March 2024

He is risen. He is risen, indeed! So goes an ancient dialog between priest and people, and Christian to Christian. It is an Easter proclamation of faith in Jesus Christ, who was crucified, died and buried, and resurrected to life in glory – body, mind and spirit. The origin of this proclamation is attributed to St. Mary Magdalene. And even if this attribution isn’t completely accurate, it’s logical because Mary Magdalene saw it all. She was at the foot of the

Holy Week Prayer Bread We invite you to make bread as a family during Holy Week, to be shared as part of your meal on Maunday Thursday. As you bake, may the prayers at each step center you in God’s love and help you prepare for the coming of Christ. Don’t expect perfection, the important thing is that you have FUN! The receipt will make 2 small loaves so choose someone to give the additional loaf to such as an elderly

Hey Y’all, It’s the Fifth Sunday of Lent! We’re getting ever closer to the celebration of the greatest feast of the Christian Church year, Easter. In anticipating Easter, our liturgy challenges us to consider an essential truth that is central to our faith as Roman Catholic Christians. That essential truth is “the resurrection of the dead and life of the world to come”. (Sound familiar? That’s a line from the Nicene Creed.) So today, we will hear both the Prophet Ezekiel’s ancient

This weekend we have another one of those Sundays that has a special Latin nickname: it’s “Laetare Sunday.” By now you might be able to guess that the name comes from the first word of the Latin version of the Entrance Antiphon: “Rejoice, Jerusalem, and all who love her. Be joyful, all who were in mourning…” (Is. 66:10) Now, can you really command someone to rejoice? It seems to me that joy has to come from within us and can’t be