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, May 25th – 9:00 am                           Rose Marie Richardson (Anniv)

Tuesday, May 26th – 9:00 am                           Eileen F. Higgins

Wednesday, May 27th – 9:00 am                    Betty Dwyer

Thursday, May 28th – 9:00 am                         Mary Ryan

Friday, May 29th – 9:00 am                               No Mass                                                                                                                                                                                          

Saturday, May 30th – 5:00 pm                         Leo Olsen (Anniv)                                                              

Sunday, May 31st – 11:00 am                           Dorothy/John Sheehan & DMF                                                                                                                          

Weekly Reflections (Homily) from Msgr. Sheehan (May 22nd, 2026)

PENTECOST SUNDAY 

Dear friends;

            Pentecost Sunday, the feast of the outpouring of the Spirit – so special to us in our challenging times, this year… Jesus sending the Spirit upon the Apostles and Mary – gathered together – it was a rush – like a violent wind – filling the entire house.

            It was if fire appeared over them… all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit… and all of them began speaking… in different tongues… understood by the ones who were in the crowd gathered… from different peoples… they all understood… unity was being forged from different backgrounds.

            Something wonderful happened… people who were afraid, felt abandoned, somewhat lost, lacking unity… lacking purpose…  A dramatic change came over them…

            This is the feast dear friends that is about the possibility in all of us to change… to begin anew… to receive something to start us up again… it is an essential feast of the Church… it is an essential part of who we are as a Church… as fellow believers with one another… it is the feast in which we celebrate one of the most important dimensions of our lives as Christians – as persons.

            It is about being renewed… that is the refrain of Pentecost Sunday – “Lord send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the Earth”… Ps. 104

            Most of us don’t want to be renewed… at least not too much… we like the old ways, the familiar, the proven… the comfortable… etc. …  We resist change… that’s not all bad…

            But in other areas of life… lack of renewal, of rebirth, new wind, new ways, new ways of seeing – new ways of looking at – can be disastrous…

            We get in ruts… we get stultified… we get bored… (or boring)… we become closed… fixed… before long… we resist any kind of initiative – we constantly look back… we pine for the past… we resist intrusion… but worse, we have no place for overtures to new things, new people… no breakthroughs from God… from others…

            And we believe… that there is no way God can still have something in store for us… that He can still surprise us… that He might just be opening a new way for us… a new direction… if we but give him a chance…

            But more so – that God still has new people to bring into our lives… people whom – unless we allow it to happen – with our closed minds and our closed hearts – and our closed spirit – will never have a chance to enter.

            And what losses are incurred by this!  What missed opportunities!...

            I shudder at my past resistance… to what I now know were the Spirit’s movement to have me open up to situations, people, events… that have been such untold blessings in my life – and I nearly missed them because of my attitudes.

            Attitudes of stubbornness, close-mindedness, prejudices, laziness, even spitefulness… basically non-openness… depending on my reasoning, my preferences, my so-called interests or well-being.

            Our opening prayer this Mass is so beautiful “O God pour out the gifts of

the Holy Spirit across the face of the earth… fill once more the hearts of believers”…

            Let it begin… let it begin in the hearts of men and women… let it renew the face of the Earth…

            Help us all not to be afraid… open us up… “O Lord send your Spirit… of renewal… of fire… of warmth… of love… of embracing… of change… of peace… of forgiveness… there is so much that prevents us from receiving you… and you have so much you want to still give us…  Breathe on us… renew us… so that we can be sent out… men and women renewed in faith and spirit.  Amen.”