6. VELIKONOCNA NEDELJA 6TH SUNDAY OF EASTER SLOVENSKA ŽUPNIJA SV. GREGORIJA VELIKEGA | ST. GREGORY THE GREAT SLOVENIAN CHURCH 19/54 Številka - Number / Leto - Year 6. 5. 2018 Fr. Drago Gacnik, SDB ŽUPNIK - PASTOR NASLOV - ADDRESS 125 Centennial Pkwy N Hamilton, ON L8E 1H8 TEL.: 905-561-5971 FAX: 905-561-5109 E-MAIL gregory_sdb@ stgregoryhamilton.ca WEB PAGE www.carantha.com HALL RENTALS CELL: 905-518-6159 E-MAIL hallrental@ stgregoryhamilton.ca VESTNIK Zapoved popolne medsebojne ljubezni Proti koncu zadnje vecerje je Jezus v poslovilnem govoru govoril o ljubezni med Ocetom in njim, o ljubezni njega do ucencev in ucencev do njega ter o ljubezni med ucenci: »Kakor je Oce mene ljubil, sem tudi jaz vas ljubil. Ostanite v moji ljubezni!« Kot se Oce od vecnosti podarja Sinu, tako se je Jezus podaril ucencem. Življenjski tok, ljubezen, tece od Oceta do Sina in od Sina do ucencev. Naj ucenci ne pretrgajo tega toka, naj ne razderejo tega obcestva z Bogom. Znamenje, da ostajajo v Božji ljubezni, je njihova zvestoba v veri in pokoršcini. Naj se Jezusu zaupajo kot tistemu, ki razodeva Boga, tako kot se je on prepustil Ocetovi volji. Ce se bodo držali njegovih zapovedi, bodo ostali v njegovi Ijubezni, kakor je tudi on izpolnjeval zapovedi svojega Oceta in ostaja v njegovi ljubezni. Kdor ostane v Jezusovi ljubezni, je deležen tudi njegovega veselja. Jezus živi v popolnem soglasju z Ocetom, v brezpogojni predanosti njemu, to pa je vir popolnega veselja. A tega veselja ne ohranja zase, ampak ga omogoca tudi njim. »To je moja zapoved, da se ljubite med seboj, kakor sem vas jaz ljubil.« On jih je ljubil do konca, do zadnjih možnih meja, do same delitve svojega življenja zanje. Bolj jih ni mogel ljubiti. Oni so njegovi prijatelji, ce delajo, kar jim naroca. To so že storili, ko so sprejeli vero v Jezusa kot tistega, ki razodeva Oceta. Zato jim je Jezus izrocil svoje najvecje zaklade. Niso vec Božji sužnji, saj suženj ne pozna gospodarjevega življenja. Kot svojim prijateljem jim je razodel vse skrivnosti Boga in njegovih nacrtov. »Niste vi mene izvolili ...« Ta Jezusova izvolitev je zanje popolnoma zastonjski dar. On jih je poiskal - ne pa morda oni njega. Ta njihova povezanost z Jezusom in polnost Boga bo tudi storila, da jim bo Bog dal vse, za kar ga bodo prosili, ce bo le tisto v skladu z njegovimi nacrti. Vse te misli je Jezus na koncu skrcil v zapoved: »To vam narocam, da se ljubite med seboj!« Jezus nam je podelil vse, celotno brezno Božje ljubezni in nas izvolil, da v njej živimo. Kaj je bolj samoumevno kakor to, da se zadovoljimo s to celoto, zunaj katere je samo nic? (Hans Urs von Balthasar) 226 | VESTNIK 2018 228 | VESTNIK 2018 230 | VESTNIK 2018 232 | VESTNIK 2018 Materinskega dne Sunday, May 13th, 2018 10:00 a.m. - MASS 11:30 a.m. - Children of Slovenian School will prepare short program Luncheon after the Program For reservations and tickets call: Sandy Ferletic: 905-977-8464 or by email: sferletic@gmail.com Praznovanje “MARMORA PILGRIMAGE” AT ST. GREGORY THE GREAT “The Closing Remarks” by Joyce Puckering Dear Rev. Father Drago. On behalf of the Hamilton group of pilgrims, I wish to extend a heartfelt thank-you for opening your heart and church to us. We are very appre-ciative of your kindness. At this time we also like to say a big thank-you to Father Ambroise for his kind words who is always willing to accompany us, and supports us on our pilgrimages to Mar-mora. I would also like to acknowledge Shirley from Greensides Farm, for making the effort to come out and be here with us with her words of en-couragement for donations and support to *Marys Place* . Most of all I would like to say “Thank-you to Dory” our beloved visionary, and her devoted followers who protect, assist and encourage her to continue her Mission. Besides the regular pil-grimage, Dory and her group make several trips to visit Marmora in good or bad weather in sick-ness or in good health. She is extremely dedicat-ed in her devotion to Our Blessed Mother. A big Thank You goes out to the