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Dear Friends in the Risen Lord!
My thanks to all who helped make our recent Holy Week and Triduum celebrations so prayerful and beautiful! Our common Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Vigil celebrations were served by liturgical ministers from all four of our parishes, including our combined choirs, whose music was beautiful and uplifting. The Vigil on Saturday night was especially moving as 21 people, comprising youth and adults, entered the church through the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and first Eucharist. The experience of these moments of grace was shared by all of our parish communities, including many of you who attended these special liturgies. It was another reminder that we are better as a church community when we come together rather than when we stay apart. That’s at the heart of the “Partners in the Gospel Plan” that is forming our future.
The next highlight of our Easter celebration this week is Divine Mercy Sunday. The gospel of John tells us that the risen Jesus first appears to his disciples with the words “Peace be with you!” Those are followed by the power he gives us to forgive sins. Our mission as Christians is to be agents of peace and reconciliation in our lives and in the world. It’s a call that our Pope Leo XIV has embraced with his courageous and forceful moral pleas for an immediate end to the current war in Iran. Let’s unite in prayer and hope for this intention, and bear witness to the peace and reconciliation that orders our own lives.
Blessings of Easter, peace and joy!
Fr. William Heric, Pastor