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, March 30th – 9:00 am           Ivan Court

Tuesday, March 31st – 9:00 am                       No Mass

Tuesday, March 31st – 6:30 pm                       Chrism Mass (in the Cathedral)                                                            

Wednesday, April 1st – 9:00 am                      Rachael M. Jesso                                 

Thursday, April 2nd – 7:00 pm                        Holy Thursday                                                          

Friday, April 3rd – 3:00 pm                                Good Friday                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Saturday, April 4th – 5:00 pm                           No Mass

Saturday, April 4th – 7:00 pm                           Easter Vigil

Sunday, April 5th – 9:00 am                              Deceased Members of Wilson

                                                                                   & Daly Families

Sunday, April 5th – 11:00 am                            Edna DeSilva

Weekly Reflections (Homily) from Msgr. Sheehan (March 27, 2026)

PASSION (PALM) SUNDAY

My dear friends;

            This evening we begin the solemn celebration of Holy Week.

            It begins with a blessing of palms and a hearing of the Gospel which proclaims the events which led up to the unfolding of our Lord’s passion, death and resurrection.

            We take up the cry of the Jerusalem crowds – “All glory laud and honour to the redeemer king.”  The church would have us one with the crowds on this day – waving our branches… not simply to re-create the scene – but to make us conscious that we indeed belong to the crowd which at once cheers the Messiah and next calls for His crucifixion.

            Palm Sunday has many lessons… it celebrates, to our shame, our fickleness!  It spotlights among other things our waywardness… we are those crowds, my dear people.

            Because, as always, the men and women of the testaments are more than the characters involved in a re-telling of an account – they are a general picture of what humans do to God’s prophets, to God’s messengers – and especially to His great prophet – and His messenger – the Messiah – The one who is sent.

            Do we think of that dimension when we hear God’s word?  I suppose there are some texts in which we can readily see ourselves… wherein we can at once recognize ourselves.  We can see ourselves like Peter… So human; he is at once bold and zealous – but then again cowardly and afraid… quick and enthusiastic, but reticent and weak.

            We can see ourselves as Pilate… trying to be honest… trying to be fair… but weary of the crowds, afraid to be unpopular, -- We can see ourselves as Thomas… doubters, arrogantly defying the evidence and the word of friends.  We can see ourselves as Judas – the traitor – who for some reason has been slighted or maligned and commits his betrayal.

            Hopefully we can see in ourselves something of the more noble of the characters which come into view on this Palm Sunday.  Hopefully we can see in ourselves something of Simon of Cyrene… Jesus’s helper… who lends a helping hand…

            Hopefully, to, we can see in ourselves something of the fidelity and steadfastness of the women who remained with Jesus – while Judas betrays Jesus, and Peter denies Him… these women, whom all four evangelists take great care to mention – are present to Him, and weep for Him – all four evangelists mention the presence of women near the cross as Jesus dies.

            But more than all of these characters in which we see something of ourselves, my dear friends… there is another who does not wait for us to come to Him.  He come to us.  He takes on our flesh – our mankind.  And it is in Him above all else that we must try to see ourselves.

            And we can only see something of ourselves in Him, if like Him, we have learned to lay down our lives in love.  That is the meaning of the cross… of His cross – before suffering – it is a sign of the extent of His love for us.

            Whenever the innocent suffer, wherever good is opposed, wherever and whenever love is rejected – in Christ Jesus those who experience these things can recognize in Him the most perfect embodiment of all that they are undergoing.

            They can recognize themselves in Him only if they keep on loving, keep on hoping, keep on struggling to the end – with every assurance of overcoming, of victory.

            These are days, my dear friends when we are called to look at the cross – to Christ crucified and to recommit ourselves to be united to Him in His giving of self – in His offering of Himself to the Father – that we may pass over with Him to the joy, and peace, hope of the resurrection promised to all who follow Him.

                                    AMEN.