Pastor’s Column Good Shepherd Sunday April 26, 2026 “A thief comes only to steal and to slaughter and to destroy. I came that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” John 10:10 Every year on the fourth Sunday of Easter, Christ comes to us in the liturgy as the Good Shepherd. It is a comforting image. So many have been consoled by praying the 23rd Psalm: “The Lord Is My Shepherd There Is Nothing I Shall Want.” One of the dynamics between a flock o

Pastor’s Column 3 rd Sunday of Easter April 19, 2026 “And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.” (from Luke 24:13-35) This haunting gospel sounds familiar to us on many levels because it has within it all the elements of the Mass! Luke is, in fact, describing not only what happened that first evening after the Resurrection but also what hap

Pastor's Column Mercy Sunday, 2026 I turned around to see who had spoken to me and when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and surrounded by them a figure like a Son of man, dressed in a long robe tied at the waist with a golden girdle. His head and his hair were white as white wool or as snow, his eyes were a burning flame, his speech like burnished bronze when it has been refined as in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of the ocean. In his right hand he was

Pastor’s Column Mercy Sunday April 5, 2026 “Be merciful as your Father is merciful. Do not judge and you will not be judged yourselves; do not condemn and you will not be condemned yourselves; grant pardon, and you will be pardoned, because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back.” Luke 6:36-38 Jesus Christ is both perfect mercy and perfect justice , and yet there is no contradiction. When we come to the Lord seeking forgiveness, esp