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, August 25th – 9:00 am William Shea
Tuesday, August 26th – 9:00 am Florence McLaughlin
Wednesday, August 27th – 9:00 am Jack Meahan
Thursday, August 28th – 9:00 am Alvery/Paul LeBlanc
Friday, August 29th – 9:00 am No Mass
Saturday, August 30th – 5:00 pm Edmund Peddle
Sunday, August 31st – 11:00 am Betty Shorey
Weekly Reflections (Homily) from Msgr. Sheehan (Updated August 21, 2025)
TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Dear friends:
I would like to focus on our second reading to-day from the Epistle to the Hebrews…
It is a special reading for me personally…
Way back, nearly sixty years ago, I was in the seminary… and as the ordination date approached… I began having second thoughts…
I went to see my spiritual director, who was also our scripture professor… and he quietly listened to me… and the next day – under my door – slipped a few texts… one from Hebrews… which I treasure: --
“Of course, any discipline is at the time a matter for grief… not joy… but later, in those who have undergone it, it bears fruit in peace and uprightness, so steady all weary hands and trembling knees… and make your crooked paths straight; then the injured limb will not be maimed, it will get better instead.”
(Heb. 12, 11-13)
This marvelous text is associated by the author with parenting… fatherly (or motherly) love: --
“The Lord trains those he loves… and chastises every son he accepts…”
“Perseverance is part of your training… God is treating you as his sons… Has there ever been any son whose father did not train him… If you were not getting this training, as you all are… then you would not be sons – but illegitimate children…”
(Heb. 12, 8-9)
Parents, more than any, understand these texts… they are an integral part of parenting…
A child brought up without discipline turns out poorly… but parental exercising of discipline is challenging… I, personally, would not be very good at it… it has to be measured… lovingly exercised… but later – it bears fruit in peace, and uprightness… as our text says…
Sometimes, in life… when someone we love is going through periods of adversity, setback, failure… we can be too quick to try and relieve it…
We rob them of consequent growth, maturity…
It is not always easy to refrain from intervening…
Wiser parents, even grandparents… will say: “let them be… let them learn from this”… “this is all part of growing up…”
This second reading to-day is precious… it speaks to all of us… but especially to parents… teachers… and to us… who gratefully – have had people in our lives who have had the courage and fortitude – and love for us… to train us… thus loving us deeply.
Amen.