Sunday April 9, 2017 - Palm Sunday

SummerDaze Camp Registration Night

Friday April 21, 2017 6:30 - 8:30pm - Parish Hall

For more information & Registration form www.salesianym.ca/summerdaze.html

*Registrations processed on this evening take precedence. Forms received beforehand will be

processed AFTER Registration Night*

Easter Vigil Reception Share Your Treats

on Saturday April 15, come celebrate together in the church hall after the Easter Vigil mass. Bring finger food snacks or dessert, baked or store bought, to the hall between 7:00 pm and 7:45 pm that Saturday evening.

If you can help, contact Janet: 416-201-0780 (after 6 pm) or jhuitema@sympatico.ca

NEW YORK WEEKEND SALESIAN STYLE Friday June 23 - Monday June 26, 2017

Join St. Benedict Parish & the Salesian Family for the Ordinations of 4 Salesian Priests

DEACONS DIEUNEL VICTOR, PAUL CHU, WILGINTZ POLYNICE, MINH DANG

Cost Includes: return chartered coach, 3 nights double occupancy accommodations with breakfast at Don Bosco Retreat Centre, 2 suppers. Broadway ticket to Cats Musical (Package A only)

Extra cost: Tips, travel insurance, attraction admission fees, other meals

Package A (Includes ticket to Cats): $500.00 Package B (Without Broadway ticket): $400.00

Cheques payable to: St. Benedict Youth Group

TO REGISTER Pick up the Forms (2) at St. Benedict Church office, or download them from www.salesianym.ca, under “EVENTS”. Bring your completed forms, deposit and 2 postdated cheques to St. Benedict Church 2194 Kipling Ave, Etobicoke, attention of MARIEL.

Liturgical Schedule: Holy Week & Easter

Monday of Holy Week

Mass 8:00 am & 7:30 pm Reconciliation: 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm & after Mass

Tuesday of Holy Week

no morning Mass, Mass 7:30 pm Reconciliation: 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm & after Mass

Wednesday of Holy Week

Mass 8:00 am & 7:30 pm Reconciliation: 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm & after Mass

Holy Thursday

no morning Mass Adoration Chapel closes 8:00 am

No adoration during day Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 pm Adoration after mass until midnight

Good Friday

Morning Prayer 10:00 am, Stations of the Cross- Led by Youth 11:00 am

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 3:00 pm & 7:30 pm

Holy Saturday

Morning Prayer 10:00 am

The First Mass of Easter with Initiations 8:00 pm Reception in Hall following mass

Easter Sunday

8:00 am 9:30 am Italian in church,

English in hall 11:00 am 12:45 pm

Easter Monday

Morning Prayer in the Chapel 9:30 am Mass 10:00 am

No 8:00 am Mass this day

Divine Mercy Sunday: April 23

Divine Mercy Holy Hour 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm in church

Tickets: $22 Call Inez: 416-745-4268

Join us for our Magnificat breakfast.

Saturday April 29

NO Palms Please! Please do not bring old palms to church.

Dispose of them by burying them in the ground at your home.

Eucharistic Adoration Chapel Schedule

In keeping with the spirit of the Holy Triduum that prepares for and anticipates the celebration of the

resurrection of Jesus on Easter morning, the Eucharistic Adoration Chapel schedule is as follows:

Holy Thursday, April 13 7:00 a.m.—9:00 p.m. chapel closed 9:00 p.m.—midnight chapel open

Good Friday, April 14 Closed

Holy Saturday, April 15 Closed

Easter Sunday, April 16 2:00 p.m. chapel opens and

regular hours of adoration resume

Sunday April 9, 2017 – Palm Sunday

MASS INTENTIONS

Monday, April 10 8:00am Maria Pham Thi Hue by family 7:30pm Pastor’s Intention

Tuesday, April 11 10:30am Mass at Kipling Acres 7:30pm Giovanni Rania by wife & family

Wednesday, April 12 8:00am Mae Sutton by Ken 7:30pm Pasquale Nano by wife & family

Holy Thursday, April 13 8:00am No Mass 7:30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Good Friday, April 14

10:00am Morning Prayer 11:00am Stations of the Cross 3:00pm Our Lord’s Passion 7:30pm Our Lord’s Passion

Holy Saturday, April 15

10:00am Morning Prayer 8:00pm Annie Amato by Amato family

Easter Sunday, April 16

8:00am Maria & Pawel Hubert by Bzoma family 9:30am Deceased members of the Arone family by Monteleone family 9:30am For the People 11:00am Rocco & Alberta Mastrofrancesco by Rosa 12:45pm Luigi Isopo by Clara

LAST WEEK’S COLLECTION

Sunday Offering $8,698 Sharelife Offering $16,506

Thank you for your ongoing generous support!

