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Dear friends,
 
I would like to thank all who came out for our Pentecost celebration and Pastorate picnic at St. Joan of Arc. This was truly a week of blessings.  I want to thank our Picnic Planning Team, Hospitality Team, Liturgy Team, Setup Crew, the Knights of Columbus and all staff and volunteers for making the Pentecost celebration a huge success. It was so beautiful seeing diversity of our Pastorate and yet at the same time also the universality of our Church bringing us all from different parts of the world and walks of life centered around the Altar of the Lord.
 
This Sunday we celebrate the greatest mystery of our faith - the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity. The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity invites us to consider what we believe about God, who has revealed himself to us in the Trinity, one God in three Persons. St. Patrick, our Patron, is known for his eloquent teaching about the Trinity. We may ask ourselves still today, how is it that God is one and yet consists of three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? It is through the Word made Flesh, Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, that we know anything about the Trinity.  It is in the New Testament that we come to know the truth that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Unlike all other world religions, we profess our belief in the Trinity as well as the fact that each of us, through the sacrament of Baptism, reflects the life of the Trinity. Over the past 2,000 years, the Magisterium, through councils and papal writings, have further developed insights into the life of the Trinity to help us in our quest to know the love of the Trinity and reflect that love in our own lives.
 
Friends, as this is Father’s Day weekend, I wish to thank our fathers, including my own, for the indispensable role they fulfill in strengthening marriage and the family. As the family goes, so too the Church and society. Therefore, the more we as a pastorate community of St. Patrick and St. Joan of Arc can support marriage and the family through our lived faith, beginning with Sunday worship, the stronger our Church and society will become. Throughout this year, I have hinted on reclaiming our faith, both personally and through various parish ministries in re-establishing our commitment to Jesus Christ and our Catholic faith. This weekend I will offer our homilies dedicated to fatherhood as an essential vocation; fatherhood in marriage and spiritual fatherhood, exemplified in the priesthood.
 
I would like to continue to thank you all for the faith that you have and share with our parishes. Next Sunday, as we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), we will have a Eucharistic procession after the 10:30am Mass at St. Patrick. I invite you all to come and join us. This will be a great way to affirm the true presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.
 
Please come and join us for this celebration. We will have refreshments after the procession in the courtyard.
 
May the Triune God Bless you always.
 
Fr. Francis