Celebrating the Divine Origin of Fatherhood

Dear Friends in Christ,

            How appropriate it is that we celebrate Father’s Day this year on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.  It is through the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ and the inerrancy of Sacred Scripture that we have come to know the one true God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  All that is good and true in the institution of fatherhood, present since the creation of Adam, reflects the Fatherhood of God-the first person of the Most Holy Trinity.  To all our fathers, thank you for your witness to the indispensable role that fatherhood plays in the family, Church, and society.  I have included the invocation I offered at my Dad’s 80th birthday celebration on May 4th, 2025.  This in no way captures all his accomplishments, but it does highlight God the Father’s love for Brian Parks Bolger and the way Dad has been generative as a husband, father, grandfather, patriot and teacher, thereby reflecting the Fatherhood of God.  

From Brooklyn to the banks of Sea Cliff Beach.

From Georgetown above the Potomac, to the South China Sea.

From Cobleskill to Catonsville, Libertytown and beyond.

We thank you heavenly Father, for setting your seal upon Dad’s heart.

In your Divine Providence, Mom and Dad were wed.

A marriage made in heaven but worked out here below.

With seven children and soon seventeen grand,

None of this would have happened,

Save for his holy birth.

On this eve of number 80,

May your Holy Spirit shine,

Upon our beloved Poppy,

Our patriarch divine.

A blessed Father’s Day,