn.on.ca/Focus_of_care/MOT/
Please contact Ann Ray via email at liverformike@yahoo.ca to help this family in need. May God bless you.
Thank you to the volunteers who prepared 48 casseroles for September. For October, your prepared casseroles (frozen please) will be collected at the Masses on the weekend of October 24th/25th.for delivery to the Good Shepherd Centre. More volunteers are needed to help feed the hungry in our city. You may pick up a copy of a casserole recipe and a pan from the Parish Office.
Three recipes are also available on St. Gabriel’s web site. Please remember to mark the label on the pan lid with the name of the casserole. For more information, please contact Irene Albrecht at 416 221-2791.
Each month food we collect is sent to Rosalie Hall. Rosalie Hall assists young parents in need and their children to realize their potential through the provision of a wide range of community, residential, educational and child development services.
Urgently needed items include: rice, pasta sauces, canned tuna, canned soups, stews, canned meats, fruits and vegetables, peanut butter, jam, oatmeal, pancake mix, teabags, ground or instant coffee, sugar, cookies and crackers, Please no fresh or frozen foods. We thank you for your generous support!
We are in need of volunteers to care for the altar linens. If you would be willing to take on this important task, please call the Parish Office at 416-221-8866.
St. Gabriel’s Parish
Weekend of February 12th to 14th, 2016
Their professional counseling staff is trained to offer Walk-In services to clients who have an urgent need to speak with a counselor. The single-session consultation is aimed at helping clients develop plans to help them with their present concern. Clients who are interested in accessing services can:
(1) choose to call one of their branches at 416-921-1163 (Central) or 416-222-0048 (North) and book a single-session appointment, or
(2) drop-in at their North Office on Thursdays between 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM.
For additional information on the range of services offered, please visit their website at: http://www.cfstoronto.com/.
Our operating expenses average $14,550 per week.
Collection for last weekend: Envelopes 391 $ 7,850 Loose Change 953 Weekly Portion of Pre-Authorized Giving 163 3,060 Total 554 $ 11,863
Founded by St. Paul of the Cross, every Passionist takes a special vow to spend his or her energies in promoting remembrance of the sufferings of Jesus, the memory of the Cross, and reflection of the meaning of the Cross for the world.
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