Easter Sunday Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Χρίστος ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! (Christos anesti! Alithos anesti!) ¡Cristo ha resucitado! ¡En verdad, ha resucitado! Each of us who is given by God a share of life is entrusted a treasure beyond price that is meant to be celebrated, nurtured, prospered, and shared as a blessing […]

Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper I don’t remember learning how to ride a bike. I know it happened because none of us are born knowing how. Still, I don’t remember what it was like not to know how. Like all the skills I had to learn, tying my shoelaces, saying “please” and “thank […]

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion With each passing year my thoughts often drift to people and events recent and long past seared in my memory. And I marvel at progress and new discoveries, just recently advances in science and medicine and the renewed conquest of outer space and the historic vote to confirm the […]

Tuesday of Week 5 of Lent This mass was offered for the repose of +Carol & Charley Stem. Rolo B Castillo © 2022

Fifth Sunday of Lent From time to time, even accomplished celebrated people inflict upon themselves catastrophic career-ending injury and damage. At times that utterly awful cringeworthy blunder is an accidental reckless thoughtless misstep. But at times it can be a measured well-orchestrated malicious offence. And judgement aside, we see them differently. We are stunned in […]

Friday of Week 4 of Lent This mass was offered for the repose of +Garnet Groome. Rolo B Castillo © 2022

Thursday of Week 4 of Lent This mass was offered for the repose of +Lesley Curry. Rolo B Castillo © 2022

Tuesday of Week 4 of Lent This mass Mass was offered for the repose of +Marianne Wegrzynski. Rolo B Castillo © 2022

Fourth Sunday of Lent Family reunions are meant to be pleasant occasions. At least that’s the hope of those who send out the invites. They might coincide with a holiday weekend at a quiet and non-threatening location, the old family homestead, a beach house, or a mountain getaway. Planned activities will keep the young people […]