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06/13/2026

MUSTARD SEED

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”-Viktor Frankl

A tree does not argue with the winter. It sinks its roots deeper and waits for spring. Some battles cannot be solved by force, complaint, or endless worry. There are seasons when the only field left for growth is the human heart. The obstacle before us may not move today, but courage, patience, wisdom, and faith can grow within us today. Often, the greatest victories occur long before circumstances change.

Question: What difficult situation in your life might become a teacher if you stopped asking, “Why is this happening?” and began asking, “What is this forming in me?”?
🫶🏻fr Ebido - The Watchman

Immaculate Heart of Mary - Special Weekday Mass Saturday 13 June @ 9AM
06/12/2026

Immaculate Heart of Mary - Special Weekday Mass Saturday 13 June @ 9AM

Special Bulletin Announcement for June 13th at Our Lady of Sorrows
06/08/2026

Special Bulletin Announcement for June 13th at Our Lady of Sorrows

06/07/2026

MY DAILY BREAD
SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI

1. The Birth of a Feast
The feast of Corpus Christi was born from both devotion and divine intervention. In the thirteenth century, St. Juliana of Liège repeatedly received visions urging the Church to establish a feast dedicated solely to the Eucharist. A few years later, a German priest named Peter of Prague was struggling with doubts about the Real Presence. While celebrating Mass in Bolsena, the consecrated Host reportedly bled onto the corporal. Deeply moved by this event, Pope Urban IV established the Feast of Corpus Christi in 1264 and entrusted St. Thomas Aquinas with composing its hymns and prayers. To this day, the Church sings those hymns as she proclaims that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist: Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.
2. The Eucharist Hidden in the Old Testament
The roots of this feast are far older than the Middle Ages. They stretch through all of salvation history. The Eucharist was foreshadowed in the manna that fed Israel in the desert. It appeared in the bread and wine offered by Melchizedek. It was anticipated in the Passover lamb whose flesh had to be eaten. It was revealed when Elijah, exhausted and near despair, was fed by heavenly bread and strengthened for a forty-day journey. These signs point toward Christ, who declared Himself the living bread come down from heaven. At the Last Supper, He fulfilled every prophecy and established the Eucharist as the perpetual memorial of His sacrifice.
3. Sustained by the Bread of Life
The lives of the saints provide remarkable testimony to the power of the Eucharist. St. Catherine of Siena gradually lost interest in ordinary food and, for many years, survived almost entirely on Holy Communion while carrying out a demanding ministry. Likewise, Blessed Alexandrina da Costa was observed for years during which she reportedly consumed no food or drink except Holy Communion. The Church does not present these extraordinary cases as norms for Christian life but as signs pointing to the supernatural nourishment Christ provides through the Eucharist.
4. Nutrition Obsession Today
Our age is intensely concerned with nutrition. Entire industries revolve around protein intake, vitamins, supplements, exercise programs, anti-aging strategies, and physical optimization. People monitor calories, hydration, sleep quality, and countless other indicators of bodily health. Caring for the body is good and necessary because it is God’s gift. Yet this cultural fixation raises an uncomfortable question: if we devote so much effort to feeding the body, how much effort do we devote to feeding the soul?
5. Crisis of Spiritual Malnutrition
Most parents would panic if a child went a week without food. Yet many souls go months or even years without Confession, Scripture, prayer, or the Eucharist and feel little concern. A physician once observed that many illnesses begin long before symptoms appear because the body has quietly been deprived of what it needs. The same is true spiritually. Long before faith collapses, relationships fail, or hearts become hardened, spiritual malnutrition is often already at work. The soul has been starving while the body remains well fed.
6. What You Feed Will Grow
In the Canadian Prairies, farmers know that harvest depends upon what is consistently placed into the soil. In Nigeria, farmers understand that crops flourish only where nourishment is provided. The same law applies to the spiritual life. Whatever we feed becomes stronger. Feed resentment and resentment grows. Feed greed and greed grows. Feed fear and fear grows. Feed faith and faith grows. Feed the soul with Christ and holiness grows.
7. The Question Corpus Christi Asks
Today’s feast places before us a simple but penetrating question: Where is your fixation? What are you feeding? Are you feeding only the body while neglecting the soul? Are you consuming endless information but very little wisdom? Are you nourishing your ambitions while starving your relationship with God? Are you investing heavily in appearance while neglecting eternity?
8. Christ: The Food That Endures
The Eucharist is Christ’s answer to the deepest hunger of the human heart. Every earthly meal satisfies only for a few hours. This Bread prepares us for everlasting life. Every other food eventually passes away. This Food endures forever. In the Eucharist, Christ gives not merely a blessing, not merely a symbol, but Himself.
9. A Call to Renew Our Hunger
Today, as we kneel before the Blessed Sacrament, may we renew the faith of the saints, martyrs, and believers who came before us. Let us approach the altar not as spectators but as hungry pilgrims. For here heaven feeds the earth. Here Christ gives Himself entirely. Here the Bread of Life awaits every soul willing to receive Him.
Assignment: Spend at least fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament this week. Ask yourself honestly: What am I feeding most in my life: my body, my ego, my fears, my ambitions, or my soul?
Then make one concrete decision to nourish your spiritual life more intentionally.
Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Bread of Life and Food for the journey, increase my hunger for Your presence. Teach me to seek the nourishment that endures forever. May every Holy Communion deepen my love, strengthen my faith, and lead me safely to eternal life. Amen
Fr Ebido OP - The Watchman.