St. Benedict Parish Outstanding Debt

Interest Bearing Loan:

Outstanding Debt as at March 31, 2017 $17,147.62

LESS: Debt Repayment Parish second collection & PAG ($389.00)

Balance of Interest Bearing Loan as at April 7, 2017 $16,758.62

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Diocesan Assessment Outstanding parish Debt:

Balance owing as at March 31, 2017 $144,553.40

ADD: New Diocesan Assessment Jul-Dec 2016 $ 34,239.00

Balance owing as at April 7, 2017 $178,792.40

Commissariat of the Holy Land in Canada

Good Friday Pontifical Collection on April 14th for the benefit of the Holy Land

The Pontifical Collection for the benefit of the Holy Places is scheduled this year on Good Friday April 14. Our parish, once a year on Good Friday, is called to support Christians in the Holy Land. Many Christians in the Holy Land depend on the collection for their lives.

As a Pontifical collection requested by Pope Francis, the annual Good Friday Collection helps to maintain not only the Holy Places above all, but also the pastoral, welfare, educational and social works that the Church carries out to the benefit of the Christian brothers and sisters and the local population.

With gratitude, Father Gilles Bourdeau, OFM Commissary of the Holy Land in Canada

Easter Offering Collection - April 16 Next weekend’s second collection is the annual Easter Offering collection. Special Easter envelopes for those parishioners who do not use Sunday envelopes are also in the pews today.

Next ShareLife Sunday May 7, 2017

Living the Gospel by supporting the Deaf community… Taavi wasn't engaged at his school or in extracurricular sports and as a Deaf person, he faced obstacles trying to join his hearing peers. His mom encouraged him to try to participate in the Deaf community. His life changed when he joined a Deaf basketball fun day hosted by Silent Voice and met Mike, Director of the Silent Voice Child and Family Program. He joined a Deaf sports team, began a co-op position with Silent Voice in his 4th year of high school, and was hired as a counselor in the Silent Voice Sign Language Summer day camp. He continues to volunteer at Silent Voice and says, “I’m grateful to ShareLife –supported Silent Voice and want to be a role model for Deaf kids, like Mike was to me.” Last year more than 600 deaf children received help through S h a r e L i fe -s u p p o r te d Silent Voice’s Sign

Language Summer Camps. Please give generously.

Pray for the Dead, especially

Nita Rocha

NO SAVIO CLUB on HOLY THURSDAY APRIL 13TH

THE POOR BOX SPEAKS “I stand alone in the back of your Church ready to greet you, yet many coldly pass me by. You look upon me as just a box of wood, but I have a heart -- it is the heart of throbbing humanity. You do not know, will never know, what I accomplish for your unfortunate brothers and sisters. I am the antidote for pride; I am he who gives with simplicity. I am humble and teach my followers to give for the love of God.

“St. Paul said ‘now there remain Faith, Hope and Charity’, these three, and the greatest of these is Charity’. I exemplify Charity. YOU can practice Charity through me.

“I make possible the most powerful and the easiest prayer in the world; ‘Amen I say to you that when you did it to these your brothers and sisters you did it unto Me’. I keep men from despair. I feed the hungry and clothe the naked. I bring a smile to the worried face, joy to the sad heart -- BUT – “Without YOU I am helpless.”

“I AM THE POOR BOX. PLEASE DO NOT PASS ME BY UNHEEDED.”

THE ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY

Parish Office Closed

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Good Friday April 14

Easter Monday April 17

“I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,

and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.” (John 11:25-26)

In Loving Memory … As we celebrate Easter 2017, we pause to remember,

thank, and honour our loved ones who have gathered with us in the past. For it

was many of them who brought us to our faith, belief, and trust in Jesus. As we

now celebrate in the Resurrection of Our Lord, we give tribute to our loved ones in

the beauty of our church. May this be a sign and symbol of our unity here on

earth and the glory and joy that we will share one day in eternity.

In Loving Memory of Requested by In Loving Memory of Requested by Elma Simpson Agius, C. Shirley Sillers Lozon family

Dianne Agius Agius, C. Marcelli & Wojdat families Marcelli, R. M.

