Pope Leo's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas teaches that while artificial intelligence offers technological benefits, it cannot replicate human nature, including the capacity for joy, pain, relationships, love, and moral conscience; the Holy Trinity represents a mystery of love that AI cannot compute, and humans must actively participate in technological development rather than passively accepting decisions made by algorithms.
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Good evening.
Welcome everyone to St. Dennis Catholic Church. As we celebrate the Mass of the Holy Trinity, at this time I invite you to stand and turn to greet one another, old friends, visitors, and newcomers.
I invite you to join in singing our gathering song. Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, [singing] holy [music] Lord God Almighty.
Early [music] in the [singing] morning, our song shall rise to thee.
Holy, holy, holy, [singing] merciful and mighty God in three [singing and music] persons blessed Trinity.
Holy, [music] holy, [singing] holy, all the saints [singing] adore thee.
Casting [music] down their golden crowns around [music and singing] the last sea.
Cherubim and Sarapim [singing] falling [music] down before [singing] thee which ever [singing and music] more shall be.
Holy, holy, [music and singing] holy.
Though the darkness hide thee, though I [singing and music] may bind my sin, my glory may [music] not see.
Only thou [singing] art holy.
There is none [music] beside thee.
perfect power [singing] and impurity. [music] In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
>> Amen.
>> The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Welcome everyone to this mass here at St. Dennis as we celebrate today the somnity of the most holy trinity.
To prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries, let's first acknowledge our sins.
Lord Jesus, you are mighty God and prince of peace. Lord have mercy.
>> Lord have mercy. Lord Jesus, you are the son of God and son of Mary. Christ have mercy.
>> Christ have mercy.
>> Lord Jesus, you are word made flesh and splendor of the father. Lord have mercy.
>> Lord have mercy.
>> May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.
>> Amen.
Glory, glory to God in the [music and singing] highest.
Glory, glory [singing and music] to God in the highest and on earth peace to people [music and singing] of good will.
>> We praise you, we bless [music and singing] you, we adore you, we glorify you.
We give you thanks for [music and singing] your great glory.
Lord [singing and music] God, heavenly king, oh God, almighty father, [music] Lord Jesus [singing] Christ, only begotten son, [music] Lord God, [singing] lamb of God, son of the father, [music] you take away [singing] the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
You [music] take away the sins [singing] of the world, receive our pray.
You are seated at the right hand of the father. [singing] Have mercy on [music] us.
For you [music] alone are the [singing] holy one.
You alone are the Lord. [music] You alone [singing] are the most high Jesus [music] Christ with the Holy [singing] Spirit in the glory [music] of God the Father.
[singing] Glory, glory [music] to God in the highest.
Glory, glory to [music and singing] God in the highest and on earth peace to people of [singing and music] good will.
[music and singing] Amen.
Let us pray.
God our Father, who by sending into the world the word of truth and the spirit of sanctification, made known to the human race your wondrous mystery.
Grant us, we pray, that in professing the true faith, we may acknowledge the Trinity of eternal glory and adore your unity powerful in majesty.
through our Lord Jesus Christ, your son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever.
>> Amen.
A reading from the book of Exodus.
Early in the morning, Moses went up Mount Si as the Lord had commanded him, taking along the two stone tablets.
Having come down in a cloud, the Lord stood with Moses there and proclaimed his name, Lord. Thus the Lord passed before him and cried out, "The Lord, the Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity."
Moses at once bowed down to the ground in worship. Then he said, "If I find favor with you, O Lord, do come along in our company.
This is indeed a stiff- necked people.
Yet pardon our wickedness and sins and receive us as your own."
The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
[clears throat] >> [music] >> Glory [singing] and praise forever.
[singing] Glory [music] and praise forever.
[singing] Blessed are you, O [music] Lord, the God of our fathers.
Praiseworthy [music] and exalted above all forever.
And blessed is [music] your holy [singing] and glorious name.
Praiseworthy [music] and exalted above all [singing] for all ages.
Glory [music] and praise forever. [singing] >> Blessed are you in the [singing] temple of your [music] holy glory.
Praiseworthy and glorious above [singing] all forever.
Earth.
Glory and [music] praise [singing] forever.
>> Blessed are [singing and music] you on the throne of your kingdom.
Praiseworthy [music and singing] and exalted above all forever.
Glory [singing] [music] and praise forever.
>> Blessed [singing and music] are you who look into the depths from your throne upon the cherubim.
Praiseworthy [singing] and [music] exalted above all forever.