June 7 2026 Bulletin
06/06/2026

June 7 2026 Bulletin

June Blessings
06/01/2026

June Blessings

06/01/2026

❤️The Most Holy Trinity❤️.
The God Who Is Communion
Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9 | 2 Corinthians 13:11-13
| John 3:16-18

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity: one God in three Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is the central mystery of our Christian faith. Every time we make the Sign of the Cross, we enter this mystery: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. We begin our prayers, our Mass, our blessings, and our Christian life in this holy name.

And yet, the Trinity can feel difficult to understand. How can God be one, and yet three Persons? The mystery is greater than our minds can fully grasp. But the Church does not give us the Trinity as a puzzle to solve, but a mystery to enter and live out in our lives. She tells us that at the heart of God there is neither loneliness, nor selfishness, neither cold power, but relationship, communion, and love.

There is a simple image from ordinary life. In many of our homes, the family table is sacred. Around it different kinds of cultural food is shared (soup, noodles, salad, pirogies, meat, fish, tea, drinks) and generations gather: parents, children, grandparents, aunties, uncles, guests, and friends. Either daily or at special occasions like Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter, the table is a place of “belonging”. We come with different stories, tired bodies, quiet worries, and sometimes hidden wounds. But when we sit together, pass food, listen, laugh, forgive, and welcome one another, the table becomes more than a table. It becomes a sign of “communion.”

A child sitting at that table may not understand everything. The child may not know who worked to buy the food, who cooked for hours, who cleaned the house, who forgave an old hurt so peace could return. But the child knows one thing: I am loved here. I belong here.

That is how we approach the Trinity. We may not understand everything about the inner life of God, but through Jesus Christ, we are brought to the table of divine love. We come to know: I am loved. I belong. I was created for communion.

In the first reading, God reveals Himself to Moses as “merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.” When God reveals His heart, He does not first say, “I am distant,” or “I am frightening,” or “I am impossible to reach.” He reveals Himself as mercy, patience, and faithful love. This is the God we worship: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

In the Gospel, we hear those beautiful words: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.” God does not merely look at the world from far away. God loves the world. And love gives. The Father gives the Son. The Son gives His life. The Holy Spirit pours that love into our hearts. The movement of the Trinity is always love received, love returned, and love shared.

This mystery is deeply relevant to our lives today. We live in a world where many people are connected by phones and screens, but still feel lonely. Some families live in the same house but hardly speak deeply. Some communities sit side by side but remain strangers. Some cultures live near each other but do not truly know one another. The Trinity reminds us that we are not made for isolation. We are made for communion: with God, with family, with the Church, with the poor, with the stranger, and with one another.

