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THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
Our next day to help out is Wednesday, January 10th.
Volunteers, please call Sandra at 905-683-8504 to sign up.
MONDAY, 8 JANUARY 9:00 AM AVAILABLE TUESDAY, 9 JANUARY 9:00 AM + JAMES MAC GILIVRAY
WEDNESDAY, 10 JANUARY 9:00 AM S. I. FRANCIS & HAZEL FERNANDES
THURSDAY, 11 JANUARY 9:00 AM AVAILABLE
FRIDAY, 12 JANUARY 7:00 PM + MARY ROACH
SATURDAY, 13 JANUARY 9:00 AM AVAILABLE 5:00 PM FOR THE PEOPLE OF OUR PARISH
SUNDAY, 14 JANUARY 8:30 AM AVAILABLE 10:15 AM AVAILABLE 12:00 PM + CAJETAN FERNANDES
7:00 PM AVAILABLE
FIRST DEGREE RELIC
Due to the many misconceptions regarding the Catholic Church
and marriage, please note that a Catholic may marry a non-
Catholic in the Catholic Church, without his or her conversion to
the faith. In some instances, a person, who has been previously
married, can also be married in the Catholic Church after
consultation with the priest. If as a Catholic you’re married
outside of the Catholic Church without the permission of the
Church, we respectfully ask that you refrain from receiving the
Eucharist until your marriage has been validated
(“sacramentalized”) by a Catholic priest or deacon. To remedy
this situation, please call one of the priests to make an
appointment to have your marriage validated. We are very happy
to bring back to the couple, the graces necessary to live out their
marriage, and to reconcile them with the graces of the Eucharist.
MOTHER’S GROUP
CHOIR
Visit our website: www.stfrancisdesales.ca
MARRIAGE AND COMMUNION
Major relic of Saint Francis Xavier to visit the
Archdiocese of Toronto – January 12 – 14, 2018 The forearm of the saint, permanently displayed at
the Church of the Gesù in Rome, will be in Canada
from December 29 – February 2, as part of a 14-
city Canadian visit. In our archdiocese, the relic
will be hosted by St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica
(Jan. 12), St. Francis Xavier Church, Mississauga
(Jan. 13) and Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Toronto
Please come join us for the first Mother's Group meeting of the
new year on Wednesday January 10th at 8 PM. Come and start
2018 feeling refreshed with time of prayer and fruitful fellowship
by meeting other Catholic moms in your community. For more
information, or to be added to the e-mail list feel free to contact
[email protected]. Wishing you all a blessed and
beautiful 2018 from your SFDS Catholic Mother's Group!
ENVELOPES
Great news! Some of the choirs at our Parish are looking for new
singers to join their group. This is a chance for you to join a
wonderful group of people who enjoy singing as much as you
do, to praise the Lord through music and help lead the
congregation in song. Each of our choirs has its own character:
Saturday 5:00pm Choir: Youth Choir, led by Mark and Ciara
Sunday 8:30am Choir: please contact Tatjana at
416-333-9641 and leave a message.
Sunday 10:15am Choir: please contact Nadine at
905-683-3217 and leave a message.
Sunday 12:00pm Choir: please contact Cris at
647-994-8133 and leave a message.
Sunday 7:00pm Choir: please contact Edmar at
Your 2018 box of offertory envelopes is ready for pick up in
the Church foyer. Please be sure that the box you pick up has
your name and address on it. If you have any inquires or if you
do not currently have a box of envelopes and would like a box
please go to the parish. It is very important that parishioners DO
NOT use envelopes from previous years. Any unused envelopes
should be discarded. Each year we recycle the envelope numbers
that are not active. We do not want you to make a contribution
using old envelopes and have it credited to someone else who is
using the new 2018 envelopes with the same number. Thank you
for your continued generiousity.
(January 14). More information about the visit and a full schedule
of events can be found at: www.cco.ca/relic.
EDGE
Our next meeting will take
place on Friday, January 12th
at 7:30 p.m.
7 JANUARY 2018
ATTENTION PARENTS First Reconciliation/ First Holy Communion:
The children will continue to prepare for their two
very special Sacraments throughout January. Please
see below for the class start dates and please review
the Sacramental schedule on the back of your child’s
passport for the upcoming First Reconciliation date
and second passport review.
