Responding to the pastoral need, Most Rev. Claude Hamelin, Bishop of St. Jean – Longueuil, assigned Fr. Michael Nguyen Dinh VINH, CSSp, a Vietnamese and religious priest of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) as full time pastor of our parish. His appointment is effective Oct 1, 2023 and will remain until July 31, 2029.

The Pope's Intentions in May, 2025

For working conditions

Let us pray that through work, each person might find fulfilment, families might be sustained in dignity, and that society might be humanized.

Message from Fr. Vinh Michael Nguyen

May 18, 2025

Love as Jesus loved

The focus of the Word of God on the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C, is the commandment of love that Jesus gave and entrusted to his disciples before he went to suffer and die: “A new commandment I give you, that you love one another as I have loved you.”

The commandment that Jesus gave was perfected by the law of the Old Testament: “You shall not hate any of your kindred in your heart. Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your own people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19,17-18). And this is the perfect law that Jesus taught us: “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment; the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22,37-38).

Thus, the fundamental thing in the life of a Christian is to love God and love people go hand in hand. Whoever loves God also loves others, and love of others is the measure of God's love. Whoever says he loves others but does not love God is lying. The love that Jesus taught us is not just words on the lips but is shown through actions in daily life. It must be shown with all our hearts and by sacrificing our lives.

For each of us Christians, the law of love is the core of our life of faith, and also the proof that we are disciples of Jesus. Therefore, the Word of God on the 5th Sunday of Easter, once again, invites us to live as witnesses of the Risen Lord and to bring our love into a world full of discord and division. Let us allow our hearts to be still so that God’s grace may help us to see the full extent of the new commandment and the great distances in our lives, so that we may be determined to live God’s commandment of love as he himself lived and taught us.

May Jesus help each of us to practice the commandment of love. And may he pour out his love upon us so that we can love him, love God and love our brothers and sisters sincerely in all circumstances.