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, July 7th – 9:00 am Patricia Gionet
Tuesday, July 8th – 9:00 am William Shea
Wednesday, July 9th – 9:00 am No Mass
Wednesday, July 9th — 12 Noon Funeral Mass - Shirley Young
Thursday, July 10th – 9:00 am Jimmy Lavigne
Friday, July 11th – 9:00 am No Mass
Saturday, July 12th – 5:00 pm James Oram
Sunday, July 13th – 11:00 am Fearon Currie
Weekly Reflections (Homily) from Msgr. Sheehan (Updated July 4, 2025)
FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Dear friends
“The Lord appointed… seventy… he sent them on ahead of him in pairs…”
“He said to them… the harvest is plentiful… the laborers are few… -- ask the Lord… “pray to the Lord of the harvest… to send others…” “I am sending you out like lambs… into the mist of wolves… don’t be encumbered by purse, bags, sandals… do what you are supposed to do… go where you are supposed to go… if they welcome you… stay there… don’t move about…”. “Tell them… the kingdom of God has come near to you.
A charged… word… determination… forceful… strong… paternal… maternal… parental… mentoring…
“I am sending you… go now… don’t stop on the road… for unnecessary chatter…”. “Have a sense of purpose..!”
“Do what you have to do… if it is received stay there, continue… if it is rejected… and opposed… move on… do not exhaust your energies on something that cannot be achieved…”
Then in a most surprising phrase… nearly a lament… “I’m sending you out Like lambs into the midst of wolves…”
This is understood by a parent… as a son or daughter leaves home… “they’re so young… I wish they’d stay longer at home… they’re not ready…”
They go out… they begin… they face life… its challenges… and they face them alone… we can’t hold their hand…
They face the world… little people to us… in an adult world…
“Now go… go on your way”… “like the lambs among wolves…”
One scriptures scholar reflects that the wolves are simply… the challenges that face anybody in a lived life… in every life…
There is a goodly portion of happiness, of well-being… of comfort… but there is inevitably what every person has to deal with in a lived life… perils, opposition… hostility… the “wolves” part…
No wonder he sends them out in pairs… you need someone to share your happiness… your joys… your achievements…
And you especially need another – or others to help you to come through your pain, your sorrows… your deceptions… your sense of failure… your setbacks…
He sent them out ‘in pairs’… it is quite remarkable…
So much can be undergone, and gone through… if we do not feel completely alone… or isolated… or abandoned…
It is unbelievable what can be achieved by people who might otherwise be broken… crushed… emotionally or physically decimated… but have overcome by the lifeline however tenuous of another… whose presence they count on… and rely on… and hold on to…
Sometimes it is not always a physical presence… it may have been at one time… but it is no longer…
Sometimes it is an ever present, and real memory… sometimes it is a virtual or spiritual presence… still real… perhaps more real than any…
Like Jesus was for Paul… “for I carry the marks of Jesus branded on my body…”
Or as the author of Isaiah portraying Jerusalem as the presence of God…
In one’s life – knowing that one is never alone… “in pairs”… with another… with Jesus… with God…”
Signs of friendship… signs of maternity… signs of shepherd with lambs…
“As a mother comforts her child… so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
“You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice – your bodies shall flourish like grass; and it shall be known – that the hand of the Lord is with his servants.”
The hand of the Lord is always with his servants.
Amen.