Glory [music and singing] and praise forever. [music and singing] A reading from the second letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians.
Brothers and sisters, rejoice.
Mend your ways. Encourage one another.
Agree with one another. Live in peace.
And the God of love and peace will be with you.
Greet one another with a holy kiss.
All the holy ones greet you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
The word of the Lord.
Hallelu. [singing] Hallelu.
Hallelu. [music] Halleluah.
[singing] Halleluah.
Hallelu.
Halleluah. [music] [singing] Halleluah.
Hallelu.
Halleluah. [music] [singing] Halleluah.
Hallelu.
My sheep [singing] hear my voice, says the Lord.
I know them and they [music] follow me.
Halleluah. [singing] [music] Halleluah.
Hallelu. [music] [singing] Halleluah.
Halleluah.
Hallelu. [singing and music] The Lord be with you.
>> And with your spirit.
>> A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. Glory to you, Lord.
>> God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.
For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
Whoever believes in him will not be condemned.
But whoever does not believe has already been condemned because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God.
The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Christ.
When I um got my first job out of school at that office, the only electronic machine that I had at my desk was a telephone and an IBM select electric typewriter.
The thing was huge. state-of-the-art.
You turn it on and it hummed with power.
You roll a sheet of paper in it and boy, you can type so fast with it. And that was the latest technology at the time.
But since then, technology has moved very fast.
Then came word processors, computers, digital cameras, flat screen TV, email, internet, social media, and those handy dandy smartphones that kept getting smarter every year. And now it's artificial intelligence.
It's everywhere doing instant language translations, facial recognition, GPS navigation, self-driving cars. It's used in medicine and finance. It even controls my robot vacuum at home.
It is said that AI can process information thousands if not millions times faster than any human being. And it is still getting more and more advanced.
It is now doing what's called a self-learning system or self-improvement loops and evolutionary algorithms where AI is teaching itself now to become even smarter I mean exponentially smarter.
artificial intelligence. It is our next biggest technological social revolution that is changing our world and I can't even imagine how far it's going to go you know and it will have direct and profound effect on our work on our lives even on how we think and relate how we're measured and valued in society and how we understand what it means means to be human.
So to address this big change in our world, Pope Leo earlier this week has released his first encyclical titled Magnifica Humanitas.
In English, it means magnificent humanity to give us social, spiritual, and moral guidance on this issue.
Now this is a pretty lengthy document with 42,000 words consisting of 245 paragraphs and there is a lot there starts with the history of the earlier encyclicals our Catholic social teachings and then it goes into the subject of artificial intelligence and in my own reading of it the holy father and the church is not saying that AI is bad or that we should reject it or not use it. He says it does have good and potential benefits.
But at the same time, it has flaws and limitations and there is danger that it could dehumanize us, that it could change the way we see and treat the human person.
that no matter how intelligent AI might get, it can never be compared to our human nature. A human being who is able to feel joy and pain, mature through relationships, know friendship, responsibility and love of what it means to be human with the dignity and the magnificence that we have as sons and daughters of God created in his own image and likeness.
For instance, as we celebrate today the somnimity of the most holy trinity, three persons in one God, this is a mystery of our living God that no artificial intelligence will be able to solve. It is not a puzzle to be computed. Rather it is a relationship of love that is to be encountered and experienced by us the human person through our heart and our soul.
Holy Trinity is about relationship of love between the father, the son and the holy spirit to which we as his sons and daughters are invited to encounter and participate.
The value of humanity, our relationship and love, it is something much much deeper and it cannot be imitated by algorithms or data processing.
Paragraph 99 of Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo tells us, we must avoid the misconception of equating this type of intelligence with that of human beings.
so-called artificial intelligence do not undergo experiences, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship, or responsibility mean.
And as in our gospel reading today, that God so loved the world that he gave his only son, the love that God has for us, the love that we have for him and for each other, that special quality of love, relationship, self-giving, compassion, our conscience and morality of knowing good and evil. Those are what makes us human.
Pope Leo says in paragraph 233, "No computational system, however sophisticated, can create a heart that gives itself for a conscience that discerns good from evil."
And the only moral conscience that any AI can ever have is what is fed into it by the few and powerful who design, control and manipulate it based on their own agenda.
Pope says in paragraph 107, "Those who control AI will impose their own moral vision which will become the invisible infrastructure of these systems."
And in paragraph 108, this small but highly influential persons can shape information to their own advantage.
We must not be reduced to passive recipients of decisions made elsewhere.
