Welcoming Newcomers to the Table

Beginning next Sunday - we will be welcoming children to the table at most masses throughout the Easter season.

This task of initiating members is the task of our whole Family of Faith.  We will ALL have a role to play! To welcome the many guests who will be visiting - to help them fully participate - even if they do not think they have to! 
Our Hospitality on these occasions shows our Christian Spirit, our generosity, and our commitment to encouraging them to stay connected.  
So even when someone is sitting where you might usually sit, or does not seem to know when to stand sit or kneel, please be kind, hospitable, and welcoming - then perhaps they will realize that we are not complete without their presence.

Peace

Easter - week

Christ is Risen - Risen Indeed! Alleluia

Sometimes words fail us.  This is how I feel this day.  In the wake of these three holy days - Three powerful and magnificent days - words pale in comparison to the rich symbols and gestures the Church offers her children!

In Fire and Word, in Water and Oil, in Bread and Wine, in Music and Song, in fabric & flowers the Wonder and Beauty of our God's providence was made manifest!

Easter 2015

Christ is Risen - Risen Indeed, Alleluia!

This is part of the text of the famous Easter Homily 
by St. John Chrysostom:

Come you all: enter into the joy of your Lord. You the first and you the last, receive alike your reward; you rich and you poor, dance together; you sober and you weaklings, celebrate the day; you who have kept the fast and you who have not, rejoice today. The table is richly loaded: enjoy its royal banquet. The calf is a fatted one: let no one go away hungry. All of you enjoy the banquet of faith; all of you receive the riches of his goodness. Let no one grieve over his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed; let no one weep over his sins, for pardon has shone from the grave; let no one fear death, for the death of our Saviour has set us free: He has destroyed it by enduring it, He has despoiled Hades by going down into its kingdom, He has angered it by allowing it to taste of his flesh.