Today, the fourth Sunday of Lent, is traditionally known as Laetare Sunday, the Church takes a bit of breath from Lenten practice and opens Mass with Entrance Antiphon, “Laetare (Rejoice), Jerusalem… Be joyful, all who were in mourning!” – taken from Isaiah chapter...
Today’s parable of the barren fig tree can make us very uncomfortable. What is Jesus telling us? God expects something from you; so, get busy doing it? God certainly desires that we bear fruit. But it’s important that we remember that fruit comes not so much...
Beloved parishioners, Today we begin our Annual Retreat (Parish Lenten Mission) with my friend Fr. Tony Eseke. Mission starts at 7 PM every night from Sunday through Wednesday. Our Parish Penance Service is during our Parish Mission on Tuesday night with the...
These first days of this holy season are a time to reflect as a community on the path our spiritual journey will take as we prepare to celebrate Easter. “Conversion” is a word we hear often during the season: conversion means “turning”, a U-turn, if our lives have...
“Each year you give us this joyful season [of Lent] when we prepare to celebrate the paschal mystery with mind and heart renewed,” reads the First Preface of Lent. Shouldn’t Lent create in us sorrow and joyless faces until Easter morn? Is Holy Mother the Church wrong...
We truly are called to welcome and assist all to the compassionate love of Jesus through the Eucharist. Christ truly needs all of us. He wants us to be holy so that we can help Him through our community of Holy Spirit to share God’s compassionate love. Next week we...
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