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 1st – 9:00 am John Tllmon Martin
Tuesday, June 2nd – 9:00 am Margie McLaughlin
Wednesday, June 3rd – 9:00 am Mary Carton (Anniv)
Thursday, June 4th – 9:00 am Derrick Osborne
Friday, June 5th – 9:00 am First Friday – Celine Calhoun
Saturday, June 6th – 5:00 pm Louis & Helen LeBlanc
Sunday, June 7th – 11:00 am Mark McAuliffe
Weekly Reflections (Homily) from Msgr. Sheehan (May 29, 2026)
TRINITY SUNDAY
Dear Friends;
“God so loved the world…
God did not send the Son into the world to condemn but to save…” God passes by Moses … and reveals himself in these words:
“The Lord, the Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and rich in kindness, or abounding in steadfast love, and faithfulness… continuing kindness for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness and crime and sin.”
And Moses responds… “Pardon our sins – receive us as your own… take us for your inheritance…”
Trinity Sunday… the Sunday to reflect on the nature of God… on what God is like… on who God is.
And the texts offered to us by the Church today – speak to us from all three readings – of a God who is merciful, gracious, forgiving, abounding in steadfast love… a God of peace… and an uncondemning God…
A God who so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son – to save – not to condemn…
Why is it then – that for so many of us… and for so many Christians… and for so many in the world – that the notion of God is a condemning, unmerciful… needing to be appeased… needing to be a satisfied God?
A God that instills fear, uncertainty, constraint, insecurity, -- all of which issue out from those who live this way into aggression, hatred, harsh judgments, vengeance, severity… etc. … but especially condemnation… for if God is a God of uprighteousness and condemnation – well by God!! We must be too!!
Why does such a God appeal…? To whom does such a God appeal? When does such a God appeal…?
That kind of God appeals to us when we are hurting, when we feel taken advantage of, when we are envious, when we do not feel that we have received our just due, when so called rotten, slick smart people get ahead, when we who are hardworking, consistent, good, fall way behind – well God will “get them” – and one day God will show them, and we will be shown for the wonderful people we are!!
It is not inhuman to think that way… nor is it abnormal… but is it a reflection of real faith…? Is it a reflection of God’s way, and his revealing of himself…?
Jesus, the one who reveals God so fully – not only in his words – but in his work – says and prays – that his words and works have been a revelation of who God is… that they are not his but the Father’s…
But a summit of his last words are that they (the disciples) – we – may know that He loves us even as he loves him – the Son. “May they know Father, that you love them, even as you love me.” (John 17)
And that we may be one – as he and his Father are one… and that their spirit may come and dwell in us…
Now all that speaks of – love, and intimacy, and acceptance… all antidotes to fear, and condemnation… and reflection.
The most earnest prayer of Jesus is that we know these things – he makes it the summit of his prayer… that we are loved by God… that he wants closeness and intimacy with us – and that he came – sent by God – to reveal this to us – not condemn – and over and above this – that his nature is instead – forgiving and merciful…
And that we are called – in some way as Paul says to reflect this inner nature of God by our relationship with one another…
And to the Corinthians – the community he had the most difficulty with – he begs them to be recipients and bearers of the life of the Trinity –
“Live in peace – agree with one another – greet one another with a holy kiss…
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you. Amen”