Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Happy Easter! I hope everyone is still enjoying our celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection. We are so filled with joy that our feasting overflows into eight days, which we call the Octave of Easter. While God created the world in seven days, on the eighth Christ rose to recreate…
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Regina Coeli, laetare, alleluia! Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia! Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia! Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia! Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia! For He whom you did merit to bear, alleluia! Has risen, as he said, Alleluia! Pray for us to God, Alle- luia! We cry out with…
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, It’s hard to believe, but today we begin Holy Week with the Mass of Palm Sunday. As our Lenten journey draws to a close, we enter Jerusalem with Christ and walk with him through the moments which form the very heart of who we are as Christians. If any…
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Today the Church enters what has been traditionally known as Passiontide. During these last two weeks of Lent we focus on the passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ in a more intense and vivid way. As the most sacred days of the Church year draw close, we…