OLPH e-Bulletin - Feast of the Holy Family

OLPH e-Bulletin - December 30, 2018

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Feast of the Holy Family

Happy New Year

May you and your family have a joyous New Year.

-From the Parish Staff

Msgr Jim    Fr Dan    Fr Guenter
Alison    Agnes    Ed
Scott   Theresa

New Year's Prayer

Dear Lord, we pray that this New Year will bring us closer to You. May we take the time to get to know You. Help us to truly celebrate the gifts You have graciously given us and use them to serve You and spread Your word.

May we also see and love you in all the people we meet, so that in turn, they can see You in us. We know that all human relations take time if they are to grow and deepen. This is also true of our relations with You, the Father and the Holy Spirit, which must grow over the course of our lives.

In this new year, let us realize that every action of ours no matter how great or small enables us to be in touch with You. Let us accept You in our lives, in the way it pleases You, as Truth, to be spoken, as Life, to be lived, as Light, to be lighted, as Love, to be followed, as Joy, to be given, as Peace, to be spread about, as Sacrifice, to be offered among our relatives, friends, neighbours and all people.
Amen.

New Years Office Schedule

The parish office will close at noon on and Monday Dec 31, 2018.

The parish office is closed on New Year’s Day - Tuesday January 1, 2019

Regular office hours will resume Jan 2, 2019.

New Year Mass Schedule


Mon Dec 31, 2018    12:10 pm Daily Mass

                                         5:00 pm  – New Years Eve

Tues Jan 1, 2019      10:00 am ONLY

Lectors and Eucharistic Ministers New Years Schedule

Dec 31st & Jan 1st	Time	*Lectors*	*Eucharistic* *Ministers*
Monday	5:00 PM	Adrian Macdonald and Lois Roberts	Lois Roberts
Tuesday	10:00 AM	Austin Pinto and Daniel Pinto	Ruxandra Pinto

LECTORS & EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: If you are not able to attend your scheduled time it is the responsibility of each minister to contact another minister for a replacement and notify the office as soon as possible preferably before Thursday so changes can be made to the schedule for the weekend in the Sacristy. Thank you for your assistance.

2019 Offertory Envelopes

If you have not received your 2019 Donation Envelopes
please contact the Parish Office.

Contact the office by email: office@olphtoronto.com
or by phone: 416-489-1540.

Daily Readings - Archdiocese website

Working with our publishing partners at Living with Christ/Novalis,
the Archdiocese of Toronto has been able to include this new feature
on the www.archtoronto.org website.

The Daily Readings tab can be found under the Our Catholic Faith drop-down menu on the archdiocesan website.

Help for Troubled Marriages

If you are thinking of separation or divorce or you are already separated,
but want to try again then Retrouvaille can help.

This program will give you the tools to help get your marriage back on track. It will also give you the opportunity to rediscover one another and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.

Web: www.torontoretrouvaille.com Phone: 416-281-6007 or Email: info@torontoretrouvaille.com

Kindergarten Registration

The Toronto Catholic District School Board invites parents to register their children for Junior Kindergarten beginning on January 16th, 2019 at 10:00 am Eastern Standard Time. For parents who are not available during the regular school day, most schools are hosting extended hours for registration one evening during the month of January. For specific dates and times, contact the Catholic school in your neighbourhood.

For September 2019 all children born in 2015 are eligible to attend Kindergarten.
The following documents are required for registration:
1. Child's Birth Certificate

2. Passport/immigration documents (only if child was not born in Canada)

3. Child's Catholic Baptismal Certificate (or proof of parent's Catholicity.

4. Child's Immunization Record

5. Proof of residency in Toronto

It is best to call your local Catholic school for an appointment. For a complete listing of TCDSB schools, please consult the Board website at http://www.tcdsb.org/school/Alphabeticalschooldirectory/Pages

Churches on the Hill Foodbank

The January food of the month is Hot Cereal.

Please place donations in the basket in the vestibule.

You may contact us at info@cothfoodbank.ca. On behalf of the clients, volunteers at the COTH Foodbank, thank you for your support.

To have a baby baptized at OLPH, parents will need to complete the Baptism registration form found on the table behind the last pew and attend one of the baptism preparation programs before selecting the Baptism date.

Each program consists of two sessions and attendance at both is mandatory. The next preparation is scheduled as follows:

Sunday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm on February 3rd and February 10th , 2018

Please ensure that you submit the registration form at least one week prior to the date of the selected baptism preparation program. For more information, contact Alison (D'Souza) Endrizzi at (416) 489-1540 ext. 226 or alison@olphtoronto.com

Monday  Dec 31st - 12:10 pm
For: Val Daley (SI)  Req: The Family

Wednesday  Jan 2nd - 12:10 pm
For: Cherrie Mendoza (SI)  Req: Rosalina Parale

Thursday  Dec 28th - 12:10 pm
For: Tyrone Wong (D) Req: The Family

Parish Choir    Sept to June  7 - 9 pm  Thursdays - Church


January

Finance Council Meeting 
Tuesday, Jan 8        7:30 – 9:00 pm               Library

Pastoral Council Meeting 
Wednesday Jan 9    7:30 – 9:00 pm              Library

Jan 5th & Jan 6th	Time	*Lectors*	*Eucharistic* *Ministers*
Saturday	5:00 PM	Adrian Macdonald and Jennifer Corbett	Margaret Boland
	9:30 AM	John Berkman and Tom Coyle	Alison Chong
	11:00 AM	Lise Anglin and Mercedes Aunich	Peter Bennett
	4:00 PM	Anne Beaudry and Mary Anne Cavanaugh	Anne Beaudry

If your personal information has changed, such as address, telephone, email, please advise OLPH Office so we can keep your records up to date especially for income tax purposes. Please email your new information to office@olphtoronto.com or call OLPH Office at 416-489-1540 ext 221.

For a couple to be married at our Lady of Perpetual Help at least one of the individuals must live within the boundaries of the parish. If one of the individuals is not Catholic, it is the Catholic party that must live within the boundaries of the parish. For your convenience the following are the boundaries of the parish:

North: Chaplin Crescent, Davisville Avenue

East: South on Forman Avenue, east on Balliol St., south on Cleveland Street, east on Merton St., south on Bayview Avenue, Bayview Avenue Extension

South: Park Drive Reservation, south on Mount Pleasant Rd., west on Crescent Road

West: North on Yonge Street, CPR tracks, Avenue Road, east on St. Clair Avenue West, Oriole Road, Lonsdale Road, Oriole Parkway, Kilbarry Road

If neither party seeking to be married at Our Lady of Perpetual Help lives within the boundaries of the parish then they must have been registered as a parishioner and financially supporting the parish for six months before any date for a marriage will be discussed.

online registration & Mass schedule
homilies & readings in audio & text versions
e-Calendar – don’t miss parish meetings
news & events in Parish & Beyond, many photos, info on the Catholic Faith and much more…

1. If someone has hurt themselves or fainted but is breathing please DO NOT disrupt the Mass if it is determined that the person’s condition is serious enough to warrant professional assistance then call 911.

2. If the person is NOT BREATHING, please stand up, interrupt the Mass and in a clear voice announce that we have a medical emergency. Ask that someone call 911 and give location of OLPH Church (St. Clair & Mt. Pleasant Rd) and immediately ask that someone else go to the sacristy to get the parish defibrillator and begin to treat the person appropriately for the condition until help arrives.

E-bulletin prepared by Theresa Daley, Parish Secretary