“To the humble the Lord reveals his secrets…By the humble he is glorified.” Si 3,20

Dear parishioners,

No one should be more humble than us Christians. Through no merit of our own, we have been chosen, called, and graced by God to live our human lives in Christian faith and hope, in the faith-knowledge of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, of the gospel, of the reality of the Church and it’s infinite extension in the Kingdom of Heaven. Such is our privilege. Every time we come to church, in the words of this Sunday’s passage from the letter to the Hebrews, we come “to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable Angels in festive gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant.” It is to all of this that we have access every time we set foot in our churches with hearts and minds enlivened by Christian faith and hope. But we aren’t the ones who made this happen. We were chosen and gently, discreetly guided by God’s providence, which never fails in its design, into this disposition in which we find ourselves, a disposition of faith and hope. It’s all God’s doing. In the face this gratuitous redemption, what are we to do but bow our heads in humble thanksgiving, and pray that the chosenness will never fade, that God’s providence will guard us from all that might harm our faith and our hope, and grant us all that will confirm and enhance them.

On a more down-to-earth level, our special collection for the Disamsurun/Argame family who lost their belongings in an apartment fire totaled $4858! The cheque will be given to them at the end of the 11:15 mass this coming Sunday. Thank you for having been God’s providence for them.

Also on this Sunday, unless it is postponed again, there is to be a controlled power outage from 8:00 a.m. till 6:00 p.m. That means no light, no sound, and perhaps no opening of the skylight for ventilation, if it looks like it’s going to rain. So it could be very warm. Be sure to bring some kind of fan! Hopefully the homilies will be mercifully brief, and if any of the choirs are absent, it will be a much appreciated “low mass”!

I will be absent again this weekend, as I must attend the “celebration of life” for my deceased nephew in Edmonton. May I ask you all to pray for a miracle of Christian faith and hope for all who are grieving him?

Enjoy the remains of this fine summer, and God bless,

Fr. Guy