Sunday, May 8 is Mother’s Day. As you are honoring your mothers, grandmothers, godmothers...etc., please remember our Blessed Mother in a special way as well. It is a good time to teach your children also, that as Catholics we honor Mary as our mother.

Today we celebrate new life! Our Lord is Risen! He has defeated the power of death… we do not fear! He has promised to send His Holy Spirit to us, to guide us in this new life. Alleluia!

We also celebrate new life in our community. At the Easter Vigil we welcomed nine new members into our family, five adults and four young. Their joy gives us new life and helps us celebrate our new life with them.

And so we have begun the holiest week of the year. We have walked all through Lent to Jerusalem with our Lord, and now we are within the city. This week will be an emotional week if we truly enter into it.

Thursday evening we will celebrate the Lord’s Supper with the apostles and then walk with our Lord to the Altar of Repose (Gethsemane where we wait and pray until 10 pm. Our Lord is then taken away!

Next weekend we begin the final part of our Journey to Jerusalem celebrating Passion (Palm) Sunday. There will be a couple of minor changes since COVID restrictions are no longer in place, so please watch the bulletin or website carefully.