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 16th – 9:00 am Mary Noel
Tuesday, June 17th – 9:00 am Jean Bailey
Wednesday, June 18th – 9:00 am Joseph & Elizabeth McTague
Thursday, June 19th – 9:00 am Martha Peddle
Thursday, June 19th - 10:30 am Elizé Robichaud - Carleton Kirk
Friday, June 20th – 9:00 am No Mass
Saturday, June 21st – 5:00 pm Mary Helen & Thomas LeBlanc
Sunday, June 22nd – 11:00 am Catherine & Wendell Robertson
Weekly Reflections (Homily) from Msgr. Sheehan (Updated June 12, 2025)
TRINITY SUNDAY
Dear Friends:
Today we are in the second of four major feasts that the Church calls us to celebrate and reflect on: the first two are events in the life of Jesus and his sending of the Spirit: -- namely, the Ascension and Pentecost.
The next two are feasts of reflection, reflection on dogmatic truths… God as Trinity of Persons, and secondly, next week, the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
Event and reflection on event… that is the order… not doctrine and then event… rather, event and revelation… then reflection on meaning of event… issuing into dogmatic definition…
Perhaps that is why for most of us these great doctrines don’t have the impact that they should on our lives in that we started off by learning the definition of what they mean before reflecting on how they came about to be revealed.
Nowhere do we find in the Gospels Jesus calling his disciples aside, and ‘revealing’ the Trinity as if it were this week’s catechetical lesson.
On the contrary, the Church gradually and painstakingly came to certain conclusions about the inner reality of God on the basis of its experience of God within its own human experience.
The Church came to the knowledge of God as triune as it progressively reflected on its experience of the triuness of God’s dealings with us in history…
The revelation did not come about by a revealing of a dogma – requiring cerebral and intellectual assent – but by saving events, words and actions – of the Lord Jesus, who sent by the Father, revealed in his life, passion, and death, the love of the Father, and the Father who raised Jesus, and together they sent the Holy Spirit to teach us, and unite us, and thus continue the word and work of the Lord Jesus in our world.
So whatever “understanding” a loose word in this context, came about only as a reflection on the very practical, saving activities of the Triune God in the lives of the early Christians.
While we might think of ourselves at an advantage for having two thousand years of reflection on these sacred mysteries issuing out into dogmatic definitions –
We are in a bit of disadvantage with the early Church in that we learn of the dogma, in often definite and cold terminology, rather than reflecting on the experience of the meaning of God revealing of himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, each with their distinctive “roles” so to speak as to how they reveal themselves to us.
Thus, you have, for example, people who “know” a lot about theology, and the “doctrine” of the church… or revelation – but have not “experienced” the creative goodness of the Father, the saving unconditional love, forgiveness, and mercy of Jesus Christ, and the outpouring, uniting force and power of the Spirit.
Thus, for many, the doctrine of the Trinity, remains a definition, a dogma, to which one gives an intellectual assent… having little to do with one’s daily life.
Not that one directly experiences the life of the Trinity – but one allows oneself to fully experience human life – in the light, of the Gospel revelation… allowing human experiences to be appealed to the revelation… to let them say something of what God is like.
If that happens, all is radically changed… the Father with all that is best in imagery of providence, and affection, and earnest love is revealed to us…
The Son who walks with us, who invites us to companionship, to earthly experiences of friendship, and self-giving, and relationships of nurturing and heroic outpouring of self, is revealed to us as the pattern of all this.
And we live in the power of sustaining Spirit, who enables the continuing presence of the Father and the Son to be with us… which carried us, unites us, strengthens us in the midst of all that comes our way…
We become aware of these “persons” in our lives, we address them individually in our prayer, as the Church always does… it all becomes “real” and “alive”… and a faith that sustains and nourishes – carrying us always further into the depths of the eternal and triune God.
“God our Father, who by sending into the world the Word of truth and the Spirit of sanctification made known to the human race your wondrous mystery, grant us, we pray, that in professing the true faith, we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory and adore your Unity, powerful in majesty.”
AMEN.