Pastor: Abouna Charbel Bousamra
- Phone Number: 416-414-9165 | Email: stcharbelchurch@live.com | Website: www.stcharbel.org
- Residence of Priest: 7250 West Credit Ave., Mississauga, On., L5N 5N1. Phone Number: 905-797-8585
- Marie Saab (Secretary): 647-401-1902
- Divine Liturgy takes place every Sunday at 5 pm at Saint Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church at: 625 Atwater Ave, Mississauga, On, L5G 2A8.
- Confessions are available on Sunday beginning at 4:30 pm and throughout the Liturgy.
- For all other sacraments and pastoral needs including visits to the sick & elderly, please contact the pastor. Contact us for your questions and for updating our database please email: stcharbelchurch@live.com
The weekly Liturgy Schedule is as follows:
We are praying for each family of our parishioners during the week.
Liturgy Sundays at 5 pm (St Dominic’s).
Liturgy Mondays at 11:30 am (St Charbel’s).
Liturgy Tuesday, May 3th at 6:30 pm (St Charbel’s)
is offered for the family of Bassam and Eliane Boumitry.
Liturgy Wednesday, May 4th at 7 pm (St Charbel’s)
is offered for the family of Tony and Christine Kahil .
Liturgy Thursday, May 5th at 8 pm (St Charbel’s)
is offered for the family of Ebrahim and Jocelyne Ammoury .
Liturgy Fridays at 7 pm (St Charbel’s).
Liturgy Saturdays at 8:30 am (St Charbel’s).
Please note: This is the regular schedule. If there is ever a change, it will be communicated through the Whatsapp Liturgy Group. If you are not in the group, tell Abouna and he will add you.
Month of Mary
Please note we are praying the rosary every day before the Liturgy. Be blessed and join us in greeting Mother Mary in her month.
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A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians. Father give your blessing.
Brethren, for this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe, according to the working of his great might which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come; and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. Praise be to God always.
Let us be attentive to the Gospel of life and salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ as recorded by the Apostle John. When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of man glorified, and in him God is glorified; if God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, `Where I am going you cannot come.’ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. This is the Truth. Peace be with you.
Jesus to Saint Faustina
“For the sake of your love, I withhold the just chastisements, which mankind has deserved. A single act of pure love pleases Me more than a thousand imperfect prayers. One of your sighs of love atones for many offenses with which the godless overwhelm Me. The smallest act of virtue has unlimited value in My eyes because of your great love for Me. In a soul that lives on My love alone, I reign as in heaven. I watch over it day and night. In it I find My happiness; My ear is attentive to each request of its heart; often I anticipate its requests. O child, especially beloved by Me, apple of My eye, rest a moment near My Heart and taste of the love in which you will delight for all eternity. But child, you are not yet in your homeland; so go, fortified by My grace, and fight for My kingdom in human souls;
fight as a king’s child would; and remember that the days of your exile will pass quickly, and with them the possibility of earning merit for heaven. I expect from you, My child, a great number of souls who will glorify My mercy for all eternity. My child, that you may answer My call worthily, receive Me daily in Holy Communion. It will give you strength’… Jesus, do not leave me alone in suffering. You know, Lord, how weak I am. I am an abyss of wretchedness, I am nothingness itself; so what will be so strange if You leave me alone and I fall? I am an infant, Lord, so I cannot get along by myself. However, beyond all abandonment I trust, and in spite of my own feeling I trust, and I am being completely transformed into trust-often in spite of what I feel. Do not lessen any of my sufferings, only give me strength to bear them. Do with me as You please, Lord, only give me the grace to be able to love You in every event and circumstance. Lord, do not lessen my cup of bitterness, only give me strength that I may be able to drink it all. O Lord, sometimes You lift me up to the brightness of visions, and then again You plunge me into the darkness of night and the abyss of my nothingness, and my soul feels as if it were alone in the wilderness. Yet, above all things, I trust in You, Jesus, for You are unchangeable. My moods change, but You are always the same, full of mercy.”
Saint Catherine of Sienna, The Dialogue:
“It is the way of wicked sinners, and I beg you to pray
to me for them. I ask for your tears and sweat on their behalf so that they may receive mercy from me.”
Servant of God, Fr. John Hardon S.J.:
“Love wants to suffer for the Beloved… Love wants to expiate the sins that have so deeply penetrated mankind. Love wants to make up for the lack of love among those who sin. Love wants to relieve the debt of suffering that sinners owe to God. Love wants to give God what sinners are depriving Him of by their sins.”
Diary of Saint Faustina
“Jesus says; ‘My daughter, I want to instruct
you on how you are to rescue souls through sacrifice and prayer. You will save more souls through prayer and suffering than will a missionary through his teachings and sermons alone. I want to see you as a sacrifice of living love, which only then carries weight before Me… And great will be your power for whomever you intercede. Outwardly, your sacrifice must look like this: silent, hidden, permeated with love, imbued with prayer.”
Saint Catherine of Sienna:
“The soul cannot live without love. She always wants to love something because love is the stuff she is made of, and through love I created her. That is why I have put you among your neighbors: so that you can do for them what you cannot do for me–that is, love them without any concern for thanks and without looking for any profit for yourself.”
Catechism of the Council of Trent, preface 10:
“The whole concern of doctrine and its teaching must be directed to love…all the works of perfect Christian virtue spring from love, and have no other objective than to arrive at love.”
Saint Catherine of Sienna:
“Those who are willing to lose their own consolation for their neighbors’ welfare receive and gain me and their neighbors…
and so they enjoy the graciousness of my charity at all times. Then she must love her neighbors with such affection that she would bear any pain of torment to win them the life of grace, ready to die a thousand deaths, if that were possible, for their salvation. And all her material possessions are at the service of her neighbors’ physical needs.”
Saint Faustina:
Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus.”
Padre Pio
“O what precious moments these are. It is a happiness that the Lord gives me to relish almost always in moments of affliction. At these moments, more than ever, when the whole world troubles and weighs on me, I desire nothing other than to love and to suffer. Yes my father, even in the midst of so much suffering I am happy because it seems as if my heart is beating with Jesus’ heart.”
St Aelred of Rievaulx
“Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man’s entire relation to God and to his neighbor.”