We must contribute to discernment and oversight.
Moreover, ownership of data cannot be left solely in private hands, but must be appropriately regulated.
Pope Leo calls us to action in paragraph 233 says, "We are called to cooperate in the works of creation rather than be disinterested observers of technological processes that limit our freedom and responsibility.
that we need to act against the danger including false and disinformation that AI can so effectively disseminate.
Paragraph 132 says that they could construct distorted narratives and blur boundaries between truth and falsehood, mixing facts with opinions.
Disinformation did not begin with AI.
Yet today it finds a powerful amplifier in AI.
The ability to manipulate content, images, and videos exposes people to biased or misleading perspectives.
It requires verification, cross-checking of sources, and responsible argumentations.
Paragraph 237 says, "Let us remain faithful to the truth, living amid incessant flow of information, opinions, and images.
We know how easy it can be to influence decisions and preferences through increasingly sophisticated algorithms.
And also that we must be educated on AI to learn it, to understand its workings, to be able to place safeguards and to use it well, even to evangelize with it.
Paragraph 238 says, "Let us invest in education beginning with ourselves.
We all need to learn how to engage with the digital world.
Indeed, we must consider the digital world as a new continent to be evangelized.
Now these are just few of the highlights of this new encyclical that uh in the short time that I have here can only barely skim the surface. So this is just a very short preview. This new Catholic social teaching is packed with so much more and I urge everyone to please read it for yourselves and to download the full text of Magnifica Humanitas from the Vatican or the USCCCB website to read it in its entirety as we're all called to do and guided by the Holy Spirit.
May we become better equipped in this modern society that seems to be changing so fast.
Now let us profess our faith using the nyine creed.
[clears throat] I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages, God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, conssubstantial with the Father. Through him all things were made. for us men and for our salvation. He came down from heaven and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary and became man. For our sake, he was crucified under Pontius Pilate. He suffered death and was buried and rose again on the third day in accordance with the scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one holy, Catholic, and apostolic church. I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.
As we celebrate the most holy trinity, we offer our prayers to our one true God. for the church that we who are baptized in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit will live out our call to holiness.
We pray to the lord.
>> Lord hear our prayer >> for peace in Iran, Ukraine and around the world that God will bring an end to all wars, violence and conflicts.
[snorts] We pray to the Lord. Lord, here our prayer >> for those who are graduating from high school or college that the Lord will bless them and will guide them on the right path in the next chapter of their life.
We pray to the Lord.
>> Lord, here our prayer >> for St. Dennis Parish that as St. Paul exhorted the Corinthians. We will mend our ways, encourage one another, agree with one another, and live in peace.
We pray to the Lord.
>> Lord, here our prayer >> for the special intentions of Arnell Riza and Chris Flores, Hans and Lisa Zigoka, Maxine Cassie B. Magpeo Gertude Mary Bellis Father Joseph Antona CPM for whom this mass is offered and for those who have requested our prayers and for all those who are enrolled in our Mother's Day novena.
We pray to the Lord. Lord, here our prayer >> for the sick including Tyrone Taglay, Terasita Vincente, George Perez, Annabelle Munos, Fernando Praau, Enrique Bar, Evelyn Colomo, and George Taro that they will recover their good health.
We pray to the Lord. Lord here our prayer >> for those who have died including Manuel Obima Sandy Lynn Cynthia Favvis Mayanne Branks Elizabeth Arammbolo Salas Chanto Miranda Paul's and Jake Sanchez that they will be welcomed into the perfect union of the father the son and the holy spirit in heaven We pray to the Lord.
>> Lord, here our prayer >> for those who need our prayers and for all the prayer intentions that are listed in the comment section of YouTube and Facebook for this mass.
We pray to the Lord.
>> Lord, here our prayer.
>> Merciful God, please hear our prayers through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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I invite you to join in singing in every age.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> Long before the [singing] mountains [music] came to be and the lenon [singing] sea and stars of the night through the [singing] endless seasons of all time [music] [singing] You have always been.
[singing] You will always be [singing] [music] in every age.
Oh God, you have been our [music] reuge in [singing] every age.
[music] Oh God, you have been our home.
>> Destiny [singing] is cast and at your silent birth we return to dust and scatter [singing] to [music] the wind. A thousand years are like a single [singing and music] moment gone.
as the light that [singing] fades [music] at the end of [singing] day in [music] every age.
Oh [singing] God, you have [music] been our reuge in every [singing] age. [music] Oh God, you have [music] been our hope.
