Sundays 7:30, 9:00, 11:30 AM, and 5:45 PM
The Bishop’s Note
Blessed Easter Sunday! He hath risen as He said! Alleluia!
Ah! how beautiful to hear that precious word of heaven—“Alleluia.” It has been more than forty days since we have heard it in the Church’s liturgy. During Lent, we were to be as wayfarers and pilgrims in the deserts of this earth, making our way to heaven by means of penance, prayer, and good works. “Alleluia” is said constantly in heaven, and now that heaven has been opened to us by the Blood of Christ, we may once more sing it joyfully in our hearts and in our hymns!
We had a most beautiful Holy Week this year. Deo gratias et Mariae! Now we may celebrate the Resurrection with a sense of joyful triumph. Doesn’t this week of Easter bring a sense of peace to the soul and joy to the heart?! It is supposed to. There is such a drastic change of tone in the liturgy from Good Friday to Easter Sunday. It makes one reflect how it must have been for Our Lady, the Apostles, and all the friends of Christ on the Cross. In just a few short days they witnessed so much mystery, experienced so much sadness. Now it is turned to joy, for they have seen Christ risen from the dead. It also makes one think of how it will be upon the first moment of our entrance into heaven after we have endured all the trials of life. Oh, how different things will be! Easter is a reminder that we must live a life of Faith here on earth; that we must live on earth with our minds and hearts always on heaven.
There are so many edifying Masses this week. Won’t you come to as many as you can? We have a High Mass every day, but Monday and Tuesday are very high-ranking feasts and we hope to observe them with much solemnity. St. Monica’s Club will meet this Thursday evening, and Bishop Dolan’s third anniversary is on Saturday. We will not celebrate a Requiem Mass because of the Easter Octave, but a Mass is being offered for him. Come on any or all of these days. Each Mass heard, every Holy Communion well received will raise your place in heaven. Isn’t that what our life is all about? Don’t forget it.
May Our Risen Savior keep you close to His glorified wounds!
– Bishop McGuire
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