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 8th – 9:00 am Norma Forbes
Tuesday, June 9th – 9:00 am Mary Dionne
Wednesday, June 10th – 9:00 am Pat Oliver
Thursday, June 11th – 9:00 am Fred Crilley (Anniv)
Friday, June 12th – 9:00 am No Mass
Saturday, June 13th – 5:00 pm Mary Anne LeBlanc
Sunday, June 14th – 11:00 am Ray Lloyd
Weekly Reflections (Homily) from Msgr. Sheehan (June 5, 2026)
BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST SUNDAY
Dear friends:
About long ways… being led… and lingering… in the wilderness… in the wasteland… in the arid places… and being humbled and being tested…
All a picture of human life… of all our lives… over things we seem to have little control… little determination… the days seem too long… the arid places seem too forlorn… the wastelands seem too many… the events seem too humbling and too testing…
Yet Moses reminds the people… who look back at the Exodus… the major events in their history… that is was God who was leading them… it was God who was trying to find out what was really in their hearts…
“It’s what comes out of a person’s heart… “What’s in our heart…? …what’s in our heart, in the journey? What’s in our heart in trial?... when we’re tested…? When we’re in the long, hard days of aridity and wasteland…? When our life has become directionless…?
Who knows what’s in our heart? Sometimes there’s a lot of bitterness… sometimes there is a lot of anger… hostility… resentment…
That is what usually happens when we’re humbled… or feel we’re being unduly tested… seemingly taken advantage of…
That is the experience of human life… a life lived… in a human way…
Our hearts hunger for something else… they at first give in to bitterness, anger, resentment… but these are not satisfying… these are not life-giving… these are not sustaining…
We hunger for that which will carry us… carry us through… carry us beyond…
We hunger for something that will sustain us, and satisfy us… satisfy us in a way that brings us out of the “great and terrible wilderness… the houses of enslavement, the wasteland of poisonous snakes and scorpions.”
What can bring us out? …what can free us? What can liberate us? Liberate us from those dramatic and descriptive conditions found in the book of Exodus… they are not exaggerated… “enslavement”… “wasteland”… “poisonous…
attitudes… poisonous influences…” They are as new and recent as they are ancient!!
God is portrayed as not letting go of his people… not abandoning them… not forfeiting his hold on them…
God gives them something to keep them going… God will not let them perish… God feeds them by giving them “Manna”… not simply a material food… but bread as word… bread as “that which will not let them perish… that which will not let them be abandoned…”
And that is the message… it is a word… it is a fundamental statement… it is the fundamental statement of God’s word… “I will be your God… you will be My people…”
Jesus says to the crowds… to all of us… to the world… “I am the living bread that came down from heaven…”
“If you eat this bread… you will live forever… and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh…
“If you sustain yourself… if you eat of My flesh and drink of My blood… if you are nourished by who I am, by My message… by letting it fill your hearts… making it your way… letting Me dwell in you… live in you…”
“You will not only… Come through… survive… overcome the wastelands… the wilderness… the hunger… the arid place…”
“You will live… you will have now… that taste of eternal life…”
Amen.