[music] >> Teach us [singing] to make use of the time we have.
Teach us to be patient [singing] [music] even as we wait.
Teach us to embrace our [singing and music] every joy and pain, to be peacefully, [music] and to [singing] rise up strong in every [singing] [music] age.
Oh God, you have [singing and music] been our reuge in [singing] every age. [music] Oh God, you [singing and music] have been our hope in [singing] every [music] age.
Oh [singing] God, you have been our reuge in [singing] every [music] age.
Oh [singing] God, you have [singing] been our home.
[music] You have [singing] been our reuge.
[music] You [singing] have been our home.
[music] >> Pray my brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Almighty Father.
Sanctify by the invocation of your name, we pray, O Lord our God, this oblation of our service and by it make of us an eternal offering to you through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Lord be with you.
>> And with your spirit.
>> Lift up your hearts. Lift them up to the Lord.
>> Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
>> It is right and >> it is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, Holy Father, Almighty and eternal God.
For with your only begotten son and the Holy Spirit, you are one God, one Lord, not in the unity of a single person, but in a trinity of one substance.
for what you have revealed to us of your glory, we believe equally of your son and of the Holy Spirit, so that in the confessing of the true and eternal Godhead, you might be adored in what is proper to each person, their unity in substance and their equality in majesty.
For this is praised by angels and archangels, cherubim too and saraphim, who never cease to cry out each day as with one voice they acclaim, >> holy, [music and singing] holy, holy God of host.
Heaven and [singing] earth are full of [music] your glory.
Hosana [singing] in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of [singing and music] the Lord.
Hosana.
Hosana [singing] in the highest.
Hosana. [music] Hosana [singing] in the highest.
You are indeed holy, O Lord, the fountain of all holiness.
Make holy, therefore, these gifts we pray by sending down your spirit upon them like the dwfall so that they may become for us the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion, he took bread and giving thanks, broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take this all of you and eat of it, for this is my body which will be given up for you.
In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice and once more giving thanks, he gave it to his disciples saying, Take this all of you and drink from it.
For this is the chalice of my blood. The blood of the new and eternal covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this in memory of me.
The mystery of faith.
We proclaim [music] your death, O Lord, and [music and singing] profess your resurrection until [singing and music] you come again until [singing and music] you come again.
Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his death and resurrection, we offer you, Lord, the bread of life and the chalice of salvation, giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you.
Humbly we pray that partaking of the body and blood of Christ, we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit.
Remember, Lord, your church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness of charity. together with Leo, our Pope, Jose, our Bishop, and all the clergy. Remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection, and all who have died in your mercy. Welcome them into the light of your face. Have mercy on us all. We pray that with the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God, with blessed Joseph, her spouse, with the blessed apostles, and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages, we may merit to be co-airs to eternal life and may praise and glorify you through your son Jesus Christ.
Through him and with him and in him, O God, almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours forever and ever.
Amen. [singing] Amen. [music] Amen.
Amen. [singing] Amen.
[music] Amen.
At the Savior's command and [music] formed by divine teaching, we dare to say, >> Our [singing] Father, [music] >> Father, >> who art in heaven, >> who art in heaven, [singing and music] >> it be thy >> [music] >> Thy kingdom come. [singing and music] >> Thy kingdom come.
>> Thy will be done.
>> Thy will be [music] done on earth as it is [singing] in heaven.
[music] >> Give us this day our daily bread.
>> Give us this [singing and music] day our daily bread.
Forgive [music and singing] us our trespasses as [singing] we forgive [music] those who trespass against us. [singing] and lead us [music] not >> and lead us not >> into temptation [singing] >> into temptation.
But deliver [music] [singing] us from evil. [music] >> Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil. Graciously grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress as we [music] await the blessed hope and the coming of our savior Jesus Christ. [music] For [singing] the kingom.
>> for the kingom. [music] [singing] >> And the power and the [singing] power.
>> And the glory >> and the glory [singing] >> are yours, oh Lord. [singing] are yours, [music] oh Lord, >> forever.
[music] >> Forever [singing] and ever and ever. [singing] >> [music] >> Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your apostles, "Peace I leave you, my peace I give you. Look not on our sins, but on the faith of your church, and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance with your will, who live and reign forever and ever.
>> Amen.
>> The peace of the Lord be with you always. and with your spirit.
>> Let us offer each other the sign of peace.
Lamb of God, you take [singing] away the sins of [singing and music] the world.
We set it in no [singing] peace.
