Sunday Liturgy

Saturday: 5:00 pm

Sunday: 11:00 am

Mission Statement

We are a welcoming Christian community called to embrace and respect the uniqueness of each individual as we join together in our faith and worship.  Our ongoing   mission is to engage our youth, promote renewal, out reach, evangelization and ecumenical cooperation.

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK                                                                      

Monday, January 12th – 9:00 am                  Adam Troy Arseneault

Tuesday, January 13th – 9:00 am                    Joseph Fitzgerald                                                              

Wednesday, January 14th – 9:00 am            Souls Lost on Pilot Boat #1 on January 14, 1957                 

Thursday, January 15th – 9:00 am                   Frank & Irene Roy

Thursday, January 15th – 10:30 am                Deceased Patients (Carleton Kirk)                                                                 

Friday, January 16th – 9:00 am                         No Mass                                                                                                                                                                                          

Saturday, January 17th – 5:00 pm                   Cathy Manuel                                                           

Sunday, January 18th – 11:00 am                    Mary & Frank Roderick                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Weekly Reflections (Homily) from Msgr. Sheehan (January 9, 2026)  

BAPTISM OF THE LORD                                                                                        

Dear friends

            Baptism… means immersion… immersion… drowning… submerged… under water… buried in water and raised out of water… going into… coming out of… plunging…

            Think of the term immersion, in other ways… not baptismal…  We say of somebody who, for example, studies very hard… or works very hard… such a person we say – has immersed himself in his study or work…

            Well we know – how we use it with language… for example those who are in French immersion… it is not a part-time study – or simply French as a subject among others – but all subjects, all the environment… the classes, the recreation, the social activities… it is a “bathing” an immersion into the whole language – and culture… French immersion.

            Immersion… means… getting “fully into”… fully “involved in”… fully “taken up with”… fully “tasting”… and “experiencing” fully “embracing”…

            We say it when a person is very, very much in love… very into the relationship…… it usually happens at the early stages of the relationship…  Parents sometimes shake their heads in exasperation when it happens too quickly or intensely… with their son or daughter…  “If Johnny wasn’t so darn immersed in that new relationship!  He doesn’t have time for anything or anybody else….!”

            We need these examples to understand something of Baptism… because that is what we are celebrating… that is what happened to Jesus…  His Baptism is his immersion into something…

            And the thing that he is immersed into is our humanity…  He became one of us… one with us… one like us…

            It is a movement of God towards humanity… not disinterestedly, not vicariously, not at a distance… but being “plunged” so to speak… “immersed” into our lives… our species… our humanity… as one of us…

            It is touching of our fabric… the human fabric… it is an embracing of what makes us to be human…

            And in his doing this… it is a thing “acceptable” to God… “pleasing” to God…

            “This is my Son… the beloved… in whom I am well pleased…”  He is pleased, well pleased with this identification with humanity – solidarity with humanity…

            And in his immersion into humanity he brings the divine… the divine qualities… the divine goodness… the divine attributes…

            And so on this feast of the Baptism of the Lord… the first action of the Lord… after his birth and Epiphany… actions done towards him… he actively and freely is baptized… He plunges into the humanity that he come to save… by being one in a rite of forgiveness and remission of sin…

            Mercy… compassion… tenderness… goodness…  These are the face of God immersed into our world…

            And God’s wish and pleasure is that it be manifested, permeated… and that as his Son has immersed Himself into our world with those divine qualities, that we too… baptized in Him… show forth these divine qualities in our lives.

            How?  By immersing ourselves into our world with them… transforming our world with them… not at a distance… not dispassionately… not hesitatingly… but wholly embracing our world with them… touching… being with… identifying with… being in solidarity with…

            “This is my son… my beloved in whom I am well pleased…”

            “These are my sons and daughters… they are the consolers, they give comfort… they speak tenderly… they are my beloved… in whom I am well pleased.”

                             Amen.