Baptism and Reception into the Catholic Church
(First Communion Candidates):
- On Wednesday January 10th, we will be
having a final Baptism preparation session in
the Church from 6:30-7:30pm with both the
children and parents. On this date the children
will also rehearse for their Baptism/Reception
into the Catholic Church which will take place
on Saturday January 13th at 10:00am.
First Reconciliation/Communion Preparation
classes at our Parish schools:
- These classes will begin the week of January
8th. Please note that Mrs. Selda will be
preparing all of the grade 2 children from our 6
Parish schools in class.
RCIC Classes at the Parish
- Classes will resume on January 20th at
3:00pm, for all the children attending
Public/Private schools, Other Catholic schools
and for the children in grades 3-6.
Confirmation
Confirmation classes will resume on Sunday
January 14th at 4:00 p.m. and Monday January
15th at 7:00 p.m.
REFLECTION
This week we continue to look at the Infancy Narrative in St.
Matthew’s gospel.
We look at the episode of the Magi, the first Gentiles to visit
Christ. Their visit brings to mind of an Old Testament (OT)
story when the Israelites were wandering the desert for 38
years under the leadership of Moses. In the OT, Balak was
the king of Moab who feared the Israelites so much that he
called upon a pagan prophet from the east named Balaam to
put a curse on the Israelites. However, whenever Balaam
tried to curse Israel, words of blessing mysteriously came out
of his mouth. Three times Balaam attempted to cast a spell
on the Israelites but each time God intervened to cause him
to utter blessings (see Numbers 22-24). In Balaam’s last
attempt to curse the Israelites, the Spirit of God came upon
Balaam and he spoke in prophecy (Numbers 24:17-18):
I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not nigh:
a star shall come forth out of Jacob
and a scepter shall rise out of Israel;
it shall crush the forehead of Moab,
and break down all the sons of Sheth.
Edom shall be dispossessed…
while Israel does valiantly…
The image of a scepter indicates that this person would be a
king and that the scepter should “…rise out of Israel.,”
indicating that this would be a great king born in the land of
the Jews. This king’s coming would be accompanied by a
star that would rise out of the land of Jacob (Israel) and when
he arrives, this Israelite king will defeat Israel’s enemies,
including Edom, who would be dispossessed.
Just as the wicked King Balak wanted to use a pagan from
the East to destroy Israel, so the wicked King Herod tries to
use the Magi from the East in his plot to kill Israel’s new born
Messiah. Balaam prefigures the Magi, and just as Balaam did
not cooperate with Balak’s plan to harm Israel but ended up
blessing God’s people, so do the Magi refuse to cooperate
with Herod. Instead, the Magi end up paying homage to Jesus
and bringing Him gifts fit for a king. Another significant
point in Balaam’s prophecy is that it mentions that when the
new king arrives, he will dispossess Israel’s enemies,
especially Edom. King Herod was not a Jewish King, but a
pagan, more particularly an Edomite who was appointed by
Rome to rule over the land of the Israelites. Herod dies as
stated in 2:19.
Who is Rachel and what is Ramah?
“A voice was heard in Ramah,
wailing and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be consoled,
because they were no more” (2:16-18)
St. Matthew draws our attention to Jeremiah 31:15 from the
OT. Ramah is a city of sorrow in the OT. In the eight century
B.C. the Assyrians attacked it and in the sixth century B.C.
(Reflection cont’d)
the Babylonians established Ramah as the assembly point for
leading the Jewish captives away to exile. Rachel is the
wife of the patriarch Jacob, thereby making her the matriarch
of all Israel. She is portrayed as weeping bitterly in her grave
for her descendants who are being killed and sent off into the
land of slavery.
In light of Herod’s massacre, St. Matthew looks upon
Bethlehem as the new Ramah, a new city of suffering and
brings to mind of Rachel weeping for her children. This time
it is the Holy Innocents who are being slaughtered. This time,
the Holy Family heads off to Egypt, seen traditionally by the
Israelites as the land of slavery.
For the past six weeks, the bulk of the information regarding
the Infancy Narratives of Sts. Matthew and Luke were taken
from: Sri, Edward. Dawn of the Messiah. Cincinnati, Ohio:
Servant Books, 2005.
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