>> Lamb of God, >> Lamb [singing] of God, >> you take away, >> you take [music] away the sins of >> the sins [singing] of the world, the world.
We set it in [music] all peace.
>> We set it [singing] in all peace.
[music] >> You stay away.
>> You take away [singing] the sins of [music] >> the sins of the world.
>> [singing] >> Da no beer no beer. [singing] Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who takes away the sins of the world.
Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb. Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.
For everyone who is celebrating mass with us from home, let's pray together the act of spiritual communion.
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most holy sacrament. I love you above all things and I desire to receive you into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace you as if you were already there and unite myself h wholly to you.
Never permit me to be separated from you. Amen. for Holy Communion. If you would like to receive the body of Christ or a blessing, please come down the aisles as usual. If you would like to receive both the body and blood of Christ on your tongue, please come down the aisles and go around the first communion minister and go to the nearest intention minister. There'll be one intention minister on each side of the church.
I invite you to join in singing I has not seen.
[music] I has [music and singing] not seen here has not heard what [singing] God has [music] ready for those who love him.
Spirit [music] [singing] of love, come give us the mind [singing and music] of Jesus. us.
>> Teach [music and singing] us the wisdom of God.
>> When pain [singing and music] and sorrow weigh us down, be near to us, oh Lord.
Forgive the weakness of our [singing] faith and bear us up within your peaceful [singing and music] word.
>> [music] >> I [singing] has not seen ear [singing] has not [music] heard what God has ready for [singing] those who [music] love him.
Spirit [singing] of love, come [music] give us the word [singing] of Jesus.
Teach us [singing and music] the wisdom of God.
Our lives are but [singing] a single bread. We flower and we [singing] fade.
Yet our days are in your hands. So we return [singing] in [music] love what love has made.
[music] I [singing] has not [music] seen.
ear has not heard what God [singing] has [music] ready for those who love him.
Spirit [music] of love, come [singing] give us [music] the word of Jesus.
Teach [music and singing] us the wisdom of God. [music] Our [music] Father, maker [singing] of the heavens and the earth, author of the universe, [singing] [music] who imagined us, God [singing] all sing into our humanity. [singing] Come. [snorts] Let your [music] kingdom be with us.
Oh, let your [singing and music] will be done.
[music] Lord Jesus, [music] son of God, who sits at his right hand, perfect [singing] love that became man, [music] sacrificed for us, pure redeemer into our iniquity come.
Let your furnace be full.
Have mercy on us. [music] Renew your people. [music] [singing] Renew your proise.
Renew our [singing] hearts [music] for you.
Renew [singing] your people. [music] Renew your proise.
Renew [singing] our hearts for you, [music] Lord. [singing] You [music] [music] Holy Spirit, gift [singing] of reason, hope abiding peace, comforter who intercedes, [music] carries [singing] every prayer, moving presence, [music and singing] living breath The living God come stir the [music] passion in our hearts.
[singing] Bring new life [singing] into us.
Renew your [singing] people. [music] Renew your proise. [singing] Renew our hearts [music] for you.
Renew [music and singing] your people.
Renew your proise.
Renew [singing] our hearts [music] for you.
Lord, [singing] renew.
Lord [singing and music] renew.
Lord [music] renew. [singing] Let us pray.
May receiving this sacrament, O Lord our God, bring us health of body and soul as we confess your eternal holy trinity and undivided unity through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
>> Please be seated for the announcements.
Thank you.
May is National Foster Parenting Awareness Month. There are currently more than 25,000 children in foster care in Los Angeles County and all of them deserve loving families. So, please prayerfully consider foster parenting.
For more information and for resources to answer your questions, please see the what's new section of our website and page three of the bulletin.
For foster parenting awareness month, our family life ministry and our teen confirmation program are collecting beach towels, sunscreen, sunglasses, lip balm with SPF, sand buckets, and sand toys to help give foster youth and children a fun day at the beach. You can drop off the donated items at the pastoral office or at a table in the vestibule right after this mass. In addition, monetary donations are welcome. Please make make checks payable to St. Dennis Church and write foster care drive in the notation section of your check or on the envelope. All donations are due by today. Details are in the what's new section of our website.
And by the way, as you leave today, you'll see people with buckets collecting donations for this foster care drive.
We need new liturggical ministers for our Sunday masses.
Please pray and ask God if you should donate your time and talent to serve as an altar server, usher, eucharistic minister, or lecter.
Training and formation will be provided.
Altar servers should be in grade five through high school or college. For more information about all of the ministries, please see page seven of the bulletin and the what's new section of our website.
