February 21st, 2011
From the desk of Fr. Paul While Lent and Easter come a little later than usual this year, it is nonetheless fast approaching. This year the parish will be launching a special Lenten program: Lent 4.5.
The Lent 4.5 program is developed by the Passionist Earth & Spirit Centre based in Kentucky, USA. (It is an unusual name, but in time you’ll hear more about it.) Through the program, we approach the Lenten season of purification and repentance with a particular focus on how our lifestyles affect creation, as well as the poor of this world. It gives the traditional Lenten practice of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving a whole new meaning.
Beginning February 27, each week during Lent, there will be an additional insert to our Parish Bulletin, covering a variety of themes, such as Christian simplicity, food, energy, water. Each week the particular theme will be explained in the insert, along with what the Church teaches on the subject. There will also be simple actions suggested so that if we decide to, we can make a difference in caring for the poor and for God’s creation.
We encourage you to take a few moments each week, using the insert to ponder and reflect. Hopefully this Lent will be for you a new experience of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
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February 20th, 2011
When Jesus said, “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you cannot have life in you,” many of his followers said, “this is a hard saying and who can take it?” And they walked with him no more.
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In this week’s bulletin, Lent 4.5, the Scarborough Missions Interfaith Series, and the Marriage Enrichment Weekend.
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February 13th, 2011
In this week’s bulletin, Lent 4.5, the Lunar New Year Party, and the Scarboro Missions Interfaith Series on Jewish-Christian Relations & Roots.
February 6th, 2011
In talking about today’s scripture readings someone on staff claimed that salt never loses it flavor. I guess that may be true. But I discovered that salt can lose its saltiness. I was reading up on the background of today’s gospel and found this out:
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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