Tonight’s Catholic Professionals meeting is cancelled. We will meet next month on May 14.

The Catholic Young Professionals will be starting back up again this month with a meeting at the rectory Tuesday, April 23, at 7:30 PM. There will be refreshments as we gather to reconvene and discuss our faith together. Please join us and reach out to Tevin Williams if you have any questions.

Last Saturday evening at Easter vigils around the world, literally hundreds of thousands of people were baptized.

Given the new life of great grace and made members of our church community, that’s amazing. Literally hundreds of thousands. And in our own diocese there are two parishes. One had 75 baptized, the other had 70 baptized, as well as all of the other parishes where baptisms took place. Clearly, in our diocese there were over 500 baptized at Easter vigils.

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A brief thought for Holy Week. It really is a five act play.

The first act: triumph today, the day that Jesus enters Jerusalem. People hail him as King of the Jews.

Triumph Act 2: Holy Thursday. Gift. Jesus gives us the gift of His body and blood. The Eucharist, which we gather this morning to celebrate.

Day Three. Triumph and gift come together. The triumph of the cross. Jesus truly is the king on His throne. For us, the sign of our salvation gift. Because it is literally his body and blood given for us

Day Four. Holy Saturday. The gift of hope. The gift of Promise. Our sign of everlasting Life.

Day five at five. Resurrection and Triumph. Holy Week is a delicate balance of triumph and gift, the triumph of Christ Jesus, the gift of his body and blood and everlasting life.

As we go now to the Eucharist. Let us pray that throughout this Holy Week, we will follow the journey of the Lord truly in triumph. From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday to the Lord’s Banquet, to the Lord’s gift of his body and blood, always rejoicing that Christ Jesus is gift and triumph.

We would like to have the traditional washing of the feet at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday (March 28). We would like to have six participants identified in advance.
If you are able to participate, please contact the rectory or speak to an usher after Mass.