Griefshare supports those who are mourning the death of a loved one. They meet every Sunday from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
upstairs in the choir room on the chapel side of the church. All are welcome. Our women's fellowship group meets on the first Tuesday of the month, including this coming Tuesday from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon. They will meet at Sycamore Canyon Park in Diamond Bar by the baseball fields. The theme is childlike faith based on Matthew 18:es 3 to 4.
Please wear comfortable shoes and clothes so you can participate in the fun. Afterward, they'll have lunch with hamburgers and sides. All women are welcome.
Catholic Men's Fellowship meets every Wednesday from 7 to 8:00 p.m. upstairs in the choir loft on Mary's side of the church. They pray the rosary and then read and discuss the upcoming Sunday gospel. All men are welcome.
On the first Thursday of every month, including this coming Thursday, our Beneath His Cross Apostlate has a holy hour for priests in the chapel at 7:15 p.m. Please join them this Thursday if you can. Our Bible study group meets every Thursday from 7:15 to 900 p.m.
Since our hall is closed for preliminary construction, the Bible study group meets at the United Church of Christ, which is two blocks away on Diamond Bar Boulevard. They're studying John's Gospel in the book of Genesis, and everyone is welcome.
After the Lenton and Easter seasons, we have returned to our usual Friday evening schedule with our evening mass at 700 p.m. and our evening holy hour at 7:45 p.m. Both of these liturgies also are livereamed. So, please join us on Fridays.
Next Sunday, we will celebrate Corpus Christi at all of our masses. As part of the celebration, we will bring Christ out of the church and into the world by having a eukaristic procession in our neighborhood at 2:15 p.m. That is after our 100 p.m. family mass. During the procession, we will sing songs and pray the rosary. All are welcome, including families with children.
Please join us next Sunday at 2:15 p.m.
Looking ahead, St. Dennis's Vacation Bible School, VBS, is for children from age 3 through grade 6, and it'll be held from Monday, June 15th through Friday, June 19th from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Moreover, we have a new location for the meetings. Vacation Bible School will now meet here at St. Dennis Church and in our courtyard. The theme is the messiness of this world and how Jesus deals with our messiness, including our sins, mistakes, and weaknesses. Each day, the children will enjoy fun crafts, engaging activities, catchy music, and refreshments. They also will receive a t-shirt. This will be a great summer activity for kids. For more information, please see page four of the bulletin and the what's new section of our website, which has details about the topic for each day and the specific Bible passages that the children will focus on. The cost for each family will be $60 for the first child and $25 for each additional child. To register, please scan the QR code or contact the pastoral office.
Teens in junior high and high school are welcome to volunteer as leaders. Please contact Selia, our director of religious education, for more information.
Father's Day is on Sunday, June 21st. We will have a special blessing for all fathers and a little gift for them at all of our Father's Day masses. In addition, we have spiritual bouquet mass cards for Father's Day in the pastoral office. Just go to the office app. Just go to the office, fill out a spiritual bouquet envelope and pick up a special Father's Day card. Fathers who receive a Father's Day spiritual bouquet will be remembered at St. Dennis's masses from June 21st through June 30th.
Finally, since next Sunday will be the first Sunday of the month, we will take up a second collection for our building and maintenance fund. In addition, the first Sunday is called Contribution Sunday because we collect non-p perishable food for poor families from St. Meline's Parish in Pomona. If you bring dry food or food in cans or jars next weekend, you can drop it off in a bin in the courtyard.
Hope that you enjoy the the rest of this Sunday evening and that you have a very blessed and happy week ahead.
and please stand.
[snorts] >> The Lord be with you.
>> May almighty God bless you. The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
>> Amen.
>> Go in peace glorifying the Lord by your life.
>> Thanks be to God.
Oh, I invite you to join in singing I send you out.
It's time for us to become people of [singing and music] spirit. It's time for us to become people love. It's time for us to know that [music and singing] Jesus Christ is risen, forgives our sins, and brings us new life.
I send you [singing and music] out.
>> I send you out on a mission of love. I send you out. [singing and music] >> I send you out on a mission of love. I send you out.
>> I send you out on a mission [singing and music] of love. and know that I am with [singing] you always until the end of the world.
>> I send you out. [singing and music] >> I send you out on a mission of love. I send you out.
>> I send you out on a mission [music and singing] of love. I send you out.
>> I send you out on a mission of love. and know that I am with you [singing and music] always until the end of the world.
[music] >> [applause and music] >> There was an
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