For the safety of all our parishioners, it is necessary to ask that any food brought to the churches for sharing not have any form of peanuts as an ingredient. This includes ingredients that come in contact with peanuts also. Thank you for adhering to this request so that parishioners and guests be protected from the affects of peanut allergies. (Carolyn wrote this for next week’s bulletin, but I wanted to make sure it got into this week’s).
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Easter is just around the corner and with it is Holy Week. Next Saturday & Sunday we celebrate Palm Sunday. Weather permitting we will begin outside, if not we will begin in the social hall of each church. Many people choose to wear red on this day. Remember that the older name for Palm Sunday was Passion Sunday. On this day the Passion of Jesus is read from one of the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, & Luke). This Good Friday, the Passion comes from the Gospel of John. It seems strange at first to have the Passion Readings read the Sunday before Good Friday, but it is the reason that Jesus is entering Jerusalem. It is why He came to earth. He came to die for our sins and be resurrected so that we could have the opportunity of going to Heaven. The Passion reading is important. I would suggest that during Holy Week, each day we take a different Passion reading and read through it. Jesus died for us, are we willing to die for Him?
Fr. Thomas P. Galarneault