Dear Family!

I wish you all a wonderful, grace-filled Easter! As this is the most important day for the Church, let us be mindful of the essence of what we believe! “Because Easter Sunday is the commemoration of Christ’s Resurrection, this day is the greatest solemnity of the liturgical year” (CCC 1169).

Dear Family!

After five weeks of preparation, we enter into Holy Week. ‘Hosanna’ means ‘save us’. This is the first cry of the people as Jesus rides into Jerusalem. That’s exactly what Jesus did - he completed the race - he followed through. Jesus’ journey of the Holy Week began in his prayerful intercessions for people. His complete surrender to the Father’s will is the key to how we journey our Holy Week. Let us meditate on what the contemporary popes taught us in recent times:

Dear Family!

Our sincere thanks to Deacon Larry and the OCIA team for preparing our Candidates for the sacraments. As they stand before the church for the last scrutiny (3rd scrutiny) they need our support and prayers. At the end of the week they will be gifted with the Our Father, the prayer that we all hold close to our hearts as our Lord and Savior Himself taught it.

Dear Family!

The First Scrutiny is celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of Lent. The scrutinies are a time of prayer and reflection, designed to help the ‘Elect’ deepen their faith and prepare for the Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist). Today, on the Laetare Sunday we are celebrating the Second Scrutiny (4th Sunday of Lent) and next week we will celebrate the last Scrutiny.

Dear Family!

As we get closer to the paschal mystery of the suffering, death and Resurrection of Jesus, we accompany Jesus to ‘the well’ in Samaria (last Sunday to the Mount of Transfiguration, previously to the Desert). Only John writes about this event in his gospel. Here, Jesus travels to Samaria which is not so welcoming of Jews. Even with all the difficult history between Jews and Samaritans, Jesus breaks two important social laws: A Jew talking to an unknown woman, A Jew inviting a contact with Samaritans.

Dear Family!

The Church has always stressed the importance of Confession, especially in Lent. I invite all parish families to frequent the Sacrament of Reconciliation. There are plenty of opportunities the parish offers for all of you!

For a Jew, scripture is a collection of scrolls and later came be called the TANAKH. It is a made-up word from the 1st letter of the three words, Torah (Law), Neviim (Prophets), Ketuvim (Writings).

Dear Family!

At the beginning of the Lent, in the 1st Sunday we are given powerful readings that reveal to us the foundational aspects of sin and God’s continual grace in inviting us to holiness in freedom. In the first reading we read about the original sin. The woman took the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Taking this fruit of this tree is “equivalent to making a grab for moral autonomy. It is way of saying; I will decide what is right and what is wrong and I am not going to be told by anyone else. It is a form of idolatry.” (Geoffrey Plant).

Dear Family!

The Catechism teaches us that “Jesus, Israel's Messiah and therefore the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, was to fulfill the Law by keeping it in its all- embracing detail - according to his own words, down to "the least of these commandments". He is in fact the only one who could keep it perfectly. On their own admission the Jews were never able to observe the Law in its entirety without violating the least of its precepts.

Dear Family!

The observance of National Marriage Week (February 7-14th ) and World Marriage Day (Sunday, February 8th) are so foundational to our faith and life as not only as Christians rather the foundation for any human society. This year’s theme is ‘Man and Woman He Created Them: Together with Purpose’. Our prayers are with all the married couples in our community:

Dear Family!

What a weekend! Last weekend was a tough one as I witnessed 8 people for the 9am Mass and just 1 person for the 11am Mass. We continued to celebrate all the masses and prayed for all of you! As we slowly getting back to our routines, a joyous feast is given to us. On Monday, the Universal Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. (2nd of February). As we see, this event is recorded only in the Gospel of Luke. Luke presents the Holy Family as an observant family, always did things in accordance with the Law.