May - Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church

SEASON OF RESURRECTION
Our Lady of Lebanon
Waterbury, Connecticut
Clergy/Parish Staff
May 2016
From the desk of Abouna…(SEE INSERT)
 Pastor
Rev. Joseph I. Khoueiry
 Subdeacons
Camille Atallah
Dean Tarsi

Administrative
Secretary:
Deana Testa

Cedars Hall:
Elie Taweh (Manager)

Religious Education
Coordinator:
Marisa Shaker
 Note 
Our Maronite Catholic
tradition encourages
the offering of liturgy
for all our faithful departed. Please schedule
or confirm your liturgy
intentions for the upcoming year.
When offering liturgy at
Our Lady of Lebanon,
remember to include a
stipend to the celebrant
of the liturgy for the
departed.
Contact Information:
Our Lady of Lebanon
8 E.Mountain Rd
Waterbury, CT 06706
203-753-6633
ourladywaterbury@gmail.com
“The Eastern Rites are the Treasure of the Catholic Church”
- Saint John XXIII, Pope of Rome
“The Catholic Church, East and West, breathes as two lungs in the same body.”
- Saint John Paul II, Pope of Rome
“If you want to know what the Eastern Christians believe, attend the liturgy.”
Our Lady of Lebanon
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Waterbury, Connecticut
Ladies’ Society—New Officers
Men’s Society—New Officers
For the Period of May 1, 2016—May 1, 2018
For the Period of May 1, 2016—May 1, 2018

Phyllis Tarsi—President

Charles Shaker—President

Bebe Shaker—Vice President

Nabil Atallah—Vice President

Helen Atallah—Secretary & Treasurer

Sub Deacon Dean Tarsi—Secretary

Joe Nakouzi—Treasurer
Cedars Hall Manager
Hoffman Foundation Members
Fr. Joseph Khoueiry
Elie Taweh

