Many thanks to Michael A. McGinn.
Best wishes to all members who are celebrating significant anniversaries.

Throughout these summer months, trees, plants and grasses grow and flourish.Our faith is also to grow and flourish during these Sundays of Ordinary Time. The green vestments worn signify continuing growth in faith.
• Today is celebrated as Father’s Day, so in the Mass we remember and pray for the fathers of our community.

1st Reading: Ezekiel (17:22-24)

It is God who plants and makes fruitful, who raises up and humbles

Thus says the Lord God: I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of a cedar; I will set it out. …