Pastor's Weekly Message

fourth sunday of lent, 15 March 2026

My Beloved Fellow Saints-in-the-Making,

Greetings in Jesus Christ!

As we celebrate the Fourth Sunday of Lent and Laetare Sunday with its characteristic rose-colored vestments and inclusion of modest floral arrangements in a sanctuary that has been bare since Ash Wednesday, we make the time to rejoice that Jesus, Who heals the man born blind and frees him from a lifetime of darkness, will heal us, blinded by our sins, by His Passion-Death-and Resurrection from an eternity of darkness. May He be praised!

Our Lord loves us that much! Just as He reaches out to touch the man born blind and re-creates Him, so the Lord reaches out to each of us, to touch us each, and to re-create us through the healing Sacrament of Reconciliation, which we will celebrate as a parish this Wednesday, March 18 at 5pm. There will be at least a dozen (12!) Priests to hear your Confession. You may come directly to either the church or the PLC and be touched directly by the merciful hand of Christ Jesus as He heals you of the sins that blind the heart from seeing Him in others and in ourselves. Do not wait until later in Lent! Come to Jesus now, as the man born blind in the Gospel does so that you might rejoice, as we do today as the Church!

Please continue to keep our Catechumens and Candidates in your prayers; they will experience the Second Scrutiny this Fourth Sunday of Lent. Very soon, our fifteen (15!!!!) Catechumens and Candidates, both adult and children, will share in full communion with the Catholic Church, and together we will rejoice in seeing  the miraculous touch of the Hand Jesus Christ the Light of the world. 

This Thursday, March 19, is the Solemnity of St. Joseph, the Most Chaste Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The celebration of this day is, liturgically, on the same level as the celebration of the Sacred Liturgy on Sunday. It is, therefore, a day of rejoicing, which gives us permission to relax our Lenten disciplines appropriately that day. Spend the day thanking God for the gift of so great a Patron of the Universal Church, the Guardian of the Redeemer, the Terror of Demons, the Light of Patriarchs: St. Joseph.

God love you! I do.

Fr. Lewis