Richard Shaker
Taste of Lebanon—2016

Sarkis Balikian—Chairman

Elie Taweh—Co-Chairman

Phyllis Tarsi—Secretary

Bebe Shaker—Treasurer

Tammy Zappone—Treasurer

Phyllis Tarsi—Treasurer

Inventory—Elie Taweh
Dr. Abdel Massih Zarif
Sub Deacon Dean Tarsi
Nehme Atallah
Housekeeping for the Church & Hall
*LouAnn Macary
*Mary Christenson
*Israel Lazara
The Mass Book for 2017 is in…..
To reserve your Masses in Advance,
Maamoul Income
please call Father Joseph.
$1,844.11
Holy Days May 1: 10:00 AM: Our Lady of Lebanon Crowning of Our Blessed Mother by Mrs. Therese Atallah (inside Church) &
Bebe Shaker for
the Statue outside.
May 5: 6:00 PM - Holy Day of Obligation Feast of Ascension of Our Lord
May 13: 6:00 PM - Feast of Our Lady of Fatima
May 15: 10:00 AM - Pentecost Sunday - **We welcome among us on May 15 for the First Holy Communion the Former
Provincial of the Dominican Religious Order, Father Norman Haddad, OP
May 22: 7:00PM - Healing Mass for St. Sharbel - Feast of St. Rita Augustiniana…..There will be a Blessing of the People
with oil from St. Sharbel Followed by a Mass (Veneration & Litany of St. Sharbel after Mass)
May 26: 6:00 PM - Feast of the Body & Blood of Christ Mass
May 30: 6:00 PM - Memorial Mass
Collections
Sat.
Easter
Sun.
Total
1415.00
1415.00
April 2 & 3
760.00
505.00
1265.00
April 9 & 10
184.00
1588.00
1772.00
1254.00
444.00
1698.00
570.00
621.00
1191.00
April 11 & 12 Relics
April 16 & 17
Pray for the
sick of our
community
Sadie Carrah, Joseph & Joan Carrah, Anthony Ciarlo, Sr., Joseph & Delores Gustin,
Fred Haddad, Fred Jarjura, Shirley Macary,
Jackie Mowad, Tamara Zappone, Dominic
Hannoush, Georgette Hannoush, John Fascia and Lorraine Barbieri
Our Lady of Lebanon
Waterbury, Connecticut
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May
Mass Intentions
April 30, 2016 @ 5:00 PM: In Memory of David Pape, Requested by Joseph & Meaghan Macary
May 1, 2016 @ 10:00 AM : Deceased Members of the Bourjaili Family Requested by Hicham Bourjaili & Family
May 7, 2016 @ 5:00 PM: IMO: Wayne Chance Sr., Requested by Joseph & Meghan Macary
May 8, 2016 @ 10:00 AM: Mother’s Day (For all the Mother’s of the Church (The Living and the Deceaced)
May14, 2016 @ 5:00PM: IMO: Clarence Marsella requested by Joseph & Meaghan Macary—May He Rest In Peace.
May 15, 2016 @ 10:00 AM: 1st Holy Communion
*90th Birthday of Ed Shaker (Intentions) Requested by his Family
May 21, 2016 @ 5:00 PM: Mass for the Repose of the Soul of Raymond Carrah, Requested by Sadie Carrah & Family
Mass for the Repose of the Soul of Dennis Antonacci, Jr., requested by his mother Cauna
& her husband Ed Silva
May 22, 2016 @ 10:00 AM: 1st Year Anniversary Mass for Linda (Saifé) Khoueiry (Mother of Father Joseph
(Khoueiry) Requested by her son, Fr. Joseph & her daughters Layla, Therese,
LouLou...Followed by a Coffee hour.
May 28, 2016 @ 5:00 PM: Memorial Mass for the Repose of the Soul of Samuel Gazal Mouawad & Catherine
Mouawad & Joseph Gazel Mouawad requested by the Shaker & Mouawad Families
May 29, 2016 @ 10:00 AM: 1st Anniversary Mass for the Repose of the Soul of Artine Khachkhachian requested by
his Son, Jacques & His wife, Nouhad & their family. Followed by a breakfast sponsored
by the Khachkhachian Family (Prayer of Incense (Ginnaz) after Mass….
June 4, 2016 @ 5:00 PM:
For the Repose of the Soul of John Walsh requested by Anthony & Lila Ciarlo
June 5, 2016 @ 10:00 AM: Memorial Mass for the Repose of the Soul of Hameed & Ctherine Macary.
Requested by the family. Followed by a coffee hours sponsored by the family
Meetings
May 2, 2016—Monday @ 7:00 PM: Parish Council May 5, 2016—Thursday@ 7:00 PM: Knights of Columbus
May 5, 2016—Thursday@ 7:00 PM: Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches in the Church Hall with Beth Majewski and her team.
May 7, 2016—Saturday @ 8:00 am: First Reconciliation (First Holy Communion Class)
Rehearsal (1st Holy Communion)
May 8, 2016—Sunday@ 10:00AM: Mother’s Day (All Mother’s of the Church will gather in the hall to pick up a rose and walk in the
procession with the Priest and Sub Deacon and place the rose in front of the Blessed Mother for their
intentions.
May 9, 2016—Monday 7:00 PM: Ladies’ Society
May 14, 2016—Saturday 10:00 am: 2nd Rehearsal First Communion Class
May 16, 2016 - Monday @ 7:00 PM: Stewardship Council
Month of May
Thank You
Thank you to the ladies who helped with the
Blessed Virgin Mary will be processed from House to House—as a Fundraising Luncheon on May, 1, 2016, and to
Tradition of our Church. If you would like the Virgin Mary visit for 1 Daisy Mouannes the Chairperson of the Event.
(One) evening please call Lodi Atallah @ 203/808-8803.
MANDATORY: Priest & Sub Deacons will visit - Please NO
Special preparation of food or desserts, they will not be accepted.
Prayer will take place @ 7:00 PM, during the procession, as a
group we will leave the Church @ 6:30 PM and we can carpool.
Thank you to the Teachers and parents of
our Religious Education Program. And a
Special Thank You to our Director of
Religious Education, Marissa Shaker.
Relics of St. Sharbel
Saint Dominic Savio
Thank you to everyone who helped with the
Relics of St. Sharbel and a Special thank you
to Sub Deacon Camille Atallah and his team.
We would also like to thank GD Lounge for
their generosity in providing the food for us
following the St. Sharbel Mass.
Dominic Savio was an Italian adolescent student of Saint John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when
he became ill and died at the age of 14. His teacher, John Bosco, had very high regard for Savio Despite the
fact that many people considered him to have died at too young an age – fourteen – to be considered for
sainthood, he was considered eligible for such singular honour on the basis of his having displayed "heroic
virtue" in his everyday life. He is the only person of his age group who was declared a saint not on the basis
of his having been a martyr, but on the basis of having lived what was seen as a holy life. Savio
was canonised a saint on June 12, 1954, by Pope Pius XII, making him the youngest non-martyr to be canonised in the Catholic Church.
Congratulations on your First Holy Communion
Mia Shaker
Sadie Devino
Yara Abourjeili
Jake DiBona
Matthew Macaron
Thank you to the ladies and gentlemen
listed below who worked very hard to
make the Pasta Luncheon such a
success, we made, $1,000.00!
Mary Ann & Jerry Padula, Beth
Devino,Antoinette Floridia, Tammy Zappone, Phyllis Tarsi, Ann Clark, Bebe
Shaker and Jerry Padula, Jr.
Thank You
THANK YOU FOR THE CARDS & GIFTS I
RECEIVED FROM THE EASTER ENVELOPES. GOD BLESS
YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS AND GENEROSITY.
FATHER JOSEPH I. KHOUEIRY