An Easter Message from the Pastor

My dearly beloved faithful ... we celebrate today that great victory over sin and death by this feast of the glorious Resurrection of Christ Our Lord, the greatest feast of Our Holy Mother The Church, for, "This is the day which the Lord hath made:  Let us be glad and rejoice therein."  Christ, by His death and resurrection from the dead has given us the greatest proof of His divinity as the Son of God, the second person of The Holy Trinity.  Not only did He raise others from the dead through His divine power, but also Himself on that glorious Easyer Morning.  By His death and resurrection, He ransomed us, redeemed us from the slavery of sin inherited through our first parents.  He gave us back our eternal destiny by opening Heaven to us, which was closed because of Original Sin.  How much He loved us and still loves us!  By dying on the altar of the cross and establishing His Church, we become members of His Mystical Body by being baptized into His Church.  We are then able to partake of all the graces He merited for us by His passion and death; especially the graces we receive when assisting at The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and receiving Him in Holy Communion, may these graces from Our Risen Lord gain for us our eternal salvation, so that like Him we may be raised up in glory on the last day.

- Fr. G. Richard McDonough