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, June 22nd – 9:00 am Souls in Purgatory
Tuesday, June 23rd – 9:00 am Brian Crain
Wednesday, June 24th – 9:00 am Doris Duguay
Thursday, June 25th – 9:00 am Special Intention
Friday, June 26th – 9:00 am No Mass
Saturday, June 27th – 5:00 pm Celine Calhoun
Sunday, June 28th – 11:00 am Catherine & Wendell Robertson
Weekly Reflections (Homily) from Msgr. Sheehan (June 18, 2026)
TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (A)
Dear friends:
“If only they knew…” “if only somebody knew…”
Have you ever felt you carried a burden, or burdens… not shared… not able to be shared… not willing to be shared…
Sometimes they just seem to have fallen into your lot… you didn’t ask for them… you didn’t want them… you didn’t seek them… but they are your portion to deal with… to handle… to carry…
They seem to be like a bad hand in cards… you wonder whether it was fate… something intentional…
You look around… and you seem to feel… (perhaps quite wrongly by the way…) that others don’t seem to be having these burdens… they seem to be managing all right… with very few worries… very few cares… very few responsibilities…
You feel cheated… taken advantage of… mistreated… you feel a sense of unfairness… inequality…
Sometimes you get angry about these things… sometimes you give utterance to your frustration… sometimes you want to walk away from it all…
Sometimes you wonder why you keep dealing with some of it… you look for support… you look to share it… you look for someone to understand it… see what you’re experiencing…
You get simplistic answers… you feel they don’t understand… you expect certain close people to realize… they don’t… they trivialize your plight… they tell you… you exaggerate… you don’t have to be the one handling this… but no help comes from them…
You give vent to what you feel… you write it privately… or under your breath…
Jeremiah… dear Jeremiah… Jeremiah’s confessions… one of five in his book… part of our first reading this morning… Thank God we still have them…!
Jeremiah confronts the Lord as he confronts his generosity to the Lord… it’s as if he says… “why can’t I say no… and walk away from this??”
“Jeremiah cried out: “O Lord, you have enticed me, and I was enticed; you have overpowered me, and you have prevailed…” (Jer. 20, 7)
And what has happened to me for having responded to you Lord…” Do you know what has happened…?? “I tell you Lord…!!”
“I have become a laughing stock all day long!! – “everyone mocks me”… they throw back at me what you ask me to say…”
“All my close friends are watching for me to stumble…”
“The word of the Lord (and the way of the Lord) has brought me nothing but insult and derision.”
Like Jeremiah the psalmist – one who tries to make sense of the human experience feels that those closest to him… do not understand… do not see… do not support… even ridicule him… turn against him:
“It is for your sake, O Lord that I have borne reproach… that shame covered my face.”
(Then the most devastating experience of all… reaction of family…) “I have become a stranger to my kindred… an alien to my mother’s children…”
“I have become… strange… to my family…”
Recently I saw a woman… whom everyone here… would agree was doing more than she needed to… for the man she loved… a long difficult road of care, compassion, love… I asked her… “Do you have any support from your family… brothers or sisters??... Bosom pals…?
“They think I’m nuts!!” she answered!
“I have become a stranger to my kindred… an alien to my mother’s children.” (Ps. 69)
The greatest of all the prophets… the one whom the psalms’ message and on whose lips have greatest expression… looks upon his disciples…
He knew Jeremiahs’ experience will be theirs… as it was his… he knows the rejection, the misunderstanding… the loneliness… the misjudgments…
So he tells them… what they terribly need to hear and will always need to hear:
“Have no fear… don’t be afraid… what you experience is known.”
“For nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered… nothing secret that will not become known…”
“You will not be destroyed… you are so precious… all is known to me… to my Father… I’ll tell you how much is known… how precious you are…”
“The Father knows all… even when a sparrow falls to the ground… even the number of hairs on your head…”
“So don’t be afraid… if you feel lonely, abandoned, or discouraged… draw on this great truth for your nourishment:
“You are of far more value than many sparrows.” Amen.