As Lent comes to an end, we have finally reached the holiest week of the year. Today, Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord, the crowds welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem waving palms and shouting: "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is come! Hosanna in the highest!" On Holy Thursday, Jesus celebrates the first Mass by offering his disciples bread and wine that he changed into his Body and Blood and told them to do the same in his memory. He later prays and suffers the agony in ...

We are now just one week away from Holy Week, which starts with Palm Sunday on the 28th. We will not have a procession again this year due to Covid-19. We will bless palms at each Mass and distribute them to all present. Our Masses will be the usual 8:15 and 10:30 AM. On Holy Thursday, April 1, we will have The Mass of the Last Supper at 6 PM. On Good Friday, April 2, we will have the Good Friday Service at 1 PM. Since we are not receiving any one new into the Church, we will not have an Easter Vigil on Saturday. However, we will have Easter Masses at both 8:15 and 10:30 AM Easter morning, April 4. ...

On the 7th and 14th we will have zoom presentations for Lent. Margie and Biff will make the presentation on the 7th at 1 PM. James Summers will make the presentation on the 14th at 1 PM. I hope you enjoy them both. The Pope is making a pilgrimage to Iraq this weekend. Let us pray for him and the Iraqi people, especially the small number of Christians still there. This Sunday, March 7, is the Third Sunday of Lent. Our readings today once again deal with God's Covenant with his people. The first reading gives us the Ten Commandments. The first three deal with our relationship to God. Through Moses he tells us ...