donors of a ‘Door prizes’ and to ladies and man in the kitch-en and at the bar of St. Gregory’s who prepared the delicious banquet. We do appreciate all the bake goods donated from so many helping hands. Thank you to all who attended to the event and make a donation for the Farm! Lastly, I want to thank Catharine for assisting us in the church with her angels voice of leading the prayers with Fr. Drago and Fr. Ambroise. But most importantly our thanks goes to Angela, the leader of the Hamilton group of pilgrims. She, with the help of Catharine and the committee members work tirelessly preparing flyers, engag- ing the bus, making phone calls etc. Angela has devoted her past 17 years honouring and serving Our Lady. She like to take pictures, and when she point her camera to an empty sky, she often get a beautiful-miraculous photographs. May all of us continue to be guided by the Holy Spirit to Our Lord and Our Lady in our work of good deeds. VESTNIK 2018 | 227 VESTNIK 2018 | 229 VESTNIK 2018 | 231 Illustration We will never know how many lives have been transformed by the action of the Holy Spirit, but remarkable things have happened in the lives of many people down through the ages, starting with the disciples of Jesus at Pentecost. We can think of the experience of St Francis of Assisi and St Ignatius of Loyola, both wealthy young men who dreamed of glory on the field of battle. Instead the Holy Spirit was able to help them to discover their true voca-tion in the service of Christ, to rebuild and renew the Church. Their lives had been formed by the so-cial expectations of their times to find happiness through the things that their money could buy. But God had other ideas for them. Mother Teresa – St Teresa of Calcutta – had another experience. She thought that she could do God’s will as a teaching sister of Loreto until she experienced the poor people dying on the streets of the city outside the safe confines of the convent walls. Again God had other ideas for her as she left the security of her religious house to found the Mis-sionaries of Charity, devoted to the care of the poor-est of the poor. Gospel Teaching The disciples, too, were on a steep learning curve. Their expectations as followers of Jesus kept changing. Through the early days of basking in the glory of Jesus, the popular preacher and miracle worker, through the despair of the passion and death of their Lord, they found themselves driven by the power of the Holy Spirit to proclaim the Good News to the whole of creation. But they had no plan, no instruction manual. They discovered that they were sent not just to announce the coming of the Messiah to the Jews. The message of the Gospel was for everyone. The Holy Spirit made it clear that faith in Jesus was possible for anybody of any nationality who fears God and does what is right. They came to understand that what Jesus wanted was a commu-nity of people who loved one another. This was the way they would experience God, rather than in the rituals of the Jewish law. They knew that the risen Lord was living among them as they reached out in love to one another, but especially to those most in need. The beloved disciple, John, re-flected for years on the life and teaching of Jesus and summed it up in his Gospel and letters: God is love and what God wants is for us to live in love just as Jesus has shown us, by loving one another. In this way we will share in the joy of God. The whole message of scripture is to be found here: love one another as I have loved you. This is the mission Jesus gives to his disciples: as his chosen friends, they are to go out and bear fruit that will last. Application In these weeks after Easter, we relive with the disciples their grow-ing awareness of how the risen Lord continued to be with them; how he shared his Holy Spirit with them to help them to understand all that Jesus had taught them. We discover with them that Jesus calls us in our turn to be his friends and to know his love for us. He wants us to continue