The 8:30 and 1:00 mass on Sunday will be live-streamed to our Facebook page and then uploaded to our YouTube Channel. 

We are currently working on providing a better quality online mass experience for our Parish family. Thank you for your understanding while we work out the logistics of this. 

First Reading: Ezekiel 14:11-12, 15-17
Psalm: Psalms 23: 1-2, 2-3, 5-6
Second Reading: First Corinthians 15:  20-26, 28
Gospel: Matthew 25: 31-46

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The Church year ends today with a vision of the end of time. The scene in the Gospel is stark and resounds with Old Testament echoes.

The Son of Man is enthroned over all nations and peoples of every language. The nations have been gathered to see His glory and receive His judgment. The King is the divine shepherd Ezekiel foresees in today’s First Reading, judging as a shepherd separates sheep from goats.

Each of us will be judged upon our performance of the simple works of mercy we hear in the Gospel today.

These works, as Jesus explains today, are reflections or measures of our love for Him, our faithfulness to His commandment that we love God with all our might and our neighbor as ourselves.

Our faith is dead, lifeless unless it be expressed in works of love. And we cannot say we truly love God, whom we cannot see, if we don’t love our neighbor, whom we can.

The Lord is our shepherd, as we sing in today’s Psalm. And we are to follow His lead, to imitate His example.

He healed our sickness, freed us from the prison of sin and death, welcomed us who were once strangers to His covenant. He clothed us in baptism and feeds us with the food and drink of His own body and blood.

At “the end,” He will come again to hand over His kingdom to His Father, as Paul says in today’s Epistle.

Let us strive to be following Him in right paths, that this kingdom might be our inheritance, that we might enter into the eternal rest promised for the people of God.

Just a quick reminder that a Bilingual Mass will be offered at 10:00 am on Thanksgiving day. There will be no mass or Adoration on Friday. The Parish office will close on Wednesday the 25th at 2:00 and reopen on Monday the 30th. Fr. Mario can be reached through the office number in case of sacramental emergency.  Because of Covid concerns we will not be having Thanksgiving Dinner at church.