The Trinity also teaches us that unity does not mean sameness. The Father is not the Son. The Son is not the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not the Father. Yet they are one God. There is difference without division, distinction without competition, unity without uniformity. This is a beautiful lesson for our parish community, made up of people from different backgrounds: Natives, Caucasian, Asian, African, and others; each with different cultures, accents, food, family traditions, and ways of expressing faith. When love is real among us, our differences are not threats; they are “gifts” we celebrate!

A parish becomes an image of the Trinity when people are welcomed, when newcomers are noticed, when the elderly are respected, when children are cherished, when volunteers serve with joy, when people forgive instead of gossiping, and when we see one another not as strangers, but as brothers and sisters in Christ.

The Trinity also speaks to our family life. A family becomes more like the Trinity when we learn to say: “I am sorry,” “I forgive you,” “I am listening,” “You matter to me,” “Let us pray together,” and “Let us begin again.” The mystery of the Trinity begins to shine in a home when power becomes service, silence becomes listening, and our “routine” becomes love expressions.

👉🏽So today, let us not only try to explain the Trinity. Let us live the Trinity. I ask you this week to love more patiently, speak more gently, forgive more quickly, and welcome more generously. Let us be intentional about making our homes and our parish places where others can say, “I am loved here. I belong here.”

🙏🏽Final Blessing: And may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with us all, now and forever. Amen.
🫶🏻Fr Ebido OP (The Watchman)

June Calendar of Masses & Events
05/31/2026

June Calendar of Masses & Events

05/25/2026

❤️My Daily Bread
Virgin Mary: Mother of the Church
Genesis 3:9–15, 20; John 19:25–34

In Genesis, after the fall, humanity hides. Adam hides from God because sin always fractures confidence, trust, and intimacy. Yet even in the ruins of Eden, God speaks a mysterious promise: “I will put enmity between you and the woman.” The Fathers of the Church saw in this “woman” the first glimmer of Mary, Mother of Jesus, the New Eve. Where Eve listened to the serpent and embraced disobedience, Mary listened to God and opened her whole being to obedience. One woman hugged a forbidden tree and sorrow entered the world; another stood beneath the Cross (a tree), and grace poured out like oil to heal our wounded world.

The Gospel places Mary at Calvary, not fainting, not fleeing, not bargaining with suffering, but standing. The saints often reflected on this strange strength of mothers: a mother can endure pain that would break warriors. At the Cross, Christ does not merely care for Mary’s future by entrusting her to John. He creates a spiritual family. “Behold your mother.” In that moment, the Church is born from the pierced side of Christ: blood and water flowing like the sacraments of Eucharist and Baptism, while Mary becomes mother to all who will live from that grace.

There is a powerful story from the Nigerian civil war years. In one village devastated by hunger and fear, people remembered seeing mothers who would pretend they had already eaten so their children could survive on the last portions of food. One elderly woman reportedly boiled stones in a pot so the children would “fall asleep” believing food was coming. That image mirrors something of Mary at the Cross. She cannot stop the nails. She cannot remove the spear. Yet she remains present so humanity will not feel abandoned in the darkest hour. The Church has survived centuries of persecution because maternal love still stands beside suffering humanity. It’s this inner strength that still sustains our persecuted Christians in the North and middle belt of Nigeria.

Finally, many people today secretly live like Adam: hiding wounds, guilt, addictions, disappointments, or failures behind smiles and busyness. But the Mother of the Church stands precisely where humanity is most broken. She stands near hospitals, at funerals, beside victims of addictions, fractured marriages, struggling immigrants worldwide, families in towns and cities facing economic hardship, and young people battling depression and adults wrinkled by anxiety. Mary’s motherhood is not sentimental decoration in Christianity: it is God’s answer to orphaned humanity. Christ knew the Church would need not only doctrine and sacraments, but also a mother who teaches them how to stand with their cross long enough to witness it bloom!

👉🏽Assignment: Today, do one act of maternal tenderness toward someone: encourage, feed, visit, call, listen, or pray for someone who feels abandoned. Then place your own hidden wounds consciously into the care of Mary, Mother of the Church.

🙏🏽Prayer: Mother Mary, you stood where others fled. Stand beside us in our hidden battles, teach us fidelity beneath the Cross, and lead the wounded children of the Church back to your Son. Amen. 🫶🏻fr Ebido OP

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