his mission by bringing his love and peace to the people of our own day. We recall what an unlikely bunch of characters Jesus chose to carry on his work. They were transformed by the Holy Spirit. Their old ideas had to change. They had to let go of their prejudices and fears and allow God to use them to build the Church, a community of love and service for all people, especially the poor. So it is with us. We are ordinary peo-ple, struggling with our own lives, our fears, our weaknesses, but we believe. We believe that Jesus is risen from the dead. We believe that he continues to be present in the world in us. We believe that he uses us to bring his mercy and love to the world. If the Holy Spirit could transform Peter and the rest into an ef-fective tool for evangelisation, and continue this work of transfor-mation through the saints of every generation, then we can believe that the same Holy Spirit can transform us and empower us to go out in joy and hope to bear fruit, the fruit of love that will last for ever. 6TH SUNDAY OF EASTER Response: The Lord has revealed his victory in the sight of the nations. First Reading Acts 10:25-26. 34-35. 44-48 Peter comes to know that the gift of the Holy Spirit is not limited to a select few, but is meant for all people. Second Reading 1 John 4:7-10 God’s love was revealed when God sent his only Son so that we could have life through him. Gospel John 15:9-17 The disciples are not servants but friends of Jesus whom he has chosen and sent into the world to bear fruit that will last. “What I command you is to love one anoth-er.” OBVESTILA - ANNOUNCEMENTS PEVSKE VAJE V cetrtek, 10. maja so po vecerni maši pevske vaje za župnijski mešani pevski zbor. Zbor bo pel pri maši na materinski dan. DOGODKI V BLIŽNJI PRIHODNOSTI . 6. maj-nedelja: »Bled« Planica Social Club 13- Mother's Day Banquet . 12. maj-sobota: Sava-Breslau - Mother's Day Banquet - Golden Keys . 13. maj-nedelja: St. Gregory the Great - Mass at 10:00 a.m., Mother's Day by Slovenska šola . 18. do 21. maj: Slovenski Park celebrations. Camping, Dance Party; Mass with Procession, Mary Crowning - Sunday, May 20 at 1:00 p.m. . 21. maj-ponedeljek: Lipa Park - Open House, Folk Arts Picnic . 27. maj-nedelja: St. Gregory the Great - Mass at 10:00 a.m. - First Communion and Confirmation - Bishop Anthony Tonnos, D.D. . 3. junij-nedelja: St. Gregory the Great - Mass at 10:00 a.m. & Procession of Corpus Christi . 3. junij-nedelja: Triglav-Hall - Mass at 2:00 p.m. & Procession of Corpus Christi . 9. junij-sobota: Slovenski Park - Golf Tournament 1:00 p.m. and Dinner . 10. junij-nedelja: Bled Planica Social Club 13 - Mass & 1:00 p.m. - Father's Day - Ansambel Mladi korenjaki . 23.junij-sobota: St. Gregory the Great - SLOVENSKI DAN. Mass at 10:30 a.m., Lunch, 2:00 p.m. Cultural program, . 29. junij-2.julij: Slovenski park - Long Weekend Events. Sunday & 1:00 p.m Mass GIFT BEARERS - DAROVE PRINAŠAJO . 6. maj 9:30 a.m.: Zorka Rev in Sonja Peternel . 13. maj 10:00 a.m.: Marina Štefanec in Elizabeth Raduha . 20. maj 9:30 a.m.: Družina Groznik . 27. maj 10:00 a.m.: Družina Davis . 3. junij 10:00 a.m.: Eva Erzetic in Jožica Vegelj MESEC MAJ V torek, na praznik sv. Jožefa delavca, smo zaceli tudi z majniško pobožnostjo do Marije. Pri maši prebiramo šmarnice z naslovom: Živeti za Boga in bližnje. Šmarnice je napisala Uška Smerkolj, govorijo pa o življenju misijonarja med severnoamreiškimi Indijanci, škofa Friderika Ireneja Barage, izdala pa salezijanska založba SALVE na Rakovnika v Ljubljani. 