Annie & Amedeo Amato Amato, Louisa Giuseppe Marin Marin, Graziana

Linde Narvali Bachinski, Kate Maria Assunta Mastromarco Mastromarco family

Pierina Carniel Bertollo, Clara Dan McCarthy McCarthy family

Dominico & Letezia Buffone Buffone, Nena & Maurizio Emilio Paternostro Mele, Antonietta

Victoria, Vicente & Eusequio Serng Buffone, Nena & Maurizio Mario Orlando Orlando, Ida

Jack, Alice & Debbie Craven Burke, Carol Abdon delMar Jr Pace, Emma & Paul

Vincenza Olivieri & Butts, Jolanta Maria Muniz & Andres Peralta Peralta, Teresa

Barbara Kasprzak Butts, Jolanta Abelardo Rey Peralta, Teresa

Czeslawa & Stefan Turowski Butts, Jolanta Maresca family Petrecca, Anna

Krystyna Plonka Butts, Jolanta Daniel P. Sanchez Sr. Pontigon, Leody S.

Jose & Purificacion Arro Cabrera, Marilyn Juan Sanchez Sr. Pontigon, Leody S.

Teresa Calabria Calabria, Serafino Isabel Pena Sanchez Pontigon, Leody S.

Peter Calzavara Calzavara, Eilleen Marguerite Browning & Gord Power Power, Doreen

Rob Haas Calzavara, Eilleen John (Jack) Quigg & Tom Quigg Quigg, Joan T.

Camber & Pavlovic families Camber, S.A. Silvio Rea & Rea family Rea, Olimpia

Kmet B. family Camber, S.A. Virginia Lagasca Cruz Reyes, Arsenia Lagasca

Gaetano & Maria Bucci Cascioli, Lena Mary Ricco Ricco, Luigi

Angelina Pellegrino Charette, Mimi & Brian Alberto Rossi Rossi, Maria

Porferio & Angelita Contador Contador, Arlene Jim Sammut Sammut, Marian

Fredelino Halago Contador, Arlene Illo & Alice Raffin Sartor, Mary & Loris

Raymond Crowne Crowne, Monica Elio & Elisa Cividin Sartor, Mary & Loris

D’Agostino & Nunnari families D’Agostino, Gabriel & Josie & family Tony Sartor Sartor, Mary & Loris

Mostacci family D’Agostino, Gabriel & Josie & family Anastasia & William Anaka Shiels, Olga & Patrick

David White D’Agostino, Gabriel & Josie & family Gabriella & Giovanni Cavasin Smith, Stephen & Mary

Francesco Reda Di Felice family Carlo & Maria Soscia & family Soscia, Benito & Pasqualina

Pietrantonio Di Felice Di Felice family Fortunato & Maria Matassa & family Soscia, Benito & Pasqualina

Peter Vincent & Monica D’Souza Fernandes, Mario & Philomena Giuseppe Spagnolo Spagnolo, Gina

Marilyn & Charles France France family Giuseppe & Phil Randazzo Spagnolo, Gina

Remigio Bruno France family Goffredo Stanizzo Stanizzo, A.N.

Mike Cappucci Frati & Cappucci families Francesco & Antonia Tantalo Tantalo, Loreta

Vittoria & Salvatore Galluzzi Galluzzi, Giuseppe Giovanni & Maria Bianchi Tantalo, Loreta

Robert Girardi Girardi, Flora Giuseppe Toso & family Toso, Maria

Bavaresco & Girolimetto families Girolimetto, Angelo Remo Buccitti Velocci, Pat & Rino

Grostate & Halge families Halge, Jeffrey Irene Velocci Velocci, Pat & Rino

Gregorio & Priscella Fresnillo Hifarva, Glenda Bonifacio Cariaga Sr. Villa family

Bienvenido & Adela Hifarva Hifarva, Glenda Jason Villa Villa family

Helen & Joseph Mocarski Kantor, Wanda & family Baldomero & Adriana Villa Villa family

Richard Butrym Kantor, Wanda & family George T. Waite Waite, Veronica

Krol, Henne & Tkachuk families Krol, Sharon Frank Warner Warner, Krystyn

Kaz Kubacki Kubicki, Cecile Mae Sutton Wyatt, Peg & Sutton family

Langen & Hendriks families Langen, Diny R. Zuccaro & G. Lippa families Zuccaro, Francesca

Luisa Lombardi Lombardi, Anthony & family

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