Please download the worship aid to participate in Friday’s evening prayer. It will begin at 5 PM.
Instructions on how to join are available here.
Easter Sunday – Homily (Fr. Smith)
A poet wrote that it is not where I breathe but where I love, I live. The risen Jesus has brought us to a world where everything revolves around God’s love and we can live life to the full.
This world begins at the tomb. Jesus had been placed in it hurriedly and now for him to be buried as a Jew he must be anointed with oil. Three women come to do this, but they know that a stone has been rolled over the entrance to prevent animals from defiling a corpse and they will not be able to move it.
They loved Jesus so much that they would risk the wrath of the authorities by tending to his body. This is true love they did not think that he was alive and could no longer do anything for them. Yet although four times in Marks’s gospel Jesus says that he will rise from the dead his disciples, even these brave women and women are the superior disciples in Mark, do not understand, they expected to find a corpse.
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He Has Risen! Please join us to celebrate Easter Sunday on Sunday, April 4th.
Note the changes to the usual Mass times below:
- 9 AM EST – Morning Mass
- 10:15 AM EST – Mid-Morning Mass
- 11:30 AM EST – Community Mass
Instructions to view the Mass are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.
Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below.
- Please follow the instructions of the ushers, and observe all of the posted health precautions so that we can continue to worship together safely.
- Hymnals, bulletins, and other handouts will not be available at the church. Please download on your phone or tablet, or bring your own missal.
- Support our Parish – Please contribute to our General Collection online here.
- Help us support the Easter Collection for Retired Priests
Good Friday – Homily (Msgr. LoPinto)
After this, aware everything was now finished in order that the scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said I thirst. There are many phrases that are contained in the different accounts of the passion,
but perhaps this one stands out because it really reflects what Jesus was intent upon.
It’s a phrase that became part of the writings in her daily in her daily diary of the sainted Mother Teresa.
She often wrote that the feeling that she had was a thirst.
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The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Tomb, Eugène Burnand, 1898, Musée d’Orsay
(About this Image)
Fr. Smith’s Commentary on the Second Reading
Easter Sunday
Colossians 3:1–4
April 4, 2021
The readings for Easter Sunday are all from the New Testament. Of the available options, we will look at Colossians 3:1–4. Discussions on Colossians usually become overly concerned if it was written by St. Paul or a disciple. This is of scholarly interest, but we need to remember that no matter who wrote it, Colossians is still inspired. It speaks to matters which are eerily relevant to our own day.
We should look at “Why a letter to the Colossians?” and “Who were the philosophers who are being opposed?”
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Please join us for the Easter Vigil, April 3nd at 8 PM EDT:
Instructions to view are available here. You can also watch the video via YouTube Live in the window above.
Today’s readings and hymns are available to download below.
- Please follow the instructions of the ushers, and observe all of the posted health precautions so that we can continue to worship together safely.
- Hymnals, bulletins, and other handouts will not be available at the church. Please download on your phone or tablet, or bring your own missal.
- Support our Parish – Please contribute to our General Collection online here.
- Help us support the Easter Collection for Retired Priests
Stations of the Cross
Please join us in praying the Stations of the Cross online this Friday at 8 PM. The Stations of the Cross will feature meditations with masterful pieces of art depicting the Passion of our Lord and accompanied by the St. Charles music ministry singing the Stabat Mater.
You can join via Zoom or YouTube, or via the YouTube window.
You can download the worship aid containing the reflections here.