13. maja je praznik Gospodovega vnebohoda (v Kanadi ga praznujemo na nedeljo in ne na cetrtek) in obenem tudi praznovanje Materinskega dne. Maša bo samo ob 10:00h dopoldne. Po maši bodo otroci Slovenske šole v dvorani pripravili kratek kulturni program za matere. Vsi ste lepo vabljeni, da pridete pogledat in prisluhnit, cesa so se mladi med letom naucili. Po programu pa bo še nekaj za pod zob, da ne boste šli lacni domov. Za rezervacije poklicite Sandy Ferletic (905-977-8464). Za »Long Weekend« se bo najvec dogajalo v Slovenskem parku, kjer bo v nedeljo ob 1:00 p.m. tudi maša, procesija sv. Rešnjega Telesa in Krvi in majniško kronanje Marije. Zadnjo nedeljo v maju pa je, kot že vsa zadnja leta, lepa slovesnost v naši župniji. Kar nekaj mladih bo pristopilo k svetemu obhajilu, drugi bodo prejeli, po rokah škofa Tonnosa, zakrament birme. Maša bo ob 10:00 a.m. DAROVI - DONATIONS Darovali so: - $50 Ignac in Marija Horvat SOD za rože - CWL-KŽZ je darovala za cerkev: prihodek od »Blue raffle and penny sale« so darovale $2,289.00, sedaj pa so dodale še $4,000.00 od dobicka pri Bazarju 2018. Med letom darujejo cerkvi tudi polovico denarja od »votive candles«. Tako so darovale decembra $228.00 in Januarja $149.00. Hvala vsem za vaš dar. Bog vam povrni! ZAHVALA - THANKYOU The family of Teresia Jeric would like to thank everyone who honoured us all by attending the visitation or funeral Mass of Marija Granic. Special thanks to those who very kindly sang and read at Mass, who sent flowers or baked goods and those who had kind words to share. A special thank you to Father Drago who provided such comfort to our family. SVETE MAŠE - MASS TIMES: Monday: 8:00 A.M., Tuesday to Friday: 7:00 P.M., Saturday: 8:00 A.M. and 5:30 P.M. (Slovenian); Sunday: 9:30 A.M. (Slovenian), 11:00 A.M. (English); From Long weekend in July to the Long weekend of the September Sunday Mass is only at 10:00 A.M. (Slovenian-English) - KRSTI / BAPTISMS: For an appointment, call one month before. POROKE / MARRIAGE: For an appointment, call one year before the wedding date. SPOVED / CONFESSIONS: First Friday of the month 6 -7:00 P.M. (or by appointment) BOLNIKI - Sporocite, ce je kdo bolan ali v bolnišnici, da ga obišcemo. You are welcome to call for a personal conversation with your priest – please call for an appointment. Tel: 905-561-5971. DON BOSCO Bled Planica Social Club Cordially invites you all to Materinski Dan Mother’s Day May 6th, 2018 LUNCH TO BE SERVED @ 1:00PM TICKETS: ADULTS $30.00 STUDENTS $20.00 FOR MORE INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS FRANK GIMPELJ (905) 531-0894 6. VELIKONOCNA NEDELJA 6. MAJ Dominik Savio †† †† † † Za žive in rajne župljane Teodor in Ana Franc Štefan in Marija Zelko Anna Hocevar Ed Kodarin 9:30 A.M. 11:00 A.M. Toni in Marija Franc Marija in Toni Franc Peter in Francesca Kure Družina Truden PONEDELJEK - MONDAY 7. MAJ, Gizela, opatinja Po namenu 8:00 A.M. n.n. TOREK - TUESDAY 8. MAJ Bonifacij, papež †† † † †† Starši Erzar in sestre Nadica Lenarcic Dragica Genoria Albin in Toncka Genoria 7:00 P.M. Frank Erzar z družino Elizabeth Gimpelj z družino Elizabeth Gimpelj z družino Elizabeth Gimpelj z družino SREDA - WEDNESDAY 9. MAJ Ludovika, redovnica † † † †† Franc Virag Marija Bukovec Ed Kodarin Ivan in Ana Šemen, obl. 7:00 P.M. Sestra Micka Družina Antolin Žena z družino Sin Ivan Šemen z družino CETRTEK - THURSDAY 10. MAJ Job, svetopisemski mož † †† † † Branko Ježovnik Ed Kodarin in Marija Granic Marija Granic (Jeric) Elizabeta Geric 7:00 P.M. Žena Dorothea Ježovnik Toni in Marija Franc Mary Hanc (Frank) Majda Lukežic PETEK - FRIDAY 11. MAJ Estela, mucenka †† † † † Alex in Eddy Kažimir Kotula Marija Granic Silvi Ovcjak-Kolaric 7:00 P.M. Žena z družino Stanko in Elizabeth Petek Manja Erzetic Manja Erzetic SOBOTA SATURDAY 12. MAJ Pankracij, mucenec Leopold, redovnik † † †† † † † † † Po namenu Matija Vugrinec (Cleveland) Ignac Korošec Pokojni iz družine Vuk Elizabeta Geric Matija Vlašic Ignac Korošec Jože Hanc Franciška Napast 8:00 A.M. 5:30 P.M. N.N. Jože Magdic z družino Jože Magdic z družino Marija Hocevar Marija Hocevar Dorothea Ježovnik Kathy in Martin Simoncic Terezija Prša Družina Pinter 7. VELIKONOCNA NEDELJA 13. MAJ Fatimska Mati Božja †† † † †† Za žive in rajne župljane Pokojni iz družine Babic Franc Raduha Rudi Kerec, obl. Alojz in Agata Kocmut Mother's Day Program - Hall 10:00 A.M. 11:30 A.M. Družina Gašpar Marina Štefanec Družina Maric Hci Elizabeth Gimpelj Slovenian School SVETE MAŠE - MASSES od 6. 5. 2